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• A bus, a breakdown and -30°: former NHLer remembers his time with Humboldt Broncos

  13-04-2018 23:50
  
  Dan Lucas reflects on life with a prairie hockey team as a 14-year-old from Powell River.
  
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• This Week in History: 1903 A pioneer Labour leader is shot, killed on waterfront

  13-04-2018 23:34 via vancouversun.com
  On April 14, 1903 Vancouverites woke to the headline “Innocent Man Was Shot.”
  “Mr. Frank Rogers is lying at the point of death at the city hospital as a result of a bullet wound from some person unknown,” reported the Vancouver World.
  “The shooting occurred at the foot of Abbott Street and the closest inquiry today shows no reason, or justification, for it.”
  Rogers wasn’t just any uninvolved bystander. He was one of B.C.’s most prominent labour lea
  
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• What will be the effect of Whistler's exemption from speculation tax?

  13-04-2018 23:30
  
  UBC professor who developed original concept for B.C.'s new "speculation tax" talks to Whistler council about possible outcomes
  
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• Four people consider becoming Vision Vancouver’s mayoral candidate

  13-04-2018 23:29
  
  Vision Vancouver closes its call for "expressions of interest" Monday for mayoral candidates. Four people, including Raymond Louie, are interested in the job.
  
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• Staff at Maple Ridge animal hospital remember Lougheed hit and run victim

  13-04-2018 23:18 via globalnews.ca
  The Lougheed Highway was shut down Thursday night after a fatal hit and run accident. Jordan Armstrong has more about the victim and the emotional reaction from her coworkers.
  
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• Flair Air will start new flight service between Kelowna and Calgary

  13-04-2018 23:01 via globalnews.ca
  In June, Flair Air will start flying between Kelowna and Calgary with four flights a week.
  
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• 'House of cards': While developer faces police investigation, Langley condo buyers left in cold

  13-04-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  Gary Janzen and his wife, Karen, have been living out of suitcases for 18 months. But they’re not on holiday.
  They’ve “couch surfed,” and slept in 15 different beds in that time, Janzen said. As he prepared this week to collect his summer clothes from a Pitt Meadows storage locker, he said: “This is getting a little old.”
  In April 2016, the Janzens signed an agreement to buy a condo in Murrayville House, a 92-unit development in Langley. They expecte
  
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• ‘This place is a menace’: Major RCMP presence descends on alleged Surrey drug house

  13-04-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  "They set up shop over here, they sit in the bushes, they've got hookers and everything up and down the way," a neighbour said of the house.
  
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• Police descend on alleged drug house in Surrey’s Newton area

  13-04-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP’s Emergency Response Team was among the officers that descended on a home near 134 Street and 71st Avenue as they executed a search warrant as part of a drug investigation on Friday.
  
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• Douglas Todd: Everybody's tested when racism intersects with mental illness

  13-04-2018 22:51 via vancouversun.com
  One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
  Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
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• Feds looking to reduce risk for Kinder Morgan investors, Jim Carr says

  13-04-2018 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  Jim Carr says the government is still examining its options, but won't commit to a course of action before Sunday.
  
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• Hawaii first at Disney’s Aulani Resort

  13-04-2018 22:36 via theprovince.com
  A half a kilometer off the west coast of O’ahu, Matthew Solomona is in the midst of an esoteric explanation of why the water is so blue.It has something to do with the Pacific Ocean being a prism that captures and concentrates the wavelengths of all the azure in the visible light spectrum.It’s very informative.But really, all we want to do is submerge ourselves in this aquarmarine stuff.So, my wife and I and our daughter grab the snorkel gear provided on the Hawaii Nautical catamaran
  
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• Schooner Zodiac showcases San Jaun Islands

  13-04-2018 22:30 via theprovince.com
  Being in British Columbia is good news for people who enjoy ocean travel, and while the big news right now is the start of the 2018 Alaska cruise season, it’s time to revisit one of my favorite sailing experiences south of the border.
  The Schooner Zodiac is a classic, 1924-built windjammer that has been lovingly preserved and restored. It’s a cozy vessel that offers day cruises and multi-night sailings out of Bellingham, Washington to the San Juan Islands, the latter of which offer a
  
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• Roller disco pops up at Robson Square on Saturday night

  13-04-2018 22:27
  
  It's just as much fun as iceskating — only warmer
  
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• B.C. halibut season has started

  13-04-2018 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  Halibut season is underway and Executive Chef Adam Meade from the Teahouse shows off one of his favourite recipes.
  
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• Maple Ridge hit and run victim was doting mom who 'loved all creatures'

  13-04-2018 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  The victim of a hit and run in Maple Ridge late Thursday was a 31-year-old veterinary assistant and doting mother, who loved all animals.
  Police have not identified the woman who was killed by a vehicle on Lougheed Highway around 10 p.m., but her friends have identified her as Tassis Vix.
  Vix worked as a veterinarian assistant for 15 years at the Haney Animal Hospital in Maple Ridge. Her colleague Jyoti Talwar said staff are absolutely heartbroken. She said Vix was a warm, lovable person wh
  
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• Vancouver a spring board for Alaska cruises

  13-04-2018 22:02 via theprovince.com
  As someone who has written about cruises for the past eight years – and who has been sailing for twenty – I always get excited about the start of the Alaska cruise season. Very few things, in my opinion, match the sailaway experience from Vancouver’s Canada Place, or the majesty of visiting Alaska and sailing through the British Columbia coast. It’s a journey I’ve done over a dozen times now, and one I try to repeat each year. It is, simply put, one of the best crui
  
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• That sinking feeling: Residents continue to pan Vancouver pool plan

  13-04-2018 22:02
  
  Some critics say move to form advisory committee came ‘out of the blue’.
  
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• New laws give more protection to tenants facing renovictions

  13-04-2018 22:00
  
  A Victoria tenants advocacy group says changes to B.C.’s tenancy laws introduced in the legislature Thursday will give more rights to renters facing renovictions.
  
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• Douglas Todd: When racism intersects with mental illness

  13-04-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
  Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
  When an out-of-con
  
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• Comedian Jim Gaffigan trolls rainy Vancouver

  13-04-2018 21:41
  
  More than 12,00 people respond to his Twitter poll
  
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• Musician Sam Roberts helps launch campaign to end global poverty

  13-04-2018 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  Musician Sam Roberts was the headliner at the Global Citizen Live event Thursday night at the Commodore Ballroom. The concert was in support of the ‘Be the Generation Campaign’ to end extreme poverty.
  
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• Eby talks about future of ICBC at Board of Trade

  13-04-2018 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Attorney General David Eby addressed the ICBC deficit with new statistics at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Friday morning.
  
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• Laketown Rock Music Festival

  13-04-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Tickets are on sale now for LAKETOWN ROCK MUSIC FESTIVAL! Located in the beautiful Cowichan Valley the second annual Laketown Rock Music Fest features Colin James, Collective Soul and more!
  
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• Province closes black bear open season hunt in Haida Gwaii

  13-04-2018 21:04
  
  A limited-entry hunt will take its place
  
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• Town Talk: Lawyer-rockers give Covenant House a boost

  13-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  LEGAL AID: The Covenant House shelter-and-support organization for homeless and at-risk youth was assisted by a heavy — and loud — legal team recently. That was at the Winsor Gallery where the five-lawyer Rising Down rock band played a benefit concert that paid tribute to the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie. Some audience members were veterans of Covenant House’s annual Sleep Out event that raised $239,159 in February. Rising Down’s members, all from different firms, w
  
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• Douglas Todd: When racism and mental illness intersect

  13-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  One wonders how much mental illness is behind recent high-profile race-based incidents in Metro Vancouver and beyond.
  Facebook went viral this year when a Burnaby woman, Anika Vassell, posted a smartphone video of an elderly white woman with a German accent telling her: “I see that you are black and you’re not like the rest of us.” But when journalists followed up and talked to the woman’s son, Christian Chiribelea, he said his mother was schizophrenic.
  When an out-of-con
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Optimizing your brain

  13-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  You have probably heard the false adage that you only use 10 per cent of your brain. Advances in neuroscience has swept that concept aside, but that doesn’t mean your brain is functioning at its peak.
   
  In fact, there’s a good chance it is underperforming because you are not feeding it the nutrients it needs. Your brain is the most metabolically active organ in your body. The brain needs 10 times the fuel of any other organ. Failure to supply it with the elements it ne
  
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• B.C. government strikes ‘affordable housing’ deal with United Church of Canada

  13-04-2018 20:55
  
  The provincial government will spend $12.4 million to kickstart the redevelopment of four United Church of Canada properties for housing, including one in Vancouver.
  
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• No need to worry about orange coloured rocks on Kelowna beaches

  13-04-2018 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  "Once lake levels begin to rise, the colour will dissipate into the lake water again."
  
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• Coquitlam is B.C.’s first community to receive HousingHub money to build 75 units

  13-04-2018 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  "The province is backstopping the start and a developer will build it," said B.C. Premier John Horgan.
  
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• Fatal accident closes Lougheed Highway in Maple Ridge

  13-04-2018 20:25 via globalnews.ca
  Part of the Lougheed Highway is shut down after a fatal accident overnight in Maple Ridge. Jordan Armstrong has the details of this developing story.
  
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• Elderly couple escapes fire in District of North Vancouver

  13-04-2018 20:23 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly couple escaped their burning house early Friday morning in the District of North Vancouver.
  But it was a tense morning for the couple, who thought that their adult son was trapped in the basement as fire crews battled the blaze.
  Firefighters later determined that their son, in his 40s, was not at home at the time of the fire.
  Emergency crews were called out shortly before 8 a.m. to a house fire in the 1500-block of Dover Court.
  Our members are engaged in a structure fire this am in Ly
  
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• ICBC survey finds ‘overwhelming support’ for raising rates on higher risk drivers

  13-04-2018 20:14 via globalnews.ca
  "We didn't expect to get tens of thousands of responses to this survey," said David Eby.
  
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• City launches year-long Chinatown artist residency

  13-04-2018 20:04
  
  Paul Wong brings past and present together with Occupying Chinatown.
  
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• Sandbagging supplies available for flood-threatened West Kelowna residents

  13-04-2018 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  The City of West Kelowna has put out sand and bags at various locations for residents.
  
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• Pedestrian killed in hit and run in Maple Ridge

  13-04-2018 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  A woman in her 30s is dead after being struck by a vehicle late Thursday in Maple Ridge.
  Ridge Meadows Mounties now confirm they are investigating the incident as a fatal hit and run.
  RCMP say shortly before 10 p.m., a female pedestrian was struck by a vehicle travelling west in the 21800-block of Lougheed Highway. The vehicle did not remain in the area and the woman died.
  Police are looking for any witnesses that were in the area at the time of the incident, including those with on-board dash c
  
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• Spirit Horse finds Drew Hayden Taylor riding into the West

  13-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Carousel Theatre Spirit Horse
  When: April 21 to 29, various times
  Where: The Waterfront Theatre, 1412 Cartwright St., Granville Is.
  Tickets and info: From $18 at tickets.carouseltheatre.ca
  Angelina and Jesse are caught between their Stoney Nation Nakoda heritage and urban environs. When their grandfather suddenly appears with a horse that materialized to him, a quest begins to find answers to how to find courage and spread love in a complicated family. If the plot of Ojibway playwright Drew Hayd
  
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• Review: Solidarity more often than not

  13-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  On The Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement
  Rod Mickleburgh | Harbour Publishing
  $44.95, 294pp.
  While mainstream Canadian journalism has never been noted for extensive or sympathetic coverage of labour news, for many years Rod Mickleburgh was an honorable exception, filing authoritative and competent labour stories to The Vancouver Sun and Province.
  (Full disclosure. I have known Mickleburgh now for decades. We have, from time to time, discussed stories one or both of us were
  
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• Fab 5: Logo love

  13-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Between the current political climate and our obsession with (and the return of) all things ‘90s, logos have made a pretty major reappearance in fashion. Whether it’s to pledge your allegiance to one brand or another on your sweatshirt, make a statement or declaration about your style tribe, or, well, both, say it like you mean it via your threads. From vintage logos to brand motifs like you’ve never seen them before (or at least, not in 20 years), Rebecca Tay showcases fi
  
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• 5 Things to know about Hannah Epperson's Slowdown album

  13-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hannah Epperson recently played the local release of her new album Slowdown at the New York Theatre on Commercial Drive. It was a triumphant return for this unique solo artist who called Vancouver home before pulling up stakes and establishing herself in New York City’s fertile art scene.
  One of three finalists in the 2013 Peak Performance Project, along with BESTiE and Rykka, Epperson took second place for her distinctive mixing of voice, violin and assorted electronic effects such as the
  
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• Experience Alaska & British Columbia with Seabourn

  13-04-2018 19:59 via theprovince.com
  It’s not too late for your summer getaway. With convenient departures to/from Vancouver, Seabourn offers 11- to 14- day itineraries for a more immersive experience aboard the world’s finest ultra-luxury resort at sea. Starting at $5,299 with complimentary upgrades and shipboard credits when booked by June 12. Contact  your Travel Professional, call 1.800.929.9595 or Seabourn.com
  
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• Reach your travel audience

  13-04-2018 19:46 via theprovince.com
  Call multi-media sales consultant Jenny Fairley to promote your deal here.
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• Burnaby South, Semiahmoo join forces for high school basketball all-star game

  13-04-2018 19:39 via theprovince.com
  Jusuf Sehic is on the same side as Adam Paige and Vlad Mihaila this time.
  The B.C. high school boys basketball association is holding its all-star games Saturday at R.C. Palmer in Richmond, and the quad-A team that will take on the triple-A side in the 7:30 p.m. main event features Sehic, a forward from the Burnaby South Rebels, as well as Paige and Mihaila, a forward and a guard from the Semiahmoo Totems.
  Burnaby South, led by 18 points and 10 rebounds from tournament most valuable player Sehic
  
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• New movies at the box office: Rampage, Borg vs McEnroe

  13-04-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  Dana Gee tells us whether new movies Rampage, Borg vs McEnroe, Finding Your Feet, Indian Horse are worth catching in theatres.
  
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• Gord Kurenoff: Sun Run never gets old for inspiring Forever Young Club

  13-04-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  A small sign plunked on an empty table inside a Richmond A&W last Wednesday read Reserved For Old Guys. A regular customer of the No. 1 Road eatery, reading his morning newspaper and nursing a coffee, looked up and asked if I was lost.
  When yours truly mentioned a meeting with runners and walkers from the Forever Young Club, he flashed a big smile and offered: “Yeah, they’re old, too. But they’re not as out of shape as the old farts who hang out at that table!”
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• Fire destroys home in District of North Vancouver

  13-04-2018 18:59 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly couple escaped their burning house early Friday morning in the District of North Vancouver.
  Emergency crews were called out shortly before 8 a.m. to a house fire in the 1500-block of Dover Court.
  Our members are engaged in a structure fire this am in Lynn Valley #Northvan pic.twitter.com/Fb7fKyWqB9
  — DistNorthVanFF's (@DNorthVanFire) April 13, 2018 
  North Vancouver RCMP Cpl. Richard De Jong said investigators don’t yet know the cause of the blaze. He said an elderly c
  
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• B.C. Greens confident Horgan won’t back down on Kinder Morgan

  13-04-2018 18:54 via globalnews.ca
  B.C.'s Greens hold the balance of power in the province, but the party's leader says he's confident that NDP Premier John Horgan won't back down on Trans Mountain.
  
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• Whistler Blackcomb to name run in memory of trailblazing heli-ski guide

  13-04-2018 18:53
  
  Lisa Korthals represented a new wave of female ski guides who refused to sacrifice their family lives while carving out their own niche in a male-dominated industry.
  
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• Alan Kurdi: The life and death of the boy on the beach

  13-04-2018 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  The pressure had been building for days. Abdullah Kurdi, his wife Rehanna and children Ghalib, 4, and Alan, 2, were holed up in the port city of Izmir, Turkey, the place where Syrian refugees desperate to get to Europe meet up with human smugglers. 
  Abdullah had $5,000, sent by his sister Tima Kurdi in B.C., to pay for the voyage, but every day he found another reason not to go. He was terrified of putting the children in the flimsy dinghies the smugglers used. Rehanna was afraid of the wat
  
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