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• ‘It’s a crisis’: B.C. attorney general responds to report linking drugs, money laundering, real estate

  19-04-2018 23:57 via globalnews.ca
  The scheme has come to be known internationally as the "Vancouver model" of money laundering. 
  
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• Police hold funeral procession in Victoria for Cst. Ian Jordan

  19-04-2018 23:55 via globalnews.ca
  A funeral procession was held Thursday for the Victoria constable who died last week after being in a coma for 30 years.
  
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• B.C. health authorities identify problem with early colon cancer test

  19-04-2018 23:51 via vancouversun.com
  Provincial health authorities have once again discovered a problem with a laboratory test designed for people considered at average risk of colon cancer.
  B.C. Laboratories and B.C. Cancer Agency say recent fecal immunochemical test (FIT) results are showing a spike in the number of positive screens being returned — more patients are testing positive than is typical.
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• SkyTrain president stepping down and returning to Australia

  19-04-2018 23:48 via vancouversun.com
  TransLink is looking for a new person to head up SkyTrain after it announced Thursday that Vivienne King is stepping down as president the B.C. Rapid Transit Company.
  King, who arrived at TransLink in 2016, is returning to her native Australia for personal reasons, according to TransLink president Kevin Desmond.
  “In the two years that Vivienne has been here with TransLink, we have seen record ridership on SkyTrain as well as significant progress in advancing SkyTrain’s reliabili
  
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• Five Things: Here's what you need to know about 4/20 in Vancouver

  19-04-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  Who, what, when, where and weed: Let us clear the air and answer all your burning questions about 4/20 in Vancouver.
  Who puts on 4/20?
  The original 4/20 in Vancouver was organized by Danna Rozek and Cindy Lassu, employees at HEMP B.C. who worked with B.C.’s own “Prince of Pot”, Marc Emery.
  The two women asked Emery if they could host a 4/20 celebration on April 20, 1995 in Victory Park, near the shop. About 200 people attended the first year, with music beginning at 2 p.m. and
  
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• Top jockey Hamel will be absent from Hastings opener owing to surgery

  19-04-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  When Hastings Racecourse opens this weekend, top jockey Richard Hamel won’t be on a mount — but not by choice. Hamel is recovering from arthroscopic knee surgery — his fifth — for arthritis. 
  “It’s going to be tough,” said Hamel, who hasn’t yet decided whether he’ll attend the opening-day festivities Saturday. He’d rather be on the track than in the grandstands. “I don’t know if I’m going to be able to be down the
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Thursday, April 19, 2018

  19-04-2018 23:19 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday, April 19, 2018.
  
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• Support growing for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia

  19-04-2018 23:03
  
  Support for the Kinder Morgan pipeline in British Columbia is rising significantly, according to a new study by the Angus Reid Institute.
  
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• LISTEN: Want to catch cybercriminals? These are the skills you’ll need

  19-04-2018 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  Technology today is evolving at an ever faster rate. And as the tools evolve, so do the criminals.
  
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• White Rock’s Christine Girard can now call herself an Olympic champion

  19-04-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  Two-time Olympian, Christine Girard, is now Canada's first ever Olympic champion is weightlifting, having her bronze medal upgraded to gold in the women's 63 kilogram category at the London 2012 Games.
  
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• Vancouver's plan for Arbutus Greenway includes 'Electric Alley'

  19-04-2018 22:47 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver says its vision for the future of the Arbutus Greenway, the nine-kilometre green space that stretches from False Creek to the Fraser River, includes eight distinct “character zones” that provide a range of diverse experiences.
  Since buying the 42-acre corridor from the CPR for $55 million in 2016, the city’s Arbutus Greenway project team has been in consultation with the public to determine the best use of the space.
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• Province’s increase to farm wages may raise produce prices

  19-04-2018 22:46
  
  The province announced Thursday morning that it will increase the wages for piece rate farm workers, but one Richmond farmer says those costs will simply be passed on to customers.
  
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• Food Bank receives seven figure donation

  19-04-2018 22:41 via globalnews.ca
  The Greater Vancouver Food Bank is receiving more than $1 Million from WalMart Canada in an effort to turn surplus produce into nutritious products
  
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• If Vancouver’s permanent residents can vote, so can 19,000 wealthy immigrants who bought a way in

  19-04-2018 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  Permanent residents are refugees, caregivers, skilled workers and sponsored family members. But they're also investor immigrants.
  
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• Vancouver's plan for the Arbutus Greenway includes an 'Electric Alley'

  19-04-2018 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  The city of Vancouver says its vision for the future of the Arbutus Greenway, the nine-kilometre green space that stretches from False Creek to the Fraser River, includes eight distinct “character zones” that provide a range of diverse experiences.
  Since purchasing the 42-acre corridor from the Canadian Pacific Railway for $55 million in 2016, the city’s Arbutus Greenway project team has been in consultation with the public to determine the best use of the green space.
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• Read the transcript of Andrew Weaver's legislature rant

  19-04-2018 22:09 via vancouversun.com
  Below is the Hansard transcript of Andrew Weaver’s address to the legislature during Tuesday’s debate about legislation that would expedite compensation for police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other emergency workers suffering from job-related mental stress. You can also watch it here. (It begins at the 1:37 mark.)
  Third Reading of Bills
  BILL 9 — WORKERS COMPENSATIONAMENDMENT ACT, 2018
  A. Weaver: I rise to take my place in third reading to address the bill before the
  
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• Great-tailed grackle wings into Metro Vancouver for first time on record

  19-04-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  A wayward great-tailed grackle has winged its way into Metro Vancouver for the first time on record.
  According to the B.C. Rare Bird Alert, the female grackle has staked its territory in a vacant lot on West Fourth Avenue between Alma Street and Highbury Street, and has attracted a steady parade of photographers and lookyloos. This is only the fifth record of the species provincewide.
  “The bird has a limp, but … is eating and flying OK,” the alert says on its website.
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• Fancy a walk down ‘Electric Alley’? Design concept for Arbutus Greenway released

  19-04-2018 22:06
  
  Design concepts for Arbutus Greeneway will be displayed for feedback at open houses scheduled for April 21, 25 and 28.
  
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• John Weston: Is it time to be embarrassed to be a British Columbian?

  19-04-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’m a proud British Columbian but would be ashamed to show my face in Calgary today.
  Firstly, we are looking like a bunch of selfish navel-gazers, mindless of the fortunes of fellow Canadians. In the case of Albertans, the jobs we threaten relate to people who have for decades borne a disproportionate percentage of Canada’s financial burden. Can’t we find a way help our countrywomen and countrymen without harming ourselves?
  That question leads to the second point, that pipeline
  
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• Jason Botchford: Canucks’ need for ‘speed and skill’ gets recycled

  19-04-2018 21:40 via theprovince.com
  There’s a buzz-phrase you will hear often this off-season from the Vancouver Canucks.
  We know this because you heard it when the season ended, at the trade deadline, at training camp, during free agency and at last year’s NHL Entry Draft.
  You’ve heard it from the Canucks pretty much any time they aren’t talking about Erik Gudbranson, Brandon Sutter or Loui Eriksson.
  The Canucks are chasing “speed and skill.”
  It’s a noble pursuit, one underscored already
  
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• Twice stricken with cancer, this teacher is a lesson in resilience

  19-04-2018 21:33
  
  Ingrid Bates is the 2018 Courage To Come Back recipient in the medical category
  
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• Someone ‘locked’ parishioners inside an East Vancouver church, and police don’t know why

  19-04-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Police say someone "secured" the front doors of the building during prayers, but aren't saying how it was done.
  
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• The B.C. government is scrapping the liquor servers wage by 2021

  19-04-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The minimum wage for liquor servers is currently set at $10.10 per hour, while the regular minimum wage is $1.25 higher at $11.35.
  
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• Rules for international dining

  19-04-2018 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  Before you break bread overseas, travel expert Claire Newell has advice on how to fill yourself in on some of the different customs in the country or region you are visiting.
  
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• Lidia: A Life of Love Family and Food

  19-04-2018 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  Author, TV host & chef Lidia Bastianich shares her tale about fleeing from a country that took away her rights, to living the American dream.
  
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• IHIT presser: Kellen McElwee family pleads for answers in B.C. man’s disappearance

  19-04-2018 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  At an IHIT press conference held on Thursday, the family of Kellen McElwee ask the public for helping finding out what happened to the missing B.C. man.
  
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• Dark comedy tackles pipeline expansion issue

  19-04-2018 21:00
  
  "Unapologetically political," Bears is at the Cultch May 8 to 12
  
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• Kellen McElwee’s family appeals for help to find his body a decade after he disappeared

  19-04-2018 20:48 via theprovince.com
  The parents of a missing Burnaby man who is believed to have been murdered a decade ago are now pleading for the public’s help in bringing home their son’s body.
  Kellen McElwee, who was 25 at the time and living in Burnaby, went missing in the spring of 2008 after having dinner in Langley. His car was found just days later but there was no sign of McElwee. Shortly after his disappearance, RCMP turned the file over to the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.
  Throughout the investig
  
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• Two Burnaby police-shooting files still open more than three years later

  19-04-2018 20:16
  
  B.C.’s police watchdog is apologizing for taking more than three years to report on two police shootings in Burnaby in March 2015.
  
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• BC Lions equipment manager battles kidney disease

  19-04-2018 20:11 via globalnews.ca
  He’s had a front row seat to countless grid irons battles, but none of those compare to what Kato – the BC Lions equipment manager – has faced the last 18 months. Jay Janower has his story.
  
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• The suspect was fast, but the Chilliwack Mountie was faster

  19-04-2018 20:10 via globalnews.ca
  Just after 2 a.m. Wednesday, Chilliwack RCMP arrived to the 44000-block of Progress Way after reports of a prowler inside a fenced compound.
  
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• Sarah Blyth announces candidacy for Vancouver city council

  19-04-2018 19:44
  
  Advocating for skateboard culture seems like a lifetime ago for Sarah Blyth.
  
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• Green party introduces legislation that would prevent waste being dumped in quarries

  19-04-2018 19:33 via globalnews.ca
  Green Party MLA Sonia Furstenau has introduced a private member's bill that would ban solid waste from being deposited in quarries.
  
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• Okanagan wine industry disappointed court ruling puts cork in cross-border booze

  19-04-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  The unanimous ruling indicated that the constitution “does not impose absolute free trade across Canada.”
  
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• Park board takes next step in reconciliation

  19-04-2018 19:26
  
  Commissioners take on mission to ‘decolonize the Vancouver Park Board’
  
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• B.C. government phasing out lower minimum wage for bar servers

  19-04-2018 19:22 via vancouversun.com
  Bartenders and pub servers are among those who will benefit from the B.C. government’s decision to eliminate the province’s alternate minimum wage.
  Alternate minimum wage earners, who are currently paid $10.10 per hour, will see their wages rise to a minimum of $15.20 by 2021, bringing the industry in line with the rest of province. 
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• Ed Asner brings his play, A Man and His Prostate, to New West

  19-04-2018 19:13 via vancouversun.com
  A Man and His Prostate
  When: April 27 & 28, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Anvil Centre Theatre (New Westminster)
  Tickets and info: $75, anvilcentre.comAt 88 years old Ed Asner is still a real trouper.
  The award-winning actor knows the show — or in this case the interview — must go on.
  “I’m not fine,” said Asner when reached on the phone in Los Angeles recently and asked how he was doing. “I fell out of my bed last night. When I’m finished with you I am
  
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• 10 years after Kellen McElwee’s disappearance, his family still pleads for answers

  19-04-2018 18:55 via globalnews.ca
  McElwee, 25, was last seen March 19, 2008, after leaving the Keg Steakhouse & Bar on 202 Street. 
  
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• Norovirus outbreak in Canada — here’s what’s triggering the vomiting bug

  19-04-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  Norovirus cases have risen in Canada, and it's being linked back to raw oysters from B.C.
  
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• Expect larger than usual police presence in Stanley Park today

  19-04-2018 18:26
  
  Vancouver police emergency response team taking part in training exercise.
  
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• Constructive Comment: Creative ways to transform spaces

  19-04-2018 18:09 via theprovince.com
  Last week, I attended a talk in Burnaby by Vancouver planner Michael Mortensen entitled Is Small Beautiful? Some of the key takeaways were design tips for how to make the most of increasingly smaller spaces, particularly the idea of using the same living space for multiple purposes.Following Mortensen’s talk, I reached out to Laurel James, principal designer of Novell Design Build, to learn more about trending designs related to this concept.
  To begin, I learned that the great-room concept
  
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• The Morning Skate, April 19: A prospect party in Utica, a playoff parade in Vegas?

  19-04-2018 18:03 via theprovince.com
  It’s spring, baby!
  Just two days ago in this Skate we were bemoaning endless rain and gloom, not to mention all that weather armageddon back east.
  Now look: Almost nothing but sun the next couple of weeks, a bunch of great playoff hockey to take in, people to see, places to go, pipelines to build — or not. We’re not here to judge.
  Instead, let’s Skate …
  The home team
  Comets goalie Thatcher Demko is joined by a host of Canucks prospects in Utica’s pl
  
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• The top 10 traffic collision locations in Delta

  19-04-2018 18:01
  
  Nordel Way is an area of major concern while intersections involving highways 17 and 17A dot the list, too.
  
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• CKNW launches new Mayors Day series

  19-04-2018 18:00 via globalnews.ca
  Listen as Richard Walton, Greg Moore and Nicole Read take the mic and co-host a show at CKNW.
  
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• Abbotsford police warn residents about cat burglar on the prowl

  19-04-2018 17:52 via theprovince.com
  There is a cat burglar on the loose in Abbotsford and police are warning residents to lock their doors and windows at night.
  On April 5, police responded to a report of a break and enter in the 30500 block of Cardinal Avenue
  A woman told officers she woke up at 11:30 p.m. to find an unknown man in her bedroom, standing by her bed.
  The man ran out of the house when she screamed.
  Police say it was too dark for the woman to provide description of the intruder.
  Police patrols and a canine unit
  
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• What does interprovincial wine trade ruling mean to B.C.?

  19-04-2018 17:40 via globalnews.ca
  Miles Prodan from the British Columbia Wine Institute talks about the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on interprovincial trade.
  
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• Daily Poll: Are you for or against Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion?

  19-04-2018 17:22 via vancouversun.com
  An Angus Reid Institute survey released Wednesday suggested the majority of Canadians support the Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  The Texas-based oil company is caught in the middle of a political feud among Alberta, B.C. and the federal government over the $7.4-billion project, which would triple the capacity of the existing line from Alberta to Burnaby to get more oil to overseas markets and fetch a better price.
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• Vancouver Weather: Surrey could be in for a soggy Vaisakhi parade

  19-04-2018 17:21 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Thursday’s weather in Metro Vancouver calls for some sunny skies in the morning with clouds rolling in this afternoon.
  Enjoy the dry weather today because Environment Canada says we can expect rain Friday and showers on Saturday. So, you might want to bring an umbrella to Saturday’s Vaisakhi Day celebrations in Surrey because nobody likes a soggy samosa.
  Environment Canada is predicting perfect conditions for Sunday’s The Vancouver Sun Run with
  
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• From Pakistan to Richmond, journey of Danny’s Screamers comes to a close

  19-04-2018 17:00
  
  A Danny’s Screamer. Start with a dollop of homemade, soft serve vanilla ice cream in a custom plastic cup. Add a perfectly viscous layer of slushie — flavour of your choice.
  
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• Victoria police officer who was in coma for 30 years will be laid to rest Thursday

  19-04-2018 16:57 via globalnews.ca
  Officers will march from the Save on Foods Memorial Arena, along Quadra Street to the church starting at 12:30 p.m.
  
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