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• Foodie Friday: Easy citrus olive oil cake

  20-04-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  This cake is moist and intense with the flavours of citrus.
  
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• Naturopath gave young boy a rabid dog saliva remedy that wasn’t licensed in Canada: ministry

  20-04-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  The sale of an unlicensed natural health product carries fines of up to $5,000 or imprisonment up to three years.
  
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• Man arrested after fight involving knife, alcohol in Chase, B.C.: police

  20-04-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  One man was arrested following a fight in Chase, B.C., involving a machete-style knife.
  
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• Jon McComb: A public inquiry is the antidote to Canada’s money-laundering problem

  20-04-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  The rot has set in, and the only solution is to expose the whole system to sunlight, writes Jon McComb.
  
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• Bringing home the bacon: B.C. police officers called to capture rogue pig

  20-04-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Talk about saving your bacon!
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Thursday, April 19

  20-04-2018 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday, April 19, 2018, including the Vancouver Sun Run and Art! Vancouver.
  
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• This Week in History: 1910 The Wizard of Electricity lights up the Pantages Theatre

  20-04-2018 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  Normally, people try to steer clear of the electric chair. But not Charles Quill, a vaudeville performer who performed under the name Electra, “the wizard of electricity.”
  “One of Electra’s stunts is to allow himself to be strapped in an electric chair, and then laughs as anywhere from five to 10 thousand volts goes through his body,” said a Vancouver World story from April 23, 1910, when he appeared at the Pantages Theatre.
  “When he lets a powerful current sh
  
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• Stay and play at Parq Vancouver

  20-04-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Making a splash in Vancouver’s luxury hotel scene is like getting noticed on YouTube: the competition is fierce and the established players have loyal followers.
  There are no less than three Fairmonts in the West Coast city’s downtown core—including the world-class Pacific Rim. There’s a Four Seasons, the Shangri-La, Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Hyatt Regency, Pan Pacific, and a number of high-end boutique hotels. In other words, short of designing a destinat
  
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• Mother’s Day Remembers

  20-04-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  6th Annual, Mothers Day Remembrance Event If you would like to celebrate Mother’s Day, but your Mother has passed, or you are estranged from her, join others like you for an enjoyable lunch at the Rose House Tea Room in beautiful Kerrisdale, Vancouver. Bring a photo and/or story about your Mother to share. No age...
  
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• Faith leaders arrested while protesting Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion

  20-04-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  "It's time for us to stand up for the Earth, it's time for us to say yes to life and no to the profit-making and greed involved in death."
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20, 2018

  20-04-2018 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20, 2018.
  
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• Michael Newman

  20-04-2018 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  Michael comes to Global News with extensive experience and a passion for community reporting.
  
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• TransLink says it has a West Coast Express backup plan if CP rail workers go on strike

  20-04-2018 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  The track that the West Coast Express runs on is owned by CP rail, and TransLink leases time on it in order to operate the commuter train. 
  
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• Shania Twain entertains sailors aboard HMCS Ottawa at CFB Esquimalt

  20-04-2018 21:18 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Canadian country-music superstar Shania Twain emerged on the helicopter deck of HMCS Ottawa at CFB Esquimalt on Thursday to thank members of the Canadian Armed Forces for their service and sacrifice.
  The appearance before 150 men and women from the Canadian Forces and guests from New Zealand highlighted her song, Soldier, from her latest album, Now.
  The song’s lyrics are the reassuring words of a soldier’s loved one. “You’re not alone when you dream,
  
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• Missing Vernon teen

  20-04-2018 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are asking for help in finding a missing Vernon teen.
  
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• Salt-seeking moose drops by B.C. man’s garage for a taste of his truck

  20-04-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  The moose appears to be quite young but still stands very tall and can see over the top of the car next to it.
  
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• Thousands gather at Sunset Beach for 4/20 Vancouver

  20-04-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  The annual marijuana protest/festival is going ahead without approval from the Vancouver Park Board. Jordan Armstrong reports on who is arriving so far and what residents can expect.
  
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• Brian Minter: Garden club sales a good place to grow your passion

  20-04-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  I have the privilege of speaking to many garden clubs and plant associations across the province, and I always appreciate their passion for the many aspects of gardening. 
  These folks deal with many plant issues in their own gardens, and they are a great resource for sharing gardening know-how and for providing novice gardeners with helpful advice. 
  Many groups raise funds for community needs and projects by selling plants, and they stage spring shows to feature their clubs’ inte
  
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• Teamwork leads to arrest after armed robbery at Vancouver restaurant

  20-04-2018 20:52
  
  Two Vancouver men facing charges after restaurant robbed at gunpoint.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20

  20-04-2018 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Friday, April 20, 2018, including the Chilliwack Tulips of the Valley Festival and the Make it! Vancouver festival.
  
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• Suspect in Abbotsford school stabbing found unfit to stand trial

  20-04-2018 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  Klein is alleged to have entered Abbotsford Senior Secondary in November, 2016 and stabbed two teens -- one of them fatally.
  
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• Orca calf spotted in Cowichan Bay

  20-04-2018 20:31 via globalnews.ca
  Video posted to Facebook shows an orca calf swimming with a pod of orcas in Cowichan Bay. Conservation groups are urging boaters to slow down to make sure the orcas are not hurt.
  
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• ‘Two guys are doing all of the work’: Southern-resident orcas’ inbreeding may devastate the population

  20-04-2018 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  SEATTLE – Just two male whales fathered more than half the calves born since 1990 in the population of southern-resident killer whales, a sign of inbreeding, scientists have learned.
  “It was a shocker to find out two guys are doing all of the work,” said Ken Balcomb, director of the Center for Whale Research and an author on a paper published this week in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Animal Conservation. The findings are based on a new genetic analysis of the whales tha
  
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• Surprising plea deal in Kelowna gangster slaying

  20-04-2018 20:11 via globalnews.ca
  In a surprising twist, a new development means a lengthy trial could be wrapping up very soon.
  
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• Beer of the week: Meadowlark Saison by Cannery Brewery

  20-04-2018 20:10
  
  Spring is here, and with it, light, refreshing springtime beers. Beers with invigorating fresh flavours. Beers that make you forget about the six months of freezing rain and snow we just survived. Almost.
  
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• Guilty pleas expected in Jonathan Bacon murder trial

  20-04-2018 20:06 via vancouversun.com
  Three men charged with the 2011 murder of Red Scorpion gangster Jonathan Bacon are expected to plead guilty to lesser charges when the case resumed on May 1, Crown spokesman Dan McLaughlin confirmed Friday.
  A new indictment was sworn this week against Jason McBride, Jujhar Khun-Khun and Michael Jones. All three had been facing first-degree murder charges for the August 2011 shooting of a Porsche Cayenne outside Kelowna’s Delta Grand hotel.
  Bacon was killed, Hells Angel Larry Amero and two
  
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• Marijuana activists celebrate 4/20 in Vancouver

  20-04-2018 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of marijuana activists, cannabis retails and pot smokers will take part in a 4/20 rally in Vancouver today, led by Jodi Emery who says its goal is to protest and highlight the discrimination marijuana users face.
  
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• Jodie Emery says annual 4/20 will remain a protest for cannabis activists despite legalization

  20-04-2018 20:03 via globalnews.ca
  Cannabis activist Jodie Emery says annual 4/20 celebrations will remain a protest regardless of whether it’s legalized, claiming marijuana users will still face discrimination and unjust laws when it’s free to buy and use.
  
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• Review: Wild Fierce Life, probes the intensity of B.C.’s coastal life

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tofino author Joanna Streetly’s new book is titled Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast.
  Wild Fierce Life: Dangerous Moments on the Outer Coast
  Joanna Streetly | Caitlin Press
  $22.95, 224 pages
  Joanna Streetly moved to Tofino at the age of 19, back when she was “young in all the obvious ways.”
  For Streetly, who’d grown up in Trinidad and Tobago and England, the rugged West Coast outpost she discovered was a place of wildness and wonder. A place, sig
  
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• Pet Therapy: The science of puppy talk

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Do you ever baby talk to your dog — and perhaps feel a little silly doing it? Well, there is good news for those of us who can’t help talking to our puppies like they are human infants, as recent research indicates that this human tendency is more beneficial to the human-dog bond than was previously thought.
  In 2017, a paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B reported that not only is baby talking to our pets a common practice (and automatic for many people) —
  
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• Ford Pier Vengeance Trio's Expensive Tissue Nothing to sneeze at

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Ford Pier Vengeance Trio
  When: April 25, 8 p.m.
  Where: The Cobalt
  Tickets: $10, at the door Canada’s indie music scene has its share of unsung heroes. Ford Pier is certainly one of them. He shouldn’t be.
  Expensive Tissue is the title of the Ford Pier Vengeance Trio‘s new recording and it’s nothing to sneeze at. 
  The album documents Pier, bassist Eric Napier and drummer Bradford Lambert doing what the trio does so well — making music which explodes off the
  
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• Fashion stylist Karla Welch talks getting controversial

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Karla Welch isn’t afraid to be a disruptive voice in the fashion world.
  Her unapologetic approach — one quick scroll through her social media feeds yields a pointed and poignant stance on issues ranging from the #MeToo movement to U.S. President Donald Trump — is one thing that has set her apart from her more politically correct counterparts.
  “That’s just how I am,” she says matter of factly. “Always.”
  Speaking from the Vancouver International Auto
  
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• Book review: Graphic novel Forward tackles grief, loss and new love

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lisa Maas, Victoria-based graphic novelist, has released the book Forward.
  Forward
  Lisa Maas | Arsenal Pulp Press
  $21.95, 198 pages
  The graphic novel is a proven vehicle for tackling tough topics. In Forward, Victoria author and cartoonist Lisa Maas crafts a powerful look at grief, heartbreak and, as the title suggests, “moving forward.”
  Following two forty-something lesbians on a road to discovery, Maas crafts a three-part story not afraid to tackle the insecurities and opposin
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books of the week for April 14

  20-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. A Matter of Confidence: The Inside Story of the Political Battle for BC — Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman (Heritage House Publishing).
  2. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  3. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  4. The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief and Compassion — Surprising Observations of a Hidden World — Peter Wohlleben (Greystone Books).
  5. Grizzlies, Gales and Gia
  
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• Owning a supercar is not so super

  20-04-2018 19:53
  
  Sure they can go fast. But so can a lot of cars nowadays. Save your money for a car that makes your inner engine rev.
  
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• Man finds Moose in his garage

  20-04-2018 19:52 via globalnews.ca
  Prince George resident Tab Baker was shocked to discover a moose in his garage this week, licking the salt off his car. He finally had to encourage it to leave after lingering too long.
  
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• Marijuana activist shows off ‘Love Cannon’ bong at Vancouver 4/20 rally

  20-04-2018 19:35 via globalnews.ca
  Thousands of retailers specializing in cannabis products took part in a massive 4/20 rally in Vancouver on Friday, including one who demonstrated a leaf blower that was turned into a bong.
  
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• The Morning Skate: April 20

  20-04-2018 19:33 via theprovince.com
  There’s a common thread amongst the teams doing well in the playoffs. They’re fast, and they can finish.
  Yeah, I know, it helps to win hockey games if you can actually skate, and score. But honestly, look at how easily the Sharks and Golden Knights brushed aside the Kings and Ducks, two teams who many picked to get on a roll because of their physical, mean play.
  Jason Botchford has had a look at the Canucks and how they would currently stack up against the style of the teams being su
  
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• Witnesses asked to come forward to assist with Surrey collision investigation

  20-04-2018 19:26 via globalnews.ca
  At around 9:30 p.m. Monday, a Surrey woman was struck by a car while crossing eastbound across 140 Street in the crosswalk at 90 Avenue.
  
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• New Movies at the Box Office: I Feel Pretty

  20-04-2018 19:04 via globalnews.ca
  Dana Gee reviews the latest releases every Friday on Global News Morning BC,Dana Gee tells us whether new movies I Feel Pretty, Super Troopers 2 and Lean on Pete are worth catching in theatres this weekend. .
  
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• 5 Things to know about the Black Hen Roadshow

  20-04-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Black Hen Roadshow
  When: April 25, 8 p.m.
  Where: BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts, Capilano University
  Tickets and info: From $25 at tickets.capilanou.ca
  The Black Hen Roadshow is an annual tour lead by acclaimed guitarist, producer and record label head Steve Dawson. Steve and Alice Dawson run Black Hen Music from their office in Nashville, TN. They also run a studio there where some of the artists involved in the label have recorded. 
  The third incarnation of the eve
  
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• 2018 Burnaby blues fest lineup unveiled

  20-04-2018 18:54
  
  The Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival has revealed the remaining artists booked for this year’s event.
  
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• Ultra-luxe home on private peninsula listed for $24.9M (PHOTOS)

  20-04-2018 18:10
  
  West Vancouver’s priciest listing boasts resort-style pool, private beach, boat house (with yacht thrown in) and much more
  
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• Feds not doing enough to keep Hells Angels out of medical pot, B.C. minister says

  20-04-2018 18:10 via vancouversun.com
  The federal government is not doing enough to keep organized crime out of the medical marijuana business, B.C. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said Thursday.
  Farnworth was reacting to two recent Postmedia News stories about full-patch members of the Hells Angels being involved in medical pot in B.C.
  This week, Postmedia reported that West Point Hells Angel Lukasz Cimoszko, who died recently of a suspected overdose, had a federal licence to grow medical cannabis despite alleg
  
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• Stay and play at The Parq

  20-04-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Making a splash in Vancouver’s luxury hotel scene is like getting noticed on YouTube: the competition is fierce and the established players have loyal followers.
  There are no less than three Fairmonts in the West Coast city’s downtown core—including the world-class Pacific Rim. There’s a Four Seasons, the Shangri-La, Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Hyatt Regency, Pan Pacific, and a number of high-end boutique hotels. In other words, short of designing a destinat
  
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• West Coast Express warns of disruption as CP Rail strike deadline looms

  20-04-2018 17:56
  
  Contract negotiation deadline is midnight Friday.
  
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