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• Mike Smyth: Lawyers prepare to fight government on car-crash injury payouts

  28-04-2018 23:41 via theprovince.com
  For British Columbians who live with chronic pain, the daily misery and suffering is real to them, and it never goes away.
  But sometimes the pain is not real to a lawyer, or to an insurance adjuster or even to a doctor.
  That’s why Heather Divine is disturbed by the B.C. government’s move to cap financial payouts for pain and suffering to people who suffer “minor injuries” in car crashes.
  “What’s ‘minor’ to an insurance company can have a major impa
  
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• Brock Crouch, U.S. pro snowboarder, survives being buried alive in Whistler avalanche

  28-04-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  The 18-year-old was filming a snowboard video when the disaster struck.
  
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• Olympic cauldron lit for Day of Mourning for workers killed on the job

  28-04-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  WorkSafeBC says 158 people were killed on the job or died of an illness related to their work last year.
  
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• Ed Willes: Demko plays masked marvel for Comets in quest to upset Marlies

  28-04-2018 22:58 via theprovince.com
  UTICA, N.Y. — In 20 years of bouncing around the minors, first as a stay-at-home defenceman, then an assistant coach and finally a head coach, Trent Cull has watched the rise and fall of any number of goalie prospects.
  So when the conversation turns to Thatcher Demko, Cull can speak to the subject with some authority.
  Anyone can watch the Utica Comets’ goalie for five minutes, Cull says, and see he’s been blessed by the hockey gods with all the physical attributes required of a
  
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• Ceremonies held across B.C. to mourn workers killed on the job

  28-04-2018 22:18 via vancouversun.com
   Thousands of mourners are expected to turn out at 40 ceremonies being held in cities around B.C. to remember workers killed on the job.The events on Saturday mark a National Day of Mourning. Vancouver’s ceremony, hosted by the BC Federation of Labour, the Business Council of British Columbia,  and WorkSafe BC, began at Jack Poole Plaza at 11:45 a.m.
  The flag at Vancouver’s city hall was also flying at half mast on Saturday to honour those who died.
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• Friends save pro-snowboarder Brock Crouch from Whistler avalanche

  28-04-2018 21:59
  
  "It took me through about 1000 feet and over several rock bands before I ended up at the bottom."
  
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• Whitecaps put boo-birds to bed — at least for now

  28-04-2018 21:42 via theprovince.com
  One week, you’re getting booed off the pitch. The next, you get a standing ovation.
  Such is the life of the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  Friday’s result wasn’t a pretty win — the first half was punctuated by few scoring chances from the home side, and the overall statistics were tilted heavily in favour of the visitors — but the final score was just the salve a “wounded” team needed. The 2-0 win over Real Salt Lake snapped a three-game skid, including the w
  
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• Flooding in B.C. Interior prompts road closures, state of emergencies, evacuations

  28-04-2018 21:39 via vancouversun.com
  Flooding in the B.C. Interior from rapidly melting snowpacks has washed out roads and properties, prompted local state of emergencies, and caused more people to leave their homes in Oliver.
  A local state of emergency was declared Friday night in the village of Cache Creek, where multiple road closures are in effect because of flooding. Cache Creek is located about 80 kilometres northwest of Kamloops, and about 340 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.📣 Washouts in the #CacheCreek and s
  
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• Gardenworks: Planting fruit trees

  28-04-2018 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  Top gardening tips from the folks at Gardenworks.
  
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• Open House: B.C. strata councils

  28-04-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  If you own a condo you know all about strata councils. But what are the biggest problems and complaints? Kaitlyn Herbst talks with the director of the Condo Homeowners Association of B.C..
  
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• B.C. Firefighters test their skills against the best in the country

  28-04-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Do you have what it takes to be a firefighter? Some of Canada’s best are showing off their skills in Port Moody this weekend. Jennifer Palma reports.
  
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• Flooding in Okanagan prompts road closures, state of emergencies, evacuations

  28-04-2018 20:24 via vancouversun.com
  Flooding in the B.C. Interior from rapidly melting snowpacks has washed out roads and properties, prompted local state of emergencies, and caused more people to leave their homes in Oliver.
  A local state of emergency was declared Friday night in the village of Cache Creek, where multiple road closures are in effect because of flooding. Cache Creek is located about 80 kilometres northwest of Kamloops, and about 340 kilometres northeast of Vancouver.📣 Washouts in the #CacheCreek and s
  
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• Makeover: Spring means a style update

  28-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Darcy Hogan, 32, is a catering manager who wanted a style update for spring.
  Hogan has medium textured, naturally strawberry-blond hair.  It was getting long and unruly and she wanted to brighten up the colour.  She wanted a colour that would be low maintenance and natural looking.  I opted for a foilyage colour placement, which combines both fine weave foils highlights with a few hand painted ribbons.  I strategically placed the foils around the face and hairline, as well as
  
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• Litigation and musical theatre a good combo for The Lawyer Show's Goosen

  28-04-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Lawyer Show presents The Drowsy Chaperone
  When: May 3-5
  Where: Waterfront Theatre
  Tickets: $80 (includes a $45 tax receipt) at tickets.carouseltheatre.ca
  Each spring, Vancouver’s legal community comes together to create The Lawyer Show. A  fundraiser for Carousel Theatre for Young People and Touchstone Theatre, the show has become an annual tradition, with lawyers from all aspects of legal life taking part. This year’s production features 25 law professionals singing and dan
  
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• Dan Kraus: We all have a role to play in conserving nature

  28-04-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Earth Week is a time to promote awareness and appreciation for our environment, sustainable living and earth awareness. There’s nothing like the potential loss of Earth’s rich biodiversity and planetary life-support systems to make one feel, well, a little overwhelmed. Our individual actions can seem like small roles on a very big stage.
  The solution to halting and reversing the loss of nature needs to occur from thousands of small individual actions.
  The Nature Conservancy of C
  
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• Rising waters in B.C. Central Interior lead to flood watch, road closures

  28-04-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  A local state of emergency has been declared in the Village of Cache Creek due to rising water levels. 
  
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• Granville Street Bridge opens after Friday night police incident

  28-04-2018 18:31 via vancouversun.com
  The Granville Street Bridge reopened early Saturday morning after it was closed late into Friday night as police dealt with an emergency on the span.
  The closure was announced by police on Twitter just before 4 p.m. As of midnight, VPD and TransLink confirmed the bridge remained closed and renewed a warning to drivers to find other routes in and out of downtown.
  Shortly after 5 a.m., police said the incident had been resolved peacefully, and the bridge had reopened.
  The police incident on the Gr
  
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• Rare wolves, primates galore, exotic cultures make Ethiopia a fascinating destination

  28-04-2018 18:30 via theprovince.com
  We’re driving on Africa’s highest all-weather road on the Sanetti Plateau when we spot it: an Ethiopian wolf, arguably the world’s rarest, most endangered canid. We stop and have a good luck for a few minutes from about 50 feet away at this beautiful creature that looks somewhat like a Canadian fox. All too soon, it ambles off, leaving us delighted with this sighting and looking forward to returning to the plateau in a few days with a guide.
  Rare Ethiopian wolves.
  We’re o
  
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• Ceremonies to be held across B.C. to mourn workers killed on the job

  28-04-2018 18:24 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands of mourners are expected to turn out at 40 ceremonies being held in cities around B.C. to remember workers killed on the job. The events on Saturday mark a National Day of Mourning. Vancouver’s ceremony, hosted by the BC Federation of Labour, the Business Council of British Columbia,  and WorkSafeBC, will begin at Jack Poole Plaza at 11:45 a.m. Before the ceremony, organizers will light the Olympic cauldron, and after mourners will have a moment of s
  
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• UPDATED: Vancouver police identify the city’s eighth homicide of 2018

  28-04-2018 18:09
  
  Thirty-eight-year-old Vancouver man dies after assault at Coopers Park.
  
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• Vancouver firehall below, vulnerable women and children above

  28-04-2018 18:04 via vancouversun.com
  When construction is complete on Vancouver’s newest firehall later this year, firefighters will have the traditional sliding pole to connect 10 upstairs dorm rooms to three fire truck bays below, but also a unique group of neighbours. On four storeys built over the station will be supportive housing for single mothers and their children, with priority for those fleeing abusive relationships.
  The unusual emergency-services-and-residential combination is a cost-effective experiment in an exp
  
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• Health officials, police dealing with rash of overdoses in Vancouver, Victoria

  28-04-2018 17:03
  
  118 emergency calls on Wednesday followed by 105 in Thursday. "There's something pretty toxic out on the street. And it seems to be pretty widespread."
  
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• Not your average firehall: there will still be trucks and a fire pole, but also dozens of vulnerable women and kids living upstairs

  28-04-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  When construction is complete on Vancouver’s newest firehall later this year, firefighters will have the traditional sliding pole to connect 10 upstairs dorm rooms to three fire truck bays below, but also a unique group of neighbours. On four storeys built over the station will be supportive housing for single mothers and their children, with priority for those fleeing abusive relationships.
  The unusual emergency-services-and-residential combination is a cost-effective experiment in an exp
  
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• Granville Street Bridge closed all Friday night due to police incident

  28-04-2018 09:10 via vancouversun.com
  The Granville Street Bridge was closed late into Friday night as police dealt with an emergency on the span.
  The closure was announced by police on Twitter just before 4 p.m. As of midnight, VPD and TransLink confirmed the bridge remained closed and renewed a warning to drivers to find other routes in and out of downtown.
  The Granville Street Bridge remains closed to traffic in both directions for a police incident. Please choose an alternate route. Thank you for your patience.
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• Kelowna restaurant celebrates 50 years in business

  28-04-2018 07:43 via globalnews.ca
  There are three generations of family working at Olympia Greek Taverna in Kelowna, a rarity in business these days. The restaurant is celebrating 50 years in business this weekend. Doris Maria Bregolisse reports.
  
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• Whitecaps 2, Real Salt Lake 0: Caps dig in for late win to snap skid

  28-04-2018 07:42 via theprovince.com
  The Southsiders made a statement before the game. The Vancouver Whitecaps made theirs during it.
  After a week of social media evisceration, including the team’s supporter’s group putting out a statement on Twitter condemning the team’s coaching and management, the Whitecaps went out and snapped a three-game losing streak — and goal drought — beating Real Salt Lake 2-0 at B.C. Place Stadium on Friday night.
  After two straight home shutouts, a stretch of 275 scoreless
  
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• Granville Street Bridge closed for hours Friday evening due to police incident

  28-04-2018 06:35 via vancouversun.com
  The Granville Street Bridge remained closed in both directions over what police are calling an emergency hours after the incident began.
  The closure was announced by police on Twitter just before 4 p.m. Several hours later, VPD said the bridge remained closed and renewed their warning to drivers to find another route in or out of downtown.
  The Granville Street Bridge remains closed to traffic in both directions for a police incident. Please choose an alternate route. Thank you for your patience.
  
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• Comets ride Demko’s hot hand to force Game 5 showdown against Marlies

  28-04-2018 06:11 via theprovince.com
  UTICA, N.Y. — The frenzied home crowd certainly played a role, as did Reid Boucher and Nikolay Goldobin but, in the playoffs, it usually comes down to the goalie. On Friday night Thatcher Demko stared down the end of his season and decided he’d like to play another game.
  Demko, the Vancouver Canucks’ prize goaltending prospect, stopped 40 of 42 shots, including a couple of momentum-turners, in backstopping the Utica Comets to a 5-2 win before another sellout crowd of loonies at
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: Apr 27

  28-04-2018 05:03 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, April 27, 2018.
  
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• Editorial: Clearing the legislative path to cannabis legalization

  28-04-2018 05:00 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government tabled legislation this week to pave the way for the legalization of recreational cannabis, expected sometime this summer. Many of the measures announced were widely anticipated: the age restriction is 19, wholesale sales will be managed by the Liquor Distribution Branch, retail will be through government-owned stand-alone stores (not through liquor stores) and private outlets, cannabis use will be prohibited where tobacco smoking and vaping are already banned, and new resour
  
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• Victoria police got so many overdose calls overnight they ran out of naloxone

  28-04-2018 04:23 via globalnews.ca
  "To put it in perspective, I imagine that when we replaced the naloxone today, we probably had to replace between 10 and 15 doses."
  
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• Granville Street Bridge closed for hours Friday afternoon due to police incident

  28-04-2018 04:12 via vancouversun.com
  The Granville Street Bridge remained closed in both directions over what the VPD is calling an emergency several hours after the incident began.
  The closure was announced by police on Twitter just before 4 p.m. Three hours later, VPD said the bridge remained closed and renewed their warning to drivers to find another route in or out of downtown.
  The Granville Street Bridge remains closed to traffic in both directions for a police incident. Please choose an alternate route. Thank you for your pat
  
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• LISTEN: The role of car-sharing in the future of transportation

  28-04-2018 04:04 via globalnews.ca
  The company was only the second car-share company in North America when it started in the West End with just two cars and 16 members.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Apr 27

  28-04-2018 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, April 27, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• With Metro Vancouver gas prices topping $1.60/L, Langley thieves drill it out of people’s tanks

  28-04-2018 03:53 via globalnews.ca
  It's proof that gas thieves are literally hitting a new low.
  
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• Seniors exercise more when in a group

  28-04-2018 03:52 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Thieves drill into vehicle fuel tanks in Langley as gas prices hit record highs.

  28-04-2018 03:48 via globalnews.ca
  Vehicle owners in Langley say thieves drilled into their fuel tanks leaving them without gas and costly repair bills. John Hua reports.
  
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• His kitchen started leaking. Then his landlord tried to use it to evict him, says Vancouver tenant

  28-04-2018 03:40 via globalnews.ca
  "It seems to me it's more about money than me here," the tenant said.
  
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• Kitsilano residents claim to be victims of ‘renovictions’

  28-04-2018 03:24 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of a Kitsilano apartment building say their landlord is trying to force them out in order to raise the rent, even resorting to illegal entry of their suites. Paul Johnson has their story.
  
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• Abbotsford police officer accused of theft

  28-04-2018 03:21 via globalnews.ca
  An Abbotsford police officer is under investigation after allegedly being caught on camera, stuffing drug money into his sock. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• Metro Vancouver board reverses pay raise

  28-04-2018 03:20 via globalnews.ca
  After a tense meeting with a number of heated exchanges, Metro Vancouver board members have reversed their controversial pay raise and retirement payout. Ted Chernecki reports.
  
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• Protecting pedestrians from attack without adopting fortress mentality

  28-04-2018 03:18 via vancouversun.com
  The chilling image of a vehicle being used as a weapon to attack pedestrians is one that urban designers have taken to heart as something to protect people against, but not with a fortress mentality.
  “You need to be aware of (the possibility), you need to understand really what could happen,” said Andy Yan, director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University. “It’s how do you build an environment so it doesn’t reinforce fear, it projects a sense of safety.&rdquo
  
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• B.C. group tries to free trapped Syrian refugee

  28-04-2018 03:17 via globalnews.ca
  A group of people in Whistler are trying to bring a man to Canada who’s been trapped in a Malaysian airport for nearly two months. Nadia Stewart explains.
  
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• Wineries submit proposal to put “Naramata Bench” on the wine label

  28-04-2018 03:14 via globalnews.ca
  A group of wineries located on the Naramata Bench between Penticton and Naramata have submitted a proposal to officially put “Naramata Bench” on the wine label. Shelby Thom reports.
  
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• 29-year-old man dies in custody at Mission Institution

  28-04-2018 03:10 via globalnews.ca
  A 29-year-old inmate has died at a Correctional facility in Mission.
  
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