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• Minnesota 1, Whitecaps 0: What we learned

  05-05-2018 23:55 via theprovince.com
  Maybe it was the early start. Maybe it was the jet lag. Either way, the Vancouver Whitecaps were caught sleeping Saturday morning in Minnesota, losing 1-0 to  a Loons side that played the second half with 10 men.
  In a game they were supposed to continue their momentum from a skid-stopping win against Real Salt Lake last week, the Caps instead took another step back in the über-tight Western Conference.
  The decisive moment came 10 minutes after Minnesota’s Mason Toye was sent to t
  
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• B.C. government expands farmers market coupon program

  05-05-2018 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has expanded a coupon program that helps lower-income residents and expectant mothers buy food at their local farmers market.
  On Saturday, Health Minister Adrian Dix and Agriculture Minister Lana Popham announced an additional $750,00 investment into the B.C. Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program, which will provide eligible households weekly coupons worth $21, up from $15. The ministers expect more than 3,900 participants by 2020, up from the current 3,708. 
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• Richmond man who posed as modelling agent to assault women named dangerous offender

  05-05-2018 23:33 via theprovince.com
  A 32-year-old Richmond man convicted of sexual assault has been named a dangerous offender by the B.C. Supreme Court.
  Two years ago, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Paul Pearlman found Novid Dadmand guilty of sexually assaulting five women, four of them by deceiving them into believing he was a modelling agent and that they were auditioning for a position as a model.
  Following his conviction, the Crown sought to have him declared a dangerous offender, with an indeterminate sentence, arguing that
  
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• Historic Vancouver theatre a step closer to being saved after mortgage approval - CBC.ca

  05-05-2018 23:17
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  Historic Vancouver theatre a step closer to being saved after mortgage approval
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  The operators of one of Vancouver's last independent movie theatres have been approved for a mortgage to buy the beloved cinema. Theatre Rio runs independent films and also hosts burlesque, comedy, improv and variety shows. Gemma Karstens-Smith · The ...
  Beloved Vancouver theatre one step closer to being saved after mortgage approvalVancouver Courierall 3 news articles »
  
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• 35 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, May 6 - Straight.com

  05-05-2018 23:00
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  35 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, May 6
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  Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 35 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, May 6. CONCERTS. Canadian country-pop star Shania Twain performs the second of two nights at Rogers Arena. Broken ...
  
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• Former slugger McPherson takes reins of C’s, but doesn’t want to just play long ball

  05-05-2018 22:21 via theprovince.com
  Dallas McPherson’s scouting report as a manager differs a little to his one as a player.
  “I like excitement on the base paths,” said McPherson, 37, the former power-hitting third baseman who’s prepping in Florida right now for his first season as bench boss of the Vancouver Canadians. “I like chaos. I like trying to to make things happen with speed. I like trying to make plays and being aggressive.
  “I like the long ball, too. Who doesn’t like power guys?
  
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• Playground structure ‘seriously damaged’ by early morning fire in Chilliwack park

  05-05-2018 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  Chilliwack Fire Department says nobody was injured but believe the fire was deliberately set.
  
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• Driver given $109 traffic ticket for head-on crash that killed motorcyclist in Delta

  05-05-2018 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  Motorcyclist Brad Smith died five days after his wedding when a car crossed the centre line and hit him. The driver was given a ticket of just over $100.
  
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• Gardenworks: Cinco de Mayo

  05-05-2018 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Scott from Gardenworks shows you how to bring some of the colours and flavours of Cinco de Mayo into your garden.
  
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• Saturday Chef – Spring Time White Asparagus Salad

  05-05-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Executive Chef Roger Ma from the award-winning Boulevard Kitchen + Oyster Bar shares his recipe for a white asparagus salad – perfect for a spring lunch.
  
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• Investors Group Walk for Alzheimer’s

  05-05-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Michele Buchignani and John Stark share their family’s experiences with Alzheimer’s and what you can do to help.
  
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• Cinco de Mayo Margaritas

  05-05-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Robyn Gray – Rosewood Hotel Georgia’s Head Bartender – helps us celebrate Cinco de Mayo with two margarita recipes.
  
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• Open House: Closet Organization

  05-05-2018 21:37 via globalnews.ca
  Kaitlyn Herbst gets some organizational tips and tricks that will help make the most of your closet space.
  
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• Richmond golfer a finalist for Jack Nicklaus Player of the Year Award

  05-05-2018 21:35
  
  Chris Crisologo in Texas for NCAA Regionals
  
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• 'Ferocious' CBC Vancouver leader Liz Hughes dies at 67 - CBC.ca

  05-05-2018 21:22
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  'Ferocious' CBC Vancouver leader Liz Hughes dies at 67
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  A long-time CBC leader described by co-workers as a "formidable force" behind the scenes within the public broadcaster has died. Liz Hughes, 67, died of complications due to breast cancer surrounded by loved ones — including her husband Doug Rushton ...
  
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• Makeover: Finding that pretty spring glow

  05-05-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  This week I’m showing you how to get a pretty spring glow using Joe Fresh Beauty. Its quick, easy and under five minutes to achieve!
  Step 1On clean moisturized skin, apply a light dusting of Joe Fresh Color Correcting Powder. It evens skin tone, absorbs excess oil and balances the complexion; while offering a natural, lightweight finish.Step 2
  Next, using the Joe Fresh Cream Highlighter Stick. Apply a few strokes on the high points of the face (along the cheekbones, above the arch of the b
  
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• Barbara Grantham: Ismaili community shows what happens when Canada shelters good people from the storm

  05-05-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  I remember growing up in Vancouver years ago and going out for family dinner. The choice in those days was, “which burger place shall we go to?” Fifty years later, we now have an amazing array of foods and culinary adventures from which to choose for those family dinners. For me, it’s one symbol of the remarkable transition that this city and this country have made over the past half-century.
  Most of us came to Canada from somewhere else, with an interesting story of how we ar
  
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• Day Out With Thomas The Tank Engine

  05-05-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  All aboard! The West Coast Railway Association presents A Day Out With Thomas: Big Adventure Tour 2018 at the Railway Heritage Park in Squamish!
  
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• Beautiful routes and road closures: the pros and cons of Sunday's BMO Vancouver Marathon

  05-05-2018 18:25
  
  17,000 runners will take over many Vancouver streets, parks and seawall trails on May 6
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Blue skies and balmy - Vancouver Sun

  05-05-2018 18:23
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  Vancouver Weather: Blue skies and balmy
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  VANCOUVER, B.C. – If you're not inside working, today's warm weather looks perfect for a hike or a day at the beach. You may want to pack that sunscreen though, as Environment Canada says the UV index is high. The temperature is expected to reach a ...
  
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• Aga Khan's visit to Vancouver this weekend expected to draw 20,000 people

  05-05-2018 17:00
  
  Ismailis' spiritual leader is celebrating his diamond jubilee with series of events.
  
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• 48 hours in Las Vegas, America’s newest sports town

  05-05-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  Las Vegas is always reinventing itself and today the entertainment capital is becoming known as Sportstown, USA – the go to for live sports action.
  The landscape shifted when MGM Resorts built T-Mobile Arena in 2016, and now with construction underway for the future home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders– it has become a magnet for sports teams, and athletes.
  The NHL’s Golden Knights, the Ultimate Fighting Championship the WNBA, NASCAR, USA Sevens Rugby, college basketball,
  
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• 48 hours in Las Vegas, American’s newest sports town

  05-05-2018 17:00 via theprovince.com
  Las Vegas is always reinventing itself and today the entertainment capital is becoming known as Sportstown, USA – the go to for live sports action.
  The landscape shifted when MGM Resorts built T-Mobile Arena in 2016, and now with construction underway for the future home of the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders– it has become a magnet for sports teams, and athletes.
  The NHL’s Golden Knights, the Ultimate Fighting Championship the WNBA, NASCAR, USA Sevens Rugby, college basketball,
  
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• Adera's Crest to take its place in Central Lonsdale

  05-05-2018 15:16 via vancouversun.com
  Rhys Leitch liked the design of Adera’s new Crest residential development in North Vancouver’s Central Lonsdale district so much he decided to buy a unit in the complex.
  There’s nothing unusual about that, until you learn that Leitch is a principal and lead project designer for Crest’s architects, Integra Architecture Inc.
  “I am most proud of the fact that I want to live there — and will be living there,” said the Aussie transplant. “I have done a
  
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• The Home Front: Home-made to self-made, the evolution of the craft industry

  05-05-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  When Andrea and Robert Tucker, owners of East Hasting’s London Fields Shoppe, first launched Got Craft in 2007, they had 20 vendors and 500 attendees. Robert says the craft show, which runs today and tomorrow at East Vancouver’s Maritime Labour Centre, now includes over 80 vendors and attracts a crowd of over 5,000, and reflects the way the craft industry has changed over the past 10 years.
  “Over the last decade, the quality, and what people are making, has chang
  
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• Sold (Bought): Cloverdale townhome attracts plenty of interest

  05-05-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  105 — 18777 68A Avenue, Cloverdale
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse
  Size: 1,301 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $473,000
  Listed for: $529,900
  Sold for: $560,000
  Sold on: March 5
  Days on market: Six
  Listing agent: Scott Moe, Toni Kelly and Joseph Poulin at ReMax Treeland Realty
  Buyers agent: Natasha Marjanovic at Oakwyn Realty
  The big sell: Listing agent Scott Moe, reports that 11 offers were submitted for this two-b
  
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• Whitecaps Game Day: Caps aim to cue up max points in Minnesota’s flats

  05-05-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Saturday’s Major League Soccer match is a meeting between two teams that bought themselves some breathing room with crucial wins last week.
  The Vancouver Whitecaps halted a three-game slide with a 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake, while Minnesota United FC applied a tourniquet to their four-game losing streak by beating the Houston Dynamo 2-1.
  The Whitecaps (4W-4W-1D, 3rd West) play at TCF Bank Stadium against the United FC (3-5-0, 7th West) starting at 11 a.m. The game will be televised on
  
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• Mike Smyth: Safety or cash grab? Cops go high-tech to catch distracted drivers

  05-05-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Bad drivers of B.C., beware.
  The government — and the cops — are coming to get you. And they’re loading up with more traffic-ticketing technology than British Columbia has ever seen before.
  Attorney General David Eby has promised to get tough with rule-breaking road warriors as he attempts to cut down on soaring accident rates and extinguish the “financial dumpster fire” at ICBC.
  How will he do it? With new high-tech equipment and gadgets designed to catch highway l
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Ex-Angel has chippy exchange with govt lawyer

  05-05-2018 08:52 via vancouversun.com
  Fred Widdifield was clearly not happy to be brought from prison to testify for the Director of Civil Forfeiture in its case against his former biker gang.
  He had a few testy exchanges with Brent Olthuis who was questioning Widdifield about the decades he spent as a member of the Nanaimo Hells Angels – one of three defendants in the director’s bid to get three clubhouses forfeited.
  Here’s my story:Former biker brought from prison to testify at Hells Angels case A founding m
  
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• Okanagan business ransacked by thieves who drive away with rig

  05-05-2018 07:38 via globalnews.ca
  A Central Okanagan business is cleaning up after thieves ransacked their business and stole a semi.
  
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• Okanagan Spring Wine Festival’s most popular event another success

  05-05-2018 07:11 via globalnews.ca
  The WestJet Wine Tasting event Friday night in Kelowna attracted hundreds of wine lovers from around the world.
  
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• Two Vancouver singers get the experience of a lifetime - Globalnews.ca

  05-05-2018 06:54
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  Two Vancouver singers get the experience of a lifetime
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  Two Vancouver singers are back from a once-in-a-lifetime experience in Nashville after their song went viral in a way they never expected. Jennifer Palma explains. more. <iframe src="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/4189128/" width="670" height="372 ...
  
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• West Kelowna resident taken to safety, private bridge over McDougall Creek to be removed

  05-05-2018 06:38 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Hydro crews are traveling to West Kelowna to de-energize power lines and possibly remove a power pole before West Kelowna crews remove a private bridge off Capri Road. McDougall Creek was backing up at the bridge Friday night, sending water into a nearby parking lot. One property was evacuated.
  
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• Melody Ma: Amazon not a 'big win' for the Vancouver technology sector

  05-05-2018 05:57 via vancouversun.com
  Amazon announced that it will open a new satellite office with 3,000 new technology jobs in Vancouver. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mayor Gregor Robertson heralded the announcement, with the mayor saying it was a “big win for the Vancouver economy.” But it isn’t. Not only will Amazon’s influx of jobs add more strain to the housing affordability situation, it will also strain our technology labour market, potentially negatively impacting the very sector that it is sup
  
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• Driver behind deadly accident gets away with traffic ticket

  05-05-2018 05:35 via globalnews.ca
  The family of a motorcyclist killed in Delta are outraged that the driver behind the accident walked away with nothing more than a traffic ticket. Rumina Daya has more.
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: May 4

  05-05-2018 05:32 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, May 4, 2018.
  
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• Toronto Taekwondo teacher arrested in alleged sex assault on girl may have B.C. ties: RCMP

  05-05-2018 05:22 via globalnews.ca
  Shin Wook Lim was arrested in Toronto. The RCMP are helping the police there with their investigation.
  
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• Rio Theatre operator cried ‘tears of joy’ with mortgage approved for iconic venue

  05-05-2018 04:39 via globalnews.ca
  A campaign to keep the iconic Vancouver theatre open appears to have done its job with the help from a Canadian Credit Union.
  
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• Tears flowed when a nurse met the B.C. artists behind the song she sang to a dying woman

  05-05-2018 04:35 via globalnews.ca
  There were tears and hugs aplenty.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: May 4

  05-05-2018 04:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, May 4, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Vancouver Sun reporters win coveted NNA Award for year's best project

  05-05-2018 04:06 via vancouversun.com
  Journalists Dan Fumano and Matt Robinson of The Vancouver Sun won National Newspaper Awards Friday in recognition of their achievements in investigative reporting.
  Fumano and Robinson won for Project of the Year for their probe into the case of Phillip Tallio, a Bella Coola man who has been in prison for 34 years for a murder he says he didn’t commit.
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  Fumano and Robinson’s in-depth series followed Tallio’s appeal of his 1983 conviction in the murder of
  
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• Canuck the crow settles down: East Vancouver's bad boy bird now a father - CTV News

  05-05-2018 03:59
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  Canuck the crow settles down: East Vancouver's bad boy bird now a father
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  He's hitched a ride on a SkyTrain and even stolen a knife from a Vancouver crime scene, but Canuck the crow might be done sowing his wild oats in the city. It appears as though East Vancouver's infamous bad boy bird is now a father. Canuck most ...
  
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• B.C. makes a mark on the world beer stage

  05-05-2018 03:55 via globalnews.ca
  British Columbian brewers won big at the World Beer Cup. The province took home nine medals. And as Aaron McArthur reports, they are giving well-known beer nations some new competition.
  
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• Two Vancouver singers get the experience of a lifetime

  05-05-2018 03:48 via globalnews.ca
  Two Vancouver singers are back from a once-in-a-lifetime experience in Nashville after their song went viral in a way they never expected. Jennifer Palma explains.
  
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• Cool story brew: 9 B.C. beers win big at world competition

  05-05-2018 03:29 via globalnews.ca
  Eight B.C. breweries have come home with nine medals following an international beer competition.
  
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• Many Vancouver restaurants desperate for staff

  05-05-2018 03:23 via globalnews.ca
  A growing number of Vancouver restaurants are suffering a major staffing shortage. As Jill Bennett reports, many are blaming the crunch on the city’s high cost of living.
  
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• Vancouver introduces non-market housing to tackle housing crisis

  05-05-2018 03:13 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Vancouver announcing a big investment in housing today. New non-market housing will be built in an attempt to ease the city’s housing crisis. But as Ted Chernecki reports, some are questioning the project’s location.
  
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• Busy days at Canada Place signal potential limits to growth of cruise sector: industry association

  05-05-2018 03:13 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s cruise terminal at Canada Place will experience its first ‘full house’ of three ships Sunday in what is expected to be a banner year, but the cruise business might be hitting its limits, an industry association warns.
  This season the Port of Vancouver is expecting 32 ships to make 241 separate calls on Vancouver with 895,000 passengers, a seven per cent jump from 2017. But it is a volume that is starting to squeeze existing facilities, said cruise industry represent
  
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• Central Okanagan economically unstoppable as boom continues

  05-05-2018 03:11 via globalnews.ca
  With the population in the Central Okanagan growing fast and the sound of construction everywhere, it's no surprise that the local economy is booming.
  
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• Peruvian prosecutors say B.C. man behind the death of local elder

  05-05-2018 03:06 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. man beaten and killed in Peru last month may have been behind the death of a local healer. John Hua has more on why Peruvian prosecutors believe Sebastian Woodroffe was behind the initial crime.
  
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