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• First Nations leaders make their case at Kinder Morgan annual general meeting

  09-05-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Energy giant Kinder Morgan is vowing to issue annual sustainability reports according to a group of B.C. First Nations leaders who attended the companies annual general meeting in Houston, Texas on Wednesday.
  
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• B.C. girl campaigns to sing on stage with P!NK

  09-05-2018 23:44 via globalnews.ca
  The idea first came after her mom got them tickets to the concert, and as a joke, Anthony said it would be fun to sing with her on stage.
  
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• Expect a risk-taking, ‘reckless’ Buono in final season as Lions’ coach

  09-05-2018 23:17 via theprovince.com
  Ten days out from the final training camp of a coaching career that began in 1983, Wally Buono is ready to tackle his victory lap. Hopefully, one that includes a late November confetti blizzard in Edmonton.
  He’s hoisted the Grey Cup seven times in his life — five as a coach, twice as a player — but he might just be a little more motivated to stray from the style that has brought him such success to do it one more time.
  “I have been thinking about being a little more reckl
  
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• Would-be NPA candidate denies role in rival’s nomination disqualification

  09-05-2018 23:16 via globalnews.ca
  Would-be NPA mayoral candidate Glen Chernen says he had nothing to do with rival Hector Bremner being disqualified from the nomination race.
  
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• 5 things to know about Nick & Astro's Guide to the Galaxy by Potatohead People

  09-05-2018 22:44 via vancouversun.com
  Nick & Astro’s Guide to the Galaxy
  Potatohead People | Bastard Jazz
  Potatohead People is duo Nick Wisdom and AstroLogical. The Vancouver-formed hip hop/electro project began when both the members were in high school and worked under different groupings until founding Potatohead People in 2008.
  According to the bandcamp website, they are another crew to relocate to culturally fertile and  more affordable Montreal.
  Following a series of digital EPs and many additional productio
  
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• Two women injured after chasing dog onto train tracks in Chilliwack

  09-05-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  Two women were injured after they chased their dog onto train tracks and were struck by a Canadian Pacific Rail freight train Tuesday night.
  RCMP responded to a report of a collision between two pedestrians and a train in the 51000-block of Yale Road at around 9 p.m. 
  When they arrived, emergency crews found two local women suffering non-life threatening injuries.  They were transported to hospital by B.C. Ambulance.
  RCMP say the women were walking their dog when the pet ran onto the r
  
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• "Mr. Spectacles" will lead Team China into Jerome Classic

  09-05-2018 22:00
  
  400 metre champion will be competing in inaugural Pacific World Cup against Canada.
  
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• Tech Talk: All about Alexa

  09-05-2018 21:13 via globalnews.ca
  From calling friends to easily accessing all of your music, Alexa is at your beck and call.
  
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• ‘Virtual kidnapping’ scam targeting Chinese students back in Vancouver: police

  09-05-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  The scam targets both Chinese students here in Canada, and their families back home who are tricked into believing the students have been kidnapped.
  
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• Hector Bremner remains defiant, will seek re-election in October

  09-05-2018 21:07
  
  NPA Coun. Hector Bremner says he will seek re-election in October but won’t say whether he will stick with his party or run as an independent candidate for mayor or council.
  
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• 82-year-old Vancouver man killed, fourth traffic fatality in 2018

  09-05-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  An 82-year-old Vancouver man has died from serious injuries after he was hit while crossing an intersection.
  
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• Concert announcement: Jerry Seinfeld coming to Vancouver in October for three shows

  09-05-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Legendary stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld visits Vancouver in October for two nights at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre.
  Seinfeld will perform three times — a 7 p.m. show on Oct. 4 along with two performances (7 and 9:30 p.m.) on Oct. 5 — as his Just For Laughs tour rolls through Vancouver.
  Pre-sale tickets (pre-sale code: LIVE) went on sale Wednesday at 10 a.m. through Ticket Master. General admission tickets, which range from $79 to $175 (plus fees), go on sale May 14 at 10 a.m.
  
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• Letters to The Province, May 9, 2018: NDP calls us wealthy, but we live paycheque to paycheque covering mortgages, reader says

  09-05-2018 20:56 via theprovince.com
  The media calls us “angry wealthy house owners.” In reality, many of us live paycheque to paycheque and pay $5,000 a month on our mortgages.
  When we bought our house 12 years ago, we paid $1.5 million. It’s an old house and we needed to use our line of credit to do a basic kitchen renovation. The house market is overinflated and if we had to buy a house for the first time now we would not be able to do so. If we had to sell it today we will not profit since to buy another house
  
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• Trans Mountain pipeline protesters say progress made at shareholder meeting

  09-05-2018 20:47 via vancouversun.com
  Trans Mountain pipeline protesters are calling a Kinder Morgan shareholder vote asking for an annual sustainability report a victory.
  But Kinder Morgan says a resolution that passed Wednesday at a shareholder meeting in Texas will have no impact on plans to build the $7.4-billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through B.C.
  Chief Judy Wilson of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, an anti-pipeline spokesperson, was in Houston Wednesday to try to convince Kinder Morgan shareholders at t
  
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• Kinder Morgan shareholders call for annual sustainability report

  09-05-2018 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  Trans Mountain pipeline protesters are calling a Kinder Morgan shareholder vote asking for an annual sustainability report a victory.
  But Kinder Morgan says a resolution that passed Wednesday at a shareholder meeting in Texas will have no impact on plans to build the $7.4-billion expansion of its Trans Mountain pipeline through B.C.
  Chief Judy Wilson of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, and anti-pipeline spokesperson, was in Houston Wednesday to try to convince Kinder Morgan shareholders at
  
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• Towers aplenty get early OK from Coquitlam

  09-05-2018 20:10
  
  Hundreds of new condos and rental units in the works
  
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• Canucks’ top prospects, No. 10: Lukas Jasek quickly shows he’s relentless

  09-05-2018 20:07 via theprovince.com
  Top 10 Canucks prospects
  In the midst of a rebuild, the lifeblood of the Vancouver Canucks is their prospects. This series checks out the top 10 prospects in the team’s system who have yet to get a shot to be NHL regulars. At No. 10 is Lukas Jasek:
  Lukas JasekAge: 20, born Aug. 28, 1997
  Position: Right wing
  Hometown: Trinec, Czech Republic
  Height: 6-1
  Weight: 185 pounds
  Drafted: 174th overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft
  Scoring: 18 points in 48 games in the top Czech league; seven points i
  
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• Momager for Instabrat 'Lil Tay' fired from Vancouver real estate firm - Daily Hive

  09-05-2018 20:03
  Daily Hive
  Momager for Instabrat 'Lil Tay' fired from Vancouver real estate firm
  Daily Hive
  A few days ago, we told you about Instabrat Lil Tay and her momager, who happens to be Vancouver-area realtor Angela Tian. But it turns out that filming your nine-year-old yelling profanity and throwing wads of cash on luxury cars to make them ...
  
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• Wine Guy: Off-script whites

  09-05-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Spring is the time of the year for new beginnings, no? And we’re still in the midst of the season, correct?
  Well, I suppose my palate was inspired by the blooming trees as lately my tastebuds have been looking to blossom with a selection of white wines from more atypical locales. Which is not to say that any of these wines come from obscure wine regions. Indeed all three hail from jurisdictions with a healthy and lengthy wine culture, it’s just that we have not typically seen a decen
  
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• Restaurant review: First Nations food shines at Salmon n' Bannock

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Salmon n’ Bannock
  1128 West Broadway | 604-568-8971
  Open: Daily for dinner, salmonandbannock.netWhen Jane Fonda came to Vancouver and slipped into her Hanoi Jane mode in 2015 to protest against Big Oil, the first meal she had was at Salmon n’ Bannock on West Broadway.
  The First Nations food “was a first for me,” Fonda wrote on her website, “and the food, all Indigenous recipes, fresh and local, was delicious.” Owner Inez Cook recalls, “she went
  
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• Q&A: Twin sister act face the future with a first tour and new album

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fionn
  When: May 15
  Where: Fox Cabaret
  Tickets: $25 at ticketfly.com
  White Rock-raised twins Alanna and Brianne Fionn have been singing semi-professionally since they were 12, when they started out busking on Granville Island. Now 20, and calling themselves Fionn, the sisters have begun their career in earnest. They recently embarked on their first tour, opening for Canadian singer/songwriter Royal Wood. And, later this year, they’ll release their debut full-length album on 604 Records (Car
  
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• Q&A: Maximizing Canadian health

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution
  Andrew MacLeod | Douglas & MacIntyre
  $22.95, 240 pages
  Cover of All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution, by Andrew MacLeod.What’s the “next great health revolution”? It’s not any phytonutrient, fitness, or dietary regime, in Andrew MacLeod’s view. The research undergirding MacLeod’s latest book, All Together Healthy: A Canadian Wellness Revolution, led him to a couple of conclusions. For one
  
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• Lamb of God to burn the priest again at Slayer's final Vancouver show

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lamb of God at Slayer — Final World Tour
  When: May 16, 4 p.m.
  Where: Pacific Coliseum
  Tickets: From $77 at Ticketmaster.ca
  As Lamb of God heads out on the road as a support act for Slayer on the legendary thrash metal act’s farewell tour with additional support of Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament, the band is looking backwards. Before it was one of the biggest names in the new wave of American heavy metal movement, Lamb of God was known as Burn the Priest.
  Formed in 1994 at Virginia C
  
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• Freestyle skateboarders ride high at Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  World Freestyle Round-Up
  Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair
  When: May 18 to 21
  Where: Cloverdale Rodeo and Exhibition Grounds, Surrey
  Tickets and info: From $10, at cloverdalerodeo.com and at participating London Drugs and IGA outlets.Rodeos are all about bull riding and bucking broncos, right? Think again. 
  For the past seven years, the Cloverdale Rodeo & Country Fair has hosted the World Freestyle Round-up in the Cloverdale Curling Rink — an international skateboardin
  
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• Classical music: Vancouver Cantata Singers celebrate 60 years

  09-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Kantatefeire! A Cantata Celebration!
  Where: Christ Church Cathedral
  When: May 12, 7:30 p.m.
  Tickets and info: vancouvercantatasingers.comCompared with the longevity of Vancouver’s senior classical music groups like the Vancouver Women’s Musical Society (established 1905); Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (just turning 100); and the Vancouver Bach Choir (founded 1930), a mere 60th birthday season pales a bit.
  Still, the Vancouver Cantata Singers has a good deal to celebrate, and cele
  
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• Chinese students in Vancouver are victims of ‘virtual kidnappings,’ police say

  09-05-2018 19:52 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver police are warning the public after two students from China were targeted in separate and elaborate extortion schemes dubbed “virtual kidnappings.”
  The scam starts when the student receives a phone call. They are told there is a warrant for their arrest in China, or that the Chinese police need their help with an investigation.
  The suspects, who can be calling from a number that appears to be from the Chinese consulate, convince the victim to make fake videos indicating the
  
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• B.C. woman fired from car dealership after racist tirade caught on camera at Lethbridge restaurant

  09-05-2018 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Video of a woman uttering racist comments and threatening violence against a group of men at a Lethbridge restaurant is being shared widely on social media and has cost the woman her job.
  
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• Martial arts instructor creates pants with a punch

  09-05-2018 19:30
  
  BIA Woman Athletics puts the focus on fit.
  
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• Vancouver police issue warning about ‘virtual kidnapping’ scheme

  09-05-2018 19:19
  
  Suspects are targeting international students studying in Vancouver
  
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• City of Richmond aims to weed out pot on farmland

  09-05-2018 19:12
  
  Proposed provincial regulations consider the production of marijuana on ALR acceptable.
  
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• Saskatchewan to intervene in B.C. case to restrict increased bitumen flows

  09-05-2018 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. launched a reference case on April 26 to see if they could pass legislation allowing them to mandate permits for companies looking to increase the flow of oil into the province. Saskatchewan will now be getting involved in that case.
  
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• Saskatchewan to apply to participate in B.C. case to restrict increased bitumen flows

  09-05-2018 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. launched a reference case on April 26 to see if they could pass legislation allowing them to mandate permits for companies looking to increase the flow of oil into the province. Saskatchewan will now be getting involved in that case.
  
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• Taekwondo coach charged with sex crimes may have taught in Port Moody

  09-05-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  A taekwondo instructor charged sexually assaulting a female student in Ontario may have previously taught martial arts in Port Moody.
  Shin Wook Lim, 44, of Woodbridge Ont., was arrested by Toronto police on May 1 and charged with six counts of sexual assault, five counts of sexual exploitation, and one count each of invitation to sexual touching and sexual interference.
  Toronto police allege the incidents, which occurred between 2015 and 2017, involved a teenage girl.
  Li
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, May 11 — 17: Tricky, Spot Prawns, more

  09-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Tricky 
  When: May 14, 7 p.m.
  Where: Rickshaw Theatre, 254 E. Hastings
  Tickets and info: $32.50 at ticketfly.com
  One of the founders of the incredibly influential nineties trip-hop scene, Bristol’s Tricky has explored the darkest recesses of his cultural and creative experience to produce some of the grooviest and most foreboding albums of the past few decades. His latest album is titled Ununiform and finds him musing on such lighthearted subject matter as death, family secrets, histor
  
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• Elderly pedestrian struck by car at crosswalk in East Vancouver dies - Vancouver Sun

  09-05-2018 18:57
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  Elderly pedestrian struck by car at crosswalk in East Vancouver dies
  Vancouver Sun
  An elderly Vancouver man is dead after he was struck by a car Tuesday at a crosswalk at Victoria Drive and Kingsway Avenue. Vancouver Police say this is Vancouver's fourth traffic fatality of 2018. In three of the four traffic fatalities this year, the ...
  Elderly man dies after he was hit by a car in VancouverNews1130
  82-year-old Vancouver man killed, fourth traffic fatality in 2018Globalnews.ca
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• Elderly pedestrian struck by car at crosswalk in East Vancouver dies

  09-05-2018 18:57 via vancouversun.com
  An elderly Vancouver man is dead after he was struck by a car Tuesday at a crosswalk at Victoria Drive and Kingsway Avenue.
  Vancouver Police say this is Vancouver’s fourth traffic fatality of 2018. In three of the four traffic fatalities this year, the victims have been pedestrians.
  Shortly after 2 p.m., first responders were called to Victoria Drive and Kingsway Avenue, where an 82-year-old man had been struck by a car.
  The man was taken to hospital, where he later died.
  VPD Collision inv
  
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• Beer of the week: Lil’ Red Chair 4.0 by Townsite Brewing

  09-05-2018 18:52
  
  Sour beers can be a polarizing thing. Some of the more challenging styles are closer to salad dressing than beer, and if you don’t know what you’re getting into, you could be in for a big surprise.
  
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• Two people injured after being struck by train in Chilliwack

  09-05-2018 18:39 via vancouversun.com
  Two people were taken to hospital with unknown injuries after they were struck by a Canadian Pacific Rail freight train Tuesday night.
  The RCMP and CP have not released many details, but there are reports two women were struck.
  Patrick Waldron, a spokesman for CP Rail, confirmed the incident involved a CP train heading westbound on CN tracks shortly before 9 p.m. near Old Yale Road.
  He said two individuals were hit by the train at or near the Yale Street crossing. They were taken to hospitals by
  
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• Elbow Room’s snarky days could be numbered

  09-05-2018 18:26
  
  It ain’t over till the last insult is slung. That’s the defiant attitude of Patrice Savoie, owner of the Elbow Room Cafe on Davie Street — a staple of both the West End and Vancouver’s gay community since 1983.
  
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• Hold on, Vancouver’s election silly season has started early

  09-05-2018 18:09
  
  The municipal election may still be 24 weeks away, but the lead up to the Oct. 20 vote has been something to behold.
  
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• Kinder Morgan protest takes to the water

  09-05-2018 17:52 via globalnews.ca
  Some protesters are in kayaks and at least two have attached themselves to a floating fence that surrounds the construction site.
  
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• Young Vancouver singer hopes to join P!nk on stage

  09-05-2018 17:46 via globalnews.ca
  12 year old singer Victoria Anthony is a huge P!nk fan and a great singer in her own right. She explains why she would like to join the pop star on stage at Rogers Arena May 12th.
  
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• Two women taken to hospital after incident on Chilliwack train tracks

  09-05-2018 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  It happened near Old Yale Road in the community of Rosedale around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
  
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• Two women taken to hospital after being hit by train in Chilliwack

  09-05-2018 17:38 via globalnews.ca
  It happened near Old Yale Road in the community of Rosedale around 9 p.m. Tuesday.
  
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• Squamish council spurns Polygon's Garibaldi Springs project

  09-05-2018 17:24
  
  Development proposal by Polygon Homes failed in a 4-3 vote at third reading
  
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• Making Mother’s Day special for single moms and children living in poverty

  09-05-2018 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  Montana Hauser of the YWCA Cause We Care House talks about the struggles faced by single mothers living in poverty and how the organization hampers help them.
  
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• Surrey breeder accused of animal abuse due in court

  09-05-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  If convicted, Zhou could face two years in jail and up to a lifetime ban on owning animals.
  
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• Electric Theatre Company's 40 Days and 40 Nights at Shadbolt Centre

  09-05-2018 17:00
  
  Ruminations on the word love runs May 22 to 26.
  
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• Be ready for alert test this afternoon at 1:55

  09-05-2018 17:00
  
  Cell phones connected to LTE service will sound or vibrate an emergency test signal.
  
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• Emergency alert Day 2 testing going ahead while officials work to fix Monday failures

  09-05-2018 16:55 via globalnews.ca
  Alert Ready officials say tests planned for Wednesday in other parts of the country will go ahead while they work to resolve glitches in the system.
  
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