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• New St. Paul's maternity clinic helps moms-to-be who don't have a family doctor

  12-05-2018 23:43 via vancouversun.com
  Born when the cherry trees outside St. Paul’s Hospital were in full bloom, baby Sakurako will be two weeks old on Mother’s Day.
  The newborn, whose name means “little cherry blossom” in Japanese, is the happy result of a challenging pregnancy that was handled by St. Paul’s new maternity clinic, which was created for women without a family doctor.
  Continuous care is important during pregnancy, said Dr. Ashley Smith, one of the doctors that helped to start the cli
  
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• Don't know how to hold a cat? Vancouver's YouTube vet offers pro tips - CBC.ca

  12-05-2018 23:30
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  Don't know how to hold a cat? Vancouver's YouTube vet offers pro tips
  CBC.ca
  No matter how much you love your cat, sometimes there's a scratch coming your way — and for good reason. Vancouver veterinarian Dr. Uri Burstyn has seen a lot of kitties come through his doors. And all too often, they're mishandled by their owners ...
  Vancouver vet's video tutorial on how to pick up a cat becomes surprise viral hitGlobalnews.ca
  Vancouver veterinarian's cat video generates nearly three
  
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• 7 songs that make Vancouver listeners think about their mothers - CBC.ca

  12-05-2018 23:30
  CBC.ca
  7 songs that make Vancouver listeners think about their mothers
  CBC.ca
  What song makes you think about your mom? CBC's On The Coast put the call out ahead of Mother's Day and this is how Vancouver listeners answered. Only first names were provided by those who wrote in with songs and stories. What's the greatest ...and more »
  
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• 4/20 complaints flooded Vancouver’s 311 phone lines

  12-05-2018 23:29 via vancouversun.com
  Take 4/20 and add it to 311 and you get hundreds of calls from Vancouverites complaining about the annual gathering that organizers consider a protest against marijuana laws and detractors call an illegal pot party and trade fair.
  Vancouver’s 311 line installed a special “if you’re calling about …” option for those wanting to voice concerns about the latest 4/20 smoke-in at Sunset Beach.
  The city’s 311 operators logged 82 calls this year — all but 10 of
  
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• 36 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, May 13 - Straight.com

  12-05-2018 23:01
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  36 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Sunday, May 13
  Straight.com
  Looking for something to do on Sunday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 36 events happening in or around Vancouver on Sunday, May 13. CONCERTS. The Rogue Folk Club presents American bluegrass quintet the Kathy Kallick Band at St. James ...
  
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• Dermod Travis: NPA owes it to Bremner to ‘lift the cloud’ of secrecy over his rejected candidacy

  12-05-2018 23:00 via theprovince.com
  It was hardly front-page news on the West Coast, but St. John’s lawyer Ches Crosbie, son of former Progressive Conservative MP John Crosbie, was elected the new leader of the Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Party last month.
  It’s noteworthy because three years ago, the Conservative party of Canada, rejected Ches’ federal candidacy, claiming in his words that “decision-makers at party headquarters in Ottawa decided I wasn’t the type of candida
  
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• ‘It’s going to come even harder next week’: Okanagan issues call for sandbag volunteers

  12-05-2018 21:58 via globalnews.ca
  "We're trying to appeal to people's best nature right now,"
  
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• Gardenworks: Mother’s Day Planter

  12-05-2018 21:12 via globalnews.ca
  Aleks from Gardenworks shares her suggestions to make a gorgeous Mother’s Day Planter
  
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• Humboldt Tributes – John Grisdale Night

  12-05-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  Glen Ringdal, president of the Chilliwack Chiefs, and Brent Ladds, CJHL president, tell Jay about the hockey worlds tributes to the Humboldt Broncos.
  
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• Protesters gather at Vancouver Aquarium with call to ’empty the tanks’

  12-05-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Similar demonstrations are taking place in 60 cities around the world.
  
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• Space Talk – BC Astronomy Day

  12-05-2018 21:02 via globalnews.ca
  RACS’s Scott McGillivary tells us his top tips for star-gazing this summer. Plus he has news on how and where you can celebrate BC Astronomy Day.
  
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• Canucks’ top prospects, No. 7: Jonah Gadjovich

  12-05-2018 21:00 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. 7 is Jonah Gadjovich:
  Jonah Gadjovich
  Age: 19, Oct. 12, 1998
  Position: Left wing
  Hometown: Whitby, Ont. 
  Height: 6-1
  Weight: 209 pounds
  Drafted: Round 2, No. 55 overall in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft
  Scoring: 25 goals and 23 assists in 42 gam
  
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• Open House: Asbestos

  12-05-2018 20:51 via globalnews.ca
  Kaitlyn Herbst finds out more about the dangers and warning signs of asbestos
  
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• Saturday Chef – Mother’s Day Brunch

  12-05-2018 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Matthew from Salted Vine shares his recipe for a whipped omelette perfect for a Mother’s Day Brunch.
  
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• Mother’s Day Champagne

  12-05-2018 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  From budget to blow-out – Darryl Lamb from legacy liquor shares his pick of the top champagnes — for every price range.
  
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• Bubble tea shops struggle with potential Vancouver straw ban - Toronto Star

  12-05-2018 20:43
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  Bubble tea shops struggle with potential Vancouver straw ban
  Toronto Star
  VANCOUVER—How does one drink bubble tea without a straw? Bubble tea enthusiasts may need to come up with an answer soon, because Vancouver city council is voting Wednesday on whether to ban some single-use items, including plastic straws, ...
  Vancouver council poised to ban single-use plastic straws and polystyrene foam used in food distributionStraight.comall 2 news articles »
  
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• Women’s Rugby Sevens

  12-05-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Rugby star Andrea Burk talks to us about this weekends women’s rugby sevens.
  
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• B.C. flooding news Saturday: Water levels remain a concern as warm weather expected to continue

  12-05-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  With rising temperatures, floods are reaching record-breaking levels.
  
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• Chainsaw Carving Pro – Ryan Cook

  12-05-2018 20:34 via globalnews.ca
  He creates incredible works of arts — using his trusty chainsaw and pieces of wood. Carving pro Ryan Cook is back as he races against the clock to create something very special for us.
  
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• BC Flooding: Officials fear weekend hot weather could speed up melting snowpack

  12-05-2018 20:08 via vancouversun.com
  Communities in B.C.’s southern Interior are bracing for more floods this weekend, as temperatures soar up to 30 C, causing a rapid melt of the snowpack.
  Days of heavy rain and unseasonably warm weather have swollen rivers, creeks and lakes to levels not seen in more than half a century, causing devastating floods and forcing thousands of residents to leave their homes.
  In the Okanagan town of Osoyoos, where an evacuation order was expanded by 30 properties late Friday, temperatures we
  
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• Life-saving paper emergency shelter showcased at Vancouver Art Gallery - CBC.ca

  12-05-2018 20:01
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  Life-saving paper emergency shelter showcased at Vancouver Art Gallery
  CBC.ca
  In the shadows of Vancouver's tall skyscrapers sits a small paper log house, one that was originally designed for the sole purpose of providing shelter in the wake of a natural disaster. It's a sight that reminds Vancouver Art Gallery curator Bruce ...
  
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• Makeover: The perfect birthday present

  12-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Diahann Hamilton wanted to refresh her look for her 70th birthday.
  Diahann has fine and naturally curly hair. She was finding it to be unmanageable and unruly and wanted to refresh her colour for summer. I love her as a red head so I applied slices of foils of both rich auburn-red lowlights and blond highlights. The lowlights are meant to create depth and dimension, while the highlights offer a brighter contrast. I applied a her background foundation colour to match her existing colour and to an
  
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• Diversified economy points to job strengths, says head of B.C. Chamber of Commerce

  12-05-2018 19:54
  
  Vancouver’s unemployment rate third lowest among Canadian urban centres.
  
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• Concerns rise over flooding in Osoyoos, B.C.

  12-05-2018 18:24 via globalnews.ca
  Flooding concerns in Osoyoos, B.C. continue to mount on Saturday as the temperature rises. Paul Haysom reports.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunshine and blue skies for Mother's Day - Vancouver Sun

  12-05-2018 18:06
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  Vancouver Weather: Sunshine and blue skies for Mother's Day
  Vancouver Sun
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Metro Vancouver's weekend weather is shaping up to be a scorcher, especially for Mother's Day Sunday when temperatures are expected to soar to nearly 30ºC in some areas. Environment Canada says Saturday will be mainly sunny ...
  6 straight days of sunshine reaching 28°C in Metro Vancouver forecastDaily Hiveall 2 news articles »
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Sunshine and blue skies for Mother's Day

  12-05-2018 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Metro Vancouver’s weekend weather is shaping up to be a scorcher, especially for Mother’s Day Sunday when temperatures are expected to soar to nearly 30 C in some areas. Environment Canada says Saturday will be mainly sunny and a little windy near the water, with highs of 19 C and 26 inland. Then on Sunday, the agency is forecasting a balmy 29 C inland and 23 C closer to the water. The hot sunny weather is expected to last through next week.Weather: Vancouver,
  
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• Fatal flashpoint: Gurmit Dhak's 2010 murder ignited a gang war that's still raging

  12-05-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Independent Soldiers founder Randy Naicker stopped outside a Starbucks on a warm June afternoon six years ago, he had no idea that a rival gang had fixed a tracking device to his SUV.
  Despite escaping earlier attempts on his life, Naicker ended up being an easy mark that day.
  Two masked gunmen blasted him at the busy Port Moody intersection of St. Johns and Queens, before running off and hopping into a getaway vehicle. A black handgun was left near the scene.
  Shocked onlookers saw Naic
  
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• Patient and saviour reconnect after Coquitlam Crunch heart attack

  12-05-2018 16:04
  
  Tanya Leibel had just witnessed evidence of humanity at its worst when she received a very personal reminder of humanity at its best.
  
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• Making a statement in Burnaby's Brentwood

  12-05-2018 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  While the world-famous wine region in south-western France is the inspiration behind the name Bordeaux, Solterra Group of Companies’ planned residential highrise in Burnaby, the developer’s creative team also took its cues from iconic French designers Pierre Balmain, Madeleine Vionnet and Olivia Putman.
  The one- and two-bedroom apartments in the 23-storey building slated for the site at 4488 Juneau Street (corner Willingdon Avenue) will have either the Pierre (black and light-oak) or
  
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• Sold (Bought): Yaletown condo goes for well above listing price

  12-05-2018 15:29 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  1701 — 1001 Homer Street, Vancouver 
  Type: One-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment
  Size: 506 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $552,000
  Listed for: $549,000
  Sold for: $641,000
  Sold on: March 7
  Days on market: Eight
  Listing agent: Carole Lieberman and Luana Robertson at Dexter Associates Realty
  Buyers agent: Mike Marfori and Abhishek Mehta at Sutton Premier Realty
  The big sell: This one-bedroom-plus-den condo in Yaletown&rsquo
  
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• The lure of B.C.’s fishing resorts

  12-05-2018 15:17 via theprovince.com
  A few decades ago, it was all about catching a big fish. Most visitors to remote fishing resorts and lodges were only hooked on fishing; accommodations and amenities were barely a thought. Nowadays people come for the experience. In fact, some guests don’t even care if they catch a fish. Being there, immersing yourself in nature is reward enough.
  Some resorts have no trouble baiting travelers angling for luxury. After you’ve been out on the briny blue, celebrating over cocktails with
  
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• The Home Front: Getting comfy in the kitchen

  12-05-2018 15:03 via vancouversun.com
  If the different areas in our homes were ascribed personalities, surely the kitchen would be the most popular of them all. Often described by interior designers as the “hub” of the home, the kitchen often reflects what’s happening in modern culture, be it the way we’ve embraced smart technology or what we’re loving in terms of colour and design.
  For a quick look at what’s happening in kitchen design, The Sun caught up with kitchen specialists from  W
  
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• Excellence honoured at Ovation Awards

  12-05-2018 14:57 via vancouversun.com
  Adera Development Corporation emerged as the top winner at this year’s Ovation Awards, the annual award program that honours excellence in new-home construction, renovation and design in Metro Vancouver.
  Adera, which has built more than 10,000 detached homes, condos and townhomes over the last 45 years, walked away with four awards, including the Grand Ovation Award, Multi-Family Home Builder of the Year, at the sold-out event April 28 in Vancouver. The Ovations are an undertaking of the&n
  
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• 'Missing middle' competition offers residential housing solutions

  12-05-2018 14:54 via vancouversun.com
  Back-to-backs, brownstones, bungalow courts, clustered housing, plexes, maisonettes, row-houses, stacked towns and six-packs.
  Throughout the world, these low-density multi-housing forms provide affordable homes for millions of households. However, in British Columbia, most of our housing is either single-family homes or apartments.
  As a result, architects and planners are increasingly referring to these other “gentle density” housing solutions as “the missing middle”.
  Giv
  
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• Mike Smyth: Province plans to aggressively weed out illegal pot shops

  12-05-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  Don Briere bills himself as Canada’s largest storefront retailer of marijuana, a status that’s earned him a distinctly Canadian nickname: “The Tim Hortons of pot.”
  There’s one glaring difference, of course. It’s not against the Criminal Code of Canada to sell coffee and doughnuts.
  Briere’s stores — including his 12 across British Columbia — sell marijuana illegally.
  So what will happen to his busy chain of Weeds Glass and Gifts outlets when t
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Court OK's jailing of hobbled First Nations woman who just came out of a coma

  12-05-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s top court has approved sending a 50-year-old First Nations woman to prison for a 2009 skid-row killing even though she only recently awoke from a nearly seven-year coma unable to walk, wash her hair or feed herself.
  The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld the two-year federal prison stretch because provincial correctional facilities couldn’t accommodate Annalee Auckland’s many infirmities.
  “The issue for this court is whether in his decision to sentence the appellant
  
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• Different Mother's Day wish for B.C. moms working to save lives in fentanyl crisis

  12-05-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  A group of B.C. women know exactly what they want for Mother’s Day, but their wishes cannot be fulfilled by their children.
  The grim reality is that each has lost a child to the province’s escalating overdose crisis, which is killing more than four people a day.
  These women have united in their grief with like-minded mothers across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico to launch the international #listentomom campaign, which demands a more humane approach to drug addiction: removing the stigma
  
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• Osoyoos Evacuations

  12-05-2018 08:43 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly two thousand homes in Southern BC are empty tonight after being evacuated due to swollen rivers reaching historic water levels.
  
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• Big White makes big investment

  12-05-2018 08:27 via globalnews.ca
  The Big White Ski Resort east of Kelowna is investing $10 million in improvements on the hill this summer. With around 600,000 skier visits every season, the mountain wants to better accommodate guests. Doris Maria Bregolisse has details.
  
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• Whitecaps 2, Dynamo 2: Late equalizer salvages night for finish-challenged Vancouver

  12-05-2018 07:08 via theprovince.com
  Live by the sword, die by the sword.
  And until the 94th minute Friday night, it looked like the Vancouver Whitecaps were going to fall on theirs — again.
  But Kendall Waston’s injury-time header rescued the Caps from a crushing loss, giving the home side a 2-2 tie against the Houston Dynamo, keeping their undefeated home record against their Texas visitors intact.
  The team known league-wide for the counter-attack fell victim to it in the 90th minute when Mauro Manotas put the visitors
  
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• Global News Hour at 6: May 11

  12-05-2018 06:38 via globalnews.ca
  Watch Global News Hour at 6 with Chris Gailus and Sophie Lui for Friday, May 11, 2018.
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: May 11

  12-05-2018 05:28 via globalnews.ca
  The Friday, May 11, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Possible cancer breakthrough in Netherlands

  12-05-2018 05:24 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Escobar restaurant protesters turn out to urge owners to change the name

  12-05-2018 05:14 via globalnews.ca
  Pablo Escobar was the cocaine kingpin behind a bloody drug war.
  
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• Mission dog mauling victim speaks out

  12-05-2018 05:13 via globalnews.ca
  A Mission woman who survived a vicious mauling by a dog in Aldergrove is sharing her harrowing ordeal and calling for the dog’s owner to do the right thing. John Hua reports.
  
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• Calgary’s mayor has harsh words for John Horgan

  12-05-2018 05:13 via globalnews.ca
  Naheed Nenshi had harsh words for B.C.’s premier amid a fight between the province over the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. Richard Zussman has the details.
  
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• Grand Forks residents escape rising floodwaters

  12-05-2018 05:10 via globalnews.ca
  Nearly 2,000 homes in Southern B.C. have been evacuated as rivers were pummeled with rain and snowmelt swelled to historic levels. And as Aaron McArthur reports, the worst hit area is the City of Grand Forks, where two rivers meet.
  
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• Fraser Valley flood watch

  12-05-2018 05:10 via globalnews.ca
  With a high streamflow advisory in place, people in the Fraser Valley are watching river levels closely. Paul Johnson reports.
  
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• Flooding in the South Okanagan

  12-05-2018 05:10 via globalnews.ca
  Several communities in the South Okanagan are either in the thick of the flooding or cleaning up the aftermath from rising rivers. Paul Haysom has the latest from Keremeos.
  
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• Escobar restaurant opens amidst protests

  12-05-2018 05:06 via globalnews.ca
  A new Vancouver restaurant is opening its doors to controversy as it shares the same name as a murderous drug lord behind a reign of terror in Colombia. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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