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• 12 Minute Madness and more at rEvolver Theatre Festival

  16-05-2018 23:57 via vancouversun.com
  rEvolver Theatre Festival presents 12 Minute Madness
  When: May 23 — June 3, various times
  Where: The Cultch, 1895 Venables
  Tickets and info: From $20 at thecultch.com/tickets
  It’s always a challenge to bring new works to the stage. Harder still, if your creations are outside the ordinary or you are an emerging artist. That is why events such as the six year-old rEvolver Theatre Festival are so important to the continuing evolution of new Canadian performance.
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• Police targeting speeders over the long weekend

  16-05-2018 23:55
  
  On average two people are killed in crashes in B.C. every year over the May long weekend.
  
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• B.C. police remind adults not to buy alcohol for teens this grad season

  16-05-2018 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  Local police and liquor store operators are reminding adults to, you know, be responsible adults and not buy alcohol for minors this upcoming grad season.
  “Drinking can be harmful for minors in many ways,” said retail executive director Michael Procopio of the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch.
  “Our goal is to remind our customers about the damage that can be done by purchasing liquor for minors, and that anyone doing so can face hefty fines.”
  Providing a minor with alcohol
  
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• Roxane Gay-edited anthology Not That Bad is a candid look at rape culture

  16-05-2018 23:51 via theprovince.com
  Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
  Edited by Roxane Gay
  Harper Perennial | 368 pages
  $21Cultural critic, essayist and novelist Roxane Gay’s anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture is a candid look at rape culture viewed through the eyes of 30 authors, giving a platform to a small group of diverse voices that are often disregarded or silenced in the face of personal tragedy and trauma.
  Not That Bad is edited by Gay (she writes the introduction) and consists of new
  
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• Barnston Island in Metro Vancouver placed on evacuation alert due to rising flood levels

  16-05-2018 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  The alert is a precautionary measure and Barnston Island residents are not required to leave at this time, but are advised to prepare for evacuation.
  
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• Vancouver Pride Week to become Pride Year in 2018

  16-05-2018 23:32
  Why celebrate Pride in one week when you can celebrate it for a full year?
  
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• City of Vancouver proclaims 2018 'Year of the Queer'

  16-05-2018 23:32
  Vancouver will celebrate decades of queer contributions to the artistic and social landscape of the city starting May 23.
  
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• Ottawa to compensate companies’ losses from Trans Mountain expansion

  16-05-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa confirms it will provide a financial backstop to Kinder Morgan to help it expand the Trans Mountain pipeline. Meanwhile, Alberta gave itself the power to turn off the fuel taps to B.C. As David Akin reports, the two developments put more pressure on B.C. Premier John Horgan.
  
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• B.C. shoots back at Ottawa and Alberta over Kinder Morgan pipeline

  16-05-2018 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA – B.C. Premier John Horgan has shot back at federal finance minister Bill Morneau’s characterization he is trying to obstruct the Kinder Morgan pipeline, saying if Ottawa has a plan to solve the interprovincial dispute over the risk of oil spills it should share that with Canadians.
  And the B.C. government has also warned Alberta that it will take that province to court if it tries to enact legislation that would limit the export of oil to British Columbia.
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• 4-year-old recovering following coyote attack in Burnaby

  16-05-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  The animal was euthanized by the B.C. Conservation Officer Service.
  
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• Barnston Island now under evacuation alert

  16-05-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  Wed, May 16: The residents of Barnston Island have now been placed under evacuation alert due to the rising flood waters of the Fraser River. Residents are being asked to evacuate their livestock in the event the alert becomes an order.
  
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• Coyote destroyed after attacking toddler in Burnaby

  16-05-2018 21:52
  
  A coyote that attacked a three-year-old boy in Burnaby yesterday has been destroyed.
  
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• Lower Fraser River, Strait of Georgia hazardous to navigate due to wood debris

  16-05-2018 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  A relentless torrent of wood debris being swept downstream by the fast-flowing Fraser River is creating severe navigational hazards for recreational boaters, including in the Strait of Georgia.
  Bob Pearson has lived and worked on the Fraser River for 50 years, and owns two commercial marine businesses on Canoe Pass downstream of Ladner.
  “It’s unbelievable, just solid,” he said Wednesday. “One of my boats had to go over to Active Pass and he said all the way across the Gul
  
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• Montreal Children’s Hospital surgeon first Canadian elected to American pediatric surgery board

  16-05-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Pramod Puligandla is the first Canadian ever to be elected to the Pediatric Surgery Board of the American Board of Surgery.
  
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• Threat of heavy rain, thunderstorms for B.C. areas already hit hard by flooding

  16-05-2018 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  A new forecast for parts of the B.C. Southern Interior could cause problems for areas of B.C. already hit hard by the flooding.
  
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• If Kinder Morgan bails, feds would back new Trans Mountain investors: Morneau

  16-05-2018 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  OTTAWA — If Kinder Morgan wants to abandon plans to build the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, there are plenty of other investors out there willing to take up the cause — and they will have the backing of the federal Liberal government, Finance Minister Bill Morneau says.
  The government is willing to “provide indemnity” to any investors, be they the project’s original architects or otherwise, to ensure the controversial Alberta-B.C.. project is able to proceed, M
  
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• Woman detained after feces flinging incident at Langley Tim Hortons

  16-05-2018 21:06 via theprovince.com
  A woman could be facing charges after an irate confrontation at a Langley Tim Hortons Monday ended in feces being thrown at staff.
  On Wednesday, disturbing surveillance video showing Tim Hortons staff being harassed was posted on Liveleak and YouTube.
  In the video, which has no sound, a woman can be seen screaming at staff before squatting on the floor and relieving herself. She then picks up the excrement and throws it at staff.
  Langley RCMP Cpl. Holly Largy confirmed that RCMP received a comp
  
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• Create a sound system for your vinyl

  16-05-2018 21:06 via globalnews.ca
  Embrace the vinyl revival with this equipment, picked out by tech expert Mike Agerbo.
  
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• BC Ferries adds extra long weekend sailings

  16-05-2018 21:05
  
  BC Ferries has scheduled 73 extra sailings on the Tsawassen-Swartz Bay, 12 extra sailings the Langdale-Horseshoe Bay route and 12 on the Earls Cove-Saltery Bay run for the Victoria Day weekend.
  
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• Panel to ponder three options for arterial road and overpass through False Creek Flats

  16-05-2018 20:52
  
  National Avenue, Malkin Avenue and William Street identified as possible routes — each one comes with challenges.
  
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• Laurel or Yanny?

  16-05-2018 20:46
  
  Laurel or Yanny? It's the ultimate inkblot test for the ears and has since gone viral on the web, much like 2015's gold/blue dress debate.
  
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• City of Vancouver to vote on banning single-use containers, straws

  16-05-2018 20:32 via globalnews.ca
  Staff will be presenting their Single Use Reduction Strategy policy at city hall
  
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• Humpback whale injured in Howe Sound, says marine education society

  16-05-2018 20:26
  
  Conservationists are warning boaters to be whale aware after a humpback was photographed with a severe injury on Howe Sound on Monday.
  
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• Letters to The Province, May 17, 2018: Schools need to improve access to defibrillators since seniors visit, reader says

  16-05-2018 20:25 via theprovince.com
  Last month I went to my daughter’s play at the high school in Langley. As luck would have it a local seniors’ group had been invited to tea and the play. Halfway through the performance one of the seniors went into cardiac distress. Fortunately, two doctors and a firefighter were in the crowd who helped stabilize the man until the ambulance arrived.
  The most frustrating thing was that the school’s AED — automatic external defibrillator — was locked in a room an
  
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• Designs revealed for 52-storey tower at ‘Granville Gateway’ (IMAGES)

  16-05-2018 20:16
  
  High-rise on east side of Granville Bridge designed to balance and echo Vancouver House
  
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• Bear spotted walking near Moody Centre transit station

  16-05-2018 20:13 via globalnews.ca
  This video, sent in by Global News viewer Jim Zarowny, shows a bear walking around on the tracks near Moody Centre Station in Port Moody Wednesday morning. Translink tweeted about the incident, saying one of the West Coast Express trains would not be stopping due to passenger safety concerns.
  
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• West Coast Express train skips station in Port Moody because of bear

  16-05-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  There were some delays on a West Coast Express train Wednesday morning because of a bear sighting in Port Moody.
  TransLink says Train 4 did not stop at Moody Centre Station because of passenger safety concerns. 
  The black bear was spotted near the platform for the West Coast Express at Moody Centre Station early in the morning.
  “To ensure customers’ safety, we shut the gates temporarily to keep people from accessing the WCE platform until the bear moved on. Customers taking SkyT
  
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• Lots of horsing around to happen in downtown Vancouver parking lot

  16-05-2018 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  After 75 years as a bus depot and a parking lot, Vancouver’s Larwill Park will be home to some live horsepower as the equestrian sports of show jumping and polo canter into the downtown site on Sunday, May 20.
  The inaugural Vancouver Grand Prix show jumping event will showcase 30 horse and rider pairs. Free to the public, the afternoon of equine action also includes a Vancouver Polo Club-sponsored three-on-three polo match. There will be free pony rides for kids, food trucks and a 500-pers
  
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• Wine Guy: A rice wine interlude

  16-05-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Gomenasai, sake! It really has been too long.
  My interest in sake started many years ago thanks to time spent in Japan and subsequent annual “sake night” potlucks hosted by friends, consisting of copious Japanese dishes paired with various bottles of sake procured both at home and abroad.
  Admittedly, those were bygone days — in recent years not much sake has passed through my tasting glass. Thus it was a pleasant surprise to take a wayward walk through the sake aisle during a r
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland, May 18-24: Fever Ray, Next Music From Tokyo: Vol. 12, and more

  16-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Fever Ray
  When: May 22, 7 p.m.
  Where: Vogue Theatre
  Tickets and info: From $39.50, ticketfly.comSwedish electronic art-pop artist Karin Dreijer dropped her debut as Fever Ray in 2009 to universal acclaim. The solo work from one half of The Knife was compared to everything from early The Cure to Madonna and more, and her song If I Had A Heart has become well known as the theme to the historical drama series Vikings. None of which will prepare you for the zaniness found on Plunge. The second
  
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• Letters to The Province, May 16, 2018: Where is the military to help people in disastrous flood zones?

  16-05-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  I have been watching all the news coverage on the disastrous flooding affecting many cities in the Interior and, soon, the Lower Fraser Valley. I’m seeing elderly residents sandbagging and moving their lives’ possessions out of their homes.What I don’t see is any military assistance. Many areas have been declared disaster zones. Is this not where our military can play a role in assisting those in need of help?
  Garth Pinton, North Vancouver 
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• Kasey Wilson: Colour your world with modern crudités

  16-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Back in the ‘70s, crudités (raw vegetables) were the thing to bring out when your dinner guests arrived.
  My mother used a crinkle cutter to flute carrots, cucumbers and zucchini; fashioned radish “fans” by thinly slicing them not quite through and popping them into ice water until they opened; and cut turnip slices into daisy shapes with a cookie cutter. She arranged them all — plus cherry tomatoes and broccoli florets — in a lettuce-lined wicker basket, stir
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you hear Laurel or Yanny?

  16-05-2018 19:47 via vancouversun.com
  An audio clip posted on social media has divided the Internet. 
  Related
  The internet is losing its mind over whether the word being said in this clip is 'Laurel' or 'Yanny'
  Listen to the sound clip embedded in this Tweet from Chloe Feldman and tell us what you hear. Some people hear a voice say “Laurel,” while others swear they hear “Yanny.” 
  Some strange people insist they hear both words.
  What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I
  — Cl
  
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• Severe gash to back of humpback whale in Howe Sound prompts warning to boaters

  16-05-2018 19:18 via vancouversun.com
  A severe gash on the back of a humpback in Howe Sound is prompting a warning to boaters to take extra caution when travelling in the presence of whales.
  Photos taken this week of the gash at the whale’s dorsal fin suggest it was hit by a boat, Jackie Hildering, education director with the Marine Education and Research Society, said Wednesday.
  The whale was first sighted uninjured feeding in the waters of Howe Sound on April 6.
  It’s hard to say whether the injury will ultimately
  
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• Wily coyotes on the prowl across Vancouver during birthing season

  16-05-2018 19:06
  
  They may not have the resources of the ACME Corporation behind them, but coyotes are still causing trouble for people, and their pets, in Vancouver.
  
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• Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way shares cultural experiences

  16-05-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way
  When: May 17-19, 24-26, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday matinée at 2 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, Chief Simon Baker Room, 1607 East Hastings
  Tickets and info: sliding scale from $2 at the door, weaving-reconciliation-our-way.ca, or vancouvermovingtheatre.com
  The collective quest for a better future plays a big part in the reconciliation process taking place across Canada between Indigenous people and the government. Right alongside this process t
  
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• Kinder Morgan CEO ‘appreciates’ feds’ offer but time short to save pipeline

  16-05-2018 19:00 via globalnews.ca
  The CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. says he "appreciates" an announcement by Finance Minister Bill Morneau that the government will compensate investors in the proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion if "unnecessary delays" cause costs to rise.
  
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• Alberta to pass Bill 12 Wednesday; Notley ‘prepared to turn off the taps’ over Trans Mountain

  16-05-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said the NDP government plans to pass Bill 12 by the end of the day Wednesday.
  
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• Feds will compensate Kinder Morgan for losses caused by pipeline delays

  16-05-2018 18:44
  
  The federal government is prepared to compensate Kinder Morgan for losses and expenses due to delays on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.
  
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• Feds announce new national housing fund

  16-05-2018 18:31
  
  Through new fund, CMHC will work with partners to create up to 60,000 affordable units across Canada and renew up to 240,000 more
  
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• Chilliwack, Wenatchee both clinch spots in Saturday’s RBC Cup semifinals

  16-05-2018 18:31 via theprovince.com
  The Wenatchee Wild and Chilliwack Chiefs will be among the final four standing in Junior A hockey in this country.
  The Wild and Chiefs assured themselves berths in Saturday’s RBC Cup semifinals at Prospera Centre in Chilliwack, thanks to wins on Tuesday. Wenatchee, the BCHL champions, beat the Ottawa Jr. Senators 3-2 in a shoot-out, while the RBC host Chiefs downed Ontario’s Wellington Dukes 2-0.
  Preliminary round action in the five-team tournament continues tonight, with Wellington
  
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• Morneau has promised to ‘indemnify’ Trans Mountain. No one really knows what that means

  16-05-2018 18:25 via globalnews.ca
  The Finance Minister was scant on details, leaving a number of questions unanswered.
  
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• Update: Vancouver police say missing 86-year-old man has been found

  16-05-2018 18:20 via vancouversun.com
  Update (05/16/2018) — Vancouver police say Peter Fung, the 86-year-old man reported missing Tuesday afternoon, has been located “safe and sound.”Vancouver police have issued a plea for the public’s help in locating an 86-year-old man who has been missing since noon Monday.
  He was last seen near his residence in the area of West 68th Avenue and Granville Street.
  Peter Fung was supposed to meet up with a friend and catch a flight out of Vancouver International Airport last
  
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• B.C. Flooding: Evacuation alert issued for Barnston Island in Surrey

  16-05-2018 17:55 via vancouversun.com
  Metro Vancouver issued an evacuation alert Wednesday for Barnston Island over fears of flooding on the Fraser River.
  About 100 residents of Barnston Island, located in the Fraser River between Surrey and Pitt Meadows, have been told they should prepare for the possibility of an evacuation order.
  Officials say Barnston Island is now restricted to residents, businesses and those with a family connection. Barnston Island Regional Park is also closed.
  Metro Vancouver staff say they are monitoring Fr
  
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• Mounties rescue duckling after mother killed on Highway 1 in Burnaby

  16-05-2018 17:44
  
  A motherless duckling was briefly taken into protective custody by Burnaby RCMP earlier this month.
  
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• Grand Forks braces for more flooding

  16-05-2018 17:43 via globalnews.ca
  The City of Grand Forks remains on edge Wednesday morning as residents are bracing for more flooding following last week’s rising waters. John Hua is live in Grand Forks Wednesday with the latest and what officials are saying.
  
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