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• Suspect arrested after SkyTrain video showed woman pushed to platform, hit with coffee

  18-05-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  This happened after a man allegedly threw coffee at her.
  
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• Kitsilano Pool renovations completed, swimming begins Saturday

  18-05-2018 23:53
  
  $3.3-million project represents first large-scale renovation in 40 years
  
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• Washington cold case arrest: family reaction

  18-05-2018 23:31 via globalnews.ca
  The sister and mother of murder victim Jay Cook speaks to media about the 31-year-old murder case of their family member and Tanya Van Cuylenborg.
  
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• Movie Minute: Deadpool 2

  18-05-2018 23:31 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia film critic Dana Gee and Arts Editor Aleesha Harris take a look a the Vancouver-shot sequel Deadpool, starring hometown hero Ryan Reynolds.
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• Big plane makes big splash at Kelowna airport

  18-05-2018 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  One of the largest planes to ever visit the Kelowna airport touched down Friday afternoon. The Boeing 747SP is owned by ruling family of Qatar. It arrived non-stop from Shannon Ireland for maintenance work at KF Aerospace. “The arrival of the 747SP is a great opportunity to demonstrate YLW’s ability to accommodate larger aircraft on...
  
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• Kitsilano Pool opening Saturday with over 1-million litres of fresh sea water

  18-05-2018 23:27 via globalnews.ca
  Kits Pool used to have to be replenished with 430,000 gallons of potable water per month. After a $3.3-million facelift, that may not be the case anymore.
  
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• Peachland asks motorcyclists to keep the noise down

  18-05-2018 23:02 via globalnews.ca
  Some motorcycles are extremely noisy because their exhaust pipes have been modified.
  
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• Whitecaps aiming to beat Texas heat and rested FC Dallas on Saturday

  18-05-2018 22:47 via theprovince.com
  The heat is on the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  Not only is the Major League Soccer side feeling the pressure of finding a win for just the second time in eight games, but the dry Texas heat will be pounding down on them Saturday afternoon in Dallas, where it’s expected to be in the mid-30s for kickoff.
  It’s an extreme test for any team to play in Dallas — the Toros are 3-0-3 this season at Toyota Stadium — but Vancouver is coming off a compacted schedule seeing them play th
  
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• The Pat-cast: Becoming The Pett-cast

  18-05-2018 22:44 via theprovince.com
  Jeff Paterson and Jason Botchford discuss the future of Canucks prize prospect Elias Pettersson and where he’ll play next season. When will he sign a contract with the Canucks? Does he have anything left to prove in the Swedish Hockey League?
  Botch recaps his Top 10 prospects countdown that has been appearing on TheProvince.com over the past two weeks.http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/20180518_pat-cast/20180518_Pat-cast.mp3We reveal the Canuck connection to
  
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• Evacuation alerts and park closures in Lower Mainland, as Fraser River creeps higher

  18-05-2018 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  Flooding in low-lying areas not protected by dikes is expected in the coming days.
  
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• B.C. flooding news Friday: military rolls into Grand Forks

  18-05-2018 22:42 via globalnews.ca
  By the end of Friday, there will be 100 troops in Grand Forks.
  
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• Pregnant woman loses unborn baby after targeted double shooting in Vancouver

  18-05-2018 22:41 via theprovince.com
  A 31-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man are in hospital after they were seriously injured early Friday in a targeted double shooting in Vancouver.
  The woman, who was pregnant and in her third trimester, is in critical condition. The man suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
  The woman’s unborn child did not survive.
  Vancouver police say shortly before 6 a.m., an unidentified person went to the home of a 31-year-old Vancouver woman on Industrial Avenue near Scotia Street and shot he
  
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• Body found in Richmond identified as Gregory Scuby

  18-05-2018 22:35 via theprovince.com
  Homicide detectives have identified the body found in Richmond Thursday as 42-year-old Gregory Joseph Scuby.
  Scuby’s body was found in the 16600-block of Dyke Road at around 11:15 a.m. The victim’s death was deemed suspicious and the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was called in.
  IHIT says Scuby was well known to police and investigators are working to determine motive.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the IHIT information line at 1-877-551- IHIT (4448), or b
  
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• Advocate says research on tainted street drugs proves need for safer alternatives

  18-05-2018 22:27 via vancouversun.com
  Advocates for people who use drugs say new research showing an overwhelmingly tainted street-drug supply proves the dire need for government to crush the deadly illicit market by distributing safer substances.
  Jordan Westfall, president of the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs, said the pilot study shows the pressing need for safer drugs.
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• Washington police announce arrest in 1987 murder of Victoria couple

  18-05-2018 22:24 via vancouversun.com
  A 55-year-old SeaTac man has been arrested and charged in connection with the 1987 murder of a young Victoria couple.
  Families of Jay Cook, 20, and Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, were present at an Everett news conference Friday where the Snohomish County Sheriff’s office announced the break in the case.
  William Talbott II was arrested as he was leaving work earlier this week.
  DNA from Van Cuylenborg’s murder matched that of a relative of Talbott’s when forensic experts created a pr
  
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• Homeowners fighting B.C. speculation tax hire lawyer for possible class action suit

  18-05-2018 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  A group of homeowners crowdsourcing to raise money to fight B.C.’s new speculation tax on empty homes has retained a lawyer for a possible class-action lawsuit.
  The group Canadians Against the B.C. Speculation Tax has started a Go Fund Me page with plans to sue the government to stop the levy.
  As of Friday morning, organizers had raised just over $8,500 of a $300,000 goal. The group says the funds will go to a public advocacy campaign to pressure the government to withdraw the pr
  
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• Theatre review: Arts Club's Mamma Mia! delivers feel-good vibes

  18-05-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Mamma Mia!
  When: To Aug. 12
  Where: Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage
  Tickets & Info: From $29; artsclub.com
  Here we go again. That’s the subtitle of the new Mamma Mia! prequel movie, opening in July.
  And here we go again at the Stanley with the Arts Club mounting the stage musical that 60 million people have seen since its 1999 premiere, a show that, along with the 2008 movie, has helped keep all those addictive ABBA tunes bouncing around in our brains.
  The Arts Club is betting on
  
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• Tom Mayenknecht: Franchise owners could double down on sports betting

  18-05-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  It was an enormously bullish week for the sports betting industry in the United States, where Monday’s Supreme Court ruling caused a seismic shift everywhere outside of Nevada. Within weeks, states such as New Jersey — which won the judgement — will begin accepting sports bets.
  By year’s end, almost half of the 50 American states are expected to be regulating, licensing and promoting sports betting. It will result in new revenues for all North American s
  
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• Five things to know about DJ Forest Walker Project Arbutus: Transcend

  18-05-2018 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  DJ Forest Walker, a.k.a. Vancouver’s Jordan McQuaig, is most certainly a West Coast electronic producer. The sound he conjures on the second release under his Project Arbutus moniker does indeed seem like something anyone could enjoy listening to while walking through a green coastal rainforest.
  For music that is crafted digitally, the results are deeply resonant with the natural world.
  Here are five things to know about Project Arbutus: Transcend.
  1: Part two of a concept. The first Proje
  
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• Bear in playground prompts North Vancouver school sports day to move inside

  18-05-2018 21:20
  
  Conservation officer, RCMP called out after bear reported on trail behind Lynnmour Elementary
  
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• BC Flood: Canadian Forces assist sandbagging efforts in Grand Forks

  18-05-2018 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  A big boost today for residents of Grand Forks as military trucks pulled into town this morning, bringing desperately needed manpower and equipment. John Hua reports.
  
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• Grouse Grind closing for seasonal repairs next week

  18-05-2018 21:14 via globalnews.ca
  The Grouse Grind Trail will be closed as of May 22 for seasonal repairs.
  
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• Pregnant woman in critical condition, loses baby after targeted shooting

  18-05-2018 21:10
  
  Police say two victims were targeted but the incident is not gang related
  
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• Man arrested in 30-year-old cold-case murders of young B.C. couple

  18-05-2018 21:09 via globalnews.ca
  In November 1987, 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg and 20-year-old Jay Cook were murdered on a trip to Washington state.
  
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• Mudslide closes Highway 3 west of Creston

  18-05-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Both lanes of Highway 3 are closed due to a mudslide 30 kms west of Creston. Drive BC advises long weekend motorists to consider an alternate route via the Kootenay Lake Ferry. Travel delays could run up to two hours plus ferry waits.
  
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• Build your own rice bowl

  18-05-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Felix Zhou from Heritage Asian Eatery whips up his popular rice bowl recipe, featuring duck leg in Peking sauce, roasted duck breast, crispy onions, watercress and slow-cooked marinated egg.
  
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• Vancouver YouTubers attract audience of millions

  18-05-2018 21:01
  
  Some of the most popular entertainers in the world create their work with little more than a laptop and a webcam — and many do so without ever leaving their bedrooms.
  
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• Police search for missing woman in the north Okanagan

  18-05-2018 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Ashton Creek resident Lisa Ruigrok is missing.
  
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• BC Flood: Military arrives in Grand Forks

  18-05-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Canadian Forces personnel have arrived in Grand Forks to assist residents in flood preparations
  
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• Metro Vancouver gas prices expected to dip this weekend: analyst

  18-05-2018 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  If you can wait until tomorrow to gas up, you're likely to save a few cents per litre.
  
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• Richmond says it's prepared for projected rising river levels

  18-05-2018 20:29
  
  Daily assessments include visual inspections of its 49 kilometres of dike network.
  
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• 44 homes under evacuation alert in Hope due to rising Fraser River

  18-05-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  As the water continues to rise on the Fraser River, the district expects this rise to peak at the 2012 level, which would mean localized flooding.
  
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• Man and woman seriously injured in targeted double shooting in Vancouver

  18-05-2018 20:11 via theprovince.com
  A 31-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man are in hospital after they were seriously injured early Friday in a targeted double shooting in Vancouver.
  The woman is in critical condition and the man suffered non-life threatening injuries.
  Vancouver police say shortly before 6 a.m., an unidentified suspect went to the home of a 31-year-old Vancouver woman on Industrial Avenue near Scotia Street and shot her.
  The victim called 911 and the suspect left. Officers attended and found a 23-year-old L
  
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• Salmon Arm, gem of the Shuswap, I salute you…

  18-05-2018 20:04
  
  For years, Salmon Arm, B.C. was infamous for a rude gesture. It was in Salmon Arm where then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau defiantly stuck out his middle finger at a group of stunned protesters.
  
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• Town Talk: Courage To Come Back Awards honour five, raise $3 million

  18-05-2018 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  ALL THE WAY: For its 20th annual running, Coast Mental Health’s Courage to Come Back Awards banquet dramatically moved forward. The Vancouver Convention Centre event drew 1,800 attendees compared to 1,500 in 2017, and reportedly almost doubled revenue to $3 million. Thirteen-year chair Lorne Segal praised awardees Ingrid Bates, Josh Dahling, Alisa Gil Silvestre, Jim Ryan and Suzanne Venuta’s “sheer determination to persevere in the face of all that life has placed before them.&
  
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• Vancouver company is changing the way we eat frozen pizza

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Frozen pizza has long been considered the affordable, less delicious alternative to a takeout pie.
  While restaurants have steadily upped their collective pizza ingredient and flavour games, incorporating inventive toppings, sourcing local cheeses and creating dough with near-scientific precision, the frozen pizza situation has remained relatively undercooked.  
  But, one Vancouver company is looking to change that — one perfectly crispy pizza at a time.  
  “With the
  
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• Tiffany & Co. embarks on a new direction

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  NEW YORK —  On a stage suspended above the crowd gathered inside the Fifth Avenue flagship store of Tiffany & Co., rapper A$AP Ferg performs his hit song Plain Jane.
  The Harlem-raised hip-hop star, who is a member of the rap troupe A$AP Mob, pauses his party performance to mention how, not long ago, he thought he’d never be able to walk in the venerated jeweller’s doors, let alone close out an evening of celebrations honouring the launch of the company’
  
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• Getting jazzed up about Jo Passed Their Prime

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jo Passed Their Prime release party with DUMB and Little Sprout
  When: May 25, 9 p.m.
  Where: Red Gate Arts Society, 855 E. Hastings
  Tickets and info: jopassed.bandcamp.com
  Jo Hirabayashi says jazz didn’t play a part in naming his new band Jo Passed. While he is certainly aware of the legendary jazz guitarist Joe Pass, it’s more because of Pass’s drubbing on Jimi Hendrix in a Downbeat blindfold test. 
  “Honestly, the name comes from some stupid thing me and my friends s
  
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• Fab 5: RSVP in style

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If, like us, your invitation to the much-hyped nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle got lost in the mail, you’ll be following along on TV instead, watching every move, shedding a tear or two, and awing at all the pomp and circumstance (or perhaps silently high-fiving Meghan and Harry for managing to convince the palace to do away with some of the more antiquated rules).
  Clearly, this is the wedding of the season — but chances are, you’ve got a few others already pencilled
  
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• Brian Minter: Heat-seeking vegetables can be planted now

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Well, this is it. Right across our country, Victoria Day weekend is the official kickoff to the garden season. Now the days are longer and the night temperatures are more consistently near 10 C, so it’s time to plant the majority of our heat-loving vegetables.
  If your garden is not ready yet, or if where you live is still too cool at night, hold off and concentrate on cool-loving vegetables until you are comfortable with setting out heat dependent vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, peppe
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Your must-try summer list of the best of B.C. varietals

  18-05-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Today it’s over to the judges of the 2018 B.C. Best of Varietal Awards & Competition held earlier this month at the 24th Spring Okanagan Wine Festival.
  The competition attracted 572 wines slotted into 34 categories by grape varietal. Eighteen judges narrowed the field to a quarter of the entries before re-tasting and declaring an overall winner in the main classes: white wines under $19 and over $19, and reds under $26 and over $26, each with a minimum 10 entries.
  Sparkling wine in B.C
  
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• Homeowners fighting B.C. speculation tax hire lawyer for potential class action suit

  18-05-2018 19:58 via vancouversun.com
  A group of homeowners crowdsourcing to raise money to fight B.C.’s new speculation tax on empty homes has retained a lawyer for a potential class-action lawsuit.
  The group — called Canadians Against the B.C. Speculation Tax — has started a Go Fund Me page with plans to start a class-action lawsuit against the government to stop the levy.
  As of Friday morning, organizers had raised just over $8,500 of a $300,000 goal. The group says the funds will go to a public advoca
  
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• Global BC wins big at B.C. Association of Broadcasters Awards

  18-05-2018 19:47 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC was honoured with some big wins at the British Association of Broadcasters Awards Thursday night in Kelowna.
  
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• Global BC and Corus win big at B.C. Association of Broadcasters Awards

  18-05-2018 19:47 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC was honoured with some big wins at the British Association of Broadcasters Awards Thursday night in Kelowna.
  
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• Two-thirds of speculation tax payers will be B.C. residents

  18-05-2018 19:34
  
  With lower rate, British Columbians will contribute a third of the overall tax revenues
  
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• Five things: Scammers are more devious than ever

  18-05-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  The gentle pleas for cash in emails from Nigerian fraudsters with their freeform spelling seem so gentle and nostalgic by comparison. Scammers are getting increasingly pushy, and some of their ploys are designed to scare the crap out of you.
  Police are on their way. You’ve been accused of tax fraud. Your bank account has been hacked. An unauthorized purchase was made with your PayPal account. You are about to be deported. This purchase was made with your Apple ID.
  But fraudsters may also a
  
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• Rent-a-goalie app helps hockey teams across Canada find subs

  18-05-2018 19:23 via globalnews.ca
  At just about every level of hockey, goalies are a hot commodity. So, what do you do if your team's net minder bails? There's an app for that.
  
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