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• ‘Yes’ side launches proportional representation referendum campaign

  10-06-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. will vote on potentially changing the way it elects politicians in October and November.
  
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• Still looking for that perfect Father’s day gift for dad? The Style Guys have some ideas.

  10-06-2018 22:51 via globalnews.ca
  Style experts Alykhan Velji & Jason Krell roll out their 2018 Father’s Day Gift Guide. A hint, food and drink are a good start.
  
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• Tackling Tantrums; what to do when your kids act up

  10-06-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Early Childhood Consultant Julie Romanowski with tips on what to do when children misbehave.
  
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• Robert Levy Business news

  10-06-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Business analyst Robert Levy looks at what the latest harsh rhetoric from the Trump administration will mean for the Canadian economy. Other topics include efforts by leading companies to set a green example and an end of an era at Starbucks.
  
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• Vancouver mayoral hopefuls debate housing crisis at COPE meeting

  10-06-2018 22:42 via vancouversun.com
  Three Vancouver mayoral hopefuls proposed solutions to the city’s housing affordability crisis Sunday in a bid to woo supporters of COPE, which is plotting a comeback to city hall in October.
  University of B.C. urban design professor Patrick Condon, who plans to seek COPE’s mayoral nomination, joined independent candidates Shauna Sylvester and Kennedy Stewart in a debate at the Coalition of Progressive Electors’ nomination meeting where, predictably, issues around housing and a
  
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• UBC urban design professor to seek mayoral nomination for COPE

  10-06-2018 22:42 via vancouversun.com
  As expected, the chase for the Vancouver mayor’s seat from the left is starting to fill up.
  UBC professor Patrick Condon is set to announce he’s seeking the Coalition of Progressive Electors’ (COPE) nomination for mayor in next fall’s civic election.
  Condon, 68, teaches in UBC’s urban design program on housing, transportation and sustainability. He told Postmedia in April he’d been in talks with COPE about the possibility of running for may
  
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• Fairytale ending for Nanaimo teen who had grad dress stolen from front porch

  10-06-2018 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  A Nanaimo teen’s grad dress was stolen from her front porch, so the community stepped in to help.
  
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• Kinder Morgan's Kamloops spill 48 times larger than B.C. first reported

  10-06-2018 21:49 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — A spill from Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline late last month was 48 times larger than initially reported, officials said.
  The spill volume reported from the company’s Darfield station north of Kamloops on May 27 was revised to 4,800 litres from 100 litres, the B.C. Ministry of Environment said Sunday.
  It said 100 litres is the minimum threshold under the company’s spill reporting obligations, so that’s why the ministry estimated 100 litres at the
  
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• Fab 5: Dad's day

  10-06-2018 21:41 via vancouversun.com
  The quest for the ultimate Father’s Day gift continues. If your present last year was met with a month of enthusiasm before gradually making its way toward the ‘unused corner’, remember that this is a new year — a new opportunity to gift that prized possession your pop will treasure for the rest of his life. Or, perhaps, it’s a chance to give him something he’ll like a lot, even if it’s just for the short term. From the oh-so-practical to the ever-so-sty
  
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• Nanaimo MLA Krog ponders move that could topple NDP government

  10-06-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  Leonard Krog, the long-serving NDP MLA for Nanaimo, is considering a run for the mayor’s office in his hometown this fall.
  And if he does it would set up a crucial byelection in which the governing NDP-Green alliance’s hold on power would be put on the line.
  “If the NDP lost that byelection, it would be curtains for the government,” said Liberal strategist Mike McDonald.
  It’s all about the numbers game in the minority parliament.
  The B.C. Liberals hold 42 seats, the
  
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• Trans Mountain oil spill near Kamloops was actually closer to 5,000 litres

  10-06-2018 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  Initial reports from the Ministry of Environment said the spill was 100 litres.
  
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• CBSA says new holding centre promises better treatment for detainees

  10-06-2018 20:25 via vancouversun.com
  A new immigration holding centre is in the works, with the Canada Border Services Agency planning abandon a facility that has been heavily criticized.
  The agency confirmed that the Vancouver International Airport holding area for migrant detainees is expected to shut down early next year, after retrofits are complete to a disused RCMP building on 76th Avenue in Surrey.
  The CBSA said the new facility will let it meet a number of recommendations made by a coroner’s jury in 201
  
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• Herb Emery: Prevention decreases demands on health system

  10-06-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Provincial ministers of health and ministers of finance seek to “bend the health-care cost curve,” but year after year provincial budgets bend the cost curve in the wrong direction, adding billions of dollars to provincial health spending.
  In fact, we’ve doubled spending on our medical treatment system in Canada since 2005 — and what did we get in return? Not improved access to care, nor improved health outcomes. Increased spending has, instead, entrenched an inefficientl
  
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• Pavel Bure, Sonny Homer's red pants, and Ralph Bower

  10-06-2018 19:42 via vancouversun.com
  Ralph Bower took one of the most popular photos in Vancouver Sun history — a topless Pavel Bure getting a physical in 1994. But it got him in big trouble with Canucks boss Pat Quinn.
  “A photographer had taken a shot somewhere in Canada of (Wayne) Gretzky in the shower,” relates Bower. “They put it on the wire (to be sent) from one guy to the other, not to be published. But it was intercepted by the NHL and they raised hell about it.
  “Quinn said: ‘That&rsq
  
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• When, and where, is the price right to buy a home?

  10-06-2018 19:21 via vancouversun.com
  Chilliwack is too far. Abbotsford is an option, but Langley or Surrey are better, if the price is right.
  As 26-year-old Rocky Bennett thinks about buying her first home, she’s doing the math — although not all the variables in her equation are numbers.
  “It comes down to values,” said Bennett. “How far am I willing to commute to get the place I want?”
  In Metro Vancouver’s “drive until you qualify” housing market, rising gas prices and transit
  
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• Bad goal continue to haunt Carl Robinson’s side

  10-06-2018 18:36 via theprovince.com
  Carl Robinson’s face was a dark cloud after Saturday’s game, despite his Vancouver Whitecaps scoring the most goals in a regular-season match in team history.
  He was being haunted by a familiar ghost — bad goals against.
  “There were two periods that really irked me. The first one was they go down to 10 men, and we concede a goal. We got a little bit lazy in our decision-making. Our movement wasn’t good enough, our passing wasn’t sharp enough … and we ma
  
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• Dazzling Davies just part of Whitecaps larger offensive explosion

  10-06-2018 18:31 via theprovince.com
  It was a perfect 10, but Carl Robinson wasn’t about to let a perfect player rating go to Alphonso Davies’ head.
  The Whitecaps midfielder had a goal and team-record three assists in his team’s 5-2 win over Orlando City on Saturday, his eye-popping stats adding up to an unheard-of 10.00 rating on whoscored.com.
  “I’ve challenged him a couple of times to start games better because I think that he’s a little bit slow with his reactions, his decision-making, in the
  
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• Meet the Chef: Jason Kleinfeld of Cardero's

  10-06-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Jason Kleinfeld has been around the block, so to speak. He accepted an entry-level position at the Boathouse Restaurant in Coal Harbour — where Cardero’s now stands — in 1986. Ten years later he took a job as sous chef at Cardero’s under then-Executive Chef Annabelle Leslie. When the Sandbar on Granville Island opened in 2000, Jason jumped at the chance to lead his own kitchen. Now he’s back where he started, at Cardero’s, as executive chef.
  Q: What motiv
  
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• Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo offers nostalgic fun for the whole family

  10-06-2018 16:00
  
  Fans of old video games can look forward to attending the seventh annual Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo (VRGE) later this month.
  
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• Retro Gaming Expo offers nostalgic fun for the whole family

  10-06-2018 16:00
  
  Fans of old video games can look forward to attending the seventh annual Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo (VRGE) later this month.
  
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• Improv show Avocado Toast pokes fun at Vancouver stereotypes

  10-06-2018 16:00
  
  Vancouverites are invited to laugh at themselves and their city through a new improv show called Avocado Toast –Vancouver Grown, Free-Range Comedy.
  
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• Father-son musicians make Leo Awards history

  10-06-2018 16:00
  
  Musical pedigree runs in the Bennett family
  
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• Why China has Canada spooked about the world’s plastic waste crisis

  10-06-2018 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  The world is facing a plastic waste crunch, and Canada is trying to lead the way out in hopes of saving the environment, the economy and the blue bin in everyone’s homes.
  
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• Mike Smyth: MLA Leonard Krog ponders move with huge consequences

  10-06-2018 12:00 via theprovince.com
  It’s a game of political musical chairs that has Victoria insiders abuzz, as they nervously do the math in the closely divided B.C. legislature.
  Leonard Krog, the long-serving NDP MLA, is considering a run for the mayor’s office in his hometown of Nanaimo this fall.
  And Rich Coleman, the veteran Liberal MLA and former interim leader of his party, might run for mayor of Surrey.
  The backroom wheeling and dealing has set Victoria’s political grapevine aflame — with most of t
  
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• Whitecaps 5, Orlando City 2 | Davies ignites goal eruption for Vancouver

  10-06-2018 06:30 via theprovince.com
  Alphonso Davies isn’t old enough to be served at B.C. Place Stadium.
  He did all the serving instead.
  Orlando City SC came into B.C. Place as Lions on Saturday, and left as BBQ chicken after being roasted by the Vancouver Whitecaps’ 17-year-old winger, who racked up a team-record three assists and added a goal in the home side’s 5-2 win.
  It was the Caps’ second straight Major League Soccer victory, and pushed their unbeaten streak to six games heading into the two-wee
  
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• Alex Ovechkin’s drunken, post-championship adventures: a round-up

  10-06-2018 05:24 via theprovince.com
  Alex Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals did something on Thursday that no NHL players had ever done before: they won a Stanley Cup in Las Vegas.
  Sure, the Stanley Cup eventually makes its way to Vegas, as the players often head down to sin city for additional celebrations, but this year marked the first time that the Stanley Cup was ever awarded there, meaning it also marked the first time the celebration could begin in Vegas.
  Thus begins the story of Alex Ovechkin’s epic, celebrato
  
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• Grand Forks homes uninhabitable, cleanup continues

  10-06-2018 04:40 via globalnews.ca
  A month after flooding hit Grand Forks, dozens of people are still left with uninhabitable homes.
  
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• World skin health day

  10-06-2018 04:16 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• Red Umbrella March celebrates history of Vancouver sex workers

  10-06-2018 04:06 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver sex workers and activists gathered Saturday afternoon at Victory Square for the sixth Red Umbrella March, a show of defiance against what protesters deemed Canada’s “unfair” and “unconstitutional” prostitution laws.
  Under parasols and dressed in red boas, scarves, T-shirts and bustiers, approximately 100 people walked the route, which followed Cambie Street down into Gastown for a demonstration at the steam clock before marching up Abbott Street to Ha
  
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• Justify, product of B.C. breeder, wins Belmont Stakes to take Triple Crown

  10-06-2018 03:48 via globalnews.ca
  "I almost collapsed when he went across the wire, it took all my breath away," said breeder John Gunther.
  
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• Opinion: ADHD is a real brain disorder requiring treatment, despite what some say

  10-06-2018 03:00 via theprovince.com
  With each installment of their $10-million, unscientific, “review of the evidence”, we hope that our medical colleagues will be moved to act and demand that the Therapeutics Initiative be de-funded again. This time, the Initiative’s unnamed group of “75 experts and primary care physicians” took aim at the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), cherry-picking research and grossly misrepresenting the evidence to support their nefarious
  
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• 10 jobs commonly linked to psychopaths

  10-06-2018 02:22 via vancouversun.com
  Research suggests people with psychopathic traits — common among serial killers — are more likely to work one of these 10 jobs.Related
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• Swanson seeks COPE council nod, offers tissues to mansion tax critics

  10-06-2018 02:09 via vancouversun.com
  Anti-poverty activist Jean Swanson brought her flair for theatrics Saturday to a mansion-lined street in Vancouver, where she announced she is seeking a COPE nomination for council ahead of the fall civic election.
  At The Crescent in Shaughnessy, her campaign parked a van decorated as a tissue box, painted with “Jeanex: the rich people tissue” and “Jeanex: big house, big tissue.” Swanson explained it was there for any property owners who wept over her “mansion tax&r
  
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• From bomb threats to handcuffs, police warn scammers growing increasingly aggressive

  10-06-2018 02:03 via globalnews.ca
  Federal officials estimate Canadians were scammed out of nearly $100 million last year.
  
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• Ed Willes: Lions sluggish, but do enough to bump off Blue Bombers’ ‘non-starters’

  10-06-2018 01:35 via theprovince.com
  There were too many penalties and not enough offence, but the B.C. Lions still did enough to win their pre-season finale Friday night.
  They’ll just have to do a lot more when the games start to count.
  Against a makeshift Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ team that featured only four projected starters, the Lions parlayed two defensive touchdowns and a Bryan Burnham touchdown catch to a 34-21 CFL win before a sparse crowd of 15,237 at B.C. Place Stadium.
  Offset against that production were 14 pe
  
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• Canucks an 80/1 longshot to win 2019 Stanley Cup

  10-06-2018 00:45 via globalnews.ca
  Bookies are giving the club an even worse shot at hoisting hockey's holiest trophy next year.
  
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• Whitecaps bring in El Salvadoran centreback on trial

  10-06-2018 00:20 via theprovince.com
  It’s getting a little crowded at centreback for the Vancouver Whitecaps.
  Media reports out of El Salvador have Santa Tecla defender Roberto Carlos Domínguez joining the Major League Soccer team on trial within the next week.
  “I hope I do well, I’m looking forward to staying in MLS. I go with all the illusion of the world, I hope to overcome them and stay, but if not, God will know why, I will return to Santa Tecla with whom I still have a contract for another year,&
  
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• 1 dead, 2 injured in Malahat crash

  10-06-2018 00:06 via globalnews.ca
  The Malahat Highway was closed in both directions north of Aspen Road early Saturday afternoon after a serious crash.
  
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