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• 'Juvenile arthritis won't stop me:' Kids in chronic pain run for charity

  21-06-2018 23:41 via vancouversun.com
  Twenty-two-year-old Alison Legge has lived in chronic pain with juvenile arthritis since she was three.
  She’s had three operations on her jaw and because of heavy medication has felt at times like she was sleeping, more than living.
  The young North Vancouver woman never thought it was possible to run in a race because of the agony the impact on the pavement caused her joints and jaw.
  But on Sunday, she’ll lead a team of more than 150 kids, teens and friends in the Scotiabank Van
  
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• Park board partners with VSO to bring the symphony to Sunset Beach Park

  21-06-2018 23:40
  
  Symphony at Sunset is set for Saturday, July 14
  
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• Jason Botchford: Benning listening to all pre-draft options to upgrade Canucks’ talent

  21-06-2018 23:40 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — It’s difficult to gauge what’s more pervasive here, the Texas heat or Canucks’ rumours.
  Just when you thought you’d heard it all another bombshell drops. The latest, a report that Vancouver GM Jim Benning confirmed: the Canucks are searching for a new goaltending coach.
  It will send waves up and down Vancouver’s organization. Dan Cloutier has had a big hand in developing both Jacob Markstrom and top goalie prospect Thatcher Demko.
  Cloutier has been su
  
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• Psychological burden on caring for dementia at home can be huge

  21-06-2018 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  By all accounts, Dorothy Housden has an ideal situation for someone living with dementia.
  She’s in a bright and spacious ground floor suite in a house with her son Bill and his wife Mila Coutinho living above. Dorothy’s bedroom has a high enough ceiling to hold a sleek lift above her hospital bed, which is covered with one of her gorgeous black and patterned hand made quilts.
  Although the doorways are a tight squeeze, Bill or Mila can push Dorothy’s wheelchair out to the ground
  
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• Douglas Todd: Progressives wrestle with dilemma on migration

  21-06-2018 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  It’s called the “progressive’s dilemma,” a term popularized by two Canadian scholars of multiculturalism. It describes the way people with left-of-centre views often find themselves in a fix on the issue of migration.
  They become ensnared by a 21st-century debate over whether a higher immigration rate weakens domestic support for social-welfare programs. Most scholars conclude it generally does: The main questions they’re now trying to answer are to what extent and
  
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• Canada Basketball hopes flood of talent turns tide to global success

  21-06-2018 23:20 via theprovince.com
  It was 2012, and Canada had flamed out of Olympic basketball qualifying — again — missing the Summer Games for the fifth time in the past 20 years, and Rowan Barrett was excited.
  International success remained elusive, as were Canada’s NBA players when the national team came calling, and the team’s results disappointing, with an 0-11 record against teams ranked in the top 10 globally.
  “It was not … a good time,” Barrett said.
  But the former Olympia
  
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• BCAA Play Here Winner: École North Oyster

  21-06-2018 23:17 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Pettipas joins Sonia Sunger to announce this year’s BCAA Play Here Winners including École North Oyster in Ladysmith.
  
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• BCAA Play Here Winner: Mackenzie Recreation Centre

  21-06-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Pettipas joins Sonia Sunger to announce this year’s BCAA Play Here Winners.
  
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• BCAA Play Here Winner: Cache Creek Elementary School

  21-06-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Pettipas joins Sonia Sunger to announce this year’s BCAA Play Here Winners including Cache Creek Elementary School.
  
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• BCAA Play Here Winner #2: Cache Creek Elementary School

  21-06-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Pettipas joins Sonia Sunger to announce this year’s BCAA Play Here Winners. Cache Creek Elementary School was the second contest winner and this is why they won the play space of their dreams.
  
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• BCAA Play Here Winner #1: Mackenzie Recreation Centre

  21-06-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  Shawn Pettipas joins Sonia Sunger to announce this year’s BCAA Play Here Winners. The first winner is the community of Mackenzie.
  
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• Steve Ewen: Giants’ Byram may lead WHL charge when Vancouver hosts 2019 NHL draft

  21-06-2018 22:56 via theprovince.com
  There will be little Western Hockey League content at the top of this weekend’s NHL Entry Draft in Dallas, but things will be dramatically different a year from now.
  The 2019 draft at Rogers Arena could be loaded with players from the 22-team major junior circuit. Early rankings for next year from the scouting website Future Considerations, for instance, has six of the top 12 picks coming from the WHL, led by Vancouver Giants’ defenceman Bowen Byram.
  They have the 17-year-old Cranbro
  
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• Record number of hikers grind it out for charity in annual Grouse Mountain challenge

  21-06-2018 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of hikers hit the natural stair climb bright and early Thursday to make their way up and down the grind as many times as they can and it's all for a good cause.
  
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• Canada launches second drywall dumping investigation

  21-06-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  The Canada Border Services Agency says it is investigating a complaint concerning gypsum boards being imported for sale in Canada.
  
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• Decision time looms for Rich Coleman as Surrey politics gets another shakeup

  21-06-2018 22:53 via vancouversun.com
  It’s a shakeup in Surrey politics, with city councillors fighting for the mayor’s chair while the name of a major outsider looms large as a potential parachute candidate.
  Former provincial cabinet minister Rich Coleman says he’s been heavily courted to seek the Surrey mayor’s job and he’s not ruling it out.
  “I have meetings set up this week and there are a lot of things to consider,” Coleman said.
  “There are a lot of factors after doing this for 22
  
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• Is that a shark swimming up to Vancouver’s Kits Beach? Possibly yes, and it could be in trouble

  21-06-2018 22:51 via globalnews.ca
  It could be a kind of shark. But it's not easy to tell from the photo alone.
  
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• Three people killed in two-vehicle collision near Cache Creek

  21-06-2018 22:37 via theprovince.com
  Three people are dead after a two-vehicle collision, one of them a semi-trailer, near Cache Creek on Thursday.
  The accident happened at 11:05 a.m. at the intersection of Highway 97 and Highway 99.
  RCMP say the semi-trailer was travelling south on Highway 97 when it collided with a northbound car that was attempting a left turn onto Highway 99.
  
  All three occupants of the car were killed.
  No names have been released.
  Police say the area around the intersection will remain closed for
  
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• Surrey mayor reacts to Bruce Haynes resignation from Surrey First party

  21-06-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner has reaction to councillor Bruce Haynes decision to cut ties with the Surrey First party over lack of transparency.
  
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• A&W introducing plant-based Beyond Burger to its menu

  21-06-2018 22:30 via vancouversun.com
  A&W Canada is set to become the first burger chain in Canada to add the plant-based Beyond Meat Burger to its menu
  Starting July 9, the North Vancouver-headquartered company, which is Canada’s second-largest burger chain with 925 franchises across the country, will offer the new vegan-friendly option at all its restaurants.
  Related
  B.C.-based A&W eliminating plastic straws from restaurants
  “We are a burger loving company with a lot of firsts, but this is the fastest new-
  
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• Downtown Vernon location picked for proposed $40-million cultural facility

  21-06-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  A referendum on borrowing $25-million for the project is expected to take place this fall.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Thursday, June 21, 2018

  21-06-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday, June 21, 2018.
  
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• B.C. rolls out $750,000 in child care grants with more to come ‘soon’

  21-06-2018 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  The province has set a target of creating 22,000 new child care spaces over the coming year.
  
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• Vancouver solar bikers racing from France to Iran

  21-06-2018 22:10 via vancouversun.com
  Name the strangest contraption you’ve ever seen travelling on a road and you still won’t come close to what a pair of Vancouverites are set to steer from France to Iran.
  If you are now thinking of Homer Simpson’s car of the future, you’re getting closer, but there’s still a key problem with such a vision: too much car.
  Justin Lemire-Elmore and Anne-Sophie Rodet are driving a solar-electric rowbike from Lyon, France to Tehran as part of the SunTrip 2018 e-b
  
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• Is anyone in Vancouver missing a piano?

  21-06-2018 21:52
  
  Richmond RCMP is reaching out to the community in a bid to reunite pianos with their owners.
  
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• City pushes forward with ‘Making Room’ for missing-middle housing

  21-06-2018 21:33
  
  Widespread densification of residential neighbourhoods key plank of newly approved initiative
  
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• Free Vancouver Symphony Orchestra concert at Sunset Beach

  21-06-2018 21:07 via vancouversun.com
  The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is kicking off its 100th anniversary by offering a free concert at Vancouver’s Sunset Beach.
  The VSO and the Vancouver park board will host the open-air concert July 14 starting at 7:15 p.m.
  The park board says the concert will be a family event and will be alcohol and smoke-free.
  There will be a pre-concert program performed by students from the VSO School of Music at 7:15 p.m., and a sunset concert performed by the VSO from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
  The Vancou
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: Edwards deserves moment in UFC spotlight with Cerrone rematch

  21-06-2018 21:04 via theprovince.com
  Leon Edwards is hoping he can follow the trail Darren Till blazed toward the top of the welterweight division.
  Following a couple of quality wins after returning from a 19-month layoff, the confident Scouser was hustled into a main-event assignment opposite Donald Cerrone on an international event that aired exclusively on UFC Fight Pass.
  That evening in Gdansk, Poland, “The Gorilla” strode into the cage and straight up trounced “Cowboy,” instantly turning into everyone&r
  
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• Vancouver council greenlights $2B affordable housing fund

  21-06-2018 20:57
  
  Endowment aims to consolidate City’s assets to help deliver homes including 12,000 social housing units
  
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• Watch: Sarah McLachlan raps to raise money through Omaze

  21-06-2018 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  As chief fundraiser for The Sarah McLachlan School of Music, Sarah McLachlan is always on the hunt for funds to keep the music playing at the Vancouver, Surrey and Edmonton schools for at-risk and under-served kids.
  Her latest bid has the multiple Grammy Award and Juno Award winner joining the star-studded online fundraising platform Omaze.
  In a funny video released this week, McLachlan outlined the plan: If you donate as little as $10, you could win a trip for two to Vancouver to spen
  
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• Crush some long balls and beers at Strathcona Park on Sunday

  21-06-2018 20:54
  
  East Vancouver Baseball League members swing for the fences on Sunday
  
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• Search underway at Alice Lake for missing Delta man

  21-06-2018 20:53 via vancouversun.com
  Search crews are combing Alice Lake in Squamish for a 20-year-old Delta man, missing after he went swimming with friends Wednesday night.
  Squamish RCMP received a call at around 8:15 p.m. from someone at Alice Lake, who heard people screaming about a man in the water.
  Squamish RCMP, search and rescue, and emergency crews attended and began to search for the man. Ground, air, and water searches have so far turned up no trace of the man.
  RCMP say the man was swimming with friends when he went into
  
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• B.C. government intends to crack down on hidden ownership of real estate

  21-06-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is taking steps to end opportunities to anonymously invest and hide wealth in real estate.
  Finance Minister Carole James says a new, publicly accessible registry is being created to identify the owners of real estate in the province.
  A news release from the Ministry of Finance says the first-of-its-kind registry in Canada is aimed at improving transparency in the real estate market while ensuring owners pay their share of taxes.
  Law enforcement ag
  
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• The Morning Skate, June 21: One last lap for the Sedins, and some stuff about birds and Gooses

  21-06-2018 20:39 via theprovince.com
  There’s some quality World Cup action today, as France and Argentina take on Peru and Croatia, respectively, with both those pre-tournament contenders trying to show they’re better than their meh openers.
  Just keep the sound down while you watch. Don’t know if you’ve noticed …
  TFW you tune in to the World Cup only to hear the constant blare of vuvuzelas pic.twitter.com/GpTRvOOumv
  — Zack Stanton (@zackstanton) June 21, 2018OK, let’s make this quick and g
  
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• Missing a piano? Richmond RCMP found a warehouse full of them

  21-06-2018 20:34 via theprovince.com
  The Richmond RCMP have a musical mystery on their hands.
  Early this month, Mounties searched an abandoned warehouse in South Richmond, after receiving a tip, and discovered it to be full of pianos.
  Maybe they were stolen or maybe they had just been forgotten about, but police have know idea who the pianos belong to.
  “It’s a bit of a mystery,” said Cpl. Dennis Hwang. “We have recovered more than a dozen pianos, the vast majority of which are in perfect condition &hell
  
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• Our totally superficial assessments of Vancouver’s mayoral candidates

  21-06-2018 20:26
  
  The upcoming municipal election is several months away (Oct. 20), but it’s already attracted a hefty raft of candidates that have floated into our social media streams, dinner conversations and sweaty dreams.
  
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• Lightning strikes spark more than 100 new wildfires in B.C.

  21-06-2018 20:08 via vancouversun.com
  Lightning strikes in southern and central British Columbia started more than 100 new wildfires on Wednesday, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service.
  The largest new fire is 0.9 square km blaze aggressively burning approximately 30 km west of Burns Lake, the service said. It is visible from nearby communities but is not yet a threat to them.
  “It has calmed down quite a bit since this afternoon,” said B.C. Wildfire Service spokesman Kevin Skrepnek, noting that “good progress is b
  
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• 'Housing shouldn't be that difficult,' says artist who offers 'tiny house' solution

  21-06-2018 20:00
  
  “If buying a house or an apartment is too expensive today, why not build a tiny home on our own that people can afford?” asks visual artist Germaine Koh in her newest exhibition “Home Made Home.”
  
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• Anne McMullin: Regulations, taxes, fees drive housing prices higher

  21-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In the most talked about real estate market in Canada, housing is always the hottest news story. From front-page headlines, to call-in radio shows and breathless television news coverage, the debate over housing rages on.
  Add in the public opinion polls and fierce social media spotlight, and it is clear that we have become fixated on housing and measures to cool the market. Fingers are pointed, blame is assigned. There is no doubt the hardships are real and the fears are justified. With rising p
  
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• Councillor Bruce Hayne quits Surrey First civic party with months to election

  21-06-2018 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  With just months until Surrey residents go to the polls, there's a major shakeup in the city's politics.
  
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• 55-storey Surrey education centre to become region’s second-tallest building

  21-06-2018 19:53
  
  The 626-foot GEC Education Mega Center will be second in height only to downtown Vancouver's Shangri-La hotel
  
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• Vancouver police arrest Surrey man for 2017 Commercial Drive murder

  21-06-2018 19:26 via theprovince.com
  A 47-year-old Surrey man has been arrested and charged with second degree murder in connection with a fatal stabbing in Vancouver last year.
  On Oct. 12, Vancouver police were called out to Commercial Drive near East 1st Avenue at around 9:30 p.m. When they arrived, they found a man suffering from stab wounds.
  Joseph Glen Jandrew, 33, later died in hospital.
  At the time of the murder, VPD investigators said they did not believe it was a random attack.
  Ranjit Sangha of Surrey was arrested by
  
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• Here's how Empty Homes Tax revenue will be spent

  21-06-2018 19:08
  
  Vancouver city council approves allocation of $8 million towards affordable housing initiatives
  
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• Man charged with 2nd-degree murder in fatal Commercial Drive stabbing

  21-06-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  Joseph Jandrew, 33, was found with stab wounds at 1st Avenue and Commercial Drive last October.
  
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• Squamish mixed-use development gains support

  21-06-2018 19:03
  
  Solterra’s plans for two tall buildings, including 154 homes, in downtown Squamish move ahead without any clear opposition at public hearing
  
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• Jaw-dropping woodland home keeps dropping its price (PHOTOS)

  21-06-2018 19:01
  
  One-of-a-kind residence with glass bridge discounted by nearly $3 million since initial listing
  
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• Frantic search for 20-year-old Delta man in Alice Lake near Squamish

  21-06-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  The missing man from Delta was swimming in the area with friends when he went into distress close to the shore line on the southwest side of the lake.
  
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• What makes Vancouver’s annual Dragon Boat festival a success?

  21-06-2018 18:46 via globalnews.ca
  Community reporter Michael Newman hit the water ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Concord Pacific Dragon Boat festival to see if he made the cut.
  
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• Vancouver police make arrest in 2017 homicide

  21-06-2018 18:41
  
  Surrey man facing second degree murder charge in Commercial Drive stabbing
  
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• Shark spotted swimming in shallow water near Kits Beach

  21-06-2018 18:05
  
  Earlier this week we were sent the photo below from reader Kate White. It was shot on June 18 at the foot of Bayswater Street, a few blocks west of Kits Beach. It’s an actual shark.
  
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• Daily poll: Do you think the federal government should give pardons for pot convictions?

  21-06-2018 17:43 via vancouversun.com
  Canadians can legally blaze up starting Oct. 17, as the government voted this week to legalize the recreational use of marijuana.
  Read a Postmedia Q&A on pot legalization here.
  While cannabis activists celebrate an end to prohibition, they are also concerned for those who were charged or are in jail for marijuana-related crimes. They are seeking amnesty for those people and the government has hinted that it may offer pardons at some point.
  What do you think? Should the government give amnest
  
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