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• Jason Botchford: Canucks take a ‘flyer’ drafting defensive-minded defenceman Jett Woo

  23-06-2018 23:16 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — It probably says something good about Canada that Jett Woo only recently became aware of how few players of Chinese descent have been selected in the NHL Entry Draft.
  For much of Woo’s hockey career, he said it hasn’t mattered. He has just been one of the guys.
  Now, it wasn’t always that way.
  “When I was really young, I was picked on,” Woo said Saturday. “I was picked on because of my background. But I used that to my advantage. It fuelled my fi
  
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• Canucks pick six, beef up blue-line, in 2018 NHL Draft

  23-06-2018 23:02 via globalnews.ca
  The Canucks picked up three defencemen, two forwards and a goalie.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Canal Flats

  23-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Someone had the bright idea to divert flood waters from the Kootenay River into the Columbia. Then, you had Canal Flats.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Campbell River

  23-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Campbell River was the site of the biggest non-nuclear explosion in history, in April 1958.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Cache Creek

  23-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  How did Cache Creek get its name? That depends on which story you believe.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Burns Lake

  23-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  There are different accounts as to how Burns Lake received its name.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Burnaby

  23-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  The creation of New Westminster was key to Burnaby's development.
  
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• Jason Botchford: Canucks come away from Dallas draft satisfied with defensive depth

  23-06-2018 22:56 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — The Vancouver Canucks swear this wasn’t part of a master plan.
  But if last year was the their attempt to fix the offence at the NHL entry Draft, this was their big swing at repairing the blue-line.
  The Canucks went defence with three of their first four picks in Dallas this weekend. They hadn’t done anything like that since 2002. They’ll be hoping this class will work out much better than that one which included Kirill Koltsov, Dennis Grot and Brett Skinner.
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• Victim’s family says notorious killer Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton moved to Quebec

  23-06-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  The family of one of Pickton's victims says they've learned he was moved to a Quebec prison.
  
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• Global News launches B.C. municipal election profiles in lead-up to October election

  23-06-2018 22:08 via globalnews.ca
  Global News is releasing the first wave on municipal profiles to better prepare voters for their decisions on October 20.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Ashcroft

  23-06-2018 22:04 via globalnews.ca
  It was once known as "Mile Zero" on the Canadian Pacific Railway by gold rushers who sought riches in B.C.'s Cariboo region.
  
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• Jumper Nettey aiming to use Jerome meet as springboard to breakthrough

  23-06-2018 22:00 via theprovince.com
  Surrey long jumper Christabel Nettey hopes to use this week’s Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome International Track Classic as a launching pad into a successful series of meets that will carry her through to September.
  A repeat of 2015 would suit her just fine, too.
  For Nettey that was an exceptional year as she established the Harry Jerome long jump meet record of 6.86 metres, and both the national indoor and outdoor records of 6.99 metres.
  Nettey, 27, would also like to return to the success sh
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Bowen Island

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Once named "Isla de Apodaca" by the Spanish, Bowen Island was later named in honour of a British rear admiral.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Belcarra

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  A murder is a key point in Belcarra's history.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Barriere

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Barriere's history is the history of the Lower North Thompson Valley.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Armstrong

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  It was once known as "Celery City."
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Anmore

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Population: 2,210
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Alert Bay

  23-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Population: 489
  
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• After months in legal limbo, 5 B.C. families can finally bring home adopted babies from Japan

  23-06-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  "It felt like a battle had just ended."
  
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• NDP MP to table bill pardoning pot crimes ‘immediately’ after Bill C-45 becomes law

  23-06-2018 21:36 via globalnews.ca
  One New Democrat MP from Victoria has been quite frank about wanting to expunge the criminal records of those convicted under the old cannabis laws — and he intends to table a bill to achieve that as soon as the substance becomes legal on Oct. 17.
  
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• ‘Airbnb of camping’ takes aim at crowded B.C. campgrounds

  23-06-2018 21:23 via globalnews.ca
  The site works just like other short-term rentals, allowing land owners to list campsites on their private property.
  
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• Mike Smyth: Eby set to tackle ‘mind-blowing’ money laundering in B.C.

  23-06-2018 21:00 via theprovince.com
  British Columbians should prepare for a “mind-blowing” experience when David Eby releases a bombshell report this week on the extent and scale of criminal money laundering in B.C. casinos.
  That’s the word from the province’s crusading attorney general as he prepares to unveil a long-awaited 250-page report containing 45 recommendations to clean up dirty-casino operations in the province.
  “When I was first briefed on this problem, it was truly mind blowing,” Eb
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Abbotsford

  23-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Population: 141,397
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Trafficker Madison Fine died of drug overdose

  23-06-2018 20:37 via vancouversun.com
  As suspected when this news broke last December, Jamie Bacon’s girlfriend Madison Fine died of an overdose, according to a coroner’s report released yesterday.
  Sad for her family no matter what you think of Fine and Bacon.
  Here’s my story:Gangster Jamie Bacon’s girlfriend died of carfentanil
  overdose, B.C. coroner says
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: June 22, 2018
  The girlfriend of high-profile gangster Jamie Bacon died last December of a carfentanil overdose, according to an investig
  
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• Public input sought on long-awaited New West waterfront project

  23-06-2018 20:05
  
  Mixed-use development with market and affordable housing proposed for former mill site on Fraser River
  
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• Meet the chef: Alex Jin fuses French with Japanese and urges us to share

  23-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  After working in Japanese restaurants for many years, chef Alex Jin moved to Montreal seven years ago. In the city’s historic district, Jin took residency at Hotel Places D’Armes in their French kitchen. He returned to Vancouver last year and decided to fuse his skills in French and Japanese cuisine, marrying his experience in the far reaches of the culinary world at Kitchen by Yugo.
  Q: What motivates and inspires you as a chef?
  A: I like the smiles from people who enjoy eating. Neve
  
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• Makeover: A new look for the trip of a lifetime

  23-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sonia Langford, 73, is packing her camera and travelling to Greece for two months.
  Sonia’s has straight and medium textured hair. It feels heavy and shapeless and tends to fall flat on top. She wanted a shorter style that would look feminine and be easy to style while on her trip.
  I shampooed her hair using KMS Moist Repair — Shampoo and Conditioner. Her ends were feeling dry so I applied KMS Moist Repair — Revival Crème, to instantly improve manageability, then sectione
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Bill Reid Anniversary Gala

  23-06-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  NATIVE SON: Ranked among Canada’s finest and celebrated artists, Bill Reid’s influence and body of work can be found throughout the province and country.  The Haida artist — a master goldsmith, sculptor and carver — was a pivotal force behind the renaissance of Northwest Coast art and traditions. His works ranging from exquisite carvings in precious metals to monumental sculptures in cedar and bronze have been exhibited, cherished and collected locally and abroad. In
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, clearing near noon

  23-06-2018 17:50 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather in Metro Vancouver looks like a mixed bag of clouds, sun, and possibly rain. Environment Canada says it will be mainly cloudy with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the morning. The sky should clear up though around noon, with a high of 21 C. That’s good news for Vancouver’s dragon boat racers, as the annual festival takes place at False Creek this weekend. Sunday looks a little brighter, with mainly sunny skies, with some clouds roll
  
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• In the steps of pilgrims along the Camino

  23-06-2018 16:58 via theprovince.com
  A long resident on our bucket list, the pilgrimage to the great cathedral at Santiago, purportedly containing the bones of the apostle James, was supplemented by a much less busy leg to Finnesterre, where the Romans believed the world ended.
  I wasn’t expecting celestial harmonies and rays of heavenly luminsence, but I thought the start of our pilgrimage to Santiago would be more poetic than stumbling into an overcast day feeling slightly the worse for wear.
  We started in historic Sarria, a
  
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• Fern Grove resonating with both downsizers and first-time buyers

  23-06-2018 15:27 via vancouversun.com
  Getting some financial help from the bank of mom and pop is not uncommon today for young people struggling to buy a home in Metro Vancouver. But Mike and Kayla Fenton have gone one step further, with Mike’s parents in an arrangement that is a win-win for both the parents and them.
  After the young couple determined that their 900-square-foot Maple Ridge condo was worth almost double what they paid for it four years ago, they started thinking it was time to upsize.
  “So my husband&rsquo
  
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• Sunshine Coast considers higher density in rural areas

  23-06-2018 15:00
  
  Affordable housing need drives proposed policy revisions to allow for higher densities in exchange for social units
  
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• The Home Front: Stargazing with London designer Lee Broom

  23-06-2018 14:42 via vancouversun.com
  British product designer Lee Broom, known for his lighting, furniture and accessories, blew into town this month to discuss his new lighting collection — Observatory — at Vancouver’s Inform Interiors.
  Broom launched Observatory at the Milan furniture fair (Salone del Mobile) in April and NYCxDesign in May, winning the Best of NYCxDesign 2018 for his Eclipse pendant light. The collection, he says, is loosely based around the solar system.
  “It’s a slightly c
  
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• Sold (Bought): False Creek condo receives multiple offers

  23-06-2018 14:27 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  516 – 456 Moberly Road, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,419 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,781,000
  Listed for: $1,899,000
  Sold for: $2,300,000
  Sold on: April 3
  Days on market: 18
  Listing agent: Cathy Liu at Sutton Group – West Coast Realty
  Buyers agent: Dan Pigott at ReMax Crest Realty
  The big sell: Listing agent Cathy Liu reports that five offers were received for this False Creek corne
  
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• Woman arrested after crashing into utility pole in Kelowna

  23-06-2018 12:15 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP took a woman into custody Friday evening after she was found behind the wheel of an SUV that drove away from an accident scene.
  
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• Party-goer stabbed in Lake Country Friday night

  23-06-2018 12:15 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are investigating after a stabbing was reported during a house-party in Lake Country Friday night.
  
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• Stabbing at Okanagan party Friday night

  23-06-2018 09:35 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP are investigating a stabbing that took place Friday night in Lake Country. According to people coming out of the private event on Okanagan Centre Road West, there was an altercation after someone was asked to leave the party.
  
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• R.J. Barrett shines in debut as Team Canada defeats China

  23-06-2018 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  Barrett is heading to Duke this fall and there is already speculation that he will enter the NBA draft next year.
  
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• BC jogger inadvertently crosses the border and is detained for two weeks

  23-06-2018 07:50 via globalnews.ca
  A 19 year old woman spent two weeks in a Washington state detention centre after she inadvertently crossed the border while jogging. It’s raising questions around lack of signage near border crossings.
  
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• Team Canada crushes China 97-62 in Pacific Rim Classic basketball tilt

  23-06-2018 07:01 via theprovince.com
  While Dhillon Brooks put Canada on his back, Chris Boucher was putting China on the glass.
  Brooks, heading into his second season with the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies, scored 19 third-quarter points to turn a big lead into a blowout game, as Canada cruised to a 97-62 win over China in the first game of the Pacific Rim Classic Friday night at Rogers Arena.
  Boucher showcased the same defensive dominance that he did at the University of Oregon, blocking five shots, grabbing 11 rebounds and scorin
  
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• Jason Botchford: Canucks feel ‘lucky’ to draft dynamic defenceman with seventh pick

  23-06-2018 06:31 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — Most lost count long ago over how many times the Canucks have tried to find a puck-moving defenceman who can run a power play.
  Until Friday, they swung and missed every single time.
  Some hoped it was going to be Ben Hutton. Then there was the possibility it could be Troy Stecher. Philip Larsen had a chance. And so did Michael Del Zotto.
  There were even fawning stories suggesting Derrick Pouliot could be the next great offensive defenceman in Vancouver. That didn’t age well.
  
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• Jason Botchford: GM Benning believes Hughes is close to being ready to play for Canucks

  23-06-2018 06:09 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — The next big question in Vancouver revolves around Quinn Hughes.
  Will he have the opportunity to make the Canucks in the fall?
  There’s a joke going around Dallas, and it may be half serious.
  “Hughes is already the Canucks’ best defenceman.”
  That says as much about the current state of the Canucks’ blue-line as it does about Hughes’ readiness to compete in the NHL.
  He said he wants it. But this is going to be a massive, collective decision.
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• Health Canada warning about false security in fentanyl test strips

  23-06-2018 05:21 via globalnews.ca
  Health Canada is reminding drug users that fentanyl test strips may not detect other drugs and could lead to a false sense of security when utilized to check street drugs.
  
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• Jason Botchford: Hughes happy to be a Canuck, wants to be in NHL ‘as fast as possible’

  23-06-2018 05:07 via theprovince.com
  DALLAS — Quinn Hughes doesn’t know Vancouver as well as he thinks he does.
  When asked to name an NHLer he could resemble some day, he said:
  “You may not like this answer, but Duncan Keith. I know Vancouver played him a lot in the playoffs. But he’s someone I think I can play like and someone I love to watch.”
  Oh, Van City is going to love that answer.
  Sure, Keith is loathed by most hockey fans in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. But you know how long it’s been sin
  
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• A French teen went jogging on a White Rock beach and ran right out of Canada

  23-06-2018 04:32 via globalnews.ca
  And into a two-week detention in the U.S.
  
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• New poll finds Canadians support longer work days and shorter weeks

  23-06-2018 04:25 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave. A new Angus Reid poll shows nearly 70 per cent of Canadians want to see the traditional Monday to Friday work week condensed into four 10-hour shifts.
  
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• Chilliwack family victimized by swatting speaks out

  23-06-2018 04:21 via globalnews.ca
  A Chilliwack family is sharing a harrowing ordeal that saw armed police officers descend on their townhouse complex after RCMP received a fake tip about them being held hostage. Jill Bennett has more on the hoax.
  
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• New Westminster teacher destroys challengers on ‘Jeopardy!’

  23-06-2018 04:15 via globalnews.ca
  A high school teacher from New Westminster is now a three day Jeopardy! champ and as Ted Field reports, Ali Hasan earned an impressive haul in a runaway victory.
  
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• VPD says woman made up report of being arrested by fake cops in CRA scam

  23-06-2018 03:48 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver police say a woman who reported being arrested by fake cops in a terrifying escalation of the CRA scam made part of the story up. Paul Johnson has details.
  
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