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• French jogger who crossed U.S. border describes ordeal in ICE detention centre

  24-06-2018 23:49 via globalnews.ca
  Cedella Roman said her time in an ICE detention centre reinforced her belief that we should "see immigrants not as bad people."
  
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• The cat came back … after a joyride for the ages

  24-06-2018 23:44 via vancouversun.com
  Lily, a pampered indoor pussy cat from Richmond, got the adventure of her lifetime after crawling into a car bumper Friday.
  The stowaway was returned to her frantic family safely on Saturday after her family’s information was recovered from a microchip implanted under her skin by the SPCA when she was adopted.
  “It’s just wild. How can a cat survive this?” said Lily’s owner Ruca Abbott. “She hung on for dear life.”
  The joyride began overnight Thursday whe
  
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• C’s second sacker Podkul wants to use baseball to help honour what his late father taught him

  24-06-2018 23:44 via theprovince.com
  Nick Podkul can sound old, albeit for the harshest of reasons.
  Podkul, the Vancouver Canadians second baseman, was only in high school when his father died.
  Frank Podkul died in September, 2013, due to a cancer-related illness. He was 59.
  “It never gets easier,” said Podkul, 21. “I think about it every day still.
  “You do learn to take the best from what life gives you. I play baseball now to honour him. He was a huge baseball fan. I like to think I’m a pretty lucky
  
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• Duncan residents reject proposal to amalgamate city and North Cowichan

  24-06-2018 23:25 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of Duncan voted two-to-one against the merger idea.
  
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• No Duncan-North Cowichan amalgamation in the plan after referendum vote

  24-06-2018 23:09 via vancouversun.com
  By Pedro Arrais
  Victoria Times Colonist
  Duncan and North Cowichan won’t be amalgamating, after Duncan citizens overwhelmingly rejected the idea.
  Preliminary results from Saturday’s vote show 68 per cent of Duncan voters were against amalgamating with their municipal neighbour, with 835 voting against and 395 voting in favour.
  In North Cowichan, 59 per cent of voters were in favour of amalgamating, with a vote of 3,051 for and 2,140 against.
  In B.C., amalgamation must be approved by m
  
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• Tired-looking Whitecaps need to re-energize after ’embarrassing’ loss to Union

  24-06-2018 23:06 via theprovince.com
  Carl Robinson thought something was off with his team from the first minute on Saturday. The Philadelphia Union thought something was off before the game even started.
  With Marcel de Jong still not at full fitness and Brett Levis still being young, it meant both stayed at home and Brek Shea got the start at left back for the second straight game. The Union smelled blood and pounced.
  They targeted the Caps’ left side early and often during the opening stages of Saturday’s 4-0 Union vi
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Fort St. John

  24-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Fort St. John is known as B.C.'s "Energy Capital."
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Fort St. James

  24-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Once a fur trading post, some buildings in Fort St. James have been recognized as a national historic site.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Fernie

  24-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  Fernie's coal-blackened history is one of disaster and recovery.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Esquimalt

  24-06-2018 23:00 via globalnews.ca
  The very name of Esquimalt means, "place of gradually shoaling water."
  
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• Vancouver restaurant hit with ‘Prohibition-style raid’ cheers proposed change to booze rules

  24-06-2018 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  Liquor inspectors confiscated $40,000 in product from Fet's Whisky Kitchen in January because it was bought at a private liquor store.
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting identified as a father and minor hockey coach

  24-06-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The victim has been identified by friends and colleagues on social media as Paul Bennett, a minor league hockey coach.
  Cloverdale Minor Hockey Association president Marty Jones said Bennett’s hockey family is grieving.
  “A beloved member of our family has been taken from us, a husband, a father, a brother, a friend and a coach,” he wrote on the association’s Facebook page on Sunday.
  “Paul Bennett devoted much of t
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Enderby

  24-06-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Enderby — a place of many names.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Elkford

  24-06-2018 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  At only 47 years old, Elkford hasn't been around as long as many other B.C. municipalities.
  
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• A journey into a legendary history: Titanic artifact exhibition opens in Richmond

  24-06-2018 22:23
  
  More than 120 authentic artefacts recovered from the Titanic wreck site are on display, telling stories about the ship and that fateful night.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Duncan

  24-06-2018 22:00 via globalnews.ca
  Duncan: famous for a big hockey stick, and some great dairy products.
  
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• Minor hockey coach identified as victim in fatal Surrey shooting

  24-06-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  "He was one of those guys who had time for everybody."
  
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• Benefits of Turmeric

  24-06-2018 21:07 via globalnews.ca
  Registered Dietician, Desiree Neilsen, shares the unique health benefits of turmeric and how you can incorporate it into your diet in some unexpected ways.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Delta

  24-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  A Spanish explorer was the first to spot Delta. He mistook it for an island.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Dawson Creek

  24-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Railways figure prominently in the histories of numerous B.C. communities. For Dawson Creek, it's a highway.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Cumberland

  24-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  When coal mining went out, so did Cumberland's status as a city. But the community survived.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Creston

  24-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Creston area was once flooded over by an annual freshet. You could only travel there by boat.
  
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• A cassette, a concertmaster and a friendship that spanned continents

  24-06-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A couple of years ago Tamara Mills was walking down the street in Mount Pleasant and spotted a cassette tape on the ground.
  On the tape somebody had written “To Hyacinth, with love and best wishes, Adrian, Hong Kong, May 1991.” But she had no idea who they were.
  When she played it at home, it sounded a bit off.
  “I don’t think I knew how to use the tape player, so it kept playing at a super high speed,” she recounts, with a laugh. “And it was really unappealing
  
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• Carr says he expected in April Canada was going to have to buy Trans Mountain pipeline

  24-06-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he knew almost the moment he heard Kinder Morgan was pressing the pause button on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on April 8 that the federal government was likely going to have to buy the whole thing.
  
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• Canucks acquire Tanner Kero from Blackhawks in minor trade

  24-06-2018 19:54 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Canucks swung a minor trade on Sunday, obtaining centre Tanner Kero from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for fringe forward Michael Chaput.
  The 25-year-old Kero split last season between the Blackhawks and the AHL’s Rockford IceHogs, picking up three points (1-2-3) in eight games with Chicago and 20 points (8-12-20) in 36 games with Rockford.
  The 6-foot, 185-pound centre has appeared in 72 career NHL games, collecting 22 points (8-14-22).
  The native of Hancock, Mich., prev
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting, IHIT investigating

  24-06-2018 19:28 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the homicide.
  At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Surrey RCMP got calls about shots fired in the 18200-block of 67A Avenue.
  “When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to hospital,” police said in a press release.
  “Despite the best efforts of medical staff, the male victim succumbed to his injuries and IHIT was called in.”
  Cpl. Frank Jang
  
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• Popular Chilliwack restaurant destroyed by Sunday morning blaze

  24-06-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Fire broke out at the Friendly Banners Kitchen, known to many Chilliwack residents simply as Banners, around 8:30 a.m.
  
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• Industrial land shortage looms as Abbotsford's farmland exclusion request denied

  24-06-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Agricultural Land Commission’s recent decision denying the City of Abbotsford’s request to remove almost 200 hectares from the agricultural land reserve for industrial development “tightens the vise” on companies already struggling to find space.
  “They’ll have to get creative,” said Kyle Dodman, a commercial broker with Frontline Real Estate Services who specializes in industrial sales and leasing in the Fraser Valley.
  “There’s a com
  
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• Firefighters battle a building fire at popular Langley strawberry farm

  24-06-2018 18:58 via vancouversun.com
  Langley firefighters battled a large fire in a building at Driediger Farms early Sunday.
  Fire Chief Russ Jenkins said workers arriving for their 5 a.m. shifts noticed smoke coming from a metal-clad building used for packaging berries.
  “It was fully involved,” said Jenkins. “There were combustibles — cardboard packaging and glue products.”
  Getting access to the building was a challenge, Jenkins said, because the heat and the smoke were not escaping the 24,000-square
  
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• More Burnaby demovictions to be discussed at public hearing

  24-06-2018 18:44
  
  City to address a series of proposals that would see more aging rentals replaced by high-density new homes
  
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• Man dead in Surrey shooting after weekend shooting, IHIT investigating

  24-06-2018 17:47 via vancouversun.com
  A man is dead after a shooting in Surrey on Saturday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team is investigating the homicide.
  At about 4 p.m. Saturday, Surrey RCMP got calls about shots fired in the 18200-block of 67A Avenue.
  “When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds who was taken to hospital,” police said in a press release.
  “Despite the best efforts of medical staff, the male victim succumbed to his injuries and IHIT was called in.”
  Cpl. Frank Jang
  
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• Viking aims for stars with newest ship

  24-06-2018 17:01 via theprovince.com
  I recently sailed aboard Viking Cruises fifth ocean-going cruise ship, the 930-guest Viking Orion, on her maiden voyage from Rome to Barcelona. She was christened in a spectacular ceremony in Livorno, Italy by Dr. Anna Fisher, a chemist, emergency room physician and former NASA astronaut who became the first mother in space during a 1984 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
  Viking Orion’s name is more than skin-deep: the ship is largely identical to Viking’s other ocean-going
  
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• Municipal Election 2018: Vancouver launches effort to boost voter turnout

  24-06-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s wacky election season could boost voter turnout in October, says pollster Mario Canseco.
  With eight mayoral candidates and dozens more council, parks board and school board hopefuls jockeying for position, this year’s election is going to be pretty hard to miss, said Canseco, president of Research Co.
  But the sheer number of candidates may also lead to confusion, particularly given the new randomized ballots debuting in this election, he warned.
  “It’s a double
  
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• Evolution of the campfire: propane is safer, easier, cheaper and healthier than wood

  24-06-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Alice Fox’s carbon footprint is going through the roof. Through her pocketbook, too. And even into her lungs.
  Like so many British Columbians at this time of the year, the Surrey resident enjoys a wood campfire — in her case, while camping 10 days at Edgewater Bar, part of Derby Reach Regional Park, on the banks of the Fraser River in north Langley.
  For now, wood fires are legal. But it’s just a matter of time before the province and region becomes tinder dry, and authorities p
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Cranbrook

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  The railway was key to Cranbrook's growth as a city.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Courtenay

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Once home to abundant prehistoric marine life, Courtenay today is the Comox Valley's only city.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Coquitlam

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  The city is named after the Coast Salish word "Kwikwetlem," which means "red fish up the river."
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Comox

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Once known for sea otter pelts, today Comox is known for a Canadian Forces base.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Colwood

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Capt. Edward E. Langford named Colwood after his hometown in Sussex, England.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Coldstream

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Its name comes from "Coldstream Ranch," so-named for the frigid waters there.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Clearwater

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Settlers named a tributary of the North Thompson River the "Fourche de l'Eau Claire." It would later be known as the Clearwater River.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Chilliwack

  24-06-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Chilliwack's biggest employer was a military base until it closed in 1996.
  
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• New Westminster Jeopardy! champion felt like Rocky after three-day win streak

  24-06-2018 06:51 via vancouversun.com
  After three days on top of the trivia world, New Westminster’s Ali Hasan saw his run as Jeopardy! champion come to a close on Friday night.
  Fittingly, the Guildford Park Secondary School teacher was dethroned by another Canadian, losing out to Ontario lawyer Jordan Nussbaum after a wrong answer on the last question of Double Jeopardy torpedoed Hasan’s chances in the final round.
  Host Alex Trebek posed the question, from the poets and poetry category: “He thought ‘Fou
  
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• Air India bombing victims honoured at emotional Stanley Park memorial

  24-06-2018 05:48 via vancouversun.com
  Ranbir Bhinder recalled Saturday how his entire family was “shattered” by the 1985 Air India bombing that left his pilot brother Satwinder dead.
  Bhinder, who is visiting from India, attended his first memorial to commemorate the 331 victims of the Air India bombings 33 years ago.
  “The 23rd of June 1985, as you all know, shattered the lives of hundreds of families and ours was one of them,” Bhinder said, standing in front of the stone wall that bears the name of his brothe
  
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• Google Street View images capture Metro Vancouver's homeless crisis

  24-06-2018 04:32 via vancouversun.com
  Local not-for-profit RainCity Housing has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need for affordable and social housing in Vancouver.
  A new interactive website, vancouverstreetview.ca, allows users to toggle between Google Street View images taken in the last four years and, by juxtaposing snapshots from then and now, see how the homeless population has grown across Metro Vancouver.
  Statistics from Metro Vancouver show a 30 per cent increase in homelessness between 2
  
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• Victims’ families say B.C. serial killer Robert Pickton transferred to Quebec prison

  24-06-2018 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  One of British Columbia’s most notorious serial killers is no longer in the province. Relatives of the victims of Robert Pickton say they found out this week he’s been transferred to a prison in Quebec. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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• Urgent plea for blood donations

  24-06-2018 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.
  
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• New artificial reel off of the BC coast

  24-06-2018 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  BC now has one more artificial reef off it’s coastline. Divers will soon be able to explore a world war two era, US navy barge near Powell River. Kristen Robinson has more.
  
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• Japan adoption issues

  24-06-2018 04:30 via globalnews.ca
  Good news for families who have adopted children from Japan; the Canadian goverment has now issued visas for their children. Nadia Stewart has more.
  
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• Victim’s family says Robert Pickton moved to Port Cartier Institution in Quebec

  24-06-2018 04:16 via globalnews.ca
  B.C.’s most notorious serial killer, Robert ‘Willy’ Pickton, has been moved to the Port Cartier Institution in Quebec, according to the father of one of Pickton’s six victims. Jill Bennett reports.
  
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