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• Vancouver School District jumps aboard random ballot bandwagon

  26-06-2018 23:57
  
  City council, park board commissioners and now school trustees will all be decided upon via random ballot
  
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• Cat uses up nine lives in one day touring Lower Mainland in car's bumper

  26-06-2018 23:56
  
  Lily, who'd never been outside, escaped her Steveston home and rode around the Lower Mainland in a car bumper the entire day.
  
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• Vancouver promises to have more than 1,000 childcare spaces open by 2021

  26-06-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver has pledged more than 1,000 new childcare spots, but they won't be in operation until 2021.
  
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• Vancouver police on the lookout for wanted Ontario man

  26-06-2018 23:38
  
  Marcel ‘Marc’ Lawson, wanted on a Canada-wide warrant, is known to frequent Vancouver
  
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• Bob Lenarduzzi: Will England and Belgium push for win Thursday, or save it for later?

  26-06-2018 23:14 via theprovince.com
  When the FIFA World Cup 2018 schedule came out, one game that a lot of people marked on their calendar is Thursday’s clash between England and Belgium.These are two evenly matched teams, both entering Russia with high expectations, despite a history of underperforming at major tournaments.This game will decide top spot in Group G, in which Panama and Tunisia have been completely outclassed.
  It’s difficult to predict what will happen in this game, or even if it will be worth watching.
  
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• Hearts flutter as Ryan Reynolds offers video tribute to Rio Theatre

  26-06-2018 23:12
  
  First Ryan Reynolds, and now Seth Rogen, offer video tributes to East Vancouver landmark.
  
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• B.C. cuts fees that payday loan companies can charge

  26-06-2018 23:05
  
  Maximum fee reduced from $17 to $15 for every $100 borrowed.
  
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• This Just In: CHANEL L'Huile Anti-Pollution Cleansing Oil, Marcelle City Multi-Protection Tinted Cream and L'Occitane Aqua Réotier Ultra Thirst-Quenching Cream

  26-06-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  CHANEL
  L’Huile Anti-Pollution Cleansing Oil
  They say: A cleansing oil from French beauty and fashion brand CHANEL that promises to remove makeup — even long-wearing and waterproof versions — while also freeing skin of “impurities and pollutants.” Suitable for all skin types, the formula is Ophthalmologist, dermatologist tested and non-comedogenic.
  We say: This cleansing oil leaves skin feeling clean and soothed. A few pumps is all that’s needed
  
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• Parents of graduating students in Penticton warned of potential threat

  26-06-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP confirm a youth has made a veiled threat against a bush-party tonight in Penticton.
  
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• NHL big hitters trading sticks for bats this Friday at the Homebase Charity Slo-Pitch Tournament in Kelowna

  26-06-2018 22:43 via globalnews.ca
  A news conference was held in Kelowna Tuesday to introduce the inaugural Gorges-Comeau Homebase Charity Slo-Pitch Tournament.The celebrity event will feature 17 NHL greats including include Carey Price, Ryan Johansen, Brendan Gallagher, Shea Weber and Jordin Tootoo alongside team captains Josh Gorges and Blake Comeau.
  
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• HIV prevention medication project a success, based on early results: Adrian Dix

  26-06-2018 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly 2,000 B.C. residents have taken a medication to prevent HIV in the past six months either before or after having high-risk sex, Health Minister Adrian Dix said today.
  The treatment is called pre or post-exposure prophylaxis and is also known as PrEP or PEP. The oral medication called Truvada can be prescribed to men who have sex with men, those who inject drugs and people who have sex with individuals known to be diagnosed with HIV or people who anticipate they will have sex with som
  
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• City of Vancouver creates more than 1,000 new childcare spaces

  26-06-2018 22:20 via globalnews.ca
  At a press conference Tuesday, the City of Vancouver announced they have built and committed 1,064 new quality childcare spaces in the past four years.
  
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• Prince George’s Brett Connolly finds ‘right fit’ with Stanley Cup champions

  26-06-2018 22:19 via theprovince.com
  Brett Connolly, Stanley Cup champion.
  It’s hard to truly fathom what those five words together must mean to the 26-year-old forward from Prince George, considering the ride it’s been for him to end up atop the hockey world with the Washington Capitals.
  “It would be nice if you got drafted by a team and you went there and you played well and had a coach that liked you, but it doesn’t work out that way for a lot of players,” said Connolly, the sixth overall choice fro
  
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• Study predicts Trans Mountain pipeline purchase will add to federal deficit

  26-06-2018 22:06 via globalnews.ca
  The study said buying the Kinder Morgan Canada assets, plus planning and construction costs, will put $6.5 billion in unplanned spending on the books for the 2018-19 fiscal year.
  
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• Province, feds ink near-$1B bilateral affordable housing deal

  26-06-2018 22:05
  
  $991 million funding over 10 years will be cost-shared by federal and provincial governments
  
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• Prisoner who escaped from a work site captured in Vancouver

  26-06-2018 21:38 via theprovince.com
  A B.C. prisoner who walked away from a work site has been captured in downtown Vancouver.
  Ridge Meadows RCMP say on Friday at around 7:30 p.m., Vancouver police members stopped a man riding a bike without a helmet.
  He was later identified as a Fraser Regional Corrections Centre inmate who walked away from an off-site work assignment in Pitt Meadows on June 13.
  The man was arrested without incident and remains in custody.
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• Canada Day events in Vancouver include fireworks, parades and free weed

  26-06-2018 21:38
  
  The Canada Day long weekend is a great time to celebrate our great nation
  
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• HIV prevention medication project a success based on early results

  26-06-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly 2,000 B.C. residents have taken a medication to prevent HIV in the past six months either before or after having high-risk sex, Health Minister Adrian Dix said today.
  The treatment is called pre or post-exposure prophylaxis, and are also known as PrEP or PEP. The oral medication called Truvada can be prescribed to men who have sex with men, those who inject drugs and people who have sex with individuals known to be diagnosed with HIV or people who anticipate they will have sex with s
  
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• B.C.'s illicit overdose deaths decreasing almost every month this year

  26-06-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Coroners Service has released its latest overdose statistics, showing 109 people died in May from illicit drugs.
  That’s a decrease of 23 per cent in the number of deaths from a year earlier, when 141 people fatally overdosed in British Columbia.
  A report from the coroners’ service says overdose deaths in May were down 12 per cent from April.
  It says the Interior Health Authority was the only health authority that saw an increase in illicit-drug overdoses in May, when 23 peop
  
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• Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie to seek re-election

  26-06-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie has announced he will run in the municipal election this fall for a sixth term.
  In a statement Tuesday, Brodie said it has been an honour to serve as mayor since 2001 and welcomed the challenges ahead.
  “I am running for mayor because of the many opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. There is so much more work to be done,” he said.
  He said Richmond has become more complex and diversified, with a population growing to almost 220,000.
  “There is
  
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• North Vancouver delays decision on massive new 'innovation district'

  26-06-2018 21:25
  
  Largest development project for decades stuck in limbo for now, with not enough council votes to proceed
  
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• Vancouver and Toronto tie for most expensive Canadian city for expats: survey

  26-06-2018 21:22 via vancouversun.com
  We’re not the most expensive city in Canada anymore!
  To clarify, we now have the honour of sharing that title with Toronto.
  In the latest ranking of the world’s most expensive cities for expats to call home, Toronto jumped 10 spots to tie with Vancouver for the highest ranking Canadian city in the 24th annual Mercer Cost of Living Survey.
  Previously, Toronto ranked 119, while Vancouver was listed as the 107th most expensive city in the world. This year, both cities came in at 109th a
  
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• Two men guilty in B.C. polygamy case given conditional sentences

  26-06-2018 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  CRANBROOK — Two men convicted of polygamy in British Columbia will not be serving time in jail after a B.C. Supreme Court judge gave them conditional sentences on Tuesday.
  Winston Blackmore was convicted of having 24 wives, while the court found James Oler had five wives.
  Blackmore’s six-month conditional sentence to be served under house arrest allows him to go to work and attend to medical emergencies, followed by 12 months’ probation.
  Oler’s term is three months of hou
  
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• Drug deaths down in May in B.C. compared to a year earlier

  26-06-2018 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  The number of have illicit drug overdose deaths went down in May compared to a year ago.
  
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• Adopt a Pet: Slash the American Staffordshire Terrier

  26-06-2018 21:15 via globalnews.ca
  Slash is currently under the care of the BC SPCA, is waiting for its forever home. He is hoping to find a family who speak French, as it is the only language he understands.
  
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• Giants star Bowen Byram named to Canada’s Under-18 summer tryout camp

  26-06-2018 21:13 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver Giants defenceman Bowen Byram is one of 14 rearguards invited to Team Canada’s tryout camp for the Under-18 Hlinka Gretzky Cup tournament.
  Four goalies and 26 forwards will also be vying for spots under head coach Gilles Bouchard when they hit the ice July 28-Aug. 1 in Calgary. The newly rebranded Hlinka Gretzky goes Aug. 6-11 in Red Deer, Alta.
  Byram, a 17-year-old Cranbrook native, is one of three players going to camp who were part of the Team Canada entry in the Under-18 worl
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Maple Ridge

  26-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Some people got together on a farm and decided they should make a municipality. That, in a nutshell, is how Maple Ridge was born.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Lytton

  26-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Simon Fraser once described the Lytton area by saying he "had to pass where no human being should venture."
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Lions Bay

  26-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  The Sea-to-Sky corridor was once known as a cattle trail. Then communities like Lions Bay started popping up.
  
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• B.C. municipal election 2018: Lillooet

  26-06-2018 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Lillooet - it's one B.C.'s oldest town, and was once the biggest settlement north of San Francisco.
  
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• Ed Willes: Canada’s Warner hopes new coach helps vault him to Olympic gold

  26-06-2018 20:51 via theprovince.com
  They make an interesting pair, the world’s greatest athlete and his 69-year-old coach from Calgary by way of Transylvania.
  Take the pole vault: Damian Warner is world class in the 100 metres, the 110-metre hurdles and the long jump and gets by in the decathlon’s other events. But pole vaulting has long been his personal kryptonite.
  “It’s still an issue,” says Warner, who ran the hurdles at the Harry Jerome/Vancouver Sun Track Classic on Tuesday. “I’m sea
  
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• ART SEEN: Art installation in a school bus explored new frontier in space

  26-06-2018 20:48 via vancouversun.com
  I started thinking about space and what it means after seeing Inside Out at SiteFactory.
  Afterwards, as I was cycling home on a sunny Saturday evening, the phrase from the original Star Trek TV series popped into my head. “Space,” William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk says at the start of each episode, “the final frontier.”
  In the confident world of the 1960s, the science fiction space of Star Trek was very much a modernist creation. You explored it by going in one direc
  
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• Surrey RCMP investigate another targetted shooting

  26-06-2018 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  Days after a Surrey father was gunned down in the driveway of his Cloverdale home, police were called to a home Monday night in the 7700-block of 184th Street.
  
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• Letters to The Province, June 27, 2018: Trump is a lying racist, ‘devoid of compassion, empathy and sincerity’

  26-06-2018 20:35 via theprovince.com
  I have to take this opportunity to vehemently disagree with letter writer Martin Hill. I don’t believe for one minute that Donald Trump is doing the best he can by his country. Everything he does is for him and him alone — it’s purely self-serving.
  I realize respect is important. However, in the case of this particular U.S. president he has shown very little respect for anybody since he took office, including world leaders or anybody who dares to disagree with him. He constantl
  
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• Michael Wolfson: It’s time Canada had official poverty line

  26-06-2018 20:30 via theprovince.com
  Poverty is hard to measure. There are many aspects besides living on a low income, including having disabilities or costly health problems, not being able to find decent housing, not being able to understand and communicate in an environment with increasing technological and legal complexity, and being unable to afford nutritious food.
  Still, Ottawa has embarked on formulating a poverty-reduction strategy and it would presumably like to have meaningful ways of measuring and monitoring progress t
  
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• Man shot, woman assaulted in targeted hit in Surrey

  26-06-2018 20:25 via theprovince.com
  A man was shot and a woman assaulted in Surrey Monday night, in an incident police believe was targeted.
  The incident occurred shortly before 11:30 p.m. at a residence in the 7700-block of 184 Street, according to RCMP.
  Police responded to several 911 calls from people who reported hearing the sound of gun shots.
  Officers found an injured woman and a man who was suffering from an apparent gunshot wound inside the residence.
  Both victims were transported to the hospital. Their condition is unknow
  
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• Five tips to help your car keep its cool this holiday weekend

  26-06-2018 20:17
  
  After sweating through the first heatwave of the year, it’s time to start planning for summer in the city
  
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• Winston Blackmore and James Ohler arrive to court for polygamy sentencing

  26-06-2018 20:16 via globalnews.ca
  Winston Blackmore and James Ohler along with their supporters arrive to court in Cranbrook, B.C. to receive sentencing for polygamy conviction.
  
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• Winston Blackmore sentenced to 6 months house arrest for polygamy

  26-06-2018 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  Winston Blackmore has been given a conditional sentence for six months to be served in the community and 12 months probation for a polygamy conviction.
  
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• School Board sells land to BC Hydro for underground substation

  26-06-2018 19:32 via globalnews.ca
  The Vancouver School Board is selling land to BC Hydro so that an underground substation can be built in the West End. The substation will be built below the Lord Roberts Annex.
  
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• Woman assaulted, man shot inside Surrey home: RCMP

  26-06-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP officers responded to several 911 calls from people who reported hearing the sounds of gunshots from a home in the 7700-block of 184 Street.
  
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• B.C.'s ski resorts have highest non-resident homeownership: StatCan

  26-06-2018 19:26
  
  Vancouver’s overseas homeownership rate of 7.8 per cent pales in comparison with Sun Peaks and Whistler
  
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• Is sale of land to BC Hydro a fair trade for two new Vancouver schools?

  26-06-2018 19:11
  
  VSB approves controversial proposal to build power station beneath Lord Roberts annex.
  
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• Spotted: Jake Virtanen at North American roller hockey championships

  26-06-2018 18:55 via theprovince.com
  Jake Virtanen’s love for roller hockey is perhaps an underreported thing.
  But if you know how much passion he has for the game with wheels, it won’t surprise you to learn he was playing in the NARCh Pro Finals this past weekend in Irvine, Calif.
  Virtanen turned out for a squad named Pure Maple, alongside his brother.
  According to the tournament’s official site, Pure Maple lost 6-1 to the Pama Labeda Golden Knights in the final.
  Virtanen was the pro division’s top scorer.V
  
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• Island Express Air back in business after Abbotsford crash

  26-06-2018 18:49 via vancouversun.com
  Transport Canada has reinstated Island Express Air’s license after the airline was grounded following a crash in Abbotsford in February.
  Transport Canada said Tuesday that after a robust review of the company’s operations, the business can operate again.
  The agency said it will closely monitor the airline’s operations to verify that the company remains compliant with aviation safety regulations.
  On Feb. 28, Transport Canada suspended the company’s license in the inte
  
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• Dungeness Crab Crepe recipe from Sonora Resort

  26-06-2018 18:48 via globalnews.ca
  Executive chef Lukas Gurtner from Sonora Resort take us through the steps for creating a delicious crab crepe.
  
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• PETA footage shows chickens caged with dead, buried in manure at Abbotsford egg farms

  26-06-2018 18:47 via vancouversun.com
  Horrific undercover footage filmed by PETA at three Abbotsford egg farms has revealed what appears to be chickens caged with the dead while others were trapped in pools of manure.
  The footage, filmed in April and released Tuesday by PETA, shows chickens in small wire cages, many of them grouped with the decomposing corpses of other chickens; some of the corpses were covered with maggots.
  The video also included scenes of chickens being extricated from clumps and mounds of brown sludge, which PET
  
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• Death of Comox Valley teen traced to toxic shock syndrome

  26-06-2018 18:21 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. Coroners Service has confirmed that a 16-year-old Comox Valley girl died from toxic shock syndrome during an overnight trip to Hornby Island last year.
  On March 14, 2017, Sara Marie Manitoski went on a student trip to the Outdoor Education Centre in Tribune Bay Provincial Park. The Grade 11 student at George P. Vanier Secondary School in Courtenay complained to friends about having menstrual cramps and not feeling well, but took part in the day’s activities.
  Sarah didn’t eat
  
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• Dungeness crab crepe recipe

  26-06-2018 17:49 via globalnews.ca
  Make this crab crepe recipe at home!
  
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