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• Vancouver soccer fans out in force for World Cup semifinal

  12-07-2018 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  If you heard a lot of cheering and screaming coming out of nearby buildings today – there’s a three-word explanation: World Cup semifinal. Global’s Sonia Deol was out in the middle of all the fans glued to today’s crucial england-croatia match-up.
  
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• 5 things to do this weekend for Thursday July 12, 2018

  12-07-2018 23:52 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend for Thursday July 12, 2018.
  
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• Keyboard Kimura: Fight Week folo gets a Boise bounce in ‘H-Idaho’

  12-07-2018 23:46 via theprovince.com
  Historically speaking, the event immediately following International Fight Week has always been low key and low profile.
  Two and three years back, the UFC chased its annual Fourth of July blowout with mid-week cards featuring only a couple marquee names. Last year, UFC 213 was followed by a trip to The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland for a Fight Night event headlined by Santiago Ponzinibbio and Gunnar Nelson.
  This year, however, the promotion is looking to continue riding the high from last week&
  
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• Police release suspect video, ask for public’s help after officer injured in Burnaby hit and run

  12-07-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  The video released Thursday shows the male suspect walking from a vehicle into a Burnaby gas station. He makes his way over to a fridge in the store before heading to the counter to pay.
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Friday, July 13

  12-07-2018 23:41 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Vancouver Island Music Fest, PoCo Grand Prix and Hot July Nights in 100 Mile House.
  
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• No wildfires, just Rugby World Cup Sevens this year for Kayla Moleschi

  12-07-2018 23:36 via theprovince.com
  The smoke, Kayla Moleschi recalls, was simply unbearable.
  “It’s not doable for any person, athlete or non athlete.”
  A year ago, the Williams Lake rugby player, her family and neighbours were dealing with wildfires all around their community. Like everyone else, they were evacuated. Life found a new perspective.
  “It was pretty scary, packing up valuable possessions,” she said. “It put everything in perspective, it made me value the life I have. You focus on the
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Thursday, July 12

  12-07-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the 41st annual Vancouver Folk Fest, the Tour de White Rock and the Parksville Beach Festival.
  
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• Vancouver's Knight Street blocked Thursday afternoon by rolled semi-truck

  12-07-2018 23:23 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re heading home this Thursday afternoon in Vancouver, avoid the Knight Street Bridge.
  A flipped semi-truck at the north end of the Knight Street Bridge has blocked all southbound access.
  According to Vancouver Fire Rescue, at least one individual is trapped and a heavy rescue team has been called in to assist.
  Units attending semi-truck rollover north end of Knight St Bridge; traffic heavily affected.
  — Vancouver Fire (@VanFireRescue) July 12, 2018Semi-rollover north end of Kn
  
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• Burnaby RCMP seek help identifying hit and run suspect

  12-07-2018 23:23 via globalnews.ca
  Burnaby RCMP is looking for the public’s help to identify a suspect wanted for injuring a police officer. Security camera video shows the male suspect leaving the Grey Dodge Nitro walking into a convenience store.
  
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• Firefighters respond to 20-hectare grass fire near Kamloops

  12-07-2018 23:22 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Wildfire Service has dispatched 49 firefighters, air tankers and a helicopter to a grass fire near Kamloops that grew to 20 hectares on Thursday afternoon.
  The wildfire, burning in the Shuswap Road area, is pushing smoke towards Kamloops and is highly visible from Highway 1.
  #BCWildfire Service crews and air support are responding to a fire on Shuswap Road, on the east end of #Kamloops. Updates will be provided as the situation develops.
  — BC Wildfire Service (@BCGovFireInfo) Jul
  
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• Young scallywags who stole taxi driver's rum return it, with interest

  12-07-2018 23:21
  
  Mike Shannon's Facebook rant leads to an only-on-Bowen-Island response, not to mention lots of I'm-sorry-for-your-troubles donated rum.
  
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• Bob Lenarduzzi: Croatia has no problem wearing World Cup underdog tags against France

  12-07-2018 23:10 via theprovince.com
  The World Cup’s final match is set, as Cinderella side Croatia faces France on Sunday.
  Croatia is the smallest nation to reach the final since Uruguay did it in 1950.
  France is the favourite and has been the most consistent team over the FIFA tournament in Russia. It’s a young squad, but well-organized and composed. Didier Deschamps is a conservative coach who focuses on the fundamentals and doesn’t like to take chances. He left a lot of talented attackers off of the team
  
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• Kittens rescued from Maple Ridge House fire

  12-07-2018 23:09 via globalnews.ca
  Fire started in basement of a house in Maple Ridge and quickly spread to the attic, four res got out but firefighters had to rescue two one-month old kittens.
  
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• 7 City of Port Coquitlam staff fired over alleged decade-spanning copper theft scheme

  12-07-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  "I continue to ask myself how did good people make such bad decisions?" said the city's chief administrative officer.
  
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• What do transit credit card skimmers look like?

  12-07-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police are warning the public after several debit and credit card skimmers were found at Skytrain stations in Richmond earlier this week. What do the devices look like?
  
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• Crews responding to wildfire in east Kamloops

  12-07-2018 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  Fire crews are currently responding to a wildfire on the east side of Kamloops.
  
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• World Cup’s set pieces, counterattacks have a familiar ring for Vancouver soccer fans

  12-07-2018 22:41 via theprovince.com
  “A set-piece orgy.”
  That’s former U.S. star, now Fox Sports commentator, Alexi Lalas describing the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a competition that has seen about a third of the goals scored coming from set pieces.
  Like never before, teams are focusing in on the potential offered by the set piece. In standard practice, the corner kick, the free kick and the throw-in have traditionally yielded weak results in producing goals.
  But work by statistical analysts has driven some coaches towa
  
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• With venue for Rugby World Cup final qualifier confirmed, Canada adds build-up matches

  12-07-2018 22:35 via theprovince.com
  Canada will play three games in Marseille in November, World Rugby has confirmed.
  The French city’s 5,000-seat Stade Delort has been selected as host venue for the three-week, four-team Rugby World Cup repechage tournament.
  The winner of the tournament will take the final spot for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan.
  Canada and Hong Kong are the two confirmed teams so far; the third team, likely Germany, will be confirmed this weekend. The Germans host Samoa in the second leg of their RWC qu
  
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• Much to do in Munich

  12-07-2018 22:35 via theprovince.com
  Munich has so much more to offer than Oktoberfest. The Bavarian capital is so cool and cosmopolitan, no wonder it’s known as the “most northern city of Italy”, and not for the weather. The Italians call it “Monaco di Baviera” and Monocle Magazine rated it the world’s most liveable city in its 2018 Quality of Life survey.
  With about a dozen stops, the hop-on-hop-off city tour pretty much covers city sights and a few attractions further afield. First off—a
  
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• Burnaby RCMP release footage of suspect driver who allegedly hit officer and fled

  12-07-2018 22:29 via theprovince.com
  Burnaby RCMP have released surveillance footage of a suspect driver they allege hit an officer with his vehicle and fled.
  On July 4 around 10 a.m., a police officer attempted to pull over a vehicle near Willingdon Avenue and Parker Street after the driver was spotted allegedly using an electronic device while driving.
  The driver did not stop but allegedly hit the officer and drove south on Willingdon.
  The office was taken to hospital but released the same day after being treated for a broken arm
  
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• B.C. junior lacrosse powers missing key players for playoff openers to field worlds

  12-07-2018 22:01 via theprovince.com
  Tre Leclaire and Ryland Rees could go from allies to adversaries instantly.
  The B.C. Junior A Lacrosse Association’s best-of-five semifinals open this weekend, with the first-place Coquitlam Adanacs (18-2-1) facing the fourth-place Victoria Shamrocks (13-7-1) and the second-place New Westminster Salmonbellies (15-6-0) meeting the third-place Port Coquitlam Saints (13-6-2).
  The Salmonbellies will have to make a go of it without Leclaire, whose 52 goals in the regular season was the second b
  
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• B.C. man bilked out of thousands of dollars in financial scam

  12-07-2018 21:57 via globalnews.ca
  Michael Morgan got caught up in a new variation of a familiar scam.
  
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• No end yet to Interior casino strike

  12-07-2018 21:46 via globalnews.ca
  Three days of talks between four casinos and its striking employees ended this week with no progress.
  
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• Debit and credit card skimmers found at Canada Line stations

  12-07-2018 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  Transit police say a number of Skytrain riders may have had their debit and credit cards compromised — after card skimmers were found along the Canada Line.
  
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• What critics are saying about The Rock's Vancouver-filmed Skyscraper

  12-07-2018 21:37 via vancouversun.com
  Q: What do you get when you mix the Towering Inferno, Die Hard and The Rock?
  A: Something loud and fun, but ultimately forgettable.
  With a 51 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score, Skyscraper,  the Vancouver-filmed blockbuster from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is getting mixed reviews from critics.
  The film, which hits theatres today, tells the story of Will Ford, a one-legged former FBI agent who must save his family from terrorists in a burning Hong Kong skyscraper.
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• B.C. man nets $1,700 fine for extreme speed along Alberta’s Highway 63

  12-07-2018 21:29 via globalnews.ca
  If you speed, it'll cost you. That's the message from Alberta RCMP.
  
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• Muffin’s Halo helps blind dogs navigate their world

  12-07-2018 21:28
  
  Device was created to offer second chances to blind dogs that are often abandoned
  
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• 1 in 5 people ‘carded’ by Vancouver police in 2016 were Indigenous women: complaint

  12-07-2018 21:28 via globalnews.ca
  Indigenous women are two per cent of the female population in Vancouver, yet are 21 per cent of the people who are street checked, says the BCCLA.
  
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• Hollywood star Nicolas Cage in Vernon filming movie

  12-07-2018 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  Hollywood star Nicolas Cage is in the Okanagan today for production of a movie titled A Score To Settle.
  
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• World Cup’s set pieces, counter-attacks have a familiar ring for Vancouver soccer fans

  12-07-2018 21:08 via theprovince.com
  “A set-piece orgy.”
  That’s former U.S. star, now Fox Sports commentator, Alexi Lalas describing the 2018 FIFA World Cup, a competition that has seen about a third of the goals scored coming from set pieces.
  Like never before, teams are focusing in on the potential offered by the set piece. In standard practice, the corner kick, the free kick, the throw-in have traditionally yielded weak results in producing goals.
  But work by statistical analysts have driven some coaches toward
  
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• Yes and No groups selected before referendum on electoral reform in B.C.

  12-07-2018 21:03 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Groups that officially represent the Yes and No sides on electoral reform in British Columbia have been selected before a referendum this fall.
  Elections B.C. says Vote PR BC will be the proponent group while opposition to changing the current system will be spearheaded by the No BC Proportional Representation Society.
  Each group will get $500,000 in funding to support or oppose proportional representation voting systems as part of their public information campaigns and both wil
  
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• Hometown Heroes early ticket deadline

  12-07-2018 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  Yvonne Schalle tours the Crescent Heights home up for grabs in the Hometown Heroes Lottery.
  
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• Official ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ side chosen B.C. vote on changing how politicians are elected

  12-07-2018 20:44 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. will vote this fall on whether to keep the current first-past-the-post system, or switch to a system of proportional representation.
  
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• What’s causing this strange Lougheed Highway sinkhole?

  12-07-2018 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  It’s weird, it’s small. What is causing this unusual sinkhole that’s stopping traffic on the Lougheed Highway in Pitt Meadows?
  
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• Huge crowds, ‘safety concerns’ force Build-A-Bear to shut down Pay Your Age event

  12-07-2018 20:22 via globalnews.ca
  Build-A-Bear Workshop was forced to close lines for its stores in Canada and the U.S. on Thursday during its Pay Your Age promotion.
  
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• Whitecaps looking to spoil United’s party for new stadium and, maybe, Wayne Rooney

  12-07-2018 20:15 via theprovince.com
  D.C. United will debut their shiny new stadium, Audi Field, on Saturday.
  They might also roll out their new Major League Soccer designated player, Wayne Rooney.
  Enter the Vancouver Whitecaps, looking to play big spoiler.
  If Rooney plays, he’ll be a familiar face for the Whitecaps’ Kei Kamara, who faced the former Manchester United striker five years ago.
  Kamara came on for Norwich City late in a March 2013 English Premier League game, which the Canaries lost to Rooney’s powerho
  
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• Don't feed the bears! North Shore residents under investigation for feeding bears from house

  12-07-2018 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. conservation officers are investigating after a video posted on Instagram showed a couple of North Shore kids feeding black bears.
  Christine Miller, an education co-ordinator with the North Shore Black Bear Society, said she was shocked to see the images of children feeding a young black bear from their house.
  In the video, which has now been removed from Instagram, two West Vancouver girls can be seen feeding the bear cub by an open patio door.
  A North Shore family posted videos of th
  
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• Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation gets its bite from Vancouver's Sony Imageworks

  12-07-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation hits theatres this week. The third instalment of the 2012 Sony Pictures Animation hit Hotel Transylvania brings back all the fave characters and puts them on an ocean cruise.
  Naturally, things don’t go swimmingly.
  Besides having Count Dracula (Adam Sandler), Mavis Dracula (Selena Gomez), Jonathan “Johnny” Loughran (Andy Samberg) and the full cast of supporting monsters on board, the film introduces  Ericka Van Helsing (Kathryn Hahn), V
  
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• Vancouver transgender actress makes history on General Hospital with casting

  12-07-2018 19:56 via vancouversun.com
  After more than 14,000 episodes, long-running soap opera General Hospital is still breaking new ground with the recent debut of the show’s first transgender character to be played by a transgender cast member.
  But with the progress that’s being made in daytime television, Vancouver-raised actress Cassandra James says it’s time for the rest of Hollywood to catch up.
  “Film and TV reflects culture, it reflects the world that we live in. And if it’s not doing so accurat
  
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• Douglas Todd: The trouble with diversity journalism

  12-07-2018 19:53 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve been covering ethnic, religious, sexual orientation and other so-called diversity issues most of my newspaper career.
  I’ve always been curious about different people, world views and cultures, aiming to report on them with fairness, balance and respect; embracing pluralism, while also probing for that elusive journalistic objective known as truth.
  Diversity journalism has now become a big thing. Along with it has come a cadre of people who make a living telling others how to han
  
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• Keivan Hirji: Eby’s electoral reform referendum looks like the work of a shady car salesman

  12-07-2018 19:48 via theprovince.com
  Have you ever been in the market for a new car and when you go to the car dealership you end up with a car salesman who just doesn’t give you the choices you want? This describes B.C.’s fall referendum on our voting system.
  For example, let’s say I like sedans and I currently drive a sedan but I am interested in changing to an SUV.
  The car salesman provides four options: a Lincoln Sedan, a Toyota SUV, a Honda SUV, and a Nissan SUV. I am open to buying an SUV, but I only like th
  
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• Letters to The Province, July 12, 2018: NDP’s support of guaranteed minimum income is about staying in power, says reader

  12-07-2018 19:46 via theprovince.com
  One has to wonder why anyone would want to create a non-productive, welfare state society. But, if you look at the NDP policies, they are mostly geared toward doing just that — rewarding people for doing nothing.
  Let’s think about why they would wish that upon our society.
  Well, the main focus of the Green-NDP partnership is to get re-elected. Their first attempt at this will be to have a referendum on proportional representation. Then, if they can get their minimum-income plan into
  
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• What does the national average home price buy across Canada? (INFOGRAPHIC)

  12-07-2018 19:45
  
  Nationally, a budget of around $500K will buy you 3.3 bedrooms on average – but in major cities it’s a different story
  
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• Indigenous women overrepresented in Vancouver police checks: rights advocates

  12-07-2018 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Indigenous and civil rights activists seeking an investigation of the Vancouver Police Department’s use of random street checks want to amend their complaint based on new data showing Aboriginal women are checked more often than other groups.
  In June, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association and Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs asked the province’s police complaint commissioner to investigate a significant racial disparity in the use of street checks.
  During the checks, also
  
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• Caps looking to spoil United’s party for new stadium and, maybe, Wayne Rooney

  12-07-2018 19:22 via theprovince.com
  DC United will debut their shiny new stadium, Audi Field, on Saturday.
  They might also roll out their new Major League Soccer designated player, Wayne Rooney.
  Enter the Vancouver Whitecaps, looking to play big spoiler.
  If Rooney plays he’ll be a familiar face for the Whitecaps’ Kei Kamara, who faced the former Manchester United striker five years ago.
  Kamara came on for Norwich City late in a March 2013 English Premier League game, which the Canaries lost to Rooney’s powerhouse
  
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• Robert Latimer applies for pardon of murder conviction

  12-07-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  Robert Latimer, convicted in the death of his severely disabled daughter Tracey, is seeking a pardon from the prime minister and justice minister.
  
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• UBC biologist killed during research trip was a leading authority in his field

  12-07-2018 19:11
  
  Despite 'dangerous and heroic effort' to save him, Denis Lynn dies after being struck by wave in Queen Charlotte Sound
  
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• Drink This: Humans—An IPA For The People by Parkside Brewery

  12-07-2018 18:58
  
  Remember IPAs? I feel like I haven’t talked about them in ages, and if I’m being honest, it’s because it’s been a while since an India pale ale has stirred any excitement in me.
  
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• Princess Cruises polishes Crown

  12-07-2018 18:57 via theprovince.com
  One of my favorite big ships has been given a dramatic makeover.
  Princess Cruises recently put its 3,000-passenger Crown Princess through a stem-to-stern makeover that has left the 2006-built ship sparkling like new. What’s more, the refit has also added a number of brand-new features that should please guests like myself who already have a few sailings aboard this great ship under their belt.
  “Crown Princess first debuted in 2006 with several industry-first offerings, including
  
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