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• Float plane crashes near Gold Bridge, B.C., boaters rush to help

  01-08-2018 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  It is unclear how many people were aboard when the plane went down.
  
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• 1 person dead, 1 missing after float plane crashes near Gold Bridge, B.C.

  01-08-2018 23:59 via globalnews.ca
  It is unclear how many people were aboard when the plane went down.
  
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• Mary's on Davie is a committment to community

  01-08-2018 23:55
  
  The new diner replaces the iconic Hamburger Mary's in Davie Village
  
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• Mary's on Davie is a commitment to community

  01-08-2018 23:55
  
  The new diner replaces the iconic Hamburger Mary's in Davie Village
  
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• 'Mary is back': Davie Street's iconic Hamburger Mary's revived as 'sassy brunch cafe'

  01-08-2018 23:55
  
  Mary's Diner replaces the iconic Hamburger Mary's in Davie Village and it's "fabulous"
  
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• ‘I’ve lived my 70 years abiding by the law’: B.C. grandma jailed for Trans Mountain protest

  01-08-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  A 70-year-old B.C. woman has been sentenced to seven days in jail after she and other protesters blocked the gates to Kinder Morgan's oil terminal in Burnaby, forcing a halt in construction. 
  
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• Here's what to know about your data privacy when crossing the Canada-U.S. border

  01-08-2018 23:49 via vancouversun.com
  In today’s political climate, it’s understandable why travellers might be more anxious than usual about crossing into Canada from the U.S.
  That’s why the B.C. Civil Liberties Association offered tips Wednesday by publishing an free online guide called the Electronic Devices Privacy Handbook: A Guide to your Rights at the Border. The guide aims to help travellers understand their data privacy rights at the border, best practices on how to protect their data , how to interac
  
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• Search for missing jet skier enters fourth day on South Thompson River

  01-08-2018 23:26
  
  A helicopter and a police boat continue to search the area
  
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• Opposition parties blast minister for 'dangerous' EpiPen shortage, demand a fix

  01-08-2018 23:20
  
  Drug giant Pfizer said this week that adult doses may not be available at all in August
  
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• REAL SCOOP: Wolf Pack associate pleads guilty to money laundering

  01-08-2018 23:02 via vancouversun.com
  I broke the story in June of Wolf Pack associate Omid Mashinchi being charged in Boston with money laundering for sending B.C. drug proceeds to the U.S.
  Mashinchi, who leased condos to B.C. gangsters for years, has now pleaded guilty.
  Here’s my latest:Wolf Pack gang associate convicted in U.S. of money
  laundering
  KIM BOLAN
  Updated: August 1, 2018A former Metro Vancouver realtor who leased luxury properties to B.C. gangsters has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to five counts of money laundering.
  
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• Crews douse flames at East Vancouver property with history of fires

  01-08-2018 22:57 via globalnews.ca
  A fire broke out at the same property back in May, spreading to three neighbouring homes.
  
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• B.C. author masters French Vintage Décor and DIY projects with new book

  01-08-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  French Vintage Décor
  Easy and Elegant DIY Projects for Any Home 
  By Jamie Lundstrom 
  $31.95 | Page Street PublishingFrench Vintage Décor: Easy and Elegant DIY Projects for Any Home by Jamie Lundstrom.
  For Jamie Lundstrom, tackling do-it-yourself projects provided a much-needed release from a stressful career in the medical field, which she worked in for 14 years.
  “I didn’t think I was a creative person,” she admits, referencing those initial af
  
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• Vernon man fined $500 for carrying airsoft guns in park

  01-08-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  A Vernon man was fined $500 by police for having two airsoft guns on his possession while in Polson Park.
  
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• I hung out with a bunch of 90-year-olds at sea and it rocked

  01-08-2018 22:35
  
  Earlier this summer, I was invited to be a storytelling guide on a small cruise ship embarking on a tour of Desolation Sound.
  
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• Grieving orca off B.C. coast highlights plight of endangered killer whales

  01-08-2018 22:31 via vancouversun.com
  Whale researchers are keeping close watch on an endangered orca that has spent the past week keeping her dead calf afloat in Pacific Northwest waters, a display that has struck an emotional chord around the world and highlighted the plight of a declining population that has not had a successful birth since 2015.
  Researchers have observed the 20-year-old whale known as J35 pushing her dead young along and propping it up while swimming for miles in the waters of Washington state and B.C. The calf
  
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• Vancouver weather: heatwave dissolves into clouds, rain

  01-08-2018 22:26
  
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• B.C. civil liberties group launches online guide to protect privacy at borders

  01-08-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  What should you do if border officers in Canada seize and search your smartphone or tablet?
  The B.C. Civil Liberties Association has a few answers about how to protect your privacy when it comes to electronic devices and security.
  On Wednesday, the association published a free online guide called the Electronic Devices Privacy Handbook, a Guide to your Rights at the Border.
  The handbook aims to help travellers understand what is known about their data privacy rights at these border areas, b
  
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• Man thought to be in dumpster dies after ending up in Victoria garbage truck

  01-08-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria police say a man who may have been inside a dumpster has died after he was found in a garbage truck on Wednesday.
  Shortly after police were called they say officers discovered the man suffering from serious injuries.
  In a news release, police say he was rushed to hospital but died from his injuries.
  Police say they’re working with the BC Coroners Service to investigate the incident.
  The driver of the truck wasn’t hurt but police say he is being offered support.
  Police say th
  
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• Fraser Valley's Hatzic Lake closed to swimming over health concerns

  01-08-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  Hatzic Lake has been closed to swimming following reports of nausea, stomach cramps, itchy skin and eye irritations from local residents.
  The Fraser Valley Regional District issued a notice Tuesday that it was closing the lake after people reported seeing algae blooms, discoloured water and dead fish.Related
  More Metro Vancouver beaches closed because of E.coli contamination
  “Fraser Health, Ministry of Environment, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been contacted and are …
  
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• West Coast Express delayed because of trespassers on tracks

  01-08-2018 22:02 via vancouversun.com
  The West Coast Express Train was delayed Wednesday morning because of trespassers on the tracks.
  Earlier in the day, TransLink said Train 5 was holding at Moody Centre station following a rail traffic control request to halt the trains because of protesters on the tracks.
  However, later TransLink and CP Rail confirmed that the trespassers were not protesters.
  “CP temporarily halted train traffic at Burnaby after reports of trespassers on the tracks,” said CP spokesperson Mallory McCr
  
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• Vancouver gelato king James Coleridge makes grand return with Uno Gelato

  01-08-2018 21:54 via vancouversun.com
  James Coleridge, internationally renowned gelato king and former owner of Vancouver’s Bella Gelateria, is returning to the Vancouver dessert scene – with not one, not two but three new gelaterias.
  Uno Gelato, Coleridge’s new gelato chain, will open locations in Kitsilano, Stamps Landing and Burrard Landing early this month.
  “It has been an incredible journey this past year and I am honoured to be able to share my passion and devotion to the artistry of old-world, handcraf
  
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• Snowy Mountain evacuation alert expanded

  01-08-2018 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  An evacuation alert for the South Similkameen Valley has been expanded due to the growing snowy mountain fire.
  
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• West Vancouver beaches latest to be closed due to high E.coli count

  01-08-2018 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  The recent hot spell has created some health concerns on local beaches. Vancouver Coastal Health has closed several popular swimming spots in West Vancouver — adding to a growing list of closures. Paul Haysom explains.
  
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• No timeline to reopen 6 Metro Vancouver beaches due to E. coli levels

  01-08-2018 21:50 via globalnews.ca
  Unsafe levels of E. coli mean six beaches around the region have been closed to swimming.
  
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• Peacock crackdown: Surrey stepping up enforcement against fowl-feeders

  01-08-2018 21:40 via globalnews.ca
  Signs are going up around the Sullivan Heights neighbourhood, and the city says anyone caught feeding the birds can expect a fine.
  
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• Island luxury: Vancouver Island’s 10 priciest homes for sale

  01-08-2018 21:25
  
  From idyllic waterfront retreats to a high-end downtown penthouse, the Island’s most expensive listings have it all
  
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• Vancouver Bird Fest tours offer closer look at birds of B.C.

  01-08-2018 21:08
  
  Lineup for Vancouver International Bird Festival and 27th International Ornithological Congress includes more than 50 bird tours
  
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• The importance of potassium to your heart health

  01-08-2018 21:05 via globalnews.ca
  Scott Lear with St. Paul’s Hospital sits down with Coleen Christie to discuss the importance of potassium and how people can up their daily intake of it.
  
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• Police watchdog clears VPD in dog bite case involving innocent man

  01-08-2018 21:00
  
  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. says Vancouver police officers’ actions were “justified” in a September 2016 case where a police dog attacked an innocent man.
  
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• Scenes from the Snowy Mountain wildfire

  01-08-2018 20:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Snowy Mountain wildfire doubled in size on Wednesday due to overnight winds. The fire was estimated at 3,050 hectares on Tuesday and is now estimated at 6,155 hectares.
  
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• Demovictions issue could dog Kennedy Stewart in Vancouver mayoral race

  01-08-2018 20:47
  
  A funny thing happened to Derek Corrigan on the run up to the 2018 municipal election. The famously stubborn Burnaby mayor changed his mind.
  
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• Cathedral Lakes Lodge issued evacuation order; Snowy Mountain wildfire doubles in size

  01-08-2018 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  The Snowy Mountain wildfire doubled in size and now 865 properties are on evacuation alert.
  
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• Duncan Etches and Michael C. Klein: B.C. government right to take action against for-profit clinics

  01-08-2018 20:39 via theprovince.com
  In 2003, the B.C. government passed the Medical Protection Amendment Act (MPAA), designed, in part, to protect public medicare by punishing physicians or private clinics who unlawfully charge user fees. However, after significant backlash from private clinics in B.C., key provisions of the act were never brought into force and the legislation sat gathering dust — until now.
  Starting Oct. 1, the B.C. government will take action against doctors and clinics who unlawfully charge patients fees
  
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• Fraser Valley's Hatzic Lake closed to swimming due to health concerns

  01-08-2018 20:35 via vancouversun.com
  Hatzic Lake has been closed to swimming following reports of nausea, stomach cramps, itchy skin and eye irritations from local residents.
  The Fraser Valley Regional District issued a notice Tuesday that it was closing the lake after people reported seeing algae blooms, discoloured water and dead fish floating.Related
  More Metro Vancouver beaches closed because of E.coli contamination
  “Fraser Health, Ministry of Environment, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans have been contacted and are
  
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• Pride: ‘The biggest clap back to the haters’

  01-08-2018 20:32
  
  The Courier asked prominent members of Vancouver’s LGBTQAI2S+ community what Pride and inclusion mean to them on this 40th anniversary
  
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• Wildfires 2018: Lightning storm sparks more than 100 wildfires in B.C.

  01-08-2018 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. crews are busy with more than a 100 new wildfires that broke out Tuesday in because of a lightning storm.
  Kevin Skrepnek, a fire information officer with the B.C. Wildfire Service, said there were 132 new fires on Tuesday, and 44 on Wednesday. He said 106 of those were caused by lightning.
  Twenty-one of the fires were in the Prince George fire centre and were causing a lot of smoke in northeastern B.C.
  Officials say smoke from multiple wildfires sparked by lightning is highly visible in 100
  
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• Vancouver's Powell Street Festival celebrates Japanese culture both old and new

  01-08-2018 20:12 via vancouversun.com
  Powell Street Festival
  When: Aug. 4-5, 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
  Where: Downtown Vancouver
  Tickets: Free, powellstreetfestival.com
  A great way to keep an ancient tradition alive and well is make it appeal to a modern audience. One way to do that is to get it into a blockbuster comic-book movie and another is to show it off at a popular public event.
  Japanese calligraphy artist Kisyuu has both of those tactics covered.
  Living in Vancouver since 2007, the Japanese native saw her calligraphy art appea
  
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• Harmony Arts Festival preview

  01-08-2018 20:12 via globalnews.ca
  The Harmony Arts Festival returns to West Vancouver August 3 to 12. Bartender Amber Bruce shows off the special ‘Sea to Sky’ signature drink that will be served at one of the key events.
  
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• Man killed in Victoria garbage truck accident may have been in dumpster: Police

  01-08-2018 20:07 via globalnews.ca
  Police say the man was in the "box area" of the garbage truck when he was fatally injured.
  
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• Wine Guy: Toasting B.C. Day, provincial style

  01-08-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  B.C. Day may arrive fairly late this year, but no matter — the time is always right to toast the bottled bounty of our province.
  That said, it feels particularly poignant to raise a glass of local wine to acknowledge and honour B.C. Day. And not to sound like a broken record, but every year the task becomes easier and more enjoyable, as the selection of interesting and exciting wines continues to diversify.
  Here then is but a mere drop in the oak barrel, a trio of tasty bottles of varying
  
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• Second Jen is back and taking aim at hot topics

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Amanda Joy and Samantha Wan first met a handful of years ago when they were locked in the trunk of a car during the filming of the indie horror film Devil’s Mile.
  The friendship grew into a creative partnership and now the pair are excited to see the second season of their sitcom Second Jen go to air on Aug. 4 at 8:30 on Omni Television.
  Joy and Wan write, produce, direct and act in the show about a pair of second-generation millennial women with immigrant families.
  “It was unexpecte
  
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• Restaurant review: Haute French restaurant Origo Club opens in Richmond

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Origo Club
  Where: 6888 River Road, Richmond, 604-285-8889
  Open: Tuesday to Saturday for lunch and dinner
  Info: origoclub.caIn Richmond, restaurant talk is around breathless recommendations for Chinese food. But there’s lately been buzz around a French restaurant opening in the Oval Village area currently home to a lot of cranes and construction. It’s called Origo Club and it exudes confidence — the kind that swallows a $5 million build, more than twice the intended budget.
  
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• Pride 2018: Sip and celebrate with these themed cocktails

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In case you somehow missed it, it’s Pride Week in Vancouver.
  While the events wrap up Aug. 5 with the annual Pride Parade, that doesn’t mean you have to let the celebrations end then and there.
  Keep the party going by mixing — and enjoying — one of these three Pride-themed cocktails. Or, better yet, grab a few friends and head out to enjoy one of the drinks at the corresponding restaurant below, as each establishment will donate proceeds from these Pride-themed drinks to
  
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• New Indigenous events added to popular Harmony Arts Festival calendar

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  28th Harmony Arts Festival
  When: Aug. 3-12
  Where: West Vancouver, various locations
  Tickets and info: harmonyarts.caFor the past 28 years, the Harmony Arts Festival has easily been one of the North Shore’s most popular and wide-ranging cultural celebrations, offering 150 free events at sites dotted all along the West Vancouver waterfront.
  The festival website acknowledges that it is staged on the unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓
  
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• Letters to The Province, Aug. 2, 2018: Hate the traffic? Move out of the city

  01-08-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Re: Bad driving to blame, too. Letters, July 27.
  In response to Anne Scott’s comments last Friday. There are some bad drivers, but I would argue that most of these offences are just people being sick and tired of waiting in traffic. Sitting on bridges, stuck bumper-to-bumper seven intersections away from where you want to go — it’s infuriating.
  Move and escape this crazy mess. Your quality of life has only one direction to go and that is up.
  Josh Furmanczyk, Port Moody
  NDP need
  
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• Kennedy Stewart: Time to get big money out of Vancouver City Hall for good

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Lots has been said about our housing crisis. But very few comments have been made regarding how the City of Vancouver balances the interests of the development industry and the interests of our community or how we might enhance public trust in city-council decisions regarding development in B.C.’s biggest city.
  One of the best ways to build public confidence in municipal government is by increasing decision-making transparency and the accountability of civic officials. Here are four measur
  
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• 'Greatest hits' and rediscovered B movie gems in Film Noir series

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Film Noir
  When: Aug. 3-23
  Where: Cinematheque
  Tickets and info: thecinematheque.caEven a devoted fan of film noir like Jim Sinclair admits that he hasn’t seen all there is to see.
  “One of the beauties of film noir is that a lot of them were made under the radar,” said Sinclair, executive and artistic director at Cinematheque, of movies from the post-WWII golden age.
  “Some were A movies with big stars and bigger budgets, but a lot of them were B movies made on the cheap an
  
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• Duncan Etches and Michael C. Klein: B.C. gov’t right to take action against for-profit clinics

  01-08-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  In 2003, the B.C. government passed the Medical Protection Amendment Act (MPAA), designed, in part, to protect public medicare by punishing physicians or private clinics who unlawfully charge user fees. However, after significant backlash from private clinics in B.C., key provisions of the act were never brought into force and the legislation sat gathering dust — until now.
  Starting Oct. 1, the B.C. government will take action against doctors and clinics who unlawfully charge patients fees
  
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• B.C. author masters French Vintage Décor and DIYS with new book

  01-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  French Vintage Décor: Easy and Elegant DIY Projects for Any Home 
  By Jamie Lundstrom 
  $31.95 | Page Street PublishingFrench Vintage Décor: Easy and Elegant DIY Projects for Any Home by Jamie Lundstrom.
  For Jamie Lundstrom, tackling do-it-yourself projects provided a much-needed release from a stressful career in the medical field, which she worked in for 14 years.
  “I didn’t think I was a creative person,” she admits, referencing those initial a
  
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• Take your digital smart speaker to the next level

  01-08-2018 19:48 via globalnews.ca
  Tech expert Mike Agerbo from Get Conneted media shows off devices that can take your digital smart speaker to the next level.
  
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