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• Arrow actor Kirk Acevedo claims he was discriminated against at Vancouver Coach store

  02-08-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Actor Kirk Acevedo claims he was locked out of a Coach store on Burrard Street in Vancouver because of what he was wearing.
  
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• Anna Wong Art Exhibit Burnaby Art Gallery

  02-08-2018 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Anna Wong is a significant Chinese-Canadian artist born and raised in Vancouver’s Chinatown, whose international career spanned seven decades.
  
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• City of Port Moody Car Free Day

  02-08-2018 23:26 via globalnews.ca
  Last year more than 20,000 people enjoyed Port Moody’s first-ever Car-Free Day, a community celebration that included over 100 booths presented by local businesses, artisans, and non-profit groups.
  
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• Opioid deaths continue to drop in B.C., but more than 100 people died in June

  02-08-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  For the third month in a row, the number of illicit drug overdose deaths has gone down in B.C.
  
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• Fireworks photos: Vancouverites capture magic of Celebration of Light

  02-08-2018 23:14
  
  If you haven’t had a chance to watch the fireworks yet, these photos might convince you to go to the last show
  
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• Two arrested in string of SkyTrain distraction thefts

  02-08-2018 23:07 via theprovince.com
  Metro Vancouver Transit Police are warning SkyTrain users to be wary of distraction theft after a string of crimes this summer.
  Two suspects have been arrested, and police are searching for a third, in connection with multiple cases of distraction theft, in which passengers were offered help buying tickets while another thief steals passcode information and personal belongings.
  Since July 13, transit police have investigated 10 cases of passengers travelling the Canada Line becoming victims of t
  
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• The Fair at the PNE

  02-08-2018 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  The Fair at the PNE is back August 18 - September 3rd! Squeeze every last bit of summer out before the labour day long weekend with games, music and entertainment for all ages at the Fair at the PNE!
  
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• Vancouver crews battle flames again at scene of Prior Street house fire

  02-08-2018 23:05 via globalnews.ca
  A rubble fire at an East Vancouver home destroyed months ago is sparking new questions about why the mess wasn’t cleaned up the first time. Nadia Stewart reports.
  
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• J.J. Adams: Circus soccer? Whitecaps going for the ‘juggler’ Saturday in New York

  02-08-2018 23:04 via theprovince.com
  Ringling Brothers they are not, but the Vancouver Whitecaps are preparing for some “circus soccer.”
  The Caps travelled Thursday to the Big Apple where they will face New York City FC on their tiny, possibly crooked, field at Yankee Stadium. The postage-stamp pitch has a reputation for turning games into frenetic free-for-alls, with the smaller confines leaving less breathing room for players on the ball.
  The Pigeons have adapted well to their tiny stoop, winning 10 of 11 games in the
  
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• Greater Vancouver housing sales lowest in 18 years, condo prices finally dip: REBGV

  02-08-2018 22:54 via globalnews.ca
  'At some point, you have to look and say, 'Why am I spending a million dollars on a two-bedroom condo?''
  
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• Wildlife alert issued after grizzly sightings near Squamish

  02-08-2018 22:35
  
  "It is advised that people do not bike or run in the area. Do not walk alone,” says district's conservation officer service
  
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• B.C. man who bragged about beating up ex-girlfriend loses sentence appeal

  02-08-2018 22:24 via theprovince.com
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court judge’s sentence for a man who savagely beat up his ex-girlfriend and then bragged about it on social media.
  Tristan Pierre Heiney, then 22 years old, was sentenced in October 2017 to a further 4-1/2 years in prIson for what provincial court judge Susan Mengering called a “cowardly and unprovoked attack on a vulnerable former partner.”
  In a decision issued Wednesday, Court of Appeal Justice
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend for Friday, August 3, 2018

  02-08-2018 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including fireworks, Vancouver Pride Parade, and the Powell Street Festival
  
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• Hippies went to Lund in search of freedom; doc on what they found airs Aug. 4

  02-08-2018 22:20
  
  CBC airs The End of the Road on August 4 at 7 p.m,
  
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• A couple of arrests but no major problems at Vancouver’s Celebration of Light fireworks show

  02-08-2018 22:19 via theprovince.com
  Thousands packed Vancouver beaches Wednesday night to watch Sweden compete in the Celebration of Light fireworks and, despite a couple of arrests, there were no major problems.
  VPD spokesman Const. Jason Doucette said early Thursday that the crowd, which he described as “well-behaved,” was slightly smaller than the fireworks show Saturday night, when South Africa’s pyrotechnics lit up the night sky.
  He said officers poured out about 150 containers of liquor across English Bay,
  
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• Two super cars impounded for speeding along Lougheed Highway

  02-08-2018 22:08 via theprovince.com
  Two high-end sports cars — a Lamborghini and a McLaren — have been seized after their drivers were caught speeding on Lougheed Highway Monday morning.
  Ridge Meadows RCMP was conducting routine traffic enforcement on a stretch of highway between Maple Ridge and Mission when officers spotted a blue 2017 Lamborghini Aventador and a black 2016 McLaren 675H zoom eastbound travelling 138 km/h in an 80 km/h zone.
  The drivers, both 22 and Burnaby residents, were stopped for excessive sp
  
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• Marni Market pops up at Holt Renfrew in Vancouver

  02-08-2018 22:08 via vancouversun.com
  A curated selection of accessories by the Italian fashion brand Marni have popped up for a fashionably limited amount of time in Vancouver — exclusively at Holt Renfrew.
  Dubbed the Marni Market, the space features a limited range of the brand’s designs on display for shoppers to discover on the luxury retailer’s second floor.
  The items on offer include covetable clutches and pouches, label-emblazoned shopping bags in striped fabrics, as well as colourful picnic baskets hand-cra
  
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• Letters to The Province, Aug. 3, 2018: Community benefits deal keeps workers safer

  02-08-2018 22:08 via theprovince.com
  Re: Qualified workers a priority, Letters, July 27.
  Letter writer Roger Reimer tries to link the 1958 collapse of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge to the fact that it was built by union workers. He also implies that the new Community Benefits Agreement requirement that construction workers on projects such as the new Pattullo bridge be covered by union collective-agreements contracts, and provide for diversity, will somehow make such projects unsafe.
  For the record, a Royal Commission report into
  
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• Body of third plane occupant recovered from submerged float plane near Lillooet

  02-08-2018 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  The body of one of the passengers has been recovered from a float plane that crashed Wednesday on a lake about 100 kilometres west of Lillooet.
  RCMP spokeswoman Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said Thursday afternoon that members of an RCMP dive team found the body of a 29-year-old Aldergrove man.
  A 20-year-old man from Prince George also died in the crash. The pilot, also 20 and from Williams Lake, survived.
  Lillooet RCMP say shortly before 1 p.m., police were notified that a small float plane ha
  
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• Two arrested in string of distraction thefts on SkyTrain

  02-08-2018 21:56 via theprovince.com
  Metro Vancouver transit police are warning SkyTrain users to be wary of distraction theft after a string of robberies this summer.
  Two suspects have been arrested, and police are searching for a third, in connection with multiple cases of distraction theft, in which passengers were offered help buying tickets while another thief steals passcode information and personal belongings.
  Since July 13, transit police have investigated 10 incidents where passengers travelling the Canada Line have become
  
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• NPA councillor Elizabeth Ball will not seek re-election

  02-08-2018 21:33
  
  NPA Coun. Elizabeth Ball announced Thursday that she will not seek a fourth term at city hall. That leaves only three council incumbents seeking re-election Oct. 20.
  
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• B.C. overdose deaths drop in June, more than 100 still dying each month

  02-08-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  The latest overdose statistics in British Columbia show a dip in the number of suspected illicit drug deaths in June compared with the same month a year earlier, but the death toll remains high overall.
  The B.C. Coroners Service says more than 100 British Columbians are dying of overdoses each month, or more than three people every day.
  The service says there were 105 illicit drug overdose deaths in June, a drop from 123 in the same month last year.
  About 80 per cent of the fatalities are male a
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Thursday, August 2, 2018

  02-08-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Abbotsford Agrifair and the Kamloopa Powwow
  
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• 102 fires burning in B.C.’s southeast region

  02-08-2018 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  More than 100 fires are burning in B.C.'s Southeast Fire Region, with half of them caused from a lightning storm earlier in the week.
  
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• Kiran Dhesi killing: 1 year on, family mourns, still no charges

  02-08-2018 21:16 via globalnews.ca
  No one has been charged in the death, and no suspects have been publicly named. 
  
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• Fewer buyers, more choice, push Vancouver home sales to lowest level in 18 years

  02-08-2018 21:04 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Home sales in July across Metro Vancouver tumbled to their lowest level in 18 years in statistics compiled by the real estate board, but prices remained steady since last month.
  The Greater Vancouver Real Estate Board says 2,070 properties changed hands in July, a 30 per cent plunge when compared with July of last year and about 29 per cent below the 10-year sales average for the month.
  The number of condos, townhomes and detached houses listed for sale were up 32 per cent year
  
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• Sam Gagner: Tavares ready for TO media attention, caught off guard by Linden news

  02-08-2018 21:01 via theprovince.com
  TORONTO — Sam Gagner had a feeling the first question coming his way would be about childhood friend John Tavares.
  That intuition proved to be spot on.
  Speaking before a charity event Wednesday night, the Vancouver Canucks forward discussed last week’s abrupt departure of team president Trevor Linden and a host of other topics related to a franchise that owns the NHL’s worst combined record over the last three seasons.
  But first, Gagner was asked about Tavares and the media att
  
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• Efforts underway to recover third passenger after plane crash near Lillooet

  02-08-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  Efforts are underway to recover a third float plane passenger, after it crashed Wednesday crashed on a lake located about 100 kilometres west of Lillooet.
  Mounties say shortly before 1 p.m., Lillooet RCMP were notified that a small float plane had crashed on Tyaughton Lake in Gold Bridge.
  RCMP spokeswoman Staff Sgt. Annie Linteau said according to witnesses, the plane plunged into the lake shortly after take off.
  She said several 911 callers told authorities that bystanders were trying
  
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• Divers searching Tyaughton lake for body of float plane crash victim

  02-08-2018 20:48 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP divers are at Tyaughton Lake on Thursday, working to recover the body of a man who died in a float plane crash.
  
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• B.C. Wildfire: Fire danger remains high in the province

  02-08-2018 20:30 via globalnews.ca
  Aug. 2 update: There have been hundreds of lightning strikes since Tuesday and B.C. wildfire officials are anticipating more in the next 24 hours. There were 86 new fires started on Wednesday and 368 are burning in total.
  
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• No rest for firefighters in Okanagan, with 22 new fires in Valley

  02-08-2018 20:02 via globalnews.ca
  A small rainstorm that breezed through the Okanagan on Tuesday night sparked at least 22 new fires in the region.
  
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• Letters: Community benefits deal keeps workers safer

  02-08-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  Re: Qualified workers a priority, Letters, July 27.
  Letter writer Roger Reimer tries to link the 1958 collapse of the Ironworkers Memorial Bridge to the fact that it was built by union workers. He also implies that the new Community Benefits Agreement requirement that construction workers on project such as the new Pattullo Bridge be covered by union collective-agreements contracts, and provide for diversity, will somehow make such projects unsafe.
  For the record, a Royal Commission report into
  
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• John Gardiner: New regulatory body to oversee professionals is unnecessary — and insulting

  02-08-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  As the CEO of an active, yet small, mining company in B.C., I have read with great interest the proposals of the B.C. government to create a new bureau of provincial regulators to oversee the existing professionals who are registered in the province.
  Professional engineers, geoscientists and others are already managed under the Engineers and Geoscientists of B.C. and are some of the most highly trained and vetted pros in the province. There are currently 34,000 members of the Engineers and Geosc
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of July 28

  02-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. The Other Woman — Daniel Silva.
  2. The President is Missing — James Patterson and Bill Clinton.
  3. Cottage by the Sea — Debbie Macomber.
  4. The Outsider — Stephen King.
  5. The Good Fight — Elin Hilderbrand.
  6. The Perfect Couple — Elin Hilderbrand.
  7. Spymaster — Brad Thor.
  8. All We Ever Wanted — Emily Griffin. 
  9. When Life Gives You Lululemons — Lauren Weisberger.
  10. Clock Dance — Anne Tyler.
  HARDCOVER NONF
  
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• Book review: Northwest Coast First Nations fishing methods make fascinating reading

  02-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Indian Fishing: Early Methods on the Northwest Coast
  Hilary Stewart | Douglas & McIntyre
  177 pages, $28.95To say fish played an important role in the lives of the First Nations of the Northwest Coast is gross understatement. No other food source is as vital to community survival as what came out of the ocean.
  Over millennia, a complex and highly specialized technology was developed to achieve greater success in fishing, and the late Hilary Stewart documented this in detail in this book, orig
  
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• B.C. 15 bestselling books for the week of July 28

  02-08-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  1. Whitewater Cooks: More Beautiful Food — Shelley Adams (Alicon Holdings Ltd.).
  2. One Eagle Soaring — Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd (Harbour Publishing).
  3. 105 Hikes In and Around Southwestern British Columbia — Stephen Hui (Greystone Books). 4. E.J. Hughes Paints Vancouver Island — Robert Amos (TouchWood Editions).
  5. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act — Bob Joseph (Page Two Strategies).6. Ghostly Campfire Stories of Western Canad
  
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• Metro Vancouver home sales see coolest July in 18 years

  02-08-2018 19:58
  
  Hot weather, cool real estate market – but what about prices? It depends where you live…
  
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• TV actor claims discrimination at high-end Coach store in Vancouver

  02-08-2018 19:40 via vancouversun.com
  Kirk Acevedo, an American actor who stars in the B.C.-filmed TV show Arrow, claims he was discriminated against at the Coach store in downtown Vancouver.
  Acevedo, who is of Puerto Rican descent, wrote in a Monday Twitter post that he was outside the luxury fashion outlet waiting for it to open when a salesperson refused to let him.
  “The salesperson looked me up and down and asked me if I was going to buy anything, and when I said ‘did you really just ask me that?,’ she proceede
  
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• Swoop airline offering $99 flights to Vegas from Abbotsford

  02-08-2018 19:33
  
  WestJet's ultra-low-cost carrier has introduced its fall and winter sun-seeker schedule with cheap flights to warm locales
  
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• B.C.'s Catalyst still faces high duty as U.S. lowers rates for most newsprint producers

  02-08-2018 19:31 via vancouversun.com
  WASHINGTON — The United States government has given most Canadian newsprint producers a reprieve by lowering final anti-dumping and countervailing duties in its final determination issued Thursday.
  The move comes after several American businesses complained the tax on Canadian newsprint would threaten the already-struggling American newspaper industry.
  The total tariff for Catalyst Paper Corp. decreased to 20.26 per cent from 28.25 per cent imposed earlier in the year during the preliminar
  
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• Kamloops RCMP dealing with ‘major police incident’ at Denny’s

  02-08-2018 19:02 via globalnews.ca
  A standoff is underway in Kamloops where a man has barricaded himself inside a Denny’s restaurant. RCMP said the events began to unfold early Thursday morning when a man entered the 24-hour restaurant on Columbia Avenue.
  
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• Poll: 84% blame foreign buyers for Metro Vancouver housing crunch

  02-08-2018 18:54
  
  “No shortage of scapegoats to blame,” says pollster, describing responses as “misconceptions”
  
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• Drink this: Quinceotica by Longwood Brewery

  02-08-2018 18:41
  
  I gotta say, I love it when I discover something I like and find out there’s a crazy story behind it. Case in point: Longwood’s Quinceotica.
  
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• Two separate fatal motorcycle crashes in Metro Vancouver

  02-08-2018 18:39 via vancouversun.com
  Mounties in Burnaby and Coquitlam are investigating two separate fatal motorcycle collisions Wednesday.
  RCMP say shortly before 6:30 p.m., the driver of a motorcycle travelling northbound on Griffiths Drive in Burnaby lost control, left the roadway and struck a tree close to the intersection at 14th Avenue.
  The 34-year old male driver died from his injuries.
  The cause of the collision is under investigation by the Burnaby RCMP.
  In Coquitlam, a 54-year-old motorcyclist died in a collision with an
  
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• Korean Cultural Heritage Festival includes k-pop contest

  02-08-2018 18:35
  
  Competitors will be judged on both dancing and singing ability as they perform tunes in the iconic Korean pop music style.
  
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• Snowy Mountain wildfire more than 6,500 hectares and growing

  02-08-2018 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  In some places, it has now reached the bottom of the hillside between Keremeos and Cawston.
  
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• Majority of Metro Vancouverites 'negatively impacted' by housing crisis: poll

  02-08-2018 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  A majority of Metro Vancouverites have been hurt by the region’s housing crisis, suggests a new poll.
  The Insights West poll published Thursday found that 59 per cent of residents say they have been “negatively impacted” by the current housing situation. Most of those affected are between 18 and 34 years old and renters.
  But it’s not just renters who are feeling the fallout, says Insights West. The poll found that many homeowners do not feel the housing situatio
  
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• Tim Hunter brings grit, hard work to bench of Canada’s junior hockey team

  02-08-2018 18:04 via theprovince.com
  KAMLOOPS — The young men vying for a spot on Canada’s junior hockey team know their coach’s storied legacy.
  They know Tim Hunter spent 15 seasons playing in the NHL as an enforcer in Calgary, Quebec, Vancouver and San Jose. They know he won a Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989, an entire decade before any of them were born.
  And they know Hunter’s now sharing his experience with young players, working to shape the next generation of hockey greats.
  “We all know his h
  
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• Police standoff with man inside Denny’s restaurant in Kamloops

  02-08-2018 17:55 via theprovince.com
  Mounties in Kamloops are involved in a standoff with a man inside a Denny’s restaurant.
  RCMP say early Thursday morning a man entered the eatery at the corner of Columbia and 6th Avenue, and after he received his bill made a threat.
  Servers alerted the other employees and called police. RCMP all of the customers got out of the building safely and the man was left alone in the restaurant.
  When police arrived, the suspect closed all of the blinds to the restaurant.  
  
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