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• Shell Canada gives up exploration permits to make way for protected area in B.C.

  13-09-2018 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  Shell Canada Ltd. has given up it offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada's first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act.
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Even a top-line spot is still up for grabs in ‘new era’ for Canucks

  13-09-2018 23:53 via theprovince.com
  Let it play out. Wait and see. Not opposed to anything.
  Those pre-camp roster messages on Thursday from Travis Green were a precursor to what awaits the second-year NHL coach and his Vancouver squad this season.
  The Canucks not only have to find their moral compass with the departure of the retired Henrik and Daniel Sedin, they have to replace a combined 105 points from the twins while trying to prop up a 26th-ranked offence.
  It’s why Green was peppered about line combinations and how soon
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend for Thursday, September 13, 2018

  13-09-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including Vancouver Fashion Week and the Fraser Valley Pet Expo
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend for Friday, September 14, 2018

  13-09-2018 23:42 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Agassiz Fall Fair, Bike the Night, and the Terry Fox Run.
  
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• ART SEEN: WAAP moves into a new space and GAP hires a new director

  13-09-2018 23:14 via vancouversun.com
  Art galleries in Vancouver are on the move once again.
  Opening tonight in a new space further east on Hastings is WAAP – the memorable acronym for Wil Aballe Art Projects.
  WAAP spent about two years in the basement of the Heatley Block, the restored heritage building at 688 East Hastings. Getting to an opening was always bit of a challenge because you had to pass through Fazakas Gallery which faced East Hastings and enter from the back.
  “I thought people were so generous to show up b
  
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• Be careful comparing 2010 Olympics cost to Calgary 2026: Vancouver CEO

  13-09-2018 23:13 via globalnews.ca
  The bid corporation Calgary 2026 has put forth a $5.2-billion draft hosting plan that asks for $3 billion in public money from the city, provincial and federal governments.
  
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• B.C. members of the Order of Canada pen letter against pipeline expansion

  13-09-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  Dozens of Order of Canada members from British Columbia are urging the federal government to cancel the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
  Bonnie Sherr Klein, Dorothy Grant, Gabor Mate and Raffi Cavoukian are among 42 members who signed a letter asking the federal government to use the Federal Court of Appeal’s ruling as an opportunity to rethink the project.
  In the letter, the signatories say they are concerned about the deep divisions that have been created by how the “economy vs.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Portugal's addictions treatment ranges from spa-like to spartan

  13-09-2018 22:55 via vancouversun.com
  In the 1990s, Portugal was in the throes of a national crisis, averaging 360 drug overdose deaths a year in a country of 10 million. Today, it has one of Europe’s lowest rates of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and the number of overdose deaths in 2016 was 26. In a weeklong series from Portugal, Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham looks at the lessons to be learned from the country’s radical approach to addiction treatment. 
  MONTE REDONDO, Portugal — The mo
  
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• Alert lifted for snow flurries on Coquihalla Highway

  13-09-2018 22:54 via vancouversun.com
  An alert for snow flurries on the Coquihalla Highway has been rescinded.
  Environment Canada on Thursday morning posted a special weather advisory, saying flurries were expected near the summit on the Coquihalla Highway, from Merritt to Kamloops, with accumulations of up to two centimetres possible.
  But by Thursday afternoon, that alert had been lifted.
  It’s early in the season, but snow has already hit parts of B.C. Environment Canada says up to eight centimetres of snow fell over the Nort
  
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• Canucks, Brock Boeser to put contract talks off until end of season

  13-09-2018 22:47 via theprovince.com
  It looks like Brock Boeser won’t have a new NHL contract anytime soon.
  The sophomore sniper is due for a new deal next summer and while Canucks’ general manager Jim Benning and Boeser’s agent Ben Hankinson had some talks during the summer, they’re not in a hurry to resume discussions.
  Thursday at the Canucks’ training camp media day, Benning said the team will “circle back” to Boeser and Hankinson about a new contract at the end of the 2018-19 seaso
  
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• Canada’s first protected marine area coming to B.C. coast after Shell gives up exploration permits

  13-09-2018 22:43 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Shell Canada Ltd. has given up it offshore exploration rights, clearing the way for the creation of Canada’s first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act.
  Shell voluntarily released about 50,000 square kilometres of permits in an area off northern Vancouver Island to allow for the creation of the Scott Islands marine National Wildlife Area.
  The permits cover an offshore area more than one-and-a-half times the size of Vancouver Island, and while Shell Canada p
  
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• Ailing orca J50 likely dead: whale researcher

  13-09-2018 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  SEATTLE — Teams are searching for an ailing, critically endangered orca that a scientist who tracks the whale population in the Pacific Northwest says is likely dead.
  Experts have been preparing last-ditch efforts to save the nearly four-year-old, emaciated whale that included the possibility of capturing and treating her.
  Ken Balcomb of the Center for Whale Research said Thursday he believes the whale known as J50 “is gone.”
  Michael Milstein, a spokesman for NOAA Fisheries, sa
  
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• Youth stabbed several times near Surrey Central Skytrain station

  13-09-2018 22:24 via theprovince.com
  A youth who was stabbed multiple times in Surrey on Wednesday night is in serious but stable condition in hospital.
  At around 7:45 p.m., Surrey RCMP received several 911 calls reporting that a youth had been stabbed near the Surrey Central Skytrain station in the 10200-block of City Parkway.
  Officers immediately attended the scene and located the youth, who was transferred to hospital via ambulance. He remains in hospital listed in stable condition.
  No arrests have been made, but police believe
  
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• Ailing orca hasn't been seen with her West Coast pod for days: official

  13-09-2018 22:14 via vancouversun.com
  SEATTLE — A sick killer whale that has been the subject of an international effort to provide her with medical treatment is missing from her family group and hasn’t been seen for days.
  J50 has fallen behind before but a spokesman for the fisheries department of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says she hasn’t been sighted for several days.
  Michael Milstein says in an email that sea conditions were favourable and there have been sightings of her pod, incl
  
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• On Friday you can get a slurpee for as little as 50c

  13-09-2018 22:00
  
  It’s for a good cause, too.
  
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• Province to build 50 homes, 50 suites for flood-ravaged Grand Forks

  13-09-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  The provincial government said approximately 50 homes and 50 suites will be built in Grand Forks to help residents affected by flooding this spring.
  
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• B.C. real estate downturn “largely behind us” – despite actual sales dropping

  13-09-2018 21:19
  
  Demand for homes is gradually recovering and expected to pick up this fall, asserts BCREA
  
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• The number of exclamation marks in Wai Young’s campaign video is stabbing our soul!!!

  13-09-2018 21:16
  
  We cast our bloodshot eyes towards the emotional rollercoaster of Wai Young and Coalition Vancouver’s election campaign.
  
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• Canucks, Brock Boeser to put contract talks off till end of season

  13-09-2018 21:08 via theprovince.com
  It looks like Brock Boeser won’t have a new contract anytime soon.
  The sophomore sniper is due for a new deal next summer and while Canucks general manager Jim Benning and Boeser’s agent Ben Hankinson had some talks over the summer, they’re not in a hurry to get talking about them again.
  Thursday at the Canucks’ training camp media day. Benning says the team will “circle back” to Boser and Hankinson about a new contract at the end of the season.
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• ICBA seeking appeal on proportional representation referendum injunction request

  13-09-2018 21:04 via globalnews.ca
  The  ICBA is appealing the August 28th Supreme Court ruling denying an injunction request.
  
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• VSB and BC Hydro finalize deal over Lord Roberts Annex school

  13-09-2018 20:41 via globalnews.ca
  Everything is scheduled to be completed by 2028.
  
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• B.C. drug users offered withdrawal medication similar to version yanked in 2014

  13-09-2018 20:31 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Drug users who didn’t respond well to a reformulated methadone treatment introduced in British Columbia four years ago to ward off withdrawal symptoms have won their battle to get a medication equivalent to the original version.
  Nearly 18,000 people were switched from methadone to Methadose in 2014, but a doctor who treats substance users in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver says the reformulated drug caused substance users to become ‘dope sick’ in about 14 h
  
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• B.C. Wildfires: Help from Canadian armed forces no longer needed

  13-09-2018 20:23 via globalnews.ca
  Thanks to cooler, wet weather, the province of B.C. says it no longer needs help from the Canadian Armed Forces in fighting wildfires this year.
  
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• Road closures in effect Saturday morning for annual Under Armour Eastside 10K

  13-09-2018 20:21
  
  Parking restrictions, road closures start at 5 a.m.
  
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• Vancouver Park Board considers motion to identify, recognize First Nation names

  13-09-2018 20:11 via vancouversun.com
  A motion before the Vancouver Park Board could mark the next step toward reconciliation with three Vancouver-area First Nations.
  Commissioners are scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal that would recognize and acknowledge traditional places and names within Vancouver park boundaries.
  The commissioner behind the motion, Stuart Mackinnon, says it asks the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh to identify traditional names of places, such as those along Burrard Inlet or within Stanley Park.
  He say
  
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• Hidden hotel charges and how to avoid them

  13-09-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  Before you book your next hotel stay, be aware of the various charges you will be responsible for. Travel consultant Claire Newell shares her expert advice on the fees you may not expect.
  
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• Brian Gluckstein: The Art of Home

  13-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Brian Gluckstein: The Art of Home at IDS Vancouver
  When: Sept. 22 at 3 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Convention Centre West (1055 Canada Place)
  Tickets and info: $16 for day ticket, $22 for weekend pass; vancouver.interiordesignshow.comBrian Gluckstein knows the power of a good book. And not just for what’s bound within its covers.
  Viewing images of the Toronto-based design talent’s past projects will yield countless views of carefully curated living spaces — many of them pun
  
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• Book review: Moving, harrowing and redemptive, The Suitcase & The Jar is a journey that's well-worth taking

  13-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Suitcase & The Jar
  Becky Livingston | Caitlin Press
  $22.95, 175 pp.Toward the closing chapter of The Suitcase & The Jar, Becky Livingston mentions “extreme gratitude.” The Vancouver-based first-time author has been talking about the “nonsense” of bucket lists and declares, “here’s the truth. So much beauty is stitched into what looks ‘ordinary’ from the outside … Now my eyes are locked in on the splendour of shape and colour, of
  
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• Postal strike could cause delays for proporional representation referendum

  13-09-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  Elections BC is preparing for the possibility that the proportional representation (PR) referendum could be delayed due to a postal strike.
  
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• Help feed hungry B.C. children at Food4Thought dinner

  13-09-2018 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Robertson lends his culinary skills to the fifth annual ‘Food4Thought’ fundraiser for the Backpack Buddies program. Robertson shows off the hearty pot pie recipe he is making for the big event on September 20.
  
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• TransLink to close lanes on Pattullo Bridge overnight for safety inspections

  13-09-2018 19:37 via vancouversun.com
  Two lanes on the Pattullo Bridge will be closed for five nights in September for safety inspections.
  TransLink says the closures will take place each night from Sept. 16 to Sept. 20. During these inspections, traffic access will be either northbound or southbound only. The lane closures will occur between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.
  On Sept. 16 and 17 traffic will be northbound to New Westminster from Surrey only, while on September 18, 19 and 20, travel will be southbound only.
  Crews will be i
  
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• September snowfall expected on Coquihalla, other B.C. highways

  13-09-2018 18:55 via globalnews.ca
  The weather office says a cold front is crossing parts of the Interior, dropping the freezing level at higher elevations.
  
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• Lower Mainland family of four missing for several days

  13-09-2018 18:53
  
  The Anderson family, from Surrey, is known to spend time in Richmond at Minoru Park.
  
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• Nomination deadline nearing for B.C. civic elections

  13-09-2018 18:39 via globalnews.ca
  Friday, September 14th, is the deadline for the nomination process for the 2018 B.C. civic election in October.
  
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• Vancouver Food Truck Festival on a roll

  13-09-2018 18:35
  
  Following a June visit to Vancouver, the Greater Vancouver Food Truck Festival returns as promised this month for one more day of food, family and fun.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with B.C. municipalities that the province should change the speculation tax?

  13-09-2018 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  At the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Whistler Wednesday, municipalities endorsed the idea of scrapping the province’s proposed speculation tax in favour of a plan that would still allow the government to collect a levy on vacant homes. But despite the widespread opposition, the government says it will go ahead with the speculation tax.
  For details, read Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
  Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran said the tax the province is proposing is unfair, that it will divi
  
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• Microsoft plans to move Vancouver sales office

  13-09-2018 18:26
  
  Microsoft Corporation is shifting some of its assets around Vancouver and the rest of Canada.
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Harm reduction promotes path to recovery for Portuguese drug users

  13-09-2018 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  In the 1990s, Portugal was in the throes of a national crisis, averaging 360 drug overdose deaths a year in a country of 10 million. Today, it has one of Europe’s lowest rates of drug, alcohol and tobacco use and the number of overdose deaths in 2016 was 26. In a weeklong series from Portugal, Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham looks at the lessons to be learned from the country’s radical approach to addiction treatment. 
  LISBON, Portugal — Fado is this count
  
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• Probe begins into nursing shortage, low morale, at St. Paul's Hospital ER

  13-09-2018 17:30 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly three dozen registered nurses have left St. Paul’s Hospital emergency department in the past year, with many citing too much overtime and challenging work conditions caused partly by the opioid epidemic, according to their union.
  The downtown Vancouver hospital says there are now five vacancies after five positions were filled in the past week with nurses from other areas of the hospital. But the B.C. Nurses’ Union said it has evidence the number of vacancies is vastly higher.
  
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• ‘Everything on the table’ as Rental Task Force considers changes to rent increase model

  13-09-2018 17:12 via globalnews.ca
  The province's Rental Housing Task Force is considering making changes to the formula used to determine how much landlords can increase rents every year.
  
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• Surrey family vanishes, RCMP say they may have been headed to Alberta

  13-09-2018 17:01 via globalnews.ca
  Surrey RCMP are asking for the public’s help to locate a missing family of four. Police say the Anderson family was reported missing by another family member on Tuesday evening.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you agree with B.C. municipalities that the province should scrap the speculation tax?

  13-09-2018 16:37 via vancouversun.com
  At the Union of B.C. Municipalities in Whistler Wednesday, municipalities endorsed the idea of scrapping the province’s proposed speculation tax in favour of a plan that would still allow the government to collect a levy on vacant homes. But despite the widespread opposition, the government says it will go ahead with the speculation tax.
  For details, read Jennifer Saltman’s story here.
  Kelowna Mayor Colin Basran said the tax the province is proposing is unfair, that it will divi
  
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• Douglas Todd: Why say 'inappropriate' when we mean 'wrong'?

  13-09-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  Anybody who feels repelled by the word “inappropriate” is a friend of mine.
  It is an increasingly over-used term in public education, health and academia, a bit of bland jargon that is supposed to fill in for actions that used to be called “immoral.”
  It’s fine to talk about how it is inappropriate for a man to don a muscle shirt for a gala dinner, since that is referring to mere etiquette. But it is not helpful to claim it is inappropriate to spread malicious gossip
  
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• Addressing conflict in youth sport

  13-09-2018 16:00
  
  Nadia Kyba uses her experience mediating custody battles to the soccer pitch as she helps young athletes resolve team conflicts.
  
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• Snow already? Alert in effect for flurries on Coquihalla Highway

  13-09-2018 15:45 via vancouversun.com
  There’s another weather alert in effect in B.C. this morning, but it’s not what you might expect. Yes, just as you are coming to terms with the end of summer there’s now snow.
  Environment Canada on Thursday morning posted a special weather advisory, saying flurries are expected near the summit on the Coquihalla Highway, from Merritt to Kamloops, with accumulations of up to two centimetres possible.
  The federal weather agency says a cold front is crossing 100 Mile and the S
  
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• UBC star quarterback avoiding distraction of potential pro football career

  13-09-2018 15:37 via theprovince.com
  The only quarterback in the CFL’s fall scouting report doesn’t want to talk about the possibility of getting drafted to play professional football.
  For Michael O’Connor, discussing his future is a distraction from his current goal — leading the UBC Thunderbirds to another national championship.
  “I’m just focused on the season,” said the Ottawa native. “I don’t want to let my teammates down. I feel like if I were to think beyond this season, I
  
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• Probe begins into nursing shortage, low morale, at St. Paul's hospital's ER

  13-09-2018 15:12 via vancouversun.com
  Nearly three dozen registered nurses have left St. Paul’s Hospital emergency department in the past year, with many citing too much overtime and challenging work conditions caused partly by the opioid epidemic, according to their union.
  The downtown Vancouver hospital says there are now five vacancies after five positions were filled in the past week with nurses from other areas of the hospital. But the B.C. Nurses’ Union said it has evidence the number of vacancies is vastly higher.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, but possible sunshine before more rain

  13-09-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. –  While Thursday’s weather forecast is calling for mainly cloudy skies, there could be a brief break of sunshine before more showers roll in this afternoon. This morning, Environment Canada is predicting a 70 per cent chance of showers changing to a 30 per cent chance of showers near noon, and a high of 17 C. Looking ahead to the weekend, it’s going to be rainy. The federal weather agency says showers are expected on Friday, with a high of 15 C. And then m
  
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• North Van’s Moodyville to be home to The Trails

  13-09-2018 14:57 via theprovince.com
  The first phase of The Trails, the Wall Group of Companies’ redevelopment of an eight-acre site in the City of North Vancouver’s emerging Moodyville neighbourhood, brings contemporary Craftsman-style architecture to the area, along with interiors inspired by the location’s natural surroundings.
  Moodyville, one of North Vancouver’s oldest neighbourhoods, is undergoing a transformation following the rezoning of the area east of St. Patricks Avenue to Queensbury Avenue and s
  
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• Condo Smarts: Incorrect owners’ lists could spell big problems

  13-09-2018 14:45 via theprovince.com
  Dear Tony: Our strata corporation has 158 residential units. At our recent annual general meeting, we had complaints from 10 owners that they had not received the notice package. Luckily, a council member posted a reminder in the elevators a week before, so they showed up at the meeting. After the meeting, we had emails from seven other owners claiming they did not receive the notice package and as landlords, should have been mailed a package to the alternate address they provided for notic
  
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