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• Severe thunderstorm warning ended for northeastern Metro Vancouver

  15-09-2018 23:34 via globalnews.ca
  The bulletin is in effect for the region's northeast, including Coquitlam and Maple Ridge, as well as the southeast, including Surrey and Langley.
  
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• Gardenworks: Saving Summer Plants

  15-09-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Fall is just one week away and if you want to save your summer plants for next year, the folks at Gardenworks show you how to propagate them from simple cuttings.
  
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• Recipe: Classic spaghetti and meatballs

  15-09-2018 22:37 via globalnews.ca
  With grey and rainy weather, it's once again time to dig into some comfort food.
  
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• Pitt Meadows bus stop voted worst in North America

  15-09-2018 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  Maybe if you worked at the landscaping company across the highway or the beef farm down the road you’d use this bus stop, voted the “sorriest” of its kind in North America.
  Otherwise, you’d need to be dropped off by cab just to get to the TransLink stop on the Lougheed Highway at Old Dewdney Trunk Road in Pitt Meadows.
  Readers of StreetsblogUSA voted 58 per cent to 42 per cent, in an NCAA bracket-style vote-off, to hand the Pitt Meadows stop the dishonour of being sorrier
  
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• Recap: Canucks training camp day two

  15-09-2018 22:19 via theprovince.com
  News and notes from the first day of Canucks training camp.
  Up and at ’emCanucks have started day two. Here’s the roster for the first group:And here’s the second. The two squads will scrimmage beginning at about 10 a.m.Prospect watchers wondering about Evan McEneny, he was spotted shooting on the goalies earlier. Obviously still working back from his knee injury early last year.
  Here are notes from day one. And here’s Ben Kuzma’s main story on Sven Baertschi.
  
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• Canucks camp: 'Brock! Will you sign my... forehead?'

  15-09-2018 22:19
  
  Young Canucks fans are making the most of the opportunity to see their favourite players in Whistler
  
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• Saturday Sips: South American Liquor

  15-09-2018 22:18 via globalnews.ca
  From Pisco to Cachaça, Darryl Lamb from Legacy liquor shares his pick of the best South American spirits.
  
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• Taekwondo Canada

  15-09-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Taekwondo Canada is hosting the 2018 Canada Open at the Richmond Oval this weekend. Taekwondo Canada Vice President, Tony Cook, joins Jay to tell him more.
  
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• Serious Chilliwack crash leaves woman dead

  15-09-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Ridge Meadows RCMP said it is too early to tell whether the crash was weather-related.
  
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• Saturday Chef: Spaghetti and Meatballs

  15-09-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Meatballs on the menu in this week’s Saturday Chef. New Vancouver restaurant, Pepino’s, Food Director Mark Perrier is sharing his hearty recipe for spaghetti and meatballs.
  
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• Children’s Wish and The Driven Project

  15-09-2018 22:12 via globalnews.ca
  Kevin Gordon is the founder of the “Driven Project”, offering free rides around Vancouver in his Lamborghini all in aid of Children’s Wish. Kevin joins Andrew Westerlund, a Children’s Wish Recipient, and Andrew’s mom to tell us more about his incredible initiative.
  
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• U.S. officials end active search for J50 as endangered orca presumed dead

  15-09-2018 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  It's unclear whether Canadian officials will continue to actively look for the whale over the weekend.
  
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• COMMENTARY: Wave of changes coming in Metro Vancouver municipal politics

  15-09-2018 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver voters are grumpy and several metro-area mayors are stepping down rather than seeking re-election, Mike McDonald says.
  
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• Hikers set out for Lynn Canyon, ended up at 1,100 metres: North Shore Rescue

  15-09-2018 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  NSR says it's yet another reminder of the importance of planning ahead and being prepared for conditions.
  
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• B.C. to get just a single cannabis store on day one of legalization

  15-09-2018 20:21 via vancouversun.com
  Don’t count on more than one legal recreational cannabis store to open its doors in B.C. on federal legalization day next month.
  The B.C. government has said the opening of new cannabis stores “won’t happen overnight” on Oct. 17, when the federal Cannabis Act comes into force. But a survey of local governments and cannabis consultants reveals it may actually take up to 18 months before potential operators have trudged through the rigorous process of municipal rezoning, co
  
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• Makeover: A refreshing new look for retired high school teacher

  15-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Michelle Hall is a 58-year-old retired high school teacher. She was feeling “old” and decided to treat herself with a style refresh.
  Michelle has fine and naturally wavy hair. It was previously coloured and had faded to a brassy copper-red tone. I wanted to keep her colour in the warm family but refine it to suite her complexion and eye colour.
  I applied foils highlights around her face and strategically throughout her hair to brighten around it up. I then tapped in a cool, copper-br
  
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• Chef Joseph Thomas brings passion to Seasons in the Park

  15-09-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Chef Joseph Thomas has had a passion for food for as long as he can remember, and was especially inspired as a child by the culinary feats of his aunts. Education has played a huge role in his life mission, with a bachelor’s degree in hotel and restaurant management and a Red Seal Certificate in cooking and baking, as well.
  Before landing as the executive chef at Seasons in the Park, Thomas worked all over Canada with turns catering for the Vancouver Whitecaps and preparing meals for the R
  
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• Kamloops shooting: One man dead after exchange of gunfire in Rose Hill

  15-09-2018 19:43
  
  The matter is now under investigation by the IIO B.C.
  
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• Vancouver's 'mini-mega' church pastor probes the blessing and curse of his ambition

  15-09-2018 19:25 via vancouversun.com
  I probably shouldn’t get in the habit of publishing guest book reviews in which people get the chance to praise a favorite local spiritual leader. It could get out of hand. But in this case, since Jason Byassee is an accomplished writer, I’m pleased to offer his admiring thoughts on one of the city’s successful Christian leaders.
  I’ve written about Tenth Avenue Church Pastor Ken Shigematsu, who is finding creative ways to bridge the awkward gap between evangelicalism and
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Fishing for kids

  15-09-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  BIG CATCH: Like most Canadians, Tina Chiao and her husband Lee McCormick are huge hockey fans. For Tina and Lee, they had aspirations of their son Andrew taking up Canada’s game. At the age of two, their eldest was diagnosed with autism. Devastated, they, like any parent, were determined to provide their son with all the opportunities of a regular childhood, including playing hockey, an interest Andrew expressed. Tina and Andrew saw his enthusiasm and potential; others just saw the extra e
  
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• Police will be able to toke, but must be fit for duty

  15-09-2018 18:47 via vancouversun.com
  Provided they show up at work fit for duty, your local police officers will be free to smoke a joint with the neighbours when recreational cannabis becomes legal under federal law on Oct. 17.
  While members of the Canadian Armed Forces must refrain from using cannabis in the eight hours before they report for duty and for 24 hours before handling a firearm, regulations for police officers don’t appear to be as tight.
  The Vancouver Police Department won’t apply any specific time restri
  
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• 8 Instagram-worthy dessert places in Richmond

  15-09-2018 18:30
  
  From macarons to soft-serve, Richmond’s dessert cafes have your sweet tooth covered.
  
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• Live: Canucks training camp day two

  15-09-2018 18:14 via theprovince.com
  News and notes from the first day of Canucks training camp.
  Up and at ’emCanucks have started day two. Here’s the roster for the first group:And here’s the second. The two squads will scrimmage beginning at about 10 a.m.Prospect watchers wondering about Evan McEneny, he was spotted shooting on the goalies earlier. Obviously still working back from his knee injury early last year.
  Here are notes from day one. And here’s Ben Kuzma’s main story on Sven Baertschi.
  
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• B.C. rowers Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer win world championship gold

  15-09-2018 18:06 via theprovince.com
  PLOVDIV, Bulgaria — Cloverdale’s Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer of Victoria have captured gold at the world rowing championships.
  Janssens and Filmer won the women’s pair final on Saturday, finishing just over two seconds ahead of reigning world champions Grace Prendergast and Kerri Gowler of New Zealand.
  It brought Canada’s medal total to three at the worlds with one day to go in the competition.
  Two other Canadian crews just missed the podium on Saturday.
  Mackenzi
  
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• UBC season hits another bump, this time with late loss to Regina

  15-09-2018 17:57 via theprovince.com
  The UBC Thunderbirds have designs on a deep run in football national playoffs in November, but the degree of difficulty on that task is already climbing.
  The T-Birds, who still feature several key players from the 2015 Vanier Cup Canadian champions, dropped a 19-17 decision on the road Friday to the Regina Rams, losing on a 10-yard field goal by Aldo Galvan on the final play of the game.
  UBC (1-2) was coming off a 57-7 loss last week on the road to the Calgary Dinos. Calgary (3-0) is at Thunderb
  
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• Ed Willes: Lulay staring down another long road to recovery

  15-09-2018 17:43 via theprovince.com
  Over the years we’ve seen Travis Lulay run through a range of emotions after a serious injury but in the aftermath of his latest setback, the B.C.Lions quarterback revealed, for him, something new.
  Anger.
  “I don’t know if it was dirty hit,” Lulay said after a John Bowman hit left him with a separated left shoulder.
  “It was unnecessary. I mean it’s football. I get it. I’ve been hit like that a bunch of times. But it’s now a penalty in the NFL for a
  
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• Voters have 21 choices for next Vancouver mayor

  15-09-2018 17:03
  
  A total of 158 candidates are running for mayor, city council, school board and park board.
  
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• Canada says B.C. Indigenous basket making an event of historic significance

  15-09-2018 16:53 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Matilda Borden liked to pour a cup of tea to display her basket making expertise, proving her cups made from material gathered in British Columbia’s forests were watertight, says her granddaughter Brenda Crabtree.
  Not one drop would leak, recalls Crabtree, who is also a basket-making artist and Aboriginal programs director at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver.
  “She was showing off and it’s really, truly the mark of a master weaver,” she
  
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• Hudson Place One to be a standout in Victoria

  15-09-2018 14:33 via vancouversun.com
  While Townline’s 25-storey Hudson Place One residential tower will stand out as the tallest building in Victoria when completed in 2020, a 30-foot-high illuminated installation on top of the structure will be an unmistakable beacon for locals and visitors to the province’s capital city.
  “We wanted to really elevate the architectural design and living experience and the signature vertical light feature will make this an iconic building,” says Chris Colbeck, Townline’
  
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• The Home Front: The design show loved by designers

  15-09-2018 14:28 via vancouversun.com
  For the past four years, furniture designer and maker Kate Duncan has assembled what she believes to be the best of Pacific Northwest design — in everything from furniture to textiles, metal work to lighting, ceramics, artwork and more — and presented it in a highly stylized vignettes through her design show ADDRESS.
  The show, curated by Amber Kingsnorth of Mak Interiors, has become a favourite within the design community and is back for a fifth year, opening with a Meet th
  
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• Gilmore Place to be a 'live, work and play community'

  15-09-2018 14:19 via vancouversun.com
  The Onni Group’s Gilmore Place is the third of a trio of master-planned communities launched over the last three years as part of Burnaby’s ambitious plan to foster residential development along the backbone of the SkyTrain Millennium line running through its Brentwood and Lougheed town centres.
  Gilmore Place, which is being built around the SkyTrain station of the same name, will join Concord Pacific’s Brentwood community and Shape Properties’ massive City of Lougheed fu
  
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• Sold (Bought): Dozens of would-be buyers check out Maple Ridge home

  15-09-2018 14:16 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  26742 98 Avenue, Maple Ridge
  Type: Four-bedroom, two-bathroom detached
  Size: 1,934 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,007,200
  Listed for: $1,399,000
  Sold for: $1,367,500
  Sold on: May 17
  Days on market: 65
  Listing agent: Shannon Drummond and Pat Drummond at Keller Williams Elite Realty
  Buyers agent: Amanda vandenBrink at Royal LePage — Brookside Realty
  The big sell: According to listing agent Shannon Drummond, more than 100 p
  
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• Whitecaps Game Day: Caps need a late-season surge against Sounders

  15-09-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  The wagons have been circled, and a defiant, jutted-chin, us-versus-the-world attitude has been put on full display.
  And the bellicose self-belief projected by the Vancouver Whitecaps as they scrap and claw in an effort to fight back into the playoff picture has been bolstered by a timely six-game unbeaten streak.
  Yet the oddsmakers give the Caps just a one-in-three chance of making the Major League Soccer dance. And it’s not just the odds that are against them — it’s history.
  
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• Growth, density lead the debate in most council races in Metro Vancouver

  15-09-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  As next month’s municipal elections draw closer, debates around development are a common theme throughout Metro Vancouver.
  But the nature of the debate varies by municipality, as each faces its own unique challenges. On the North Shore, the focus is the effect of growth on traffic. South of the Fraser, municipalities are struggling to develop without sprawling into rural lands. In Vancouver proper, there are fears of densification leading to the mass bulldozing of residential neighbourhood
  
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• Independent agency to investigate police-involved shooting in Kamloops

  15-09-2018 09:00 via theprovince.com
  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. will be looking into a police-involved shooting that left a man dead on Friday.
  Mounties received a report of a suspicious and possibly impaired man near a camper trailer around 4:30 p.m. The man was seen about 3 km past the Rose Hill Subdivision. The officers arrived at the location and “there was a reported exchange of gun fire,” according to an RCMP news release.
  Emergency crews were called but one man was found dead at the scene.
  
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• Vancouver Municipal Election 2018: Who's running?

  15-09-2018 08:37 via vancouversun.com
  The City of Vancouver released the list of candidates running in the upcoming municipal elections after nominations closed on Friday.
  There are six contenders vying for mayor, 29 candidates for city councillors, 12 for the park board commissioners and nine for the school trustees.
  Voters will elect a mayor and 10 councillors for Vancouver City Council, seven commissioners for the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation and nine school trustees for the Vancouver School Bo
  
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• Meet the Delta Cat that is living a life of crime

  15-09-2018 08:37 via globalnews.ca
  A Delta man is taking to social media hoping to return some of the loot stolen by his cat. Paul Johnson reports.
  
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• Maple Ridge flooded amid unexpected thunderstorm

  15-09-2018 08:00 via globalnews.ca
  A thunderstorm cell that sat over Maple Ridge for several hours on Friday led to flooded streets and large accumulations of hail.
  
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• Pros and amateurs take to Vernon track for national qualifier races

  15-09-2018 07:36 via globalnews.ca
  It's a big weekend in Vernon as the local BMX club hosts the last national qualifying race of the season.
  
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• BMX national qualifier taking over Vernon track

  15-09-2018 07:36 via globalnews.ca
  Hundreds of riders from across Canada and the U.S. have descended on the Vernon BMX Club track for the last national qualifier races of the season. Doris Maria Bregolisse reports.
  
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• Motorcycle app helps connect riders

  15-09-2018 07:26 via globalnews.ca
  An Okanagan-developed app called Tonit allows riders to connect with other users, as well as plan, track and share routes and experiences. Shay Galor reports.
  
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• Saanich tent city finds new camp location on provincial land

  15-09-2018 06:27 via globalnews.ca
  About 30 residents of Camp Namegans have made the moved to a new location on provincial land, more are expected to join throughout the weekend.
  
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• Meet the Delta cat burglar that’s dedicated to a life of laundry crime

  15-09-2018 06:23 via globalnews.ca
  "I've had Bella for 10 years, she's always been a good girl," the cat's owner said.
  
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• IIO deployed to Kamloops for officer-involved shooting

  15-09-2018 05:37 via globalnews.ca
  An RCMP news release said police received a report of a "suspicious and possibly impaired man" who was seen close to a camper trailer about three kilometres past the Rose Hill subdivision.
  
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• 1 man dead after exchange of gunfire with Kamloops RCMP

  15-09-2018 05:37 via globalnews.ca
  An RCMP news release said police received a report of a "suspicious and possibly impaired man" who was seen close to a camper trailer about three kilometres past the Rose Hill subdivision.
  
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• Ed Willes: Defence dominates Als in 32-14 road win, but Leos lose Lulay to injury

  15-09-2018 05:22 via theprovince.com
  MONTREAL — The B.C. Lions recorded a win that might change their fortunes on Friday while suffering an injury that will certainly change their season.
  A 32-14 victory here against the Alouettes was the Lions’ first road win of the CFL season but it came at considerable cost.
  Here’s what we learned at Percival Molson Stadium:
  Lulay separates shoulder
  On his first passing attempt of the game, Lions’ quarterback Travis Lulay hit Bryan Burnham for 41 yards. On the second, an
  
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• Rare orca ‘superpod’ forms as search continues for J50, endangered whale many fear dead

  15-09-2018 05:16 via globalnews.ca
  "It is very rare to see J16, her mom, without J50 so the probability she is alive is very low, but we are out here looking for her," said Paul Cottrell with the DFO.
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Sept. 14

  15-09-2018 05:00 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• Okanagan police take to streets for 1,000 km ride to benefit kids

  15-09-2018 04:36 via globalnews.ca
  Cops for Kids is an annual fundraiser for children in medical, physical or traumatic crisis. On Friday morning, under grey and cool skies, 34 cyclists and a six-person support team from the RCMP’s South East District left Kelowna, hoping to raise money for the charitable foundation. Klaudia van Emmerik reports.
  
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• Better designed communities needed to support growing senior’s population in Okanagan

  15-09-2018 04:36 via globalnews.ca
  A group of healthcare leaders put their heads together in Kelowna on Friday to create a new vision of long-term care homes in the province. Shelby Thom reports
  
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