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• Vancouver vegans host fundraising dinner to buy Gertie the turkey a prosthetic leg

  05-10-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Gertie was brought to a sanctuary in Duncan, B.C. after suffering a brutal leg injury about three weeks ago.
  
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• Vancity rules out hack, still not sure what’s behind online banking outage

  05-10-2018 23:45 via globalnews.ca
  Users cannot transfer money through the app or online but ATM, Visa, and point of sale transactions are not affected
  
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• Patrick Johnston: Canucks pack for six-game road trip filled with heavyweight contenders

  05-10-2018 23:27 via theprovince.com
  It took Odysseus 10 years to get home from Troy. Remember the Iliad?
  In 2010, the Vancouver Canucks were away from home for 14 straight games over 44 days. Remember the Winter Olympics?
  Now, eight years later, the Canucks are set to embark on a two-week road trip. (And they’ve got another like this next month!) It may not be Homeric. It may not be Olympic … but it sure looks like a long time.
  If the Canucks can find three wins on this six-game trip, they’ll be laughing. Three
  
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• Money being raised for injured turkey’s prosthetic leg.

  05-10-2018 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Many of us will be counting our blessings this Thanksgiving. That will also include a turkey on Vancouver Island, and it’s not just because “Gertie” was saved from being part of the holiday meal. John Hua reports.
  
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• Man charged in connection to prostitution, human trafficking ring in Delta, B.C.

  05-10-2018 22:53 via globalnews.ca
  The operation included underage girls, and involved transporting victims between Metro Vancouver and Calgary, police said.
  
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• Homeless issue in Kelowna’s Lower Mission has ‘gotten so much worse’

  05-10-2018 22:49 via globalnews.ca
  An area resident says groups of homeless are littering her property with drugs and garbage.
  
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• Hosting Thanksgiving

  05-10-2018 22:47 via globalnews.ca
  Tips for entertaining this long weekend with food and lifestyle expert Pay Chen.
  
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• Vancouver Vegan Resource Centre pop-up opens

  05-10-2018 22:37
  
  Calling all veganites, there's a new information hub you'll want to check out
  
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• Mahomes makes Chiefs, NFL must-watch TV, unlike Jays' sluggish season

  05-10-2018 22:32 via vancouversun.com
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  Television ratings for the NFL continued to stabilize on the strength of another strong Monday Night Football matchup between the Denver Broncos (2-2) and the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs (4-0).
  Driving one of the best MNF audiences in three years was a divisional rivalry, a one-possession game inside the two-minute warning and the magic that is Chiefs’ rookie sensation Patrick Mahomes II. Heading into Week 5, NFL TV viewership in the United States is up one per cent to an
  
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• Comox Valley girl in hospital after eating cannabis gummy bears

  05-10-2018 22:26 via globalnews.ca
  Comox Valley RCMP said the child's parents brought her to hospital after she showed signs of medical distress.
  
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• Vancouver's Hootsuite is exploring a sale for at least $750 Million

  05-10-2018 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  (Bloomberg) — Hootsuite Inc., a B.C. startup that builds software to help marketers use social media, is said to be for sale.
  The Vancouver-based company, which has been an anchor of that city’s tech scene for years, has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to explore a sale at a valuation of at least $750 million, a person familiar with the deal said. The company could still opt to go public instead of selling itself, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the process is
  
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• RCMP investigates shots fired in South Surrey

  05-10-2018 21:59 via theprovince.com
  Mounties in Surrey are investigating after receiving reports of shots fired early Friday morning in South Surrey.
  Shortly after 1 a.m., Surrey RCMP received multiple reports of shots fired in the 3300-block of 194 Street, and reports of two vehicles seen leaving the area.
  Investigators attended and located evidence of a shooting. There are no reports of injuries.
  Around the same time, police found a vehicle nearby at the intersection of 28 Avenue and 188 Street. The vehicle has been seized as pa
  
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• Artist behind East Van Cross says new development will block views of iconic landmark

  05-10-2018 21:51 via globalnews.ca
  Ken Lum is calling on the City of Vancouver to find a solution as it reviews a proposed eight-storey office tower set to be erected next to the cross.
  
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• Chilliwack shooting victim identified as Kyle Cromarty

  05-10-2018 21:49 via theprovince.com
  A man who was shot to death in Chilliwack Thursday has been identified as 27-year-old Kyle Cromarty.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says Mounties were called out shortly after 3:30 p.m. to reports of shots fired in the 46000-block of Yale Road.
  Police arrived to find a man with gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital where he died.
  IHIT and has taken over the investigation, with help from RCMP  and the B.C. Coroners Service.
  IHIT spokesman Cpl. Frank Jang sa
  
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• Trend of low potency products expected in legal recreational cannabis market

  05-10-2018 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  As recreational marijuana legalization looms, some industry insiders are predicting a hot niche in the market for less-potent products.
  At the centre of the shift is an expected influx of new consumers more interested in dabbling than getting blitzed, creating demand for pot products with lower doses of psychoactive ingredients.
  A report by Deloitte forecasts that legalization on Oct. 17 will bring a consumer into the market who is more risk averse, older and less likely to consume the drug as r
  
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• Man charged in Richmond teen’s homicide

  05-10-2018 21:38 via theprovince.com
  A man has been charged with manslaughter for the death of 19-year-old Aspen Pallot in Richmond Thursday.
  Richmond RCMP found Pallot’s body inside a home in the 7000-block of Westminster Highway, shortly after midnight.
  A short time later, 23-year-old Solaris Onatta Running Dey was arrested and charged. He was scheduled to appear in B.C. provincial court on Friday.
  “IHIT detectives worked quickly to secure the evidence for charge approval,” said Cpl. Frank Jang, spokesman f
  
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• Teen who sold deadly ecstasy to 13-year-old girl pleads guilty

  05-10-2018 21:33 via theprovince.com
  A teenager who sold a 13-year-old Port Coquitlam girl the MDMA that killed her last summer has pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge.
  The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, pleaded guilty last month to one count of trafficking in a controlled substance. He will be sentenced in January.
  On July 15, 2017, two teens purchased MDMA, or ecstasy, from a street level drug dealer at the 22nd SkyTrain Station in New Westminster, according to New Westminster police.
  The teens were return
  
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• Recreational hockey player dies after ramming boards in Langley

  05-10-2018 21:30 via vancouversun.com
  A young B.C. hockey player who died after slamming into the boards during a game in Langley is being remembered by a teammate as a “gentle giant,” and “one of the best players out there.”
  Noah Trulsen, 22, was playing in an adult recreational league on Oct. 3 when team member Gerry Leiper says his friend may have caught an edge while rushing to the bench for a line change.
  Leiper says he saw Trulsen’s forehead hit the top of the boards and his face shield came down
  
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• Don’t bring grenades to police station for disposal: Mounties

  05-10-2018 21:27 via theprovince.com
  Mounties in Richmond are reminding residents who find old grenades or other possible explosives not to bring them in to the police station for disposal.
  Call police first.
  That after a police station in Steveston and several surrounding buildings were evacuated Thursday when someone brought in three pre-Second World War  grenades at around 5 p.m.
  Richmond Cpl. Dennis Hwang said there did not appear to be any malicious intent; rather someone was trying to get rid of them.
  “The person s
  
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• Antoine Roussel skates with Canucks, expected to travel on road trip

  05-10-2018 21:25 via theprovince.com
  Antoine Roussel, the winger signed as a free agent in the off-season by the Vancouver Canucks, is inching closer to making his 2018-19 season debut.
  After sustaining a concussion in a collision during an informal skate in Montreal, weeks before training camp, Roussel finally skated with his new Canucks teammates on Friday.
  He had previously only skated on his own; he also took about a week off from skating due to ongoing symptoms from his concussion.
  But his work to come back from the brain inju
  
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• Stem cell clinics in B.C. and elsewhere need more oversight by Health Canada, researcher says

  05-10-2018 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Stem-cell clinics across Canada, including eight in B.C., are marketing “unproven treatments” directly to health consumers and charging thousands of dollars, a study concludes.
  Many of the approximately four dozen clinics are making claims of exaggerated benefits and minimizing potential complications, says the study by Leigh Turner, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota. His study is published in a journal called Regenerative Medicine.
  Stem cell-based medicine is an
  
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• Daphne Bramham: Back in the studio, Kennedy Stewart looks to his past and Vancouver's future

  05-10-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  We all have favourite places. Those places suggest something about who we are and what we value. With that in mind, columnist Daphne Bramham has asked four of the front-runners in Vancouver’s mayoral race to meet her at their favourite places to talk about what’s special about it, what the place says about Vancouver and how it reflects their vision for the city.
  Vancouver mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart at the Little Mountain Sound Studios in East Vancouver on Sept. 25, 2018.
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• Victim identified in Chilliwack homicide

  05-10-2018 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  27-year-old Kyle Cromarty has been identified as the victim of a fatal shooting in the 46000-block of Yale Road in Chilliwack on October 4th.
  
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• Appeal forces Cambie merchants to wait for compensation in Canada Line lawsuit

  05-10-2018 20:52
  
  More than 80 owners of properties and small businesses who suffered through noise, dust and fencing that impeded customer access while the Canada Line was being built must wait until at least next year to get compensation.
  
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• B.C. adds 33,300 jobs in September, unemployment plummets

  05-10-2018 20:39
  
  The kids went back to school and more than a few adults went back to work in September in B.C.
  
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• RCMP arrest and charge man in Richmond homicide

  05-10-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  23-year-old Solaris Onatta Running Dey has been arrested in connection in the death of 19-year-old Aspen Pallot in Richmond October 4th.
  
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• White Towel Podcast: The rookie report

  05-10-2018 20:33 via theprovince.com
  Editor Paul Chapman and Canucks beat writer Patrick Johnston discuss Vancouver Canucks rookie Elias Pettersson’s performance on opening night of the NHL season.
   http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/20181005_johnston/20181005_Johnston.mp3
  
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• B.C. Ferries planning for five new vessels

  05-10-2018 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  B.C. Ferries is preparing to have five new major vessels built to run between Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland.
  A call for expressions of interest has been issued.
  The competition is open to local and international shipyards.
  These ships would start to come into service in 2023.
  They will replace the Queen of Alberni, Queen of New Westminster, Queen of Cowichan and Queen of Coquitlam.
  “These vessels will be quieter and have a lighter ecological footprint than any we have ever built,
  
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• Where on earth did mayoral candidate and hand-talker Fred Harding film this cult-like promo vid?

  05-10-2018 20:10
  
  K&K continues to examine the underbelly of Vancouver’s 2018 election by watching mayoral candidates’ campaign videos so you don’t have to.
  
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• Salut: B.C. produce headlines forward thinking, delicious menus

  05-10-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  When Mara Jernigan decided to come back to Canada after more than six years as a resort manager and consultant chef in Belize, it was only natural that her path would lead to the Okanagan Valley.
  “I’ve always been farm to table and there’s a great selection of produce here,” says the former president of Slow Food Canada.
  “What’s interesting to me is, being one of the pioneers of the local food movement, coming back here it’s so easy to find local food no
  
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• Style in the City: Janelle Saccucci

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Name: Janelle Saccucci
  Occupation: Marketing brand strategist for creative entrepreneurs and businesses
  Personal style in one word: Feminine-West-Coast-chic
  Social media: @janellesaccucci on Instagram
  Love Janelle’s look? Here are a few items to help you recreate it. The dress
  A printed midi- or maxi-length dress is a fun, fashionable way to show off a little colour during the grey days of fall. We love this Wilfred Beaune dress with long sleeves, which features an on-trend floral pr
  
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• Salut! Five wine items to add to your bar cart

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking to update — or even elevate — a few of the items on your bar cart? Well, you’re in luck.
  There are plenty of cool-and-quirky wine items on offer at big-box and specialty retailers, alike this season. So, to help you navigate the seemingly limitless selection, we sought out five interesting items to liven up any libation station.
  From chill buckets to cleaning tools, here are five wine items to stock up on this season.Bold bucket
  While rosé season is behind us, th
  
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• Salut: B.C. producers poised to make wine that matters

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  In many ways, fall is the official start of the wine New Year because it’s the birth of a new vintage.
  As the harvest unfolds across B.C. wine country there is a level of anticipation and anxiety that is unmatched at any other time of the year.
  It’s been said that each year tells its story, especially when you are growing grapes as far north as we are, but over the last decade there is little doubt weather remains a major factor in determining the quality of the harvest.
  In British C
  
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• Salut: Anthony Gismondi's Top 12 wines for fall

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  As the weather turns cooler so do our wine choices. Our fall Salut case takes us on a journey thorough B.C. red wine country where subtle tweaks in the way we grow grapes and make wine has changed the face of a category that has gone from mean and green to rich and savoury in a brief period.Bartier Bros. Merlot Cerqueira Vineyard 2016, Okanagan Valley, $21.99
  Bright blue/red fruit with a savoury mineral undercurrent and a pleasing stony/silky, black cherry, salty fruit flavour free of any obviou
  
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• Fall fashion trends: Bold colours, big cuts and a little bit Western

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If pondering the winter season ahead conjures up images of grey days and even greyer fashion choices, well, you’re in for a surprise.
  This cold-weather season, it’s all about making a sartorial statement. And, as one might imagine, it all begins with outerwear.
  “This season we saw so many amazing coats on the runways — whether it was an oversized plaid jacket from Balenciaga or a shaggy, faux-fur coat from Dries Van Noten,” said Joseph Tang, the fashion director at
  
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• Brian Minter: Fall porch pots that will delight all winter

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve always admired fall and Thanksgiving decor on the steps and porches of homes in Eastern Canada and the United States.
  So many folks, particularly in Ontario communities, go all out to create a wonderful neighbourhood vibe by decorating with cornstalks, gourds, pumpkins, hay bales, fall foliage and colourful mums.
  In B.C., with a few exceptions, we’re happy putting a potted mum on the step and that’s about it. It’s true we have an early October Thanksgiving and then H
  
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• Book review: Keith Malliard's Twin Studies displays a lyrical beauty

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Twin Studies
  By Keith Maillard (Freehand Books, Calgary, 2018)
  $24.95 | 574 pp.Remember when people used to argue about who had written the Great American Novel? In an age before post-post-modernism, virtual reality and Netflix binging, it was a serious debate, and suggested that the novel was a high form of art, sturdy enough to bear an entire national identity, and that we could somehow find a consensus about who had written one.
  Let me suggest, perhaps perversely, that a great American novel
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: Lake Breeze Pinot Noir named LG wine of the year

  05-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you are of the mind that there are too many wine awards competitions you will be happy to know that there is one less in B.C. after a successful merger.
  Last year the Lieutenant-governor’s office was looking to step back from organizing its annual Lieutenant-governor’s Wine Awards but remain connected in some way to the competition. A decision was made to combine the long running B.C. Wine Awards, held during the fall Okanagan Wine Festival, with the Lieutenant Governor’s Wi
  
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• ‘Level playing field’ in Vancouver civic election a work in progress

  05-10-2018 19:54
  
  Municipal Affairs Minister says advertising rules set by B.C. Liberals for this year’s civic election “clearly don’t do enough to take big money out of politics.”
  
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• Q&A with former Prime Minister Kim Campbell

  05-10-2018 19:22 via globalnews.ca
  CKNW’s Simi Sara interviews Kim Campbell, Canada’s 19th Prime Minister.
  
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• Open House: designing your dream home

  05-10-2018 19:22 via globalnews.ca
  Kaitlyn Herbst talks to designer Sarah Gallop about turning a dream home into reality
  
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• Penticton resident surrenders 111 cats to SPCA

  05-10-2018 19:09 via globalnews.ca
  The Penticton branch of the B.C. SPCA has been flooded with more than 100 surrendered cats and kittens since late September.
  
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• Seahawks know Thompson to get targeted with Thomas out

  05-10-2018 18:56 via theprovince.com
  RENTON, Wash. — There’s no more uncertainty about the Seattle Seahawks’ situation at free safety. No more debate about whether Earl Thomas will practice or not, or whether a trade is coming.
  With Thomas gone for the year with a broken leg, the Seahawks are finally clear that Tedric Thompson is their starting free safety going forward.
  “We’re excited about his play and he’s just growing. He’s really mature about stuff, he’s really worked hard to und
  
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• B.C. jobless rate drops 1.1 per cent, ties for largest drop in provincial history

  05-10-2018 18:47 via globalnews.ca
  "The last time it occurred in May 1977 when there was a 1.1 percentage point drop."
  
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• B.C. adds 33,000 full-time jobs in September

  05-10-2018 18:44 via vancouversun.com
  Employment in B.C. was up last month, as the unemployment rate fell to its lowest in a decade.
  Statistics Canada said Friday B.C. added 33,000 jobs in September, 26,000 of which were full-time jobs.
  Statistics Canada analyst Marton Lovei said gains were made in both the service and goods-producing sectors, with increases in manufacturing, and accommodation and food services. There were also more health care and social assistance, agriculture, and transportation and warehousing jobs.
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• Vote now for the 2018 Growler B.C. Craft Beer Awards

  05-10-2018 18:28
  
  It’s election time, and while choosing a new mayor, council and school board is very, very important, you know what else is important?
  
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• Cab driver responds to passenger’s accusations of intimidation

  05-10-2018 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver police also weighing in on the footage of up to eight Yellow Cab vehicles, and their drivers, apparently swarming three young women during a dispute last weekend.
  
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• Notorious Vancouver slumlords linked to Burnaby rental 'shell game'

  05-10-2018 17:06
  
  Members of Sahota family, owners of several infamous hotels on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, suing the owners of Burnaby rental building
  
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• Teen dealer who sold 13-year-old girl ecstasy that killed her pleads guilty

  05-10-2018 16:40 via theprovince.com
  A teenager who sold a 13-year-old Port Coquitlam girl MDMA that killed her last summer has pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge.
  The youth, who cannot be named because of his age, pleaded guilty last month to one count of trafficking in a controlled substance. He will be sentenced in January.
  On July 15, 2017, two teens purchased MDMA, or ecstasy, from a street level drug dealer at the 22nd Skytrain Station in New Westminster, according to New Westminster police.
  The teens were returning
  
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