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• Patrick Johnston: Goldobin has his coach’s eye — for now and for good reason

  08-10-2018 23:53 via theprovince.com
  When you see Nikolay Goldobin in person, you are immediately struck by his youthful enthusiasm.
  He carries a smile on his face. He’s clearly at ease with his teammates. He’s not shy to wear an outfit or shoes or a hat — like a bright orange toque — that stands out.
  Put a voice recorder or a reporter’s note pad in front of him, and he gets a little cautious.
  You can understand why. Young players don’t want to rock the boat, they’re conditioned to not stan
  
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• Dozens of vehicles have tires slashed overnight

  08-10-2018 23:38 via globalnews.ca
  The tire slashing happened sometime overnight near 10th and Canada way. More than 40 vehicles were hit in Burnaby and at least four in New West.
  
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• New Westminster candidate questions lack of voter information for residents

  08-10-2018 23:11 via globalnews.ca
  Residents of New Westminster aren't getting voter cards or other election information in the mail from the city, and some are wondering why.
  
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• Compensation cheques begin rolling in for survivors of Woodlands School

  08-10-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  Survivors excluded from a previous Woodlands settlement have finally started receiving their compensation payments for years of systemic abuse at the B.C. institution.
  Individuals who lived at Woodlands prior to 1974 will now receive $10,000 in ex-gratia payments, which means they are voluntarily paid out without admission of liability. Those who lived at Woodlands post-1974 and who received compensation as part of a 2010 settlement will also receive a top-up to a maximum of $10,000.
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• Daphne Bramham: What the Ÿ_2#t%^=????

  08-10-2018 23:00 via vancouversun.com
  It makes no sense that in the name of reconciliation, politicians are renaming landmarks using gobbledygook spellings invented by well-meaning linguists for languages that were spoken, but never written.
  But that’s what is happening here.
  One of the first was the Strathcona branch of the Vancouver Public Library when it was renamed nə́c̓aʔmat ct last year. It means “we are one” and it’s apparently pronounced “naht-sah-mahtst.” So, why
  
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• Morbid musical teams up with popular pie-maker

  08-10-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  The Snapshot Collective’s production of ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’ opens in Gastown this week. Audiences member will be able to munch on meat pies from the Pie Hole during the show.
  
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• Local band’s stolen instruments recovered

  08-10-2018 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  BC based rock band 54-40 is feeling grateful this Thanksgiving. On Friday they had several instruments stolen from a U-Haul truck parked in New Westminster. Some of the gear has now been recovered. Paul Haysom reports.
  
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• 54-40 band members’ stolen instruments recovered

  08-10-2018 22:46 via globalnews.ca
  BC based rock band 54-40 is feeling grateful this Thanksgiving. On Friday they had several instruments stolen from a U-Haul truck parked in New Westminster. Some of the gear has now been recovered. Paul Haysom reports.
  
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• Halloween in Vancouver: 17 scary things to see and do

  08-10-2018 22:29
  
  There's something here to give everyone a scare...
  
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• Whistler struggles to build housing for service-sector workers

  08-10-2018 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  WHISTLER — As Whistler’s mayor for more than seven years, Nancy Wilhelm-Morden has always been aware of the importance of housing for the resort. When she arrived in Whistler in the 1970s with the man who would become her husband, housing was so limited that they squatted for four years before they could find a place to live.
  Today, she’s knows some people work two or three jobs to pay to live in one of the world’s top resorts. For Wilhelm-Morden, addressing housing has b
  
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• Douglas Todd: Refugees earn more than most Canadians after 25 years

  08-10-2018 22:22 via vancouversun.com
  Refugees who arrived in the late 1980s and early 1990s are now earning more than the average Canadian.
  An internal immigration department document shows that, after 25 years in the country, a typical refugee is earning as much or more than the Canadian norm, which is about $45,000 a year.
  The document quotes a senior department official who says the long-term study of refugees’ wages suggests the recent wave of 50,000 refugees from Syria could several decades from now do as well as earlier
  
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• ‘Students loved him’: Community mourns Surrey math teacher killed in fatal crash

  08-10-2018 21:45 via globalnews.ca
  The victim of Friday's fatal crash in Surrey has been identified as a beloved school teacher.
  
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• 5 of the 111 cats seized from B.C. mobile home park now up for adoption

  08-10-2018 21:44 via globalnews.ca
  Four kittens and one cat are now up for adoption after being seized from a mobile home park near Penticton.
  
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• Union Gospel Mission serving Thanksgiving feast.

  08-10-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
  The Union Gospel Mission is welcoming thousands of people through its doors today for a Thanksgiving feast. Our Chris Gailus is there volunteering.
  
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• Bill and Hillary Clinton will visit Vancouver next year on a speaking tour

  08-10-2018 20:56
  
  "The two leaders will share the stories and inspiring anecdotes that shaped their historic careers"
  
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• Turkey leftover recipes

  08-10-2018 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Jorge shares some ideas for what to do with all those Thanksgiving leftovers.
  
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• Get Connected with Andy Baryer

  08-10-2018 20:01 via globalnews.ca
  Andy Baryer of Get Connected Media takes a look at the top tech news stories and shows us Reminder Rosie – The personal reminder assistant alarm clock.
  
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• VIFF 2018: Marco Proserpio talks about making The Man Who Stole Banksy

  08-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Man Who Stole Banksy
  When and where: Oct. 11, 6:30 p.m., International Village #9; Oct. 12, 3:30 p.m., Rio Theatre
  Tickets and info: viff.orgWho is street art for? That becomes the question at the centre of the documentary The Man Who Stole Banksy, one of the last movies to be screened at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival.
  Italian filmmaker Marco Proserpio takes us first to Bethlehem, where a Palestinian cab driver started in motion the removal of a stunning 2
  
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• Five reasons to check out Fan Expo Vancouver

  08-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Five reasons to check out Fan Expo Vancouver
  When: Oct. 12-14
  Where: Vancouver Convention Centre
  Tickets: Starting at $30 at fanexpovancouver.com
  1. The original Hulk. Whatever your pop culture obsession — anime, horror, My Little Pony — the annual Fan Expo Vancouver is a chance to indulge. Featured guests this year include the original Hellboy (Ron Perlman), the original Hulk (former weightlifter Lou Ferrigno) and the original Buffy (Kristy Swanson).
  2. Bob McLeod. Fan Expos (other
  
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• Anthropocene angst meets puppets in A Brief History of Human Extinction

  08-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Brief History of Human Extinction
  When: Oct. 10-20, various times
  Where: The Historic Theatre at the Cultch
  Tickets and info: From $24, at thecultch.comIt’s Last Days. The planet’s two remaining living human beings cling to life in a research facility retrofitted to keep them alive. And their only companion is Ami, the last otter on Earth.
  Good times in the Anthropocene period and the backbone of A Brief History of Human Extinction.
  Originally titled Rate of Loss, the unique new sh
  
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• Recipe: What to do with Thanksgiving leftovers

  08-10-2018 19:57 via globalnews.ca
  JRG Executive Chef and MasterChef Winner David Jorge shares some ideas for what to do with turkey leftovers.
  
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• Giant mushroom find makes Thanksgiving tastier for Vancouver couple

  08-10-2018 18:36 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — Olya Kutsiuruba and David Swab of Vancouver had just spent a day doing what they love — mushroom picking — and their baskets were full of the day’s bounty, when Kutsiuruba says her husband started lagging behind.
  It was late Thursday afternoon as they were walking down a hilly slope in the Sea to Sky corridor between North Vancouver and Squamish, when Swab “let out a shriek” and started backing away from a bush.
  “I thought he was bitten by so
  
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• Costly repairs to Nanaimo school follow protest by homeless campers

  08-10-2018 18:29 via vancouversun.com
  The chairman of the Nanaimo-Ladysmith school board was “sickened” and “mortified” when he saw damage in a school that had been occupied by more than two dozen protesters.
  Steve Rae said hazardous-materials experts will be hired to clean up Rutherford Elementary School to make it safe for Canadian Union of Public Employees workers, who normally clean the school.
  He estimates repair and cleaning costs at $100,000, but said that could be a conservative figure. There’s
  
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• Daily Poll: When do you start to prepare your votes for election day?

  08-10-2018 18:08 via vancouversun.com
  The municipal elections are coming up quickly, with advance voting already underway in some cities.
  When it comes to the voters, there’s a mix of those who follow political happenings as they occur and others who decide once the ballot is in their hands.
  Do you start to research your candidate options months ahead of time? Or do you wait until the day of?Take Our PollWith the Vancouver municipal election less than a month away, The Province and Vancouver Sun invited seven leading mayoral c
  
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• Deepak Chopra to appear in Vancouver to share his 'future of well-being' perspective

  08-10-2018 18:00 via vancouversun.com
  The true self offers the possibility of a life without struggle, the voice says, where desires are fulfilled effortlessly.
  The voice belongs to Deepak Chopra, pitching a self-discovery workshop, and he will bring that voice and the promises it offers to the Vancouver Convention Centre on Wednesday to address the future of well-being.
  “Everybody takes away different things,” said Chopra — the author of over 85 books translated into 43 languages — over the phone from the Ch
  
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• Vancouver weather: Rain to wrap up Thanksgiving weekend

  08-10-2018 17:48 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Oct. 8, 2018 – Another day off, another day of rain. Monday’s weather will clear overnight before the sun returns on Tuesday.
  After that, it remains sunny through the weekend with temperatures hovering around 15 degrees.
  Those travelling between Merritt and Kelowna should also make sure they’ve got snow tires. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for the Okanagan Connector, as 20 centimetres of snow is expected over the Pennask Summit throu
  
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• Missing girl located by Surrey RCMP

  08-10-2018 17:10 via vancouversun.com
  UPDATE: Jaylin Hoytema has been found safe and sound.
  PREVIOUSLY: Surrey RCMP are searching for a missing girl who was last seen on Oct. 4.
  Jaylin Hoytema, 12, was last seen around 4 p.m. on Oct. 4, 2018 in the 7200-block of King George Boulevard in Surrey. She hasn’t been heard or since since that day.
  Hoytema is described as an aboriginal girl, about 5-foot-5 and weighing 150 pounds. She has short blonde hair and blue eyes. It’s unclear what she was wearing at the time she was last
  
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• Hawkers Market returns to Vancouver next month

  08-10-2018 17:01
  
  Get ready Vancouverites, there's going to be plenty of food and lots of beer
  
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• River Rock casino offers cheap stays for firefighters

  08-10-2018 17:00
  
  The hotel is also donating some of the proceeds to the BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Fund.
  
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• Bill and Hillary Clinton to visit Vancouver as part of North American tour

  08-10-2018 16:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Clintons are coming to Rogers Arena in May as part of a wide-ranging, North America tour.
  The tour, titled An Evening With President Bill Clinton & former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, is being billed as “a one-of-a-kind conversation with two individuals who have helped shape our world and had a front seat to the most impactful moments in modern history.”
  “From creating policy and working alongside global luminaries, to living through one of the United
  
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• Beedie follows rebranding trend to simplify company names

  08-10-2018 16:00
  
  The Beedie Development Group’s corporate name change to Beedie taps into the trend of companies adopting simpler and shorter names, but it is also part of a comprehensive rebranding.
  
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• Western Canadians still feel more connected to their province than to country as a whole: Ipsos

  08-10-2018 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  The findings state that in total, 76 per cent of western Canadians polled fell that there is a "unique western Canadian identity," a percentage that hasn't changed since a sample of western Canadians were asked the same question over 17 year ago.
  
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• How to say ‘thanks’ when you don’t have a lot of money

  08-10-2018 13:00 via theprovince.com
  Q: My husband and I have been trying hard to teach our four kids how to express gratitude in age-appropriate ways. We have a 12- and a 13-year-old and seven-year-old twins, and the twins happen to have birthdays the week before Thanksgiving. Over the years, we’ve had a lot of chats about how to say thank you for the gifts you receive, and Thanksgiving is a comfortable time of the year to have these types of discussions. However, now that the kids are getting older, they think that they nee
  
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• West Coast rock band 54-40 has five of seven stolen vintage guitars recovered

  08-10-2018 07:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police in New Westminster have located five of the seven guitars that were stolen from the band's U-Haul.
  
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• West Coast rock band 54-40 has five of seven stolen guitars recovered

  08-10-2018 07:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police in New Westminster have located five of the seven guitars that were stolen from the band's U-Haul.
  
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• West Coast rock band 54-40 has 5 of 7 stolen vintage guitars recovered

  08-10-2018 07:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police in New Westminster have located five of the seven guitars that were stolen from the band's U-Haul.
  
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• Untimely penalties end Seahawks’ hope of toppling Rams

  08-10-2018 05:55 via theprovince.com
  SEATTLE — The scenario was all lined up for Russell Wilson to lead the Seattle Seahawks to a 25th career fourth-quarter comeback and end the unbeaten run of a division rival.
  Needing just a field goal to take the lead, the Seahawks were already in range for Sebastian Janikowski. A few more yards, milk some time off the clock and Seattle would have had a chance at a field goal to knock off the Los Angeles Rams.
  With two untimely penalties, Seattle’s plans of a late comeback fell apart
  
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• Five vintage guitars stolen from B.C. rock band 54-40 found by police

  08-10-2018 05:39 via vancouversun.com
  Five out of seven ‘irreplaceable’ guitars stolen from B.C. rock band 54-40 have been located by New Westminster police.
  The five vintage guitars, along with other electronic equipment, were found by police after executing a search warrant at a residence in Surrey.
  The instruments were taken on Friday from a U-Haul van ahead of two shows in Vancouver. Among them were a blond 1957 Fender Esquire electric guitar, a 1966 Gibson Trini Lopez Standard and a 1954 Gibson Florentine electric m
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Oct. 7

  08-10-2018 05:00 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• Gasoline-like substance found near pipeline linked to Surrey residence

  08-10-2018 04:55 via vancouversun.com
  A gasoline-like substance found in the area where the Trans Mountain pipeline runs through Surrey has been traced to a private home, the province’s environment ministry said Sunday evening.
  The pipeline was shut down earlier in the day amid an odour complaint and reports of a gasoline-like substance found in a ditch.
  But in a statement Sunday night, the provincial environment ministry said the spill had been “traced to a private residence.”
  Earlier Sunday, the ministry said it
  
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• Namaimo school squatters leave building trashed

  08-10-2018 04:10 via globalnews.ca
  Protestors who occupied an abandoned school in Nanaimo say they were just trying to help the homeless survive. But the school district says the demonstrators have left the building trashed. Grace Ke has the latest.
  
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• New criticism about possible inappropriate third party election spending in Vancouver’s race for mayor.

  08-10-2018 04:07 via globalnews.ca
  Although not illegal, questions are being raised about whether it’s right for an organized labour to pay union members to campaign for a Vancouver mayoral candidate. Paul Johnson reports.
  
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• Landslide fears force evacuation of community outside of Fort St. John

  08-10-2018 04:06 via globalnews.ca
  Slow moving landslide forces evacuation of community near Fort St. John. Jay Durant has the details
  
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• A couple at BC Children’s Hospital turns their family ordeal into goodwill.

  08-10-2018 04:06 via globalnews.ca
  Tyrell and Kayla Langdon put their hands to good use to make gifts for kids at BC’s Children’s Hospital as they wait for some good news of their own. Tanya Beja reports
  
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• ‘It’s so senseless’: Family of Chilliwack murder victim speaks out

  08-10-2018 03:46 via globalnews.ca
  “His friends and family are just devastated by this… he’s such a good kid," said Cromarty's uncle.
  
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• Kyle Cromarty family appeal for information

  08-10-2018 03:45 via globalnews.ca
  Kyle Cromarty from Chilliwack was shot and killed earlier this week. Homicide investigators have issued an appeal for dash cam video that may help catch his killer. The family cannot understand why anyone would have wanted Kyle murdered. Kristen Robinson has more.
  
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• Frightening altercation on TransLink night bus captured on video

  08-10-2018 03:06 via globalnews.ca
  The video shows a man screaming at a woman on the bus before grabbing her phone.
  
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• 2 men say they were pressured to participate in alleged Surrey voter fraud scheme

  08-10-2018 02:10 via globalnews.ca
  The allegations of attempted fraud were first raised last week by a Surrey anti-crime community group.
  
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• ‘Get a hazmat team’: School district shares photos of Nanaimo squat aftermath

  08-10-2018 02:02 via globalnews.ca
  "They had drills, they had saws, they had machetes, they had knives and the most troubling thing was there was drugs there," said school district Chair Steve Rae.
  
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• Vancity says issues 'fixed' after banking system offline for three days

  08-10-2018 01:21 via vancouversun.com
  After a three-day service disruption, Vancity announced Saturday afternoon that the issues with its core banking system had been fixed, and immediately began doing damage control.
  CEO Tamara Vrooman said she felt sick about the outage, which kept the credit union’s core banking system, online platforms, mobile apps and IT system offline since midnight on Wednesday, and apologized for the inconvenience caused to Vancity’s customers.
  “We know that our members rely on ou
  
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