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• GardenWorks – Planting Garlic

  20-10-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  Top gardening tips from the folks at Gardenworks.
  
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• Salmonella outbreak: 37 cases in B.C. may be linked to cucumbers

  20-10-2018 23:15 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The Public Health Agency of Canada says an investigation is underway into an outbreak of salmonella infections involving five provinces, mostly in Western Canada.
  The agency says on its website that the source of the outbreak has not been identified yet, although many of the people who became sick reported eating cucumbers.
  It says that as of Friday, there have been 37 confirmed cases in British Columbia, five in Alberta, and one case each in Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Quebec.
  
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• UPDATED: Canucks Game Day: Sutter salutes Bergeron, Green lauds Eriksson, Markstrom gets call

  20-10-2018 22:15 via theprovince.com
  NEXT GAME: Saturday
  Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks
  7 p.m., Rogers Arena, SNET 1, City, SNET 650 AMTHE BIG MATCHUP
  Brandon Sutter vs. Patrice Bergeron
  Patrice Bergeron is many things — leader, prime-time playmaker, Selke Trophy candidate and a beast in the circle. He was not only tied for second in league scoring entering NHL action on Friday — 13 points (6-7) in seven games and player-of-the-week honours — the Bruins’ centre has a 58.2 per cent face-off efficiency.
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• Track problem on Vancouver's SkyTrain resolved

  20-10-2018 22:13 via vancouversun.com
  A track problem causing delays on the SkyTrains Expo Line has been fixed.
  TransLink says there may still be delays as service returns to normal.  The bus bridge will still be available until crowding is eased.
  Earlier Saturday, TransLink said there were significant delays on Expo Line because of a track problem near 22nd Street Station.
  Customers had to change trains at Columbia and Metrotown stations, and were delayed 20 minutes or more.
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• Four people hospitalized after early-morning fight in Vancouver

  20-10-2018 21:35 via theprovince.com
  Four people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition, after an early-morning stabbing in Vancouver Saturday.
  Vancouver police spokesman Sgt. Jason Robillard says shortly after 3 a.m., a fight broke out between two groups of people on Granville Street near Helmcken Street.
  He says the groups were made up of men and women in their 20s and early 30s.
  When officers broke up the fight they discovered that three people had been stabbed. They were transported to hospital with serious
  
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• Burnaby municipal election issues: Affordability, demovictions, gridlock

  20-10-2018 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Burnaby voters weigh in on issues that will shape their vote in the 2018 municipal election.
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• New Westminster election issues: Affordability, traffic, homelessness

  20-10-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  New Westminster voters weigh in on issues that will shape their vote in the 2018 municipal election.
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• B.C. Municipal Election Day Live: The latest news, results and reaction

  20-10-2018 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  It’s voting day for B.C.’s municipal election 2018, and the polls have now open.
  B.C. residents have until 8 p.m. to cast their ballots in towns and cities around the province.
  It’s general voting day for the civic election and the polls are open, everyone. Vote! #bcmunielxn18
  — Jennifer Saltman (@jensaltman) October 20, 2018In Metro Vancouver, there are interesting developments to watch, as more than half of the region’s mayors decided not to run again, the largest
  
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• Vancouver police investigate early morning stabbing in entertainment district

  20-10-2018 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  An early morning stabbing on Granville Street near Helmcken Street has sent three people to hospital, all with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Hiker rescued from trail on Peachland’s Pincushion Mountain

  20-10-2018 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  Emergency crews spent almost three hours attempting to bring an injured hiker down from a trail on Pinchushion Mountain near Peachland Saturday morning.
  
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• Saturday Chef – Cooking The Perfect Steak

  20-10-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  It’s one of the most popular cooking questions – how do you cook the perfect steak? Sebastian Cortez from artisan butcher shop ‘Sebastian & Co’ demonstrates his technique and shares some expert tips.
  
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• Track issue on Vancouver's SkyTrain resolved

  20-10-2018 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  A track issue causing delays on the SkyTrains Expo Line have been resolved.
  TransLink says there may still be delays as service returns to normal.  The bus bridge will still be available until crowding is resolved.
  Earlier Saturday, TransLink said there were significant delays on Expo Line due to a track issue near 22nd Street Station.
  Customers had to change trains at Columbia and Metrotown stations, and were delayed 20 minutes or more.
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  #SkyTrain Expo lin
  
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• Tiffany Pratt Kitchen Design Tips

  20-10-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  Designer Tiffany Pratt shares her expert tips to help you make some simple, but effective transformations to your kitchen.
  
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• Halloween Safety Tips

  20-10-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  Halloween can be a lot of fun, but Jessica Chilton from BC Paramedics, has some important advice to ensure revelers of all ages have a fun – and safe time.
  
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• Culvert replacement to shut down route between Kelowna and Naramata

  20-10-2018 20:08 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Ministry of Transportation is now planning a permanent fix for flood damage on Chute Lake Road.
  
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• Makeover: New mom's thick, long hair made manageable

  20-10-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Olga Arsovska, 33, is a research coordinator and was ready for a fresh look for her upcoming birthday.
  Olga has very thick and long hair.  She’s a new mom and is tired of her long shapeless and unmanageable locks.
  I started by shampooing her hair with KMS Moist Repair Shampoo and Conditioner, as her ends were feeling very dry and unruly.  I sectioned her hair into a central vertical parting in order to create a symmetrical shape and to give her the option to be able to part it mu
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Splash raises $560,000 for Arts Umbrella

  20-10-2018 20:00 via theprovince.com
  RECORD SPLASH: An architecture intensive initiative for kids sponsored by the BTY Group is among the myriad of programs offered by Arts Umbrella, the country’s preeminent visual and performing arts school for youth.
  Aimed at young artists who aspire to be architects, as well as those interested in urban planning, and better understanding the world around us, the program is among Arts Umbrella’s many offerings that help 20,000 kids annually tap into their creative side; 80 per cent of
  
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• SkyTrain delays on Expo Line

  20-10-2018 19:29 via globalnews.ca
  Lengthy delays are expected as crews work to fix track issues near 22nd Street Station.
  
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• Skytrain back to normal after major delays

  20-10-2018 19:29 via globalnews.ca
  Lengthy delays earlier Saturday, as crews worked to fix track issues near 22nd Street Station.
  
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• Giants look to even things up with Winterhawks Saturday in second half of home-and-home

  20-10-2018 19:29 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants, who have had success rallying from third-period deficits so far this season, gave up their first third-period lead of the year on Friday night.
  The Portland Winterhawks scored two goals 70 seconds apart midway through the final frame and another into an empty net later on en route to a 5-3 comeback win over the Giants at the Moda Centre.
  Vancouver (9-2-1-0) doesn’t have to wait long to try to get back at Portland (6-3-0-1). The teams play the second half of their week
  
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• Search continues for missing Revelstoke senior

  20-10-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  Alice Lines left her home on Second Street near Wright Street around 8 p.m., according to Staff Sgt. Kurt Grabinsky. 
  
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• Missing Revelstoke senior found safe after being missing overnight

  20-10-2018 18:34 via globalnews.ca
  It’s not known where Lines spent the cold night.
  
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• Track issue causing delays on SkyTrain

  20-10-2018 18:30 via vancouversun.com
  If you are travelling on the SkyTrain’s Expo Line you may face some delays today.
  TransLink says they are experiencing significant delays on Expo Line due to a track issue near 22nd Street Station.
  Customers will need to change trains at Columbia and Metrotown stations, due to reduced service while we address the issue.
  TransLink says riders can expect delays of 20 minutes or more.
  There is also a bus bridge available as an alternate option connecting Columbia and Metrotown stations, stopp
  
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• Temporary roads being built in areas affected by Old Fort landslide

  20-10-2018 18:16 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A temporary road is expected to be completed within three weeks for residents of the small northern B.C. community of Old Fort who were forced out of their homes by a slow-moving landslide.
  A Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure news release says the area surrounding the landslide is now stable enough for crews to begin building the road over the slide debris, starting on the west end of the slide zone.
  Meanwhile, an Emergency Management B.C. news release says Disaster
  
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• Birdies for Snowbirds

  20-10-2018 18:00 via theprovince.com
  Playing the Royal & Ancient Game is high on the itinerary for many sun seekers during the winter months, and there is no shortage of golf courses catering to that demand. The best among them offer up challenging holes, stunning scenery and refreshing 19th holes. Andrew McCredie tees up five such courses.
  Quivera Golf Club’s 5th green is quite literally at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula.
  Quivera Golf Club
  Los Cabos, Mexico
  Located at the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, this
  
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• ART SEEN: New book looks at links between museums and the 2016 US election

  20-10-2018 17:45 via vancouversun.com
  An artist known for her searing institutional critiques of art museums in the US is giving a talk about her new book this weekend at the Vancouver Art Book Fair.
  Andrea Fraser will be giving the keynote lecture at 1 pm Sunday, Oct. 21 about her book 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
  Fraser’s book looks at the links between museums and the 2016 US election – the most expensive in US history at $6.4 billion for presidential and congress
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Another sunny and warm weekend

  20-10-2018 17:23 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – The stretch of sunny, warm weather continues this weekend in Metro Vancouver. Environment Canada says patches of fog should dissipate in the morning , with temperature highs of 15 C near the water and 19 C inland. The forecast is the same for Sunday with fog rolling in again Sunday night. Looking ahead to next week, there’s a mix of sun and cloud expected on Monday and Tuesday, with a slight chance of rain on Tuesday. Then, the rest of the week looks rainy with
  
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• Watch live: B.C. municipal election 2018

  20-10-2018 16:58 via globalnews.ca
  Global News has complete coverage of the 2018 municipal elections on TV, radio and online starting at 8 p.m. PT on Oct. 20.
  
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• Meet Ellany Lea – Digital Nomad

  20-10-2018 15:37 via theprovince.com
  Welcome to our first Vancouver Sun: Traveller Profile, a conversation with Ellany (Ella) Lea from Vancouver. We’ll try to introduce you to one prolific traveller each month – to get their insight, tips and recommendations.
  We’ve chosen to profile Ellany for our first as she has visited more than 110 countries, 50 of those in 2017 alone. 
  Ellany has a love for travel and Airbnbs: “Hotels lack soul, warmth and community. Don’t get me
  
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• 50 Electronic Avenue speaks to its Port Moody location

  20-10-2018 15:09 via vancouversun.com
  Twenty years ago, when Kush Panatch bought a 3.5-acre parcel of industrial land opposite Port Moody’s downtown, he knew it might take a long time for it to appreciate in value. What he hadn’t anticipated was the new SkyTrain Evergreen extension or the nearby Westcoast Express station would make it excellent space for a 358-unit condominium development. 
  “I remember coming here. I went down and walked around the park. It was simply a big industrial area with a sawmill,&rdqu
  
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• It’s Election Day in Vancouver: Here’s what you need to know

  20-10-2018 15:00
  
  Vancouver’s civic election campaign pulls into the garage and parks it for another four years as of tonight (Oct. 20).
  
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• Sold (Bought): Downtown penthouse provides big city outlooks

  20-10-2018 14:59 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  2307 — 938 Smithe Street, Vancouver
  Type: Two-bedroom, three-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,147 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,263,000
  Listed for: $1,388,000
  Sold for: $1,270,000
  Sold on: July 30
  Days on market: 42
  Listing agent: Michael Tudorie at ReMax Select Properties
  Buyers agent: Dindin Montoya at Oakwyn Realty
  The big sell: Bosa built its Electric Avenue complex in 2005 on the corner of Smithe and Burrard streets with
  
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• The Home Front: Design scents

  20-10-2018 14:33 via vancouversun.com
  Sydney-based designer Henry Wilson of Studio Henry Wilson is appealing to our sense of sight and smell with his latest product for the home — an oil burner for Australian luxury skin care brand Aesop.
  Designing an oil burner was never something Wilson says he pictured himself doing, graduating from the Netherlands’ Design Academy Eindhoven before returning to Australia to set up his successful studio, where he’s focused on furniture and industrial design.
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• Growing pains as companies try to move fish farms from ocean to land

  20-10-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  Each time the food dispenser starts up at Golden Eagle Aquaculture, the water boils with supple, perfect coho salmon.
  They are Ocean Wise recommended and a Seafood Watch green light best choice — a conservationist’s dream. The flesh is invitingly red, delicious and rich in omega-3s.
  Land-based tanks are dimly lit to simulate winter light levels in order to trick the fish into growing faster, while delaying sexual maturity. It is one of many tricks needed to grow salmon outside the oc
  
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• Comets clean up: Canucks’ affiliate in Utica breaks AHL sellout record

  20-10-2018 09:26 via theprovince.com
  Remember the days, not so very long ago, when the Vancouver Canucks regularly sold out every home game?
  Well, the streak remains alive with the NHL team’s American Hockey League affiliate.
  The Utica Comets announced a sellout for their game against the Cleveland Monsters Friday night, stretching their string of packed houses to 121 games.
  That breaks the existing record, held by the St. John’s Icecaps, which sold out their AHL arena 120 times from Oct. 10, 2011, to Oct. 26, 2014.
  The
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Bergeron is the straw that stirs Bruins’ drink

  20-10-2018 08:00 via theprovince.com
  NEXT GAME: Saturday
  Boston Bruins at Vancouver Canucks
  7 p.m., Rogers Arena, SNET 1, City, SNET 650 AMTHE BIG MATCHUP
  Brandon Sutter vs. Patrice Bergeron
  Patrice Bergeron is many things — leader, prime-time playmaker, Selke Trophy candidate and a beast in the circle. He was not only tied for second in league scoring entering NHL action on Friday — 13 points (6-7) in seven games and player-of-the-week honours — the Bruins’ centre has a 58.2 per cent face-off efficiency.
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• Tommy Chong helps celebrate legalized marijuana in Kelowna

  20-10-2018 07:59 via globalnews.ca
  Some call him the ultimate stoner. Comedian and marijuana activist Tommy Chong was the guest star at a party Friday night in Kelowna organized to celebrate pot legalization in Canada. Fans lined up to meet Chong and get his autograph. Doris Maria Bregolisse reports.
  
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• Eskimos lose control of their playoff hopes in loss to Lions

  20-10-2018 07:57 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Lions beat the Edmonton Eskimos 42-32 on Friday night, securing a playoff spot and further diminishing the chances of the Eskimos making it.
  
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• Ed Willes: Posey picks perfect time to shine for playoff-bound Lions

  20-10-2018 07:41 via theprovince.com
  The B.C. Lions have been called many things this season: frustrating, confusing, underachieving — did we mention frustrating?
  Now you can call them something else: a CFL playoff team.
  Here’s what we learned from the B.C. Lions’ 42-32 victory over the Edmonton Eskimos on Friday night at B.C. Place Stadium:
  Things didn’t start smoothly for the Lions, but a 95-yard touchdown return by Chris Rainey helped propel B.C. to a win — and a guaranteed playoff berth.
  Slow start
  
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• Kelowna’s Aqua Resort project looking for new development partner

  20-10-2018 06:54 via globalnews.ca
  The offering has been listed at a whopping $60 million.
  
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• Joint-smoking passenger in Saanich car slapped with $230 fine

  20-10-2018 06:45 via globalnews.ca
  Cannabis may be legal across Canada now, but that doesn't mean you can hotbox your car.
  
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• Telus launches new charity to help disadvantaged youth with record $120M donation

  20-10-2018 06:41 via vancouversun.com
  Telus has launched a charitable foundation designed to help Canada’s disadvantaged youth with a $120-million donation.
  The TELUS Friendly Future Foundation “will help youth succeed in our digital society through better access to critical health and educational opportunities,” said Telus CEO Darren Entwistle.
  He said the foundation and the $120-million endowment would provide “financial grants to grassroots charities across Cana
  
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• Sunshine Coast dream homes become nightmares as sinkholes threaten subdivision

  20-10-2018 06:17 via globalnews.ca
  Sinkholes and erosion have turned the dream of home ownership into an expensive nightmare for residents of a Sechelt neighbourhood.
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: IIO's legal win over recalcitrant Vancouver police officers a sign of the times

  20-10-2018 06:09 via vancouversun.com
  At the end of his rookie year as head of B.C.’s Independent Investigations Office, Ronald MacDonald was talking positively about the two-year struggle to force Vancouver police officers to obey the law.
  He was even singing the praises of Chief Adam Palmer who — as his men thumbed their nose at giving statements about a police shooting — suggested the IIO was incompetent.
  “I’d rather focus on going forward, than looking backward,” MacDonald maintained.
  “I
  
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• Police confirm suspicious death of B.C. artist Zube Aylward was a homicide

  20-10-2018 05:43 via theprovince.com
  Police say the suspicious death of a B.C. artist near Seton Portage has been confirmed as a homicide.
  Officers were called out Saturday afternoon to investigate a kidnapping and suspicious death.
  In a news release issued Friday, police also confirmed the identity of the deceased as 71-year-old Patrick (Zube) Aylward.
  They say his body was found on a rural road outside of Seton Portage, about 25 kilometres west of Lillooet.
  RCMP spokesman Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said investigators believe it was a &ldq
  
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• Sunshine Coast dream homes may be worthless due to sinkholes

  20-10-2018 05:21 via globalnews.ca
  It looks like the perfect neighborhood: large homes perched on a crest overlooking the Sechelt Inlet. But unstable ground has created a nightmare for residents. Aaron McArthur has more on who’s being blamed.
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Oct. 19

  20-10-2018 05:00 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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• Surrey election 2018 cheat sheet: A last-minute voter’s guide to candidates, issues

  20-10-2018 04:39 via globalnews.ca
  Police investigations, municipal elections and voter fraud all together seem like the perfect script of a Hollywood political thriller — but the people of Surrey are living this script in real life, with the mayoral race wrapping up on Saturday.
  
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• ‘That shouldn’t be happening’: B.C. education minister responds to special needs complaints

  20-10-2018 04:38 via globalnews.ca
  Parents say their kids aren't getting the supports they need, including time with special education assistants.
  
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• COMMENTARY: Can the BC NDP carbon tax plan stand up under pressure?

  20-10-2018 04:36 via globalnews.ca
  Can the BC NDP government’s plan to hike the province’s carbon tax to $50 a tonne by 2021 hold up in the face of a growing number of premiers opposed to the very idea of such a tax?
  
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