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• Whistler’s Cornucopia offers the best in food and wine

  29-10-2018 23:59
  
  From tastings to demonstrations to wine makers' dinners, the Cornucopia festival has something for everyone
  
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• Vancouver's Ignite Pizzeria chef named best traditional pie maker in Canada

  29-10-2018 23:59 via vancouversun.com
  Who cares if the story is historically accurate, that Neapolitan Raffaele Esposito invented the modern pizza in 1889 for Queen Margherita of Savoy?
  It’s a great story, the three ingredients — tomatoes, mozzarella and basil — representing the tri-coloured Italian flag.
  Like Esposito, Vancouver pizza chef Giuseppe Cortinovis was a baker in Italy in his hometown of San Pellegrino, before he moved to Vancouver and on Oct. 15 was crowned the pizza (traditional) king of Canada at the
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Recalled Bachman hasn’t lost relentless drive, upbeat demeanour

  29-10-2018 23:32 via theprovince.com
  The mutual admiration between Alex Biega and Richard Bachman is easy to understand.
  They have ridden the pro hockey roller-coaster with smiles plastered on their faces because a love of the game has always trumped being a healthy scratch, exposed to waivers, sent to the minors or being known best as a backup goalie.
  However, if you want to know why the 31-year-old Bachman has played 47 career NHL games with three teams — he will eventually add another with the Vancouver Canucks after being
  
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• VPL receives $5M in largest donation to public library in Canada

  29-10-2018 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  The donation allows the library to implement the second phase of its revitalization plan, which includes additional space for the children's library.
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Crown review of murder prosecution slammed

  29-10-2018 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  Victoria lawyer Kevin McCullough denounced as a whitewash a B.C. Prosecution Service report into the aborted murder trial of his client Larry Darling.
  A Deputy Attorney General ordered internal review released Friday did not address key issues in the botched cold-case prosecution of Darling for the 2006 slaying of 28-year-old Kristy Morrey in Port Alberni, the defence lawyer complained.
  He pointed to claims about the alleged destruction of potentially relevant evidence, the conduct of a deputy r
  
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• Bike theft reports in Vancouver down 30 per cent in last three years

  29-10-2018 23:07
  
  Police credit online bike registration system Project 529
  
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• Vancouver Giants come from behind win shows team’s character

  29-10-2018 22:45 via theprovince.com
  This Vancouver Giants team keeps showing spirit and spunk.
  Sunday’s come-from-behind 3-2 shootout victory over the Brandon Wheat Kings at the Langley Events Centre pushed Vancouver’s record when trailing after two periods to 3-2-1-0.
  The Giants (11-3-2-0 overall), who sit atop the Western Conference standings, are one of two teams in the 22-club WHL with a winning record in that circumstance currently. The others are the league-leading Prince Albert Raiders (15-1-0-0), whose 1-0
  
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• Video: Feast on sustainable seafood at this Richmond hot pot restaurant

  29-10-2018 22:33
  
  The Dolar Shop is the first hot pot restaurant in Canada to partner with Ocean Wise.
  
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• VPL to expand its Children’s Library thanks to $5-million donation

  29-10-2018 22:26
  
  The expansion of the Vancouver Public Library’s central branch will continue with major enhancements to the Children’s Library, thanks to a $5-million private donation.
  
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• MEDICINE MATTERS: Gala tonight for the "New St. Paul's Hospital" – even before it's officially approved

  29-10-2018 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government hasn’t yet announced cabinet and Treasury Board approval for the St. Paul’s Hospital redevelopment plan.
  But that hasn’t stopped donations from pouring in.
  Tomorrow morning, the St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation is set to announce – at the Sheraton Wall Centre – a sizeable donation for the new hospital that is expected to open in 2024 on the False Creek flats.
  Nor has the lack of government approval precluded tonight’s invitation-only ga
  
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• Heavy downpour swamps Vancouver, flooding basements and damaging cars

  29-10-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver is drying out after heavy rain turned some city streets into ponds Sunday night as the downpour overwhelmed leaf-clogged drains and catch basins.
  Deep puddles rose above the curb, flowed across sidewalks and splashed up against street-level businesses in some areas, including the False Creek, Yaletown, Kitsilano and south Vancouver neighbourhoods.
  Meteorologist Russ Lacate said about 25 millimetres of rain swamped the city in less than two hours.
  Vancouver’s manager of engineerin
  
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• Rising from the ashes: Langley couple replaces classic car collection lost to fire last year

  29-10-2018 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  Garry Cassidy remembers the early morning hours of last Oct. 25. It was 3:25 a.m. and he and his wife Darlene were asleep in their Palm Springs getaway home. Suddenly, the phone rang. It was the alarm company saying they were getting a fire signal from the Cassidy’s new 8,500 square-foot classic car showroom at their Langley home.
  Darlene got on her iPad and the live cameras in the shop weren’t transmitting. “This isn’t good,” she told her husband.
  They phoned a nei
  
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• UPDATED: Canucks Game Day: Pettersson’s potential, Nilsson’s injury, another Granlund

  29-10-2018 22:04 via theprovince.com
  BEN KUZMA’S CANUCKS GAME DAY
  Minnesota Wild at Vancouver Canucks
  Monday, 7 p.m., Rogers Arena, Sportsnet Pacific, Sportsnet 650Vancouver Canucks’ Elias Pettersson, of Sweden, skates during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Vancouver, on Saturday October 27, 2018.
  THE BIG MATCHUP
  Pettersson versus Dubnyk
  Elias Pettersson wasn’t credited with a shot Saturday in a 5-0 loss to Pittsburgh, but what the slick Swedish centre did creatively bodes
  
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• Theatre review: Sex with Strangers focuses on how online world meets real life

  29-10-2018 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Sex with Strangers
  When: To Nov. 10
  Where: Studio 16, 1555 W. 7th Ave.
  Tickets and info: $13-$31 at mitchandmurrayproductions.comSex with Strangers is the title of both American playwright Laura Eason’s dramatic two-hander and her character Ethan’s best-selling book about his sexual adventures, based on his super-popular blog.
  It’s also (spoiler alert) what happens soon after Ethan meets frustrated novelist Olivia at an isolated Michigan writers’ retreat. The sex is frequ
  
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• Aidan’s Cup gives sick kids the chance to ride super cars around Pitt Meadows track

  29-10-2018 21:51 via theprovince.com
  It’s difficult to say which were brighter on a recent Saturday afternoon at Pitt Meadows Airport: the smiles or the skies.
  Perfect weather proved the perfect backdrop for the second annual Aidan’s Cup, a Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada event giving wish kids and their families the opportunity to rip around a temporary race track in a stunning selection of super cars.
  The idea is the brainchild of friends and family of Aidan MacAulay, a North Vancouver teenager who lost his
  
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• Oh the places Gregor Robertson will go!

  29-10-2018 21:43 via globalnews.ca
  While at a media event at the Vancouver Public Library on Monday, outgoing mayor Gregor Robertson tells Global News his plans for after he leaves office. Robertson also shares one of his favourite books.
  
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• Heavy downpour swamps Vancouver, flooding basements and damaging cars - The Province

  29-10-2018 21:32
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  Heavy downpour swamps Vancouver, flooding basements and damaging cars
  The Province
  Vancouver is drying out after heavy rain turned some city streets into ponds Sunday night as the downpour overwhelmed leaf-clogged drains and catch basins. Deep puddles rose above the curb, flowed across sidewalks and splashed up against street-level ...
  Heavy rainfall leads to foot-deep waters flooding Metro Vancouver roadsCBC.ca
  Heavy rain, foot-deep waters flood metro Vancouver roadsThe Weath
  
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• Much-loved Campagnolo Roma says ciao to East Vancouver

  29-10-2018 21:26
  
  After seven busy, community-building years, one of the only upscale eateries in Hastings-Sunrise is closing the lid on its last pizza box.
  
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• Three people charged in connection with Granville Street stabbings

  29-10-2018 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Two men and a youth have been charged in connection with a brawl that sent four people to hospital, three with serious stab wounds, in Downtown Vancouver earlier this month.
  On Oct. 20, Vancouver police were called to Granville Street near Helmcken Street just after 3 a.m. to break up a fight between two groups made up of men and women in their 20s and early 30s.
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  Four people sent to hospital after early-morning fight in Vancouver
  When officers arrived, they discovered thre
  
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• Red, itchy, scaly skin: Why Canadians with psoriasis continue to suffer in silence

  29-10-2018 20:55 via globalnews.ca
  Rosamond Turner, 25, from Toronto dealt with psoriasis for most of her adult life. Her outbreaks got so bad that she couldn't leave the house.
  
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• Most Greyhound routes in B.C. to be covered by year end says province

  29-10-2018 20:55
  
  Eighty three per cent of Greyhound routes that are set to disappear Oct. 31 will be covered by other private operators by the end of the year, the provincial government announced Oct. 29.
  
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• 100-year anniversary of flu pandemic

  29-10-2018 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Emily Newhouse from Vancouver Coastal Health explains how dangerous the flu virus can be and the millions of people who have died from it around the world since being identified in 1918.
  
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• 100-year anniversary of 1918 flu pandemic

  29-10-2018 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  Dr. Emily Newhouse from Vancouver Coastal Health explains how the flu virus has killed millions of people around the world since it was identified over a hundred years ago.
  
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• ‘Dark Poutine’ podcast explores B.C.’s grisly past

  29-10-2018 20:46 via globalnews.ca
  The Surrey based podcasters behind “Dark Poutine” share some of their favourite true crime stories covered over the first year of their show.
  
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• Metro Vancouver municipal elections clarify cannabis retail rules

  29-10-2018 20:43
  
  Elections in 21 municipalities across Metro Vancouver have lined up 16 new mayors and have clarified retail sales rules for cannabis around the region.
  
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• New bus operators step in to replace 83% of Greyhound's lost routes in B.C.

  29-10-2018 20:38 via vancouversun.com
  Private bus operators have stepped in to cover most of the routes that Greyhound is abandoning with at least some semblance of service, B.C. Transportation Minister Claire Trevena and the Passenger Transportation Board announced Monday.
  Far corners of the province, however, such as points farther north than Fort Nelson and a link to the Alberta border through Dawson Creek will be out of luck in the patchwork of replacements when Greyhound ends service Wednesday.
  Greyhound Canada, in July, announ
  
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• KISS reveals ‘End of the Road’ farewell tour dates, 5 of them in Canada

  29-10-2018 19:43 via globalnews.ca
  KISS' final tour will feature a whopping 44 shows in North America in early 2019.
  
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• Project 529 helps position Vancouver as world leader in fighting bike theft

  29-10-2018 19:30 via vancouversun.com
  An app to fight bike theft adopted by the Vancouver police three years ago has grown into a community initiative that’s being described as one of the best in the world.
  Known as Project 529 in Canada, the app and how it’s being used by the Vancouver police has resulted in a dramatic and sustained drop in bike thefts. Its success in expanding beyond the police to include bike stores and community groups is one reason why the World Bank believes it has potential application in other ci
  
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• British Columbia will have 83% of Greyhound’s routes filled when company ‘abandons’ routes Wednesday

  29-10-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  B.C. Transportation minister Claire Trevena says a majority of the province will be covered by bus service after Greyhound 'abandons' the province on October 31.
  
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• Movie Review: Movie Minute looks at coming of age flick Mid90s

  29-10-2018 19:07 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia movie critic Dana Gee and Arts & LIfe editor Aleesha Harris talk about the new Jonah Hill written/directed film Mid90s. Has the Hollywood bro made a successful move to behind the camera with this small film starring Sunny Suljic and Hollywood “it” guy Lucas Hedges? Check out the new Movie Minute to find out.
   
  
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• Kenneth Green: Trudeau government carbon-tax plan is rife with problems

  29-10-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  In case you hadn’t heard, the Trudeau government revealed last week how it would implement the federal “backstop” plan for provinces that, according to Ottawa, have inadequate carbon tax schemes. In essence, the federal government wants to tax the people in non-compliant provinces, and then hand them most of the money back directly in lump-sum rebates.
  Sadly, this approach embodies the fallacy behind carbon pricing generally. The first and most fallacious idea is that one can s
  
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• Sunday’s downpour causes flooding across Vancouver with more rain to come

  29-10-2018 18:48
  
  The Vancouver weather forecast is calling for seven straight days of rain after heavy rainfall caused localized flooding in the city.
  
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• Pedestrian dies after being struck by bus in Delta

  29-10-2018 18:46 via vancouversun.com
  A man was killed Saturday night in Delta after he was struck by a bus while attempting to cross River Road.
  The accident happened just before 11:30 in the 7200 Block of River Road in Delta’s Tilbury area.“The bus was travelling eastbound, and it was raining and dark at the time of the crash,” Delta police said in a press release.
  Police say the pedestrian, a man in his 40s, was pronounced dead at the scene.  His name has not been released, as police say his next of ki
  
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• 2019's top five real estate investment towns in Western Canada

  29-10-2018 18:33
  
  Site of Canada’s biggest private investment and a Lower Mainland hotspot included in the Western Investor annual spotlight on the best places to buy real estate
  
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• Kiss kicks off farewell tour in Vancouver

  29-10-2018 18:29
  
  Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Kiss haven’t been around “100,000 Years” — just a mere 45 — but they are set to “Rock and Roll All Nite” when they kick off their farewell “End of the Road” tour here in Vancouver.
  
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• Kamloops set to approve first of B.C.’s private legal pot shops

  29-10-2018 17:56 via globalnews.ca
  'It's a great opportunity that doesn't come along too often in a generation, so for us to be a part of this historic time is very exciting,' said retail applicant Chris Lyth.
  
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• While Remembrance Day is about honour, it can trigger tough emotions for some veterans

  29-10-2018 17:49 via vancouversun.com
  Angela Ayre at the Military Family Resource Centre in Vancouver.
   
  Angela Ayre proudly served in the Canadian military for 14 years until an injury forced her to resign prematurely. Her transition to civilian life was relatively smooth compared to many of her colleagues. Yet the mention of Remembrance Day brings a visceral response of grief and regret.
  “It’s definitely a difficult time. It’s hard that I’m still here and other people have lost their lives. And some pe
  
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• Incumbent Cindy Fortin wins draw and will continue on as mayor of Peachland

  29-10-2018 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  A judicial recount will take place in Peachland Monday in an effort to determine who will be the community's mayor after a tie between incumbent mayor Cindy Fortin and challenger Harry Gough.
  
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• Colder weather brings rats indoors

  29-10-2018 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  Winter's coming and rodents are looking for a warm place to live.
  
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• New Pixar animated short film called ‘Bao’

  29-10-2018 16:41 via globalnews.ca
  The director and producer of a new Pixar animated short film called “Bao” speak with Sonia Sunger about the inspiration for their film, and all the attention it is garnering.
  
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• Tsawwassen Springs development blocked by Agricultural Land Commission

  29-10-2018 16:35
  
  Proposal to build 60 more townhouses and remove parcel from ALR is denied, despite arguments that land isn't farmed and soil is not suitable for farming
  
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• More rotating strikes by postal workers in B.C. on Monday

  29-10-2018 16:17 via globalnews.ca
  A total of 3,400 postal workers in Metro Vancouver were off the job last Friday.
  
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• Heavy rain causes flooding across Metro Vancouver

  29-10-2018 16:01 via globalnews.ca
  Parts of Metro Vancouver received heavy rain Sunday night, leading to localized flooding and creating dangerous conditions. There were reports of people abandoning their vehicles.
  
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• Puppies stranded for days on Mission cliff rescued after woman sounds alarm

  29-10-2018 15:57 via vancouversun.com
  Two St. Bernard-cross puppies are safe and warm after being rescued from the side of a cliff in Mission.
  A search and rescue team plucked the 16-week-old female pups from the cliff on Sunday, four days after a resident said she heard dogs howling from somewhere in the bush near her home.
  Mission Search and Rescue search manager Dean Osen says the team usually does not rescue animals but decided to step in after learning a group of concerned citizens planned to try to reach the dogs in the challe
  
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• Fragmented bus service market emerges as Greyhound exits Western Canada this week

  29-10-2018 15:51 via globalnews.ca
  Greyhound is being replaced by a mix of provincial government-subsidized services, Indigenous-owned bus lines, locally owned startups, flexible fleets of shuttle buses and a scattering of formal and informal ride-sharing services.
  
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• Daily Poll: Do you understand your electoral reform ballot?

  29-10-2018 15:41 via vancouversun.com
  Some British Columbians are scratching their heads as they fill out their mail-in ballots for the province’s referendum on electoral reform.
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  The ballot’s first question &
  
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• Vancouver Weather: It's dark and damp … and this is our life now

  29-10-2018 14:52 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Oct. 29, 2018 – Remember the sun, friends?  Maybe look at pictures of it over the next little while, because who knows when we will see it again.
  Rain dominates the weekly Vancouver weather forecast.
  Expect showers today and a high of 11 C with more of same on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. There is also a full slate of rain coming our way next weekend.We must learn to love the sog. Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Increasing cloudiness. Showers beginning t
  
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• Concert Announcement: KISS will kick off final tour in Vancouver

  29-10-2018 14:23 via vancouversun.com
  Rock and roll legends KISS will kick off their End of the Road tour, hyped as the band’s final tour event, at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Jan. 31.
  After 45 years, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and the boys (currently Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer) are apparently ready to hang up their costumes and put their makeup kits away.“All that we have built and all that we have conquered over the past four decades could never have happened without the millions of people worldwide who’ve fil
  
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• Localized flooding in parts of Metro Vancouver after Sunday night rainstorm

  29-10-2018 13:56 via globalnews.ca
  Several residents of Yaletown used hockey sticks to try to unclog plugged street drains.
  
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• LRT will be cancelled at new council’s 1st meeting Surrey mayor-elect Doug McCallum says

  29-10-2018 13:54 via globalnews.ca
  McCallum says about 20 per cent of the line to Langley along the Fraser Highway will be at ground level, costing less than an entirely elevated system.
  
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