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• Steve Ewen: Giants’ bench boss dishes on his influences, improving team’s future

  31-10-2018 23:59 via theprovince.com
  If you see a little Don Hay in these Vancouver Giants, it’s not by accident.
  Head coach Michael Dyck was an assistant to Hay during the Giants’ glory years. Before that, Dyck had worked for another of the WHL’s long-standing bench bosses when he was part of Bryan Maxwell’s staff with the Lethbridge Hurricanes.
  He talked about that, about returning to coach in the WHL for the first time since his run at the helm with Lethbridge — that included a spot in the 2008 leag
  
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• Dramatic take-down of three Vancouver suspects injures 75-year-old bystander

  31-10-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  A dramatic take-down of three break-in suspects last night in Vancouver, ended up with an arrest that injured a 75-year-old bystander.
  
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• Judge orders ballot recount in District of West Vancouver

  31-10-2018 23:50 via vancouversun.com
  A provincial judge has ordered a recount of ballots in the District of West Vancouver in response to a complaint following a close election in which a mayoral candidate lost by 21 votes and a council candidate lost by 20.
  The court application was filed Monday by former mayor Michael Smith, who did not run for re-election, on behalf of the man he endorsed to replace him, lawyer Mark Sager. Sager came within 21 votes of former councillor Mary-Ann Booth who won the mayor’s seat.
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• Claire Fenton

  31-10-2018 23:43 via globalnews.ca
  Claire Fenton is a producer at Global BC. 
  
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• B.C. paramedic designs international translator for dealing with non-English speakers

  31-10-2018 23:40 via vancouversun.com
  One in 32 residents of British Columbia does not speak either official language as their mother tongue according to the 2016 census, and that doesn’t include all the tourists who don’t speak English.
  This makes it difficult when first responders are attempting emergency medical aid and are unable to communicate with patients.
  Sunshine Coast paramedic James Shearer thinks he’s come up with an answer, the Emergency Medical Translator.
  “The idea came through my lack of under
  
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• Halloween comes to BC Children’s Hospital (PHOTOS)

  31-10-2018 23:32
  
  BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre’s held its annual Halloween trick-or-treat event for patients and their families Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Federal government announces new measures for killer whale protection

  31-10-2018 23:32 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The federal government has announced the creation of new ocean sanctuaries and chinook salmon enhancements, directing an additional $61.5 million to protect endangered killer whales.
  Fisheries and Oceans Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says the government is looking at creating new areas of critical habitat off the west coast of Vancouver Island for southern resident killer whales.
  Wilkinson says the protected areas of Swiftsure, in the Juan de Fuca Strait between Vancouver Island
  
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• Grouse Mountain Skyride will be out of service Nov. 1-12

  31-10-2018 23:30 via vancouversun.com
  If you plan on hiking up the Grouse Grind in the next couple weeks, you better be ready to hike down the mountain as well.
  Starting Thursday, Grouse Mountain Resort’s Skyride gondola, which many hikers use to descend the mountain, will be closed for maintenance until Nov. 12, along with all mountaintop facilities, including restrooms.
  During that time, the only way down Grouse Mountain will be via the BCMC trail, which can add an extra two hours of hiking time.Metro Vancouver reminds hiker
  
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• Original Seattle Seahawks head coach Jack Patera dies at 85

  31-10-2018 23:20 via theprovince.com
  RENTON, Wash. — Jack Patera, the first head coach in the history of the Seattle Seahawks, has died at age 85.
  Patera died on Wednesday, the team said. The cause of death was not clear, but Patera had been battling pancreatic cancer.
  Patera was Seattle’s head coach for parts of seven seasons, beginning with the team’s inaugural season in 1976. Patera’s best seasons came in 1978-79 when the Seahawks went 9-7 in consecutive years, but failed to make the playoffs.
  Patera was
  
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• B.C. anti-fish farm group claims sea lice are growing more resistant to drug

  31-10-2018 23:15 via globalnews.ca
  An anti-fish farm group says sea lice, which infect farmed salmon in B.C.'s waters, are growing more resistant to an anti-parasite drug and nothing is being done to stop it.
  
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• Woman who grabbed boy on bus not criminally responsible: judge

  31-10-2018 23:14 via vancouversun.com
  A Vernon woman who grabbed a boy on a bus and attempted to take the child away from his great-grandmother has been found not criminally responsible due to a mental disorder.
  On Oct. 11, 2016, Gabriel Hunter Gibson got on the B.C. Transit bus after Rebecca Johnson and her four-year-old great-grandson, who can only be identified by the initials D.G., had boarded the vehicle.
  During the bus trip Gibson spoke to Johnson, asked how old the boy was and where they were going.
  When the bus stopped at a
  
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• 'Happy Howl-o-ween': Vancouverites dress dogs in Halloween costumes (PHOTOS)

  31-10-2018 23:09
  
  If you're in need of a cute fix this afternoon
  
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• Vancouver anti-drone company granted injunction against competitor in technology case

  31-10-2018 23:03 via vancouversun.com
  A Vancouver anti-drone technology company has been granted an injunction against a competitor and former employees it claims stole its technology.
  SkyCope Technologies has spent $1.5 million to develop technology that allows users to redirect rogue drones in unauthorized zones such as airports or helipads — a valuable technology given the rise in private drone use. The company plans to market its product in North America and China.
  In August, SkyCope filed a civil suit against Bluevec, a c
  
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• Court rejects secrecy bid in court case over alleged spying on anti-pipeline activists

  31-10-2018 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  The federal government has lost in a bid to go behind closed doors in a prominent court case about allegations of spying on anti-pipeline activists.
  
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• Industrial demand drives Metro Vancouver land prices sky-high

  31-10-2018 22:51
  
  Sales cresting over $120 million per month as developers battle for space
  
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• Mother of murdered Burnaby teen Marrisa Shen to get translator in court

  31-10-2018 22:50 via globalnews.ca
  Shen's mother requested a Mandarin interpreter earlier this month so she can understand court proceedings in her daughter's case.
  
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• UBC ranked 29th in Best Global Universities report

  31-10-2018 22:47
  
  UBC had a Global Score of 76.9, which gave it the second highest ranking in Canada
  
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• Vancouver’s enjoyably snarky Elbow Room has closed

  31-10-2018 22:44
  
  The last cheeky remark and plate of “Big Ass Pancakes” were handed out Tuesday at Vancouver’s storied Elbow Room.
  
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• B.C. looks to prescribed burns to fight wildfires, regenerate ecosystems

  31-10-2018 22:29 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — The B.C.’s government says it supports starting its own fires to control wildfires.
  A report from the Forests Ministry says it now endorses controlled burns as a fire-fighting tool and plans are underway to allow its expanded use.
  The burns are part of a plan arising from an independent report that made 108 recommendations to overhaul disaster response practices after devastating wildfires and floods in 2017.
  Former B.C. Liberal cabinet minister George Abbott and Indigenou
  
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• Alberta premier tells B.C. steelworkers that jobs at risk without Trans Mountain

  31-10-2018 22:28 via vancouversun.com
  KAMLOOPS — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said it’s “just dumb” that the Canadian economy is losing millions of dollars a day because her province can’t get its oil to world markets.
  Notley took her message on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion to steelworkers meeting in Kamloops Wednesday.
  She warned them that jobs across the country — including theirs — are at risk every day the Trans Mountain project doesn’t go ahead.
  She repeated her oft-made
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Gaudette’s willingness to ‘sell out’ on every shift impresses Green

  31-10-2018 22:12 via theprovince.com
  Life moves fast.
  Like his former high-octane Northeastern University linemates, Adam Gaudette could be learning the professional game in the AHL. However, when Jay Beagle suffered a forearm fracture blocking a shot Oct. 13, the recalled Hobey Baker Award winner dived into the deep end of the development pool with the Vancouver Canucks.
  He wouldn’t have it any other way.
  After all, when Gaudette, Dylan Sikura and Nolan Stevens combined for a gaudy 76 goals and 156 points last season before
  
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• Six tips to keep kids safe this Halloween

  31-10-2018 22:05
  
  Ditch the mask, stick together and carry a flashlight
  
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• Bail hearing for Sagmoen put over for one day

  31-10-2018 21:53 via globalnews.ca
  Curtis Wayne Sagmoen is facing several charges, including intentionally discharging a firearm and disguising his face with intent to commit an offence.
  
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• Murdered Burnaby girl's mom gets interpreter but group questions why she had to ask

  31-10-2018 21:32 via vancouversun.com
  The mother of a 13-year-old girl murdered in Burnaby will get a Mandarin interpreter so she can understand what’s going on in the trial of the man accused of the crime, the Attorney General’s Ministry says.
  “In addition to the interpretation services, the family will continue to have access to support from victim services throughout court proceedings,” the ministry said in an email, adding privacy rules prevent it from disclosing specific services that have been provided.
  
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• Trick-or-treaters visit Global News Morning

  31-10-2018 21:08 via globalnews.ca
  Happy Halloween! Look who showed up at the Global News Morning door? Adorable trick-or-treaters visit the Global BC studio in their Halloween costumes.
  
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• BC SPCA investigates dead cat found tied with zap straps in Maple Ridge

  31-10-2018 21:08 via globalnews.ca
  It was found in Cook Park on a swing last Friday and animal cruelty investigators are trying to determine if the cat was dead or alive when it was tied up.
  
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• Rock on: Six shows to catch this November and December

  31-10-2018 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  The weather hasn’t really delivered the heavy-duty fall rains and overcast days, but it will. And when it does, that sense that it’s time to get into a concert hall or art space and out of the deluge will come.
  With only two months remaining in 2018, many have already started putting together their best shows of the year lists. We think that’s premature.
  Because there are still a number of key musical events remaining and, no, we’re not talking Christmas concerts. In fact
  
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• Knowledge Network documentary series offers view into North Van mental health facility

  31-10-2018 20:58 via vancouversun.com
  Living in HOpe
  When: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 9 p.m.
  Where: Knowledge NetworkKnowledge Network’s new documentary series, Living in HOpe, is a bit of a surprise.
  Billed as a look inside the HOpe Centre in North Vancouver, the series isn’t a by-the-numbers talking head. There is no Vaseline on the lens here. Instead, Living in HOpe is an up-close, front-row seat to the ups and downs and everything in between at a psychiatric care facility.
  “We set up a bunch of cool artsy shots
  
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• Douglas Todd: Probe launched on behalf of B.C. prof who exposed fake journals

  31-10-2018 20:39 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty today launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University economist Derek Pyne has had his academic freedom violated.
  Pyne, who has been suspended since July by administrators at the Kamloops university, gained international media attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers after publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predato
  
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• VPD dog mistakenly bites 75-year-old Vancouver man during arrest of burglary suspects

  31-10-2018 20:38
  
  Vancouver police are reviewing how one their police dogs mistakenly bit a 75-year-old man Tuesday in the parking lot of the former Fraser Arms hotel.
  
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• Trick or treat on Cloverdale set of Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

  31-10-2018 20:38 via vancouversun.com
  Netflix is offering a witchy treat to kids in Cloverdale this Halloween.
  The streaming service is filming parts of the second season of The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina — the latest adaptation of the Sabrina the Teenage Witch comic books, which debuted last week — in a downtown Cloverdale storefront that has been turned into the Cerberus bookstore for the series.
  Trick or treaters can stop by the Cerberus set (5646 176th St. between 4 and 7 p.m. for candy handouts an
  
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• Q&A: Opening Ceremony designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon bring Mickey Mouse collection to Vancouver

  31-10-2018 20:18 via vancouversun.com
  Opening Ceremony designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon
  When: November 8; 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
  Where: Holt Renfrew, 737 Dunsmuir St, Vancouver
  Free: 604-681-3121Mickey Mouse, the beloved cartoon character created by Walt Disney, is turning 90.
  His milestone birthday is being celebrated by the fashion world with several collections and collaborations, including one by the brand Opening Ceremony.
  We caught up with American brand’s designers Carol Lim and Humberto Leon to chat
  
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• High tech Halloween devices

  31-10-2018 20:18 via globalnews.ca
  Make your front entrance extra spooky for trick or treaters this Halloween using the high tech devices and apps showcased by Get Connected Media’s Mike Agerbo.
  
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• B.C. winter forecast: Dry pattern to spell shortened 2018-19 ski season

  31-10-2018 20:18
  
  You'll want to hit the slopes early this ski season
  
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• B.C. steelworker jobs at risk without Trans Mountain: Alberta premier

  31-10-2018 19:56 via globalnews.ca
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says it's "just dumb" that the Canadian economy is losing millions of dollars a day because the province can't get its oil to world markets.
  
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• Haunted B.C.: Ghost stories from around the province

  31-10-2018 19:45 via globalnews.ca
  Did you know B.C. has its own legendary phantom ship?
  
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• Property taxes drive Vancouver retailers to the wall

  31-10-2018 19:38
  
  This week Dulux Paints said it is closing its store at 2091 West Broadway, which has been operating for nearly 40 years, also blaming high commercial property taxes for its decision to end its longtime run on Broadway.
  
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• West Vancouver civic election: Judge hears judicial recount request

  31-10-2018 19:20 via globalnews.ca
  Narrow results for the district's top job and one council seat are in question. 
  
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• Vancouver Giants leading scorer Malm asks for trade and team obliges with deal to Calgary

  31-10-2018 19:16 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants have dealt leading scorer James Malm to the Calgary Hitmen, in exchange for fellow forward Tristen Nielsen.
  In their announcement the Giants said that Malm, 19, a Langley native, had asked to be traded.
  Nielsen, 18, had left the Hitmen earlier this season in a bid to get a trade as well. He’s from Fort St. John, B.C.
  Malm had nine goals and 15 points through 13 games with Vancouver this season. He had missed the past three games with an upper-body injury. He had 19 goa
  
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• Drink this: Blacksmith Brown Ale by Wheelhouse Brewing Co.

  31-10-2018 19:16
  
  Prince Rupert’s Wheelhouse Brewing Co. is one of the pioneers of the Northern B.C. craft beer scene, and they’ll be celebrating their fifth anniversary in December, which is a pretty big deal.
  
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• Last Greyhound to roll through Penticton today; lack of replacement strands passengers in South Okanagan, Similkameen

  31-10-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  Historians will be gathering at the Penticton Greyhound terminal to mark the last departure from the station.
  
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• Wine Guy: A good Syrah really sings

  31-10-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  Syrah and I go through phases. Indeed, it’s fair to say that we have an on-again, off-again relationship. I mean, it was bold Syrah — well actually, they were mostly labelled Shiraz (which is the same grape) — that largely got me jazzed about wine way back in the beginning, thanks to bottles that offered larger than life aromas and flavours that bedazzled the palate.
  But after time their overtness proved to be too much, almost offering an affront to tastebuds. Of course, the re
  
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• The It List: Knix Catalyst bra

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The product: Knix Catalyst sports bra
  Why we love it: A good sports bra can be hard to find, especially if you have a larger chest. Some bras are too unsupportive, while others just serve to squish rather than support.
  That’s where the Knix Catalyst sports bra comes in.
  The bra reportedly took three years to develop and 42 prototypes were created. The designs were tested and perfected, according to the company, by three universities in three countries. Moulded cups keep breasts separated a
  
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• Q&A: Lindsay Wong talks about her memoir The Woo Woo

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  The Woo Woo
  How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
  Lindsay Wong (Arsenal Pulp)
  $19.95 | 316pp
  From “red-eyed hockey fury” and oft-kilter personalities to lost minds and a “chubby wannabe gangster with pimples,” first-time author Lindsay Wong’s West Coast memoir is one hallucinatory cautionary tale about youth, parenting, and family gone wildly awry. By turns disturbingly brutal and utterly surreal, Wong’s unexpectedly comica
  
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• Letters to The Province, Nov. 1, 2018: Low voter turnout is a bigger problem than how we elect MLAs, reader says

  31-10-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  While opinions for and against a proportional voting system abound, we’re missing the real problem, which is low voter turnout.
  If the vast majority of voters were casting their ballots, then I think we’d be satisfied that democracy was working. But if we simply change over to another system where less than 60 per cent of eligible voters determine who governs us, then I suggest that system, too, will be flawed.
  To increase voter turnout the government should give
  
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• EAT! Pastry event celebrates 'dessert elite' (with recipe)

  31-10-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  EAT! Pastry
  When: Nov. 10, 2-4 p.m.
  Where: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront Ballroom (1133 West Hastings St., Vancouver)
  Tickets and info: $79 plus tax, $99 plus tax for VIP; eat-vancouver.com/eat-pastryIf you fancy all things sweet over savoury, then you’re in for a true treat.
  The EAT! Pastry event, which is part of the larger EAT! Vancouver food and drink festival, is set to highlight some of the “dessert elite” for an evening of delectable dishes and seasonal cocktails.
  Mor
  
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• Douglas Todd: Investigation launched into possible breach of B.C. prof's academic freedom

  31-10-2018 18:39 via vancouversun.com
  The association representing Canadian university faculty today launched an investigation to determine whether Thompson Rivers University economist Derek Pyne has had his academic freedom violated.
  Pyne, who has been suspended since July by administrators at the Kamloops university, gained international media attention for his peer-reviewed research into the way faculty in his own department were advancing their careers after publishing in deceptive academic journals, also known as “predato
  
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• Bubble Trouble gum released in time for Halloween trick or treating

  31-10-2018 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  Some lucky trick or treaters in Vancouver will be scoring a special tasty treat this Halloween.
  Among their haul of candy could be QA Chew’s Bubble Trouble, an artist-edition gum designed in collaboration with Grade 6 and 7 students at Queen Alexandra Elementary.
  Artists Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling spent a year with a class at the school researching, developing and prototyping the gum. The final flavour was chosen by students in a vote.
  The gum’s distinctive mauve packaging d
  
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• Three arrested in Vancouver break-ins, police dog bites bystander

  31-10-2018 18:16 via theprovince.com
  Three people have been arrested in connection with a series of break-ins in Vancouver on Wednesday, which also ended up with a police dog biting a bystander on the leg by mistake.
  Vancouver police say at around 5:30 p.m., officers found three men in a parking lot at Granville Street and Southwest Marine Drive. Police allege the men were involved in a break-in at a home less than an hour before on West 37th Avenue near Granville Street.
  Police allege the same group of men committed similar crimes
  
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• 3 men arrested, bystander bitten by police dog following Vancouver crime spree

  31-10-2018 18:11 via globalnews.ca
  Three men were arrested and a bystander was bitten a police dog following a crime spree in Vancouver on Tuesday.
  
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