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• Pumpkin carving mocks Vancouver’s real estate market

  03-11-2018 23:57
  
  Can you relate to this pumpkin carving?
  
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• PJ on the road: Canucks reporter’s look at hockey, Hurricanes, humility

  03-11-2018 23:45 via theprovince.com
  An occasional prospectus of what it’s like covering a National Hockey League team on the road for the first time:
  The text message on my phone when I landed in Raleigh, N.C., seemed ominous.
  “Not sure we’re going to Tampa on Wednesday. Hurricane.”
  Welcome to life on the road covering the Vancouver Canucks, I thought.
  Of course, when we boarded the airplane to Tampa that Wednesday, it looked like we had avoided the catastrophic storm that would smash its way across the Flo
  
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• Outgoing Port Moody mayor Mike Clay reflects on election loss

  03-11-2018 23:42 via vancouversun.com
  For 13 years, Mike Clay has served his hometown of Port Moody on council and as mayor.
  In that time, he’s been instrumental in reducing crime, overseeing the arrival of the SkyTrain and, most recently, pushing for the development of unused waterfront land.
  Outgoing mayor of Port Moody Mike Clay.
  But in a surprising turn, Clay was defeated in the Oct. 20 civic election by councillor Rob Vagramov, a Millennial who ran an anti-development campaign.
  Now Clay isn’t sure what’s
  
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• BC man kicked off WestJet flight after falling asleep before takeoff

  03-11-2018 23:39 via globalnews.ca
  A B.C. man says he feels humiliated after WestJet kicked him off a flight to Cuba and left him and his family stranded at Toronto airport. Stephen Bennett – who recently suffered a stroke – was told to leave after he took a sleeping pill and fell into a deep sleep before takeoff. Airline passenger...
  
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• BC Liberals unveil new logo, brand identity pitching ‘Opportunity for all of B.C.’

  03-11-2018 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  The party's new logo centres around the message: "Opportunity for all of B.C."
  
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• PJ on the road: Canuck reporter’s look at hockey, Hurricanes, humility

  03-11-2018 22:54 via theprovince.com
  An occasional prospectus of what it’s like covering a National Hockey League team on the road for the first time:
  The text message on my phone when I landed in Raleigh, N.C. seemed ominous.
  “Not sure we’re going to Tampa on Wednesday. Hurricane.”
  Welcome to life on the road covering the Vancouver Canucks, I thought.
  Of course, when we boarded the airplane to Tampa that Wednesday, it looked like we had avoided the catastrophic storm that would smash its way across the Flor
  
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• Search crews mobilize in effort to find missing Nanaimo senior Rick Larson

  03-11-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  Larson was last seen on Thursday, Oct. 25, when he left his home near Petroglyph Park to go for a walk.
  
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• Victoria-area dog owner surrenders rescue pitbull after attack at family home

  03-11-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  Four people were hospitalized with bite wounds early Saturday after a family pitbull unleashed an attack inside a home in Greater Victoria.
  
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• Heavy rain, winds expected along B.C. coast, snowfall warnings for Interior

  03-11-2018 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  Heavy rain, winds projected for South Coast, Lower Mainland; between 20 and 30 cm of snow expected for some B.C. highways.
  
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• Heavy rain, wind and snow in the forecast for much of B.C.

  03-11-2018 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  Batten down the hatches, B.C. is looking at stormy weather across the province. B.C.’s coast is expected to get plenty of rain, while highways in the interior could be painted white.
  
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• Drake fans blast B.C. casino after rapper alleges racial profiling

  03-11-2018 20:20 via theprovince.com
  Popular Canadian rapper Drake is again accusing a business of racial profiling, and this time it’s a B.C. casino.
  In an Instagram post, Drake, who is in Vancouver to perform at Rogers Arena Saturday and Sunday, claims he was refused service at Parq Vancouver’s casino. He alleges casino staff were “profiling” but does not elaborate on what they said.
  The post was enough to infuriate his fans, who quickly blasted the casino in bad reviews on social media.
  Parq Casino issued
  
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• Drake says he was profiled, denied service at Vancouver’s Parq Casino

  03-11-2018 20:15 via globalnews.ca
  In an Instagram story posted early Saturday morning, the rapper called Parq the "worst run business I have ever witnessed."
  
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• Drake surprises fans at Fortune Sound Club in Vancouver

  03-11-2018 20:00 via globalnews.ca
  Drake makes a surprise appearance at Vancouver’s Fortune Sound Club ahead of his two tour dates at Rogers Arena on the weekend.
  
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• 'OMG IT'S DRAKE': Canadian rap legend surprises fans at Vancouver club

  03-11-2018 19:58
  
  Fan says Drake's performance at Fortune Sound "felt like a dream"
  
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• Free the Tipple

  03-11-2018 19:37 via globalnews.ca
  Jennifer Croll, author of ‘Free the Tipple’ showcases some cocktails inspired by some iconic women.
  
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• Trail appliance Teen Chef Challenge

  03-11-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  It’s the first week of our Trail Appliance Teen Chef Challenge. Our first contestant is 13-year old Josiah Foster who cooks a pork tenderloin for Jay and Coleen to taste and judge.
  
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• Paul Myers – ‘The Kids in the Hall: One Dumb Guy’

  03-11-2018 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  It’s been three decades since Canadian comic troupe, ‘The Kids in the Hall’ first broke onto the comedy scene. Now, a new biography provides memories, insights and behind the scenes stories. Author Paul Myers joins Coleen to tell us more.
  
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• Open House: Dangers of Asbestos

  03-11-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  If you are planning a home renovation, WorkSafe BC have some need-to-know information about the dangers of asbestos.
  
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• Langley Rams

  03-11-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  Langley Rams are a game away from playing in the Canadian Bowl — after winning the Cullen Cup last weekend against the Okanagan Sun. Team president, Dana Matheson and Maximilian Joseph, joins Jay to tell him more.
  
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• Drake fans livid at B.C. casino after rapper alleges racial profiling

  03-11-2018 19:19 via theprovince.com
  Fans of popular Canadian rapper Drake are livid with a B.C. casino after the rapper posted an allegation of racial profiling on Saturday.
  In an Instagram post, Drake, who is in Vancouver to perform at Rogers Arena Saturday and Sunday, claims he was refused service at Parq Vancouver’s casino. He alleges casino staff were “profiling” but does not elaborate on what they said.
  Parq Casino issued a statement Saturday, saying that it was investigating the allegation.
  “Parq Vanc
  
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• Storm to batter Metro Vancouver with wind and rain Saturday night

  03-11-2018 19:09 via vancouversun.com
  A cold front will bring heavy rain and strong winds to Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley on Saturday night, according to Environment Canada.
  Winds up to 70 km/hr are expected to develop around midnight ahead of the rain, said a special weather statement. After the front, “strong westerly winds with gusts up to 90 km/h will develop before Sunday morning.”
  The strong, gusty winds are expected to ease midday Sunday.
  Environment Canada also issued a rainfall warning, with 40 to 60 mi
  
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• Kaylee Royce: Vancouver needs more public recycling to support its sustainability goals

  03-11-2018 19:00 via vancouversun.com
  Imagine yourself walking down the street in Vancouver holding a newspaper, an empty bottle, and a banana peel. You look for an appropriate place to dispose of your waste, yet all you see are bins labelled trash. It is these experiences which make us realize how surprisingly difficult it is to properly dispose of waste in public space.
  The City of Vancouver needs a better system for public space waste management. If it is to label itself the “Greenest City,” shouldn’t it start w
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: 90th anniversary soirée raises $140,000 for FSGV

  03-11-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  FAMILY MATTERS: Mary McPhedran was the first executive director of Family Services of Greater Vancouver, a social service agency founded by G.F. Strong and peers to support struggling families.
  Beginning with a $25 donation, the agency opened its doors in the historic Dominion Building with a single caseworker. From its humble beginnings, the organization today helps some 10,000 individuals and families annually. Under the radar of many, the firm has been quietly creating brighter tomorrows for
  
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• Five more salmonella cases in western Canada linked to long English cucumbers

  03-11-2018 18:56 via vancouversun.com
  A salmonella outbreak that has sickened 42 people in B.C. since mid-June has been linked to long English cucumbers, according to the Public Health Agency of Canada.
  In an update Friday, the health agency said five more cases have been connected to the outbreak in western Canada, for a total of 50 cases.
  No one has died from the outbreak, but 10 people have been hospitalized.
  “Based on the investigation findings to date, exposure to long English cucumbers has been identified as the likely s
  
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• VIU researchers develop method for detecting lethal fentanyl levels

  03-11-2018 18:27 via vancouversun.com
  A team of researchers from Vancouver Island University have made a breakthrough that could save lives amid B.C.’s opioid epidemic.
  Led by chemistry professor Chris Gill, researchers have developed a drug-testing method that, within minutes, could tell an opioid user whether the drugs they’re about to take contain a lethal dose of fentanyl. A sample of the drug is analyzed using a paper spray mass spectrometer, which breaks down the molecules to identify which toxic substances are in
  
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• Eugene Peterson obituary – from Canada, with love

  03-11-2018 18:10 via vancouversun.com
  The prolific author and Bible translator Eugene Peterson, whose memorial service is to be live-streamed Saturday, Nov. 3 (today), was a populist in the best sense. He was a spiritual searcher who connected with millions of ordinary people.
  The former teacher at Vancouver’s Regent College wrote one of the world’s most popular translations of the Bible, The Message, which uses idiomatic expressions and contemporary slang. He was a major figure in contemporary evangelicalism. Obituaries
  
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• Whistler lakeside 'chateau' relisted – at a $6M discount (PHOTOS)

  03-11-2018 18:00
  
  Massive Nita Lake estate was originally listed at $25.9 million, then went to unusual no-reserve auction, now listed at $19.88 million
  
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• Mo Miler Mo-mentum, Phantom Run 'haunts' for entries, Icebreaker grows

  03-11-2018 16:58 via vancouversun.com
  RUNVAN’s sold-out Fall Classic goes Sunday morning at UBC, so before I lace up there and try to shed two week’s worth of “Halloween candy carbo-loading,” I offer you this from the oh-so-popular series My Notebook Runneth Over:
  Race director Cindy Roberts, who dressed up as a witch for the recent Hallow’s Eve Trail Race at Lynn Creek, snapped a few fun photos before turning her “hocus focus” on the Nov. 17 Phantom Run. (Gord Kurenoff photo)
  Phantom Run at
  
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• New Trans Mountain pipeline review doomed to fail: Kennedy Stewart

  03-11-2018 16:31 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver’s incoming mayor says a revamped National Energy Board review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is likely doomed to fail and will land the federal government back in a courtroom.
  The energy board is reviewing the project’s impacts on the marine environment and Kennedy Stewart says it’s too rushed, including a week-long window for Indigenous groups and others to apply to participate.
  “I do think the revamped NEB process we’re going through probably i
  
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• Travellers vote Vancouver one of the Best Cities in the World

  03-11-2018 15:00
  
  It's no secret that tourists like this city
  
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• Here's what's on at EAT! Vancouver Food and Cooking Festival

  03-11-2018 14:57
  
  From epic tasting events to intimate dinners, workshops, and more, there's and array of options for anyone hungry for some fun
  
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• J.J. Adams: Whitecaps are divided … over whether there was a locker-room divide

  03-11-2018 14:00 via theprovince.com
  When Jordon Mutch stepped off a plane back into the cold, wet and rainy United Kingdom, he turned on his phone and watched another storm unfold 7,500 kilometres away in the city he just left.
  The Vancouver Whitecaps’ season-ending media availability — held Tuesday — was a tumultuous and eye-popping tempest made roiling by accusations of locker-room disharmony and personality clashes. The unexpected turmoil had broken on the shores of the local media in a tsunami of headlines an
  
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• Sold (Bought): Steveston penthouse offers airy open-plan living

  03-11-2018 13:25 via vancouversun.com
  A snapshot of recent residential real estate activity in Metro Vancouver
  414 — 4211 Bayview Street, Richmond
  Type: Two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment
  Size: 1,213 sq. ft.
  B.C. Assessment: $1,038,000
  Listed for: $1,238,000
  Sold for: $1,175,000
  Sold on: Aug. 1
  Days on market: 29
  Listing agent: Karel Palla and Darryl Sjerven at ReMax Select Realty
  Buyers agent: Mark Deans and Sheryl Dawson at Royal Pacific Realty
  The big sell: This penthouse has water, mountain and island vistas, as well as a
  
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• The Home Front: Using your outdoor living areas year round

  03-11-2018 13:08 via vancouversun.com
  In Vancouver and all across North America, people are now using their outdoor living areas year round, says Joanna Leung, vice-president of Vancouver-based Ratana, which has specialized in outdoor furniture since 1980.
  “I see more and more people with slightly covered [outdoor] areas,” Leung says. “It won’t be fully enclosed, but they’ll have awnings or they’ll have glass on top. Because it’s not really the cold that bothers people; it’s getting we
  
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• Lions Game Day: Buono to put own stamp on Stamps’ visit to B.C. Place

  03-11-2018 13:00 via theprovince.com
  NEXT GAME: Saturday
  Calgary Stampeders at B.C. Lions
  7 p.m., B.C. Place Stadium, TSN, TSN 1040 AMFIVE THINGS TO WATCH
  1. Sputtering Lions offence
  Cue the techno beat: You’ve got to move it, move it. But the Lions’ offence has been tripping over its own feet for much of the 2018 season.
  The Roughriders exposed B.C. last week, holding starting quarterback Travis Lulay to 94 yards on nine-of-20 passing, with two interceptions and one touchdown, and just 126 yards total offence. Nine of
  
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• More homeowners are turning to private lenders. Here are the risks

  03-11-2018 11:00 via globalnews.ca
  More people are borrowing from non-bank lenders — at sharply higher interest rates — amid stricter mortgage rules.
  
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• McCallum's plan to replace RCMP with municipal police force is costly and complex, say critics

  03-11-2018 11:00 via vancouversun.com
  When Doug McCallum is sworn in as the mayor of Surrey on Monday, it won’t be a day reserved exclusively for pomp and ceremony.
  The mayor-elect says he will get right down to work as soon as the formalities are over. And Job 1 will be starting the replacement of the longtime Surrey RCMP detachment with a municipal police force.
  “The motion is already written, it will be moved and adopted,” McCallum said.
  “We will give formal notice to cancel the RCMP contract and start a S
  
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• Recipe: Chicken tikka ceasar salad recipe

  03-11-2018 10:47 via globalnews.ca
  Give your next Caesar salad an Indian twist.
  
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• Canucks at Night: Insane in the membrane as Canucks and Avs throw it back

  03-11-2018 07:55 via theprovince.com
  “Insane,” was how Jake Virtanen described Friday’s 7-6 win.
  Travis Green said that, in the end, it was just a fun game to coach.
  The look on Jacob Markstrom’s face was one of “I can’t believe I won.”
  In all, it was a wild night for everyone, except of course the losing team.‘It was a fun game to coach’
  Travis Green couldn’t deny that he enjoyed the game. A loss might have changed his opinion.
  But he was grinning in the post-game press c
  
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• Homeless Memorial: a collection of poems from the streets of Vernon

  03-11-2018 07:09 via globalnews.ca
  John La Greca reached into his back pocket and brought out a crumpled piece of paper and handed it to Vernon Public Library writer-in-residence Harold Rhenisch.
  
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• Man overcomes schizophrenia and poverty to write book of poems

  03-11-2018 07:00 via globalnews.ca
  Vernon’s John La Greca wasn’t sure anyone would want to read his poems let alone published them. A chance encounter with another author lead to his dream coming true.
  
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• Canucks 7, Avalanche 6 (OT): Those crazy kids win an ’80s-style barnburner

  03-11-2018 06:48 via theprovince.com
  All Canucks fans have been wanting as the home squad rebuilds is a little entertainment. If the team is going to put in the ground work for the future, at least don’t be boring in doing so.
  They got that in spades in Friday night’s sensational 7-6 overtime win at Rogers Arena against the visiting Colorado Avalanche.
  It was a throwback game to 1980s firewagon hockey. Who couldn’t love that?
  There was slump busting. There was a hint of the Sedins. There was plenty of one of the g
  
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• Barn burner in Vancouver as Canucks down Avalanche 7-6 in overtime

  03-11-2018 06:17 via globalnews.ca
  Petterson and Boeser each net two goals as Canucks take fans on a wild ride.
  
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• ‘I pinched myself’: B.C. birders living the dream, as rare Mandarin duck makes appearance

  03-11-2018 05:34 via globalnews.ca
  No one knows how the brightly-coloured duck, native to East Asia, made it to Metro Vancouver.
  
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• It's soup season! Vancouver's winter farmers' markets open this weekend

  03-11-2018 04:36 via vancouversun.com
  It’s the season of soups and stews and storage vegetables.
  Vancouver’s winter farmers’ markets open this weekend with a diverse array of seasonal offerings, including some that go beyond typical winter fare.
  Leafy greens, fermented vegetables, freeze-dried berries, Okanagan apples, beef, eggs, honey and flowers will make an appearance Saturday at the Riley Park Winter Farmers Market and Sunday at the Hastings Park Winter Farmers Market.
  Shoppers will also find an array of cider
  
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• Police investigate bus crash north of Prince George that sent 18 to hospital

  03-11-2018 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  None of the injuries are life threatening. But as Catherine Urquhart reports, the crash has renewed the debate over whether all buses should have seatbelts.
  
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• Japanese student’s killer sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 14-years

  03-11-2018 04:29 via globalnews.ca
  A BC Supreme Court justice determines how long William Schneider will remain in prison before he is eligible for parole. Nadia Stewart reports live from outside BC Supreme Court.
  
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• ‘Trolling’ racially charged posters proclaiming ‘It’s okay to be white’ posted in New Westminster

  03-11-2018 04:21 via globalnews.ca
  The Anti-Defamation League links the posters to attempts by white supremacist groups to provoke 'overreactions' from offended people.
  
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• TransLink releases commemorative Remembrance Day Compass Cards

  03-11-2018 04:09 via globalnews.ca
  The cards are being released to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
  
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• WATCH: Global News Hour at 6 – Nov. 2

  03-11-2018 04:00 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the online edition of Global News Hour at 6.
  
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