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• Willes Musings: Local ownership is a must if B.C. Lions are going to overcome apathy

  12-11-2018 23:59 via theprovince.com
  After a depressing weekend in Hamilton here’s a little ray of sunshine to brighten your day, the musings and meditations on the world of sports.
  • If you spend any time around Wally Buono, you quickly realize everything he says has a purpose.
  Thus, when he says it’s time for David Braley to sell the Lions to local ownership, you have to assume he isn’t expressing an idle thought.
  According to sources, this market’s never-ending story will be revived in the near futur
  
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• Neighbours of scofflaw North Vancouver hostel operator claim she’s still hosting guests

  12-11-2018 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Neighbours claim the illegal Oasis House hostel is back in business even though a judge found the owner in contempt of court for using her townhouse for short-term rentals.
  
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• Return of homeless camp in Vernon highlights need for more housing options

  12-11-2018 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  It was dismantled earlier this year but a homeless camp is back in Vernon.
  
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• Ben Kuzma: Elias Pettersson receives birthday gift of admiration from NHL peers

  12-11-2018 23:13 via theprovince.com
  NEW YORK — Like moths to a flame, they were drawn to Elias Pettersson on Monday.
  The slick Vancouver Canucks rookie centre not only turned 20, he turned the traditional morning skate conversation from the game to a gangly kid, who has already taken the NHL by storm, and worthy of marquee status at Madison Square Garden.
  Ten goals in your dazzling first 12 games will do that.
  With an array of offensive wizardry that’s looks like the superlative Swede is playing a video game — co
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Nov 12

  12-11-2018 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  The Monday, November 12, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Mealshare turns dining out into meals for hungry children

  12-11-2018 22:33 via globalnews.ca
  Today’s Global News Hour at 6 Health Matters is brought to you by Pharmasave.A program many people aren’t aware of can turn the experience of dining out into a meal for a hungry child. Kylie Stanton reports.
  
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• Dyck miffed by Giants’ lack of urgency offensively

  12-11-2018 22:26 via theprovince.com
  Michael Dyck is a cranky coach, albeit of a first-place team.
  The Vancouver Giants’ 1-0 loss to the Prince George Cougars on Sunday at the Langley Events Centre marked their fifth-straight outing where they have scored two or fewer goals in regulation time.
  They’ve won three of those games, which has kept them atop both the WHL’s Western Conference and B.C. Division, but it feels like Vancouver is getting outworked in the offensive zone right now. Dyck, Vancouver’s bench
  
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• B.C. natural gas sector faces challenges in stepping up electrification to reduce emissions

  12-11-2018 22:21 via vancouversun.com
  The electrification of the upstream natural gas sector in northeast B.C. could open up a significant path for the province to meet its aggressive carbon reduction targets in the next decade and potentially allow for industry expansion.
  But it’s not an easy path — and one where there are challenges to widespread electrification, a switch from using natural gas to produce power, according to industry supporters and critics alike.
  B.C.’s new greenhouse gas-emission target calls fo
  
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• B.C. social media influencer hacked on Instagram

  12-11-2018 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  Consumer Matters reporter Anne Drewa has the story of a B.C. social media influencer whose Instagram account was hacked, costing her thousands of followers.
  
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• Parents needed: About 1,000 kids await full-time homes, being part of a family

  12-11-2018 22:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking at the medical records of little Howie, you wouldn’t fault the Destobels from turning around and not adopting the seven-month-old baby. There were all sorts of warning signs of potential health issues, of things that could go wrong down the road because of his birth mother’s substance abuse.
  “Our fears evaporated as soon as we saw him,” Susanne Destobel said of her now 3-1/2-year-old son, whom she and her husband Shane call their Little Engineer because he’s
  
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• Theatre review: Refugee women storm the border — a 2,500-year-old story

  12-11-2018 21:27 via vancouversun.com
  The Suppliant Women
  When: To Dec. 2
  Where: Jericho Arts Centre
  Tickets and Info: $22, $28; at unitedplayers.com
  And now for something completely different. A group of women fleeing male aggression look for refuge across a foreign border.
  Although this sounds like a current news story, Aeschylus wrote and staged The Suppliant Women nearly 2,500 years ago. It hasn’t been quite that long since a classical Greek play was performed in Vancouver outside a university, but it’s been a while.
  
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• Canada Post workers on the picket lines in Richmond Monday

  12-11-2018 20:42 via globalnews.ca
  More than 100 locations across Canada have taken part since national rotating strikes began three weeks ago.
  
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• Murder charged laid in death of Port Coquitlam man

  12-11-2018 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  A Saskatchewan man faces a murder charge in connection with the Nov. 4 death of Jonathon Shingoose in Port Coquitlam.
  Jonathon Shingoose was murdered Nov. 4 in Port Coquitlam.
  Coquitlam RCMP responded to a disturbance at a home in the 2300-block of Atkins Avenue at 5:44 a.m. Inside, police found Shingoose suffering from serious injuries. He later died after being transported to hospital by ambulance.
  On Friday, the RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team arrested Elwood Ter
  
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• Draft plan says Nunavut has too many polar bears and climate change isn’t affecting them

  12-11-2018 20:24 via globalnews.ca
  There are too many polar bears in parts of Nunavut and climate change hasn't yet affected any of them, says a draft management plan from the territorial government that contradicts much of conventional scientific thinking.
  
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• Milkshake Murder: Daughter opens up five decades after mom's death

  12-11-2018 20:09 via vancouversun.com
  Fifty-some years of holding it inside.
  A half-century of not knowing the whole truth about who you are, of bottling up the horror your father inflicted on your mother, the horror he inflicted on you.
  Jeannine Castellani had had enough, she needed the world to know, she needed to know herself.
  She needed peace.
  Her story, and the sensationalism that surrounds it, has just been published by Vancouver writer Eve Lazarus as Murder by Milkshake: An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a C
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland: Nov. 16-22: The Art of Astonishment, Eastside Culture Crawl and more

  12-11-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  The Art of Astonishment and Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island
  When: Nov. 17, 1 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver International Film Festival and Centre, 1181 Seymour St.
  Tickets and info: viff.org
  A very cool double-bill looking back at some of the greats of earlier Hollywood special effects. Join film scholar Michael van den Bos discussing classic fx sequences from pre-digital days! Yes, they really did exist. Then follow up the documentary portion with director Cy Enfield’s 1961 adaptation of Ju
  
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• Cannabis company hopes to replace jobs lost in mill closure in small B.C. town

  12-11-2018 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  Arnold Meyer spent 40 years working at the Tolko Industries Ltd. mill in Merritt, B.C., but then he faced the reality of being laid off.
  
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• Facebook is down … it's not just you

  12-11-2018 19:10 via vancouversun.com
  Millions of Facebook users were unable to sign-in to their accounts Monday morning.
  The social media giant, the third most popular website in the world with 2.27 billion monthly active users, has been experiencing problems since 9:52 a.m. PST.
  According to downdetector.com, which detects and documents technology fails, Facebook’s outage is mostly affecting users in North America, South America and parts of Western Europe.
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  MORE TO COME
  
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• Second-degree murder charges laid in connection with man’s death in Port Coquitlam

  12-11-2018 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over the case and determined this was an isolated incident.
  
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• Property of East Vancouver Polish church vandalized with disturbing graffiti

  12-11-2018 18:22 via globalnews.ca
  Members of Saint Casimir’s Polish Parish in East Vancouver were shocked to find disturbing graffiti all over the walls on Sunday.
  
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• Water main break forces closure of Johnson Street Bridge in Victoria

  12-11-2018 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  Victoria police say the burst happened at Tyee and Esquimalt Road, forcing the closure of the bridge.
  
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• Canada Post and union remain far apart despite mediation

  12-11-2018 17:47 via globalnews.ca
  Canada Post workers are walking the picket outside the huge sorting facility in Richmond today. Their job action continuing as both sides return to the negotiating table — even though the mediator’s mandate expired this weekend. Neetu Garcha has the latest.
  
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• Spanish Civil War veterans honoured in Vancouver on Remembrance Day

  12-11-2018 17:09 via globalnews.ca
  Volunteers came to Vancouver to visit the graves of Canadians who volunteered to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War.
  
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• SkyTrain switch threatens to derail Surrey transit link

  12-11-2018 17:00
  
  The fastest-growing cities in the Lower Mainland — Surrey and Langley — desperately need some form of rapid transit.
  
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• Vancouver company set to dive into the biggest underwater sinkhole in the world

  12-11-2018 16:30
  
  Aquatica Submarines is preparing for an epic, deep-sea dive into the bottom of Belize’s Blue Hole
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Enjoy a sunny Monday

  12-11-2018 16:24 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Nov. 12, 2018 – Environment Canada says we’re in for mainly sunny skies today, before things take a turn for the grey on Tuesday.
  Enjoy the sun while you can because the clouds will start rolling in overnight. Rain is expected to fall Tuesday morning.
  The soggy weather will stick around until late this week.
    
   Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Partly cloudy. Becoming sunny this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 10.
  Tuesday: Cloud
  
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• Drake incident sparks PR crisis for Parq Vancouver

  12-11-2018 16:00
  
  Parq Vancouver’s response to rap superstar Drake’s claim that the business racially profiled him sheds light on the perils of inadequate public relations crisis readiness, marketing experts say.
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018

  12-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  Premier Screaming Lord Sutch
  I awoke the morning of the leaders’ electoral-reform debate, realizing that perhaps the authors of this debacle may have unintentionally provided years of mirth to brighten my retirement.
  Who can forget the whimsy that Mr. Peanut brought to the 1974 Vancouver mayoral election? Who does not chuckle at Britain’s Monster Raving Loony Party? And the way Amor De Cosmos pioneered absurdity in B.C. politics. Fun is in our DNA.
  I urge Premier John Horgan to forge
  
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• Frank Giustra: The United States needs leaders to bring together a divided America

  12-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  While the pipe bombs sent in recent days to vocal critics of the current U.S. administration failed to detonate, the act lodged itself firmly in the American psyche. Combined with devastating gun violence at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and a bar in California, these violent acts from within have left the U.S. even more divided, rattled and uneasy.
  Tuesday’s midterm elections — which saw the Democrats win a majority in the House of Representa
  
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• A look at the most popular toys for Christmas 2018 season

  12-11-2018 14:17 via globalnews.ca
  Toys R Us Chief Play Officer Émile Burbidge shows Global News this year’s hottest toys, bound to be at the top of several Christmas wish lists.
  
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• Canucks Game Day: Pettersson’s present, Goldobin’s funk, Fizzy-tizzy Jake, Roussel rates

  12-11-2018 13:00 via theprovince.com
  Monday
  Vancouver Canucks at New York Rangers
  4 p.m., Madison Square Garden, SNETP, SNET 650 AMTHE BIG MATCHUP
  Buffalo Sabres defenseman Zach Bogosian (4) and Vancouver Canucks forward Elias Pettersson (40) battle for position during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, in Buffalo N.Y.
  Elias Pettersson versus Physics
  On his 20th birthday, maybe the rookie Swedish sensation will give us a gift. If the centre can replicate that spectacular overtime foray Saturday in Buff
  
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• 10 tips to help you save thousands of dollars on household expenses

  12-11-2018 12:00 via theprovince.com
  Q: My husband and I are worried that we need to find ways to save money if interest rates keep going up. Our line of credit is our lifeline right now and that payment has gone up over $75 a month already. We won’t be able to start paying it down until I’m back to work from maternity leave next summer. Our mortgage comes up for renewal in a year and who knows what rates will be then. Chances are we’ll be facing higher mortgage payments too. It seems like everywhere we turn every
  
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• Canucks prospects tracker for Nov. 11: DiPietro shuts the door

  12-11-2018 05:43 via theprovince.com
  It’s the latest edition of the weekly tracker, where we tally up the efforts of the Vancouver Canucks’ highest-profile prospects:
  Mike DiPietro
  He was the OHL goalie of the year last season. Could he be even better this time around?
  The Canucks’ 3rd-round pick from the 2017 NHL entry draft had a heck of a week, both in the CIBC Canada/Russia series and for the Windsor Spitfires.
  There was no collusion in Thursday’s collision with the Russians, as DiPietro stymie
  
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• Rams make late defensive stand, hold off Seahawks 36-31

  12-11-2018 03:32 via theprovince.com
  LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Rams were still reeling from the mass shooting less than five miles from their training complex when wildfires consumed the nearby hills, forcing a cancelled practice and the evacuation of many players and coaches from their homes.
  At the close of a horrific week in Thousand Oaks, a comeback victory over the Seattle Seahawks somehow seemed both more trivial and even sweeter to these resilient Rams.
  Brandin Cooks rushed for a 9-yard touchdown with 5:49 to play
  
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• Letters to The Province, Nov. 12, 2018: Funny how taxes must be paid quickly but veterans must wait years for pensions, reader says

  12-11-2018 03:00 via theprovince.com
  It is a bit of a mystery that Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent stumbled onto a gross error of miscalculation of veterans’ disability pensions at this time. The error took place seven years ago and will cost $165 million to correct, Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan says.
  Hopefully, this will take place by 2020 but, sadly, it will be too late for some as they will be dead by then.
  It is notable that the Canada Revenue Agency has sharp pencils and requires
  
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• Laurie Campbell: Taking control of your personal finances can reduce unhealthy worries

  12-11-2018 03:00 via theprovince.com
  Canadians worry about money. No matter how much we have, our relationship with money is often challenging. People are prone to have unconscious emotions and behaviours about money that can often lead to suffering.
  How serious an impact does financial worry have on Canadians? A startling 44 per cent believe their financial situation negatively impacts their mental health, according to a recent survey by Credit Canada and Capital One for this year’s Credit Education Week. And when it comes t
  
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• Drs. Guylène Thériault and Wendy Levinson: Here's some good advice for cold and flu season

  12-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Cold and flu season for many Canadians means getting ready to have their lives and routines thrown off by painful and annoying symptoms. This can mean days off work or school dealing with sore throats, nasal congestion and fever. For parents, it can be challenging to try to comfort young kids with fever, coughing or ear pain.
  As doctors, we know that both doctors and patients would love a quick fix — a magic bullet to deal with these symptoms. Patients want to get their lives back to norma
  
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• Douglas Todd: Five empirical reasons to lean to pro-rep

  12-11-2018 03:00 via vancouversun.com
  Maybe academics aren’t collectively the sexiest bunch. And it’s true that policy wonks can’t compete with movie or sports stars for the spotlight. Nevertheless, opinion polls consistently show that the public places some trust in professors.
  So why are scholars’ studies largely ignored in B.C.’s referendum over proportional representation?
  Researchers are often going through data to compare nations that use some form of proportional representation to those that use
  
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• B.C. gangsters busted in Winnipeg have long histories with police

  12-11-2018 02:40 via vancouversun.com
  Two B.C. man — one convicted in a high-profile 1982 slaying and the other as Independent Soldier gangster — have been charged in a major Winnipeg police investigation into a drug trafficking organization.
  Allan Ronald Rodney, 70, was convicted of manslaughter in the 1982 death of Sharon Bollivar, the wife of a supermarket manager kidnapped for ransom in Kitsilano and later shot to death. Mohammad Shakil Khan, 39, is an IS member who joined the Wolfpack gang alliance after it formed i
  
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• AutismBC director draws fire for reported appearance at anti-SOGI event

  12-11-2018 02:32 via globalnews.ca
  The mother of a teen with autism has started petition calling for Laurie Guerra to resign from the autism advocacy group.
  
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• At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Armistice of Compiègne's 100th anniversary solemnly observed

  12-11-2018 01:41 via vancouversun.com
  Soldiers from Canada’s most recent war gathered with other veterans to remember the signing, 100 years ago, of the Armistice that ended the First World War on Sunday for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Grandview Park cenotaph on Commercial Drive.
  “The First World War was called the Great War for a reason,” mater of ceremonies Gerry Vowles said. “The horrors of that conflict had never been seen before.
  “With the war finally over, it was hoped a war of that s
  
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• Fire crews put down 2-alarm blaze at empty Surrey home

  12-11-2018 01:23 via globalnews.ca
  No one was home at the time, and fortunately no one was hurt.
  
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• Victoria naturopath who treated child with rabies-infected saliva surrenders licence

  12-11-2018 00:49 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — A naturopath who controversially used rabies-infected saliva to treat a child has surrendered her licence to the College of Naturopathic Physicians of B.C. However, Anke Zimmermann will continue to work as an unregulated homeopath.
  The college investigated whether Zimmermann “met the standard of care in her treatment of the young boy with lyssinum,” Howard Greenstein, the college’s registrar and CEO, said in a statement.
  The college also conducted an investigat
  
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• Vancouver Polish church daycare vandalized on 100th anniversary of nation’s independence

  12-11-2018 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  The graffiti reads "AntiFa," "Refugees welcome" and "Nazis out!"
  
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