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• B.C. teen’s journey to becoming a transgender activist

  16-11-2018 23:56 via globalnews.ca
  Tru Wilson, a transgender teen in Ladner, B.C., has made it her mission to help put in place policies to protect LGBTQ2 students, no matter where they live. Robin Gill reports.
  
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• Patrick Johnston: Canucks to honour the late John Ashbridge in Hockey Fights Cancer game

  16-11-2018 23:49 via theprovince.com
  If hockey fans think they’re hearing things Monday night when the Canucks face the Winnipeg Jets at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, they needn’t whack their ears. They will indeed be hearing the voice of the late John Ashbridge.
  The longtime Canucks’ public address announcer lost his battle with cancer this summer. With Monday’s game also being Hockey Fights Cancer night, it was fitting for the NHL team to use this game as the moment to pay tribute to the man known a
  
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• Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected new Metro Vancouver board chair - Vancouver Sun

  16-11-2018 23:05 via vancouversun.com
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  Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected new Metro Vancouver board chair
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  Dhaliwal will be joined by vice chair and City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan. The two were elected for one-year terms. Jennifer Saltman. Updated: November 16, 2018. Burnaby Coun. Sav Dhaliwal speaks at an event in March 2018.
  New chair of Metro Vancouver board is Burnaby councillorPeace Arch News
  Burnaby councillor, North Van mayor to oversee Metro Vancouver boardCTV Newsall 20 news art
  
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• Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected Metro Vancouver board ... - Vancouver Sun

  16-11-2018 23:05 via vancouversun.com
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  Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected Metro Vancouver board ...
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  Dhaliwal will be joined by vice chair and City of North Vancouver Mayor Linda Buchanan. The two were elected for one-year terms.and more »
  
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• Burnaby councillor Sav Dhaliwal elected new Metro Vancouver board chair

  16-11-2018 23:04 via vancouversun.com
  Longtime Burnaby city councillor Sav Dhaliwal is the new head of the board of directors for Metro Vancouver.
  Members of the board, which is made up of 40 elected officials from 21 municipalities, Electoral Area A and Tsawwassen First Nation, met on Friday for the first time since last month’s civic elections.
  The board of directors makes decisions involving drinking water, waste-water treatment, solid waste, air quality, urban growth, regional parks and affordable housing. The 2019 budget
  
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• New $224M bridge announced for Sicamous, B.C.

  16-11-2018 22:59 via globalnews.ca
  Bruhn Bridge replacement in Sicamous to support safer and more efficient travels.
  
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• 10 things to do in Vancouver today: Sunday, November 18 - Daily Hive

  16-11-2018 22:42 via dailyhive.com
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  10 things to do in Vancouver today: Sunday, November 18
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  Get your Sunday Funday started with FlyOver America, KT Tunstall, and these 10 fun things happening in Vancouver today, November 18. For more things happening around town, check out our events section. FlyOver America. FlyOver Canada / Facebook.
  
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• 10 things to do in Vancouver today: Saturday, November 17 - Daily Hive

  16-11-2018 22:42 via dailyhive.com
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  10 things to do in Vancouver today: Saturday, November 17
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  Hawkers Market, Roger Hodgson, and more! Whatever your weekend needs, we've got you covered with these 10 events happening in Vancouver today, Saturday, November 17. For more things happening around town, check out our events section.
  
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• Rainy day activities to keep kids busy indoors

  16-11-2018 22:34 via globalnews.ca
  Early learning educator Natacha Beim shares fun and educational ways you can keep your kids busy indoors.
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend:Thursday, November 22

  16-11-2018 22:03 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the return of the Vancouver Christmas Market and A Charlie Brown Holiday playing at the Carousel Theatre.
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Friday, November 23

  16-11-2018 22:03 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including Lights at Lafarge in Coquitlam and the Surrey Tree Lighting Festival.
  
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• Arthur Erickson’s ‘most complete’ masterpiece listed for $16.8M (PHOTOS)

  16-11-2018 21:53
  
  Extraordinary 1988-built steel-and-glass home, featured in magazines and movies, is for sale for the first time
  
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• B.C. power outages from severe weather triple since 2013

  16-11-2018 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Increasingly severe weather in recent years has led to a big spike power outages across our province. According to a new BC Hydro report, they’ve nearly quadrupled in B.C. over the past five years. Neetu Garcha has more on why we’re seeing the spike and crews trying to keep up with more frequent adverse conditions
  
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• Thompson Rivers University responds to Kamloops professor's suspension

  16-11-2018 21:45 via vancouversun.com
  The interim president of Thompson Rivers University, which is caught up in controversy over the suspension of an economics professor, has issued a statement saying he was not let go because of his research.
  Christine Bovis-Cnossen has been under pressure to answer questions about the suspension of Derek Pyne over his paper exposing fake scholarly journals.
  Pyne remains suspended for what the university has called his use of “defamatory language and accusations” after he published a p
  
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• Vancouver Sun's Adopt-A-School campaign needs you to help children in poverty

  16-11-2018 21:42 via vancouversun.com
  Within the past few months, this newspaper has carried stories about poverty that should cause alarm in the minds of most right thinking people.
  One disclosed that hundreds of homeless children can be found in the Greater Vancouver area, 681 according to a survey.
  Another spoke of the continuing delay by a B.C. government to formulate a poverty reduction plan in a province that has the highest rates of child poverty in the country.
  Yet another spoke of the insidious effect poverty was having on
  
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• B.C. becomes first western Canadian province to fund gender-affirming lower surgeries

  16-11-2018 21:38 via globalnews.ca
  Starting in 2019 transgender people in British Columbia will have access to publicly funded gender-affirming lower surgeries within the province.
  
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• Wild weather: BC Hydro says storms becoming more 'frequent, severe'

  16-11-2018 21:36
  
  'The number of customer outages during major storm events has increased by about 265 per cent'
  
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• This Week in History: 1886-1948: Vancouver's first council is locked out of its new city hall - Vancouver Sun

  16-11-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
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  This Week in History: 1886-1948: Vancouver's first council is locked out of its new city hall
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  Few Vancouverites have heard of Ephraim Blair Sentell. But when he died on Nov. 16, 1948, he rated obituaries in both the Vancouver Sun and Province. Why? Because Sentell and his three brothers built Vancouver's first city hall in September 1886.
  
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• This Week in History: 1886-1948: Vancouver's first council is locked out of its new city hall

  16-11-2018 21:33 via vancouversun.com
  Few Vancouverites have heard of Ephraim Blair Sentell. But when he died on Nov. 16, 1948, he rated obituaries in both the Vancouver Sun and Province.
  Why? Because Sentell and his three brothers built Vancouver’s first city hall in September 1886.
  The two-storey wooden structure was finished in a month, but there was a catch — the city didn’t have the money to pay them. So the Sentells locked the city out of city hall for two weeks until they got paid.
  Oddly, the local newspaper
  
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• Dead humpback whale found near Tsawwassen ferry terminal

  16-11-2018 21:17 via globalnews.ca
  A DFO spokesperson said its mammal response team will collaborate with the local First Nation to move the humpback whale to another spot for a necropsy to determine the cause of death.
  
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• B.C.’s Sun Peaks resort opens ski runs this weekend

  16-11-2018 21:13 via theprovince.com
  The skiing and snowboarding season looks set to kick off in B.C.
  Sun Peaks Resort, Canada’s second largest ski area located north of Kamloops, will open this weekend, with lifts starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
  Sun Peak, north of Kamloops, says staff are “working around the clock” to get as many trails as possible ready for Saturday.
  The Sunburst Express, Crystal, and Elevation chairlifts will open, and staff say with more snow in the forecast the resort may be able to open skii
  
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• Canada's Most Dangerous Places: Whistler’s rankings don’t paint full picture

  16-11-2018 21:11
  
  It's important to understand how that number came about and what the methodology was, say police
  
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• Rotating Canada Post strike returns to Kelowna

  16-11-2018 21:01 via globalnews.ca
  Workers have been without a contract for a year.
  
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• Surrey's Punjab Running Club aims to 'hit century mark' at Vancouver Sun Run

  16-11-2018 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  A running club aimed at encouraging physical activity in the South Asian community hopes to have a record number of participants in next year’s Vancouver Sun Run.
  “We want to hit the century mark,” said Harminder Sidhu, a member of the Surrey-based Punjab Running Club. “We’re big time into the Sun Run.”
  The Vancouver Sun Run, Canada’s largest 10-kilometre road race, takes place on Sunday, April 14.
  The club started five years ago, when two founding membe
  
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• B.C. government to bring lower transgender surgery to the province

  16-11-2018 20:44
  
  Up until now, those wanting the surgery had to travel to Montreal or the United States,
  
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• What driving in Vancouver was like in 1966 compared to now (VIDEO) - Delta-Optimist

  16-11-2018 20:23 via delta-optimist.com
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  What driving in Vancouver was like in 1966 compared to now (VIDEO)
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  In November of 2017 the Ministry of Transportation released an archival video from 1966, as part of their BC Road Trip Time Machine photolog series. Mounting a 16mm camera on top of a vehicle, the ministry takes viewers on a drive from Horseshoe Bay, ...
  Side-by-side video shows Vancouver's 52-year transition to 'gleaming skyscraper village'Globalnews.caall 7 news articles »
  
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• What driving in Vancouver was like in 1966 compared to now (VIDEO)

  16-11-2018 20:23
  
  Enjoy this “highway” drive video, which has been condensed into a quick 4 minutes
  
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• Federal Liberals holding two-day convention in Kelowna

  16-11-2018 20:11 via globalnews.ca
  Three members of cabinet are slated to attend two-day event.
  
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• Canucks owners building Washington State winery

  16-11-2018 20:08 via theprovince.com
  The Aquilini family is building its own winery in the United States.
  The Canucks owners have paid out about $16 million to secure the 670-acre property just west of the Columbia River in southeastern Washington state, according to the Tri-City Herald newspaper.
  The property, which the Aquilinis bought at auction five years ago, is a former gravel pit.
  They bid $8.3 million in the auction, which featured another two-dozen bidders. Auctions fees and fees to the local irrigation district which will
  
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• B.C. to become first province in Western Canada to provide lower transgender surgery

  16-11-2018 20:03 via vancouversun.com
  Reconstructive lower surgery for transgender people will soon be available in British Columbia.
  Health Minister Adrian Dix says the trans community has advocated for a number of years for improved access to care for the complex surgeries in B.C.
  Up until now, those wanting the surgery had to travel to Montreal or the United States, which Dix says resulted in additional medical risks associated with travelling long distances after surgery and with follow-up care.
  The Health Ministry says gender-a
  
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• Theatre review: Beautiful showcases Carole King's genius

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beautiful — The Carole King Musical
  When: Until Nov. 18
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets and Info: From $30.50 at BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca
  The arc of Carole King’s story, as told in Beautiful — The Carole King Musical, will be familiar to anyone who has seen A Star Is Born or Funny Girl.
  A talented woman achieves professional success as a musical artist while struggling for personal happiness and self-esteem. The man she loves both helps and hinders her until she fina
  
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• If you love charcuterie boards, you're going to want to read this new book

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  On Boards: Simple & Inspiring Recipe Ideas to Share at Every Gathering
  By Lisa Dawn Bolton
  $25 | Appetite by Random HouseIf you’re convinced that charcuterie boards are little more than basic assemblages of cheeses, meats and assorted jams and jellies — you clearly haven’t met Lisa Dawn Bolton.
  The Vancouver-based food creative conjures colourful boards that are a far cry from #basic. In fact, they’re downright beautiful.
  “People often say to me, ‘I could
  
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• Five things to know about I'm All Yours, by Rich Hope

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Rich Hope
  I’m All Yours | Planned Obsolescence Recording & Novelty Inc.
  His bio calls Hope a “veteran Pacific Northwest rocker.” There is no denying that this Vancouver-based, Edmonton-born and raised musician has plied his trade here for decades. And as trends have come and gone, he’s stayed true to old-fashioned garage rock that just keeps keepin’ on.
  However, Hope is more than just another four-note redux re-writer. His understanding of, and appreciation
  
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• Fab 5: Hey Mickey!

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  It’s hard to believe that Mickey Mouse is turning 90 this year — on November 18, to be exact. Since his first appearance in the short film Steamboat Willie, he’s been an American icon — one we can always get behind. How to show your support? From subtle mouse ear motifs to full-on emblazoned pieces, Rebecca Tay showcases five styles to wear for Mickey’s 90th.
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  Nothing says happy birthday more than matching sweatshirts. Available in mango, che
  
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• Catching up with Linda Evangelista: Canadian supermodel talks style, skin care and aging

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Sitting on a plush sofa in the personal shopping suite in Holt Renfrew Vancouver with Linda Evangelista — yes, the Canadian supermodel who was part of ‘The Trinity’ in the 1990s alongside Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell — my phone is ringing. And I’m mortified.
  It’s my sister, trying to FaceTime me from her holiday.
  “I’m so sorry,” I say to Evangelista, declining the call and mentally kicking myself for not turning on the Do Not Disturb
  
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• Brian Minter: Gardening great combines unique plants in stunning displays

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Every year in early November, under the auspices of the UBC SALA Garden Design Lecture Series, a renowned landscape designer is invited to give a presentation to an assemblage of landscape architect students, folks in the horticultural industry, and professionals from all disciplines of the gardening world. The goal is to inspire and stretch their imaginations. Thanks to the lecture committee of Ron Rule, Jan Durante and Daniel Roehr, along with generous sponsors, Vancouver was fortunate two wee
  
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• Beauty Bar: Voir Haircare A Walk in the Sun Luxury Hair Oil

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A made-in-Canada hair oil from the brand Voir Haircare.
  This “radiant and uplifting” oil is chock full of strand-supporting ingredients including avocado, jojoba and rosehip oils to nourish hair, improve softness, add shine and control frizz.
  The golden elixir is always a multi-purpose product, offering masking, smoothing and pre-shampooing powers.
  “For everyday usage, dispense 2-3 pumps onto dry hair and work from roots to tips. Apply as needed to damp or wet
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: It's time to begin planning your holiday wine haul

  16-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve been holding off on launching our annual series of holiday columns as long as possible to not contribute to the onslaught of holiday madness, but under the pretence of preparation is everything, it’s time to begin. If you’re not ready to shop yet you can stash the story on your phone or your computer until you are. For the faithful who read a physical newspaper everyday you can clip this article and stick it on the fridge as a homage to the past or a curiosity for the visi
  
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• B.C.’s Sun Peaks ski resort opens this weekend

  16-11-2018 19:39 via theprovince.com
  The skiing and snowboarding season looks set to kick off in B.C.
  Sun Peaks Resort, Canada’s second largest ski area located north of Kamloops, will open this weekend, with lifts starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday.
  Sun Peaks says staff are “working around the clock” to get as many trails as possible ready for Saturday.
  The Sunburst Express, Crystal, and Elevation chairlifts will open, and staff say with more snow in the forecast the resort may be able to open skiing to the bottom at
  
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• Dozens spend night on street to support homeless youth

  16-11-2018 19:05 via globalnews.ca
  A number of people spent the night out on the street to raise awareness about the issue of homelessness. Michael Newman speaks to Global BC’s Kasia Bodurka about her experience.
  
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• As postal strike continues, Vancouver urges eBilling signup - Globalnews.ca

  16-11-2018 19:00 via globalnews.ca
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  As postal strike continues, Vancouver urges eBilling signup
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  The city of Vancouver is urging property owners to sign up for an eBilling account to ensure they are able to manage their tax accounts online in the event of further postal disruptions. This would include the Empty Homes Tax declaration for the 2018 ...
  
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• As postal strike continues, Vancouver urges eBilling signup

  16-11-2018 18:59 via globalnews.ca
  Mail delivery could be delayed due to rotating postal strikes.
  
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• Number of B.C. power outages caused by severe weather up 265% over past 5 years

  16-11-2018 18:28 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown utility said power outages caused by severe weather have quadrupled in B.C. over the past five years.
  
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• The White Towel podcast: Canucks at the quarter pole

  16-11-2018 18:13 via theprovince.com
  A look at the Canucks after 20 games.
  Province Sports beat writer Patrick Johnston sits in with host Paul Chapman to take stock of these surprising Canucks. Should fans be excited? Who deserves credit for the solid start?http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/archive.org/download/white_towel_nov_15/white_towel_nov_15.mp3
  This is the White Towel podcast on Province Sports Radio.
  To subscribe, click here.
  
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• You can now get gas delivered to your car in Vancouver

  16-11-2018 18:10
  
  Metro Vancouver commuters sick of scouring the streets for gas stations now have a new fill-up option.
  
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• Movie reviews: Widows, Boy Erased, Fantastic Beasts and The Front Runner

  16-11-2018 17:59 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee has a look at some of the new movies hitting theatres this weekend, including “Widows”, “Boy Erased”, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindewald” and “The Front Runner”.
  
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• Vancouver City Council approves creation of new citywide development plan - Daily Hive

  16-11-2018 17:58 via dailyhive.com
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  Vancouver City Council approves creation of new citywide development plan
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  Planning staff with the City of Vancouver will kick off a new citywide development planning process following a decision by City Council on Wednesday. A motion by Green Party city councillor Adriane Carr, seconded by One City's Christine Boyle, was ...
  
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• Vancouver Canucks: So, are they still making the playoffs? - The Canuck Way

  16-11-2018 17:56 via thecanuckway.com
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  Vancouver Canucks: So, are they still making the playoffs?
  The Canuck Way
  Life sure moves fast for the Vancouver Canucks. After a handful of games, the team is seemingly poised to make the playoffs for the first time in four years, but a poor road trip has made people reconsider. So, what lies in store? Recently, Vancouver ...and more »
  
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• 7 most highly-anticipated winter restaurant openings in Vancouver - Daily Hive

  16-11-2018 17:33 via dailyhive.com
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  7 most highly-anticipated winter restaurant openings in Vancouver
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  The time has almost come for winter to start and fall to end, and while we definitely aren't going to be stoked about the colder weather, we are pumped to get into some new eateries in and around Vancouver.
  
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• Daily Poll: As the temperature drops, will you turn down the heat to conserve natural gas?

  16-11-2018 16:59 via vancouversun.com
  While the weekend looks sunny in Metro Vancouver, it is also going to be colder, with temperatures expected to dip near freezing levels overnight. That likely means many Metro Vancouverites will be turning up the thermostat.
  But Fortis B.C. is reminding people that there is still an urgent need to conserve natural gas. The company is low on stock since an explosion at an Enbridge gas pipeline in October near Prince George, and it it is asking B.C. residents to conserve fuel by was
  
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