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• Going Big, hoops style: Kickoff tournament features $40,000 in scholarships

  24-11-2018 23:56 via theprovince.com
  Anthony Beyrouti hopes that the Big Ticket is just the ticket to begin the hoops season.
  The high school basketball campaign officially opens on Monday and it features the kickoff of the Big Ticket, a 64-team event split over four divisions (senior boys, senior girls, junior boys, junior girls) that will have its semifinals and finals at SFU and give out $1,000 scholarships to 20 male and 20 female student-athletes thanks to sponsorship from The Onni Group and Venue Kings.
  Beyrouti, who’s
  
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• ‘I know what to do, mom!’: 6-year-old B.C. boy helps save mother from frigid ocean

  24-11-2018 23:49
  "We looked over to our right, and maybe about 100 yards down the dock, there was a little boy with his life-jacket on, screaming for help."
  
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• Insiders insisting that NLL closing in on new CBA with players

  24-11-2018 23:46 via theprovince.com
  Multiple National Lacrosse League insiders are reporting on social media that team owners and players are about to sign off on a new collective bargaining agreement.
  Last week, the NLL cancelled the first two weekends of the regular season, which included the Vancouver Warriors’ home opener against the Toronto Rock at Rogers Arena on Dec. 8 in that second set of games. The players had refused to go to training camp without a new deal in place.
  No word on how long it would take teams to ass
  
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• Ed Willes: CFL’s deal with Mexican league smacks of desperation

  24-11-2018 23:39 via theprovince.com
  If the history of the CFL has taught us anything, it’s taught us the Canadian game gets into big trouble when its reach exceeds its grasp.
  The most glaring example, of course, came in the mid-90s when the league embarked on a ruinous expansion plan to the United States which lasted two years and left behind a story which is now pretty funny but, at the time, almost killed the venerable institution.
  If you doubt that, I have four words for you: the Las Vegas Posse.
  But that wasn’t the
  
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• King tide: Vancouver wants your ‘sunken’ city photos to highlight sea level rise

  24-11-2018 23:37
  King tides can cause minor flooding in low-lying areas and — from the city's perspective — offer a potential view of what the region could look like amid sea level rise.
  
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• B.C. invests in 1,100 new homes for Indigenous residents

  24-11-2018 23:35 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government is investing $231 million to build more than 1,100 new affordable homes for Indigenous residents in 26 communities across the province.
  It says the first set of homes selected through a new Indigenous housing fund include nearly 780 off-reserve homes and close to 370 homes on-reserve, making the province the first to invest in on-reserve housing.
  Housing Minister Selina Robinson made the announcement on Saturday on the Katzie First Nation reserve in Pitt Meadows, which is rec
  
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• Province funding homes specifically for Indigeneous British Columbians for the first time

  24-11-2018 22:15
  The B.C. government is planning on building more than 1,100 affordable homes for Indigenous peoples in 26 communities across the province.
  
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• Recipe: Perfect orange currant scones

  24-11-2018 21:20
  With the arrival of grey weather, baking season is here.
  
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• Canucks’ Antoine Roussel fined $5K for biting San Jose’s Marc-Edouard Vlasic

  24-11-2018 21:17
  The San Jose Sharks took a bite out of the Vancouver Canucks on Friday, and it appears at least one Canuck decided to bite back.
  
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• Book lovers look forward to annual Short Story Advent Calendar

  24-11-2018 21:06 via vancouversun.com
  Since 2015, the publication of the Short Story Advent Calendar has been anticipated like an album drop, and the arrival of the limited-edition boxed set of short stories is one of the markers of the festive season for authors.
  The annual boxed set features a short story for every day from Dec. 1 through 24, plus one extra for Christmas Day.
  “One of the things I love about it is that, like an album drop that releases different tracks on different days that we all listen to together, we are
  
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• Two elderly women in hospital after separate Vancouver home fires

  24-11-2018 20:36 via vancouversun.com
  Two elderly women are in hospital, one with minor burns and the other suffering from smoke inhalation, after separate fires in Vancouver on Saturday.
  Vancouver fire’s Assistant Chief of Operations Kevin Wilson says crews were called just after 2:30 a.m. to a three-storey apartment complex in the Fairview neighbourhood.
  He says firefighters found an 80-year-old woman with first-degree burns to her face, neck, back and arms, and she was rushed to hospital where she’s expected to recove
  
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• Taiwanese large fried chicken spot 'Hot Star' is opening in Metro Vancouver

  24-11-2018 19:57
  
  The beloved night market snack showcasing a juicy 30-cm wide fried chicken cutlet will be available soon
  
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• GardenWorks – Winter Accent Planter

  24-11-2018 19:41
  It’s the perfect way to welcome guests to your home this holiday season; Leanne from GardenWorks demonstrates how to create your very own winter accent planter.
  
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• Trails Appliances Teen Chef Challenge: Lauren

  24-11-2018 19:38
  It’s week four of our Trail Appliances Teen Chef Challenge. This week’s challenger is 16-year old Lauren Dyck. She puts her twist on pork tenderloin for Jay and Coleen to taste and judge.
  
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• Style Guys – Stocking Filler Ideas

  24-11-2018 19:27
  The Style Guys are in the studio to give you some tips on stocking stuffer gifts for all price points this holiday season.
  
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• Protect Our Winters

  24-11-2018 19:24
  This week greenhouse gas levels climbed to records high — prompting fresh concerns about the rapid and irreversible impact of climate change. ‘Protect our Winters’ is one group demanding action. The chair of the board of directors — and professional skier — Mike Douglas joins us to tell us more.
  
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• Senate to debate legislation that would order postal workers back to work

  24-11-2018 19:19
  
  Canada Post says it could take weeks — even stretching into 2019 — to clear the backlog that has built up
  
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• The magical world of Disney skates into Vancouver this weekend for ‘Disney on Ice: Dare To Dream’.

  24-11-2018 19:18
  Our community reporter Michael Newman went behind the scenes and had his skating skills put to the test.
  
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• Fred Lee’s Social Network: Crystal Ball raises $4 million for B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation

  24-11-2018 19:00 via theprovince.com
  $4 MILLION CRYSTAL: For only the second time in its 32 years, the Crystal Ball, B.C. Children’s Hospital Foundation’s flagship fundraiser, reached the $4 million mark. More than 400 well-heeled guests help raise the impressive haul to help transform health care for kids. And for the second consecutive year, mental health care was the focus of attention at the always-extravagant dinner and auction, sponsored by the Beedie Development Group.
  Staged at the Four Seasons Hotel, and steere
  
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• Video: Canucks’ Antoine Roussel fined $5,000 for biting Sharks’ Marc-Edouard Vlasic

  24-11-2018 18:52 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Canucks lost their eighth straight game Friday night, getting shut out by the San Jose Sharks 4-0. It’s bad for this team right now. I don’t even want to talk about it.
  Fortunately, winger Antoine Roussel gave us something else to talk about when he bit Marc-Edouard Vlasic on the hand at the end of the game. On Saturday, the NHL’s Department of Player Safety announced it had fined Roussel $5,000 — the maximum allowable under the Collective Bargaining Ag
  
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• 80-year-old taken to hospital with burns after early morning apartment fire

  24-11-2018 18:43
  An 80-year-old woman suffered burns following a fire in a three-storey downtown Vancouver apartment building early Saturday morning.
  
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• 2 Vancouver seniors treated after pair separate residential fires

  24-11-2018 18:43
  An 80-year-old woman suffered burns following a fire in a three-storey downtown Vancouver apartment building early Saturday morning.
  
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• Recipe: Scallop crudo with sauce vierge, courgette and basil puree

  24-11-2018 18:40
  Are you a seafood lover? You won't want to miss this recipe.
  
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• This radio station is playing Christmas tunes around the clock

  24-11-2018 17:06
  
  It might be Black Friday, but for those who love “Jingle Bells,” “Silent Night” and “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” today is a magical day in Vancouver.
  
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• You can help a puppy hit by car and left injured on B.C. highway

  24-11-2018 17:04
  
  Poor Fender was left on the side of the road with a fractured leg and pelvis
  
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• The rise and fall of A&B Sound: Iconic record store chain went bankrupt 10 years ago

  24-11-2018 17:00
  "It's just one of those iconic stories of the death of a sector because of the internet..."
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly cloudy, with a chance of rain this afternoon

  24-11-2018 16:56 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – Saturday’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy, with a chance of rain in the afternoon and a high of 9 C. Environment Canada is forecasting similar weather overnight, but with a low of 6 C.  More rain is expected on Sunday with a high again of 9 C. Looking ahead, it’s going to be a soggy week. The agency says Monday and Tuesday will be rainy and windy, with highs of 11 C both days. Then showers on Wednesday and a chance of showers on Thursday and Frid
  
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• Vancouver is the most expensive city for 'date night' in Canada

  24-11-2018 16:30
  
  Can you guess what a typical date costs in this city?
  
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• For Mike and Jill Killeen, Christmas means celebrating with friends and family

  24-11-2018 15:50 via vancouversun.com
  Nothing would make local PR dynamo Jill Killeen happier than if she could celebrate Christmas all year round. “It’s my favourite time of the year,” she laughs. “If I could keep the decorations up throughout the year I would!”
  “She really wasn’t joking,” says her husband Mike, the new co-host of CBC Vancouver News. “She would be so happy if she could keep it like this 12 months of the year. She really loves Christmas.” He casts his hand
  
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• Find tranquility by transforming your bathroom into a spa-like oasis

  24-11-2018 15:45 via vancouversun.com
  As life becomes busier and we struggle to find the sweet spot in work-life balance, tranquil spaces are more important than ever.
  Many of the design features that imbue bathrooms with a calm and luxurious vibe—soothing neutral colours, wood accents, layers of lighting—originate with spa-inspired spaces. Homeowners have been quick to include these fundamentals in their bathrooms to help lull away the cares of the day.
  “When people are looking for luxury in a bathroom they want a
  
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• Art and beauty in Mexico's San Miguel de Allend

  24-11-2018 15:35 via vancouversun.com
  If you have friends who’ve relocated to San Miguel de Allende (and if you don’t, you almost certainly will one day), it won’t take long before they’ve convinced you to visit. And soon after you’ve arrived, they’ll fix you with a steely gaze and say: “So. Have you thought about buying real estate here?”
  Chances are good that your answer will be yes.
  SMA, as the locals call it, is an utterly charming city that, for the last two years, has been voted
  
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• Make your next holiday party merry, bright and hassle-free with these top trends

  24-11-2018 15:30 via vancouversun.com
  Forty years of dishing up the holidays? Now that’s some serious festive expertise.
  Back in 1978, when customers would drop by Susan Mendelson’s gourmet shop in Kitsilano, they’d bring their own casserole dishes so she could fill them with her food and they could pass it off as their own. Hence: The Lazy Gourmet.
  Things have changed a bit since then.
  Where hosts once looked to caterers to cook a couple of dishes for a party, now they happily hand over responsibility for anything
  
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• Let’s bring back the tradition of the post-work apéritif

  24-11-2018 15:25 via vancouversun.com
  Whether you call it apéro, aperitivo or apéritif, the classic after-work drink is so much more than the liquid in your glass (though it is that, too, of course). It is the refreshing pause in your day, the transition from work to home life, the moment you connect with friends or just reconnect with yourself.
  The apéritif has been part of civilized social life for a couple of centuries, especially in Italy and France, where living well is a national mandate. In fact, you can
  
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• In the News: Indigo’s new flagship; MOA’s seismic move

  24-11-2018 15:20 via vancouversun.com
  Indigo opens the book on Vancouver flagship
  Book retailer Indigo is staking out its turf in downtown Vancouver’s retail hub, opening a flagship location in the former Forever 21 spot on Robson Street between Burrard and Thurlow.
  The two-storey site has brought the outside in with natural light flooding through massive overhead glass panels and a photography installation by artist Edward Burtynsky. The images of old-growth forest accompany shoppers as they go up and down the in-store escala
  
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• The Hester Creek vineyard celebrates 50 years of growing vinifera grapes

  24-11-2018 15:15 via vancouversun.com
  When I boasted to an Italian winemaker a few years ago about Hester Creek Estate Winery’s fine Trebbiano, he scoffed that the Okanagan lacked the climate, the soil and, above all, the culture to succeed with an Italian varietal.
  He was wrong on all counts, including culture. The Hester Creek vineyard, which celebrates 50 years of growing vinifera grapes, was originally planted by Joe Busnardo, a native of Treviso in Northern Italy and a graduate of an agricultural school there. He emigrate
  
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• Part of an ambitious master plan, Onni Group's Cambie Gardens will revolutionize the neighbourhood

  24-11-2018 15:10 via vancouversun.com
  One of the major projects that will affect the transformation of Vancouver’s Cambie Corridor in Vancouver is the development of Cambie Gardens, a master-planned community on 25 acres of land between Cambie Street and Heather Street to the west, and from 57th Avenue south to 59th Avenue.
  The area is seeing many new development projects as part of the Cambie Corridor Plan, a long-term framework to guide change and growth in the neighbourhood.
  Onni Group is planning to include approximately 2
  
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• Millionaire Designer Lottery home radiates ease and elegance

  24-11-2018 15:05 via vancouversun.com
  Set on a leafy corner lot in Tsawwassen, the new Millionaire Designer Lottery top prize home is packed with elegant details and luxe amenities.
  The almost 6,000-square-foot house is a spacious dream home with over-height ceilings, a wealth of windows and Control4 and ALEXA compatible features. The living area boasts a dramatic zero-clearance fireplace set low against dark wood panelling. Floor-to-ceiling windows on one wall have oversize sliders that open to a sunny south-facing exterior space g
  
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• Vancouver Sun letters to the editor for Saturday, Nov. 24, 2018

  24-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  I take early and late flights on a regular basis for work so I take taxis. On the last trip, I waited 45 minutes for a cab home.
  When I read Tuesday’s article about some of the rules and regulations being put in place to bring Uber in, I pre-booked YVR parking for a trip and I will pre-book it for next week’s trip and so on. I’m driving. Every other city has figured out ride-hailing so why can’t we?
  The provincial government’s action in putting up all the hurdles to
  
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• Residents of Maywood on the Park will be near amenities, green space

  24-11-2018 14:21 via vancouversun.com
  Maywood on the Park, Intracorp’s new residential highrise in Burnaby, checks off all the boxes when it comes to the maxim of location (next to a park), location (close to shopping), location (near a SkyTrain station).
  Planned for 6463 Silver Avenue, the 32-storey tower will be close enough to shopping malls and the Metrotown SkyTrain station to benefit from their proximity, but far enough away – on the northern side of Maywood Park – to be slightly removed from the busy-ness th
  
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• Dan Fumano: Berkeley Tower owner increases buyout offer to tenants

  24-11-2018 12:01 via vancouversun.com
  The owner of a West End tower where tenants have organized to fight evictions offered more cash Friday to persuade residents to leave their homes.
  The development at the 16-storey Berkeley Tower overlooking English Bay is an example of increasing tensions between tenants and landlords in a city with near-zero vacancy rate and a rapidly shifting rental housing landscape.
  Next week, Vancouver city council is to consider an “anti-renoviction” motion. And the provincial government&r
  
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• Vancouver's Little Mountain: The money and the sad history behind a long-stalled project

  24-11-2018 12:00 via vancouversun.com
  The park where Jeannine Silvestrone played as a girl is cordoned off by a chain-link fence, and the spot where her childhood home stood is now thick with 10-year-old weeds.
  “The site was beautiful. … There was lots of outdoor space. The community was very involved with each other, they helped each other and supported each other because we were all in financial need,” Silvestrone says as she stands outside the once-vibrant Little Mountain housing project near 37th and Main
  
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• Canucks at night: Penalty kills in your nightmares

  24-11-2018 07:34 via theprovince.com
  Losing eight straight games is partly about bad luck.
  It’s partly about playing poorly at key moments.
  And sometimes it’s about running into a Stanley Cup contender.
  On Friday, the Canucks had plenty of chances to score. They’ve scored enough this year to suggest they’d bag some of those chances.
  Against the San Jose Sharks, generating chances deserves praise.
  But at the end of the day, if you give up three power play goals, it’s going to be hard to win, even if you
  
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• Surrey Teenager’s Amazing Transformation, thanks to boxing

  24-11-2018 07:12
  Abstract: 14 year Old Surrey boxer Aanika Sehgal has changed her life dramatically thanks to taking up boxing 2 years ago. Barry Deley has her inspiring story.
  
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• Video: Canucks winger Antoine Roussel bites Sharks’ Marc-Edouard Vlasic

  24-11-2018 06:56 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Canucks lost their eighth straight game Friday night, getting shut out by the San Jose Sharks 4-0. It’s bad for this team right now. I don’t even want to talk about it.
  Fortunately, winger Antoine Roussel gave us something else to talk about when he bit Marc-Edouard Vlasic on the hand at the end of the game. Here’s video, courtesy NBC Sports California’s Brodie Brazil:
  Here’s @Vlasic44 getting his hand bit at the end of tonight’s #SJSharks win. p
  
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• Another video surfaces of a bad tax ride

  24-11-2018 06:49
  Another video has surfaced apparently showing sub-standard customer service by a Metro Vancouver taxi driver. Jordan Armstrong tells us why it’s an example of how taxi passengers need to know their rights.
  
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• Sharks blank Canucks 4-0, extend Vancouver’s skid to 8 games

  24-11-2018 06:34
  San Jose sent the Canucks to their eighth straight loss. Vancouver has been outscored 34-16 over that stretch.
  
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• Sharks 4, Canucks 0: Special teams become Shark bait in eighth straight setback

  24-11-2018 06:17 via theprovince.com
  SAN JOSE, Calif. — If the Vancouver Canucks are having regular nightmares about killing penalties, it shouldn’t surprise anyone.
  The Canucks played very well at even strength here Friday night against the San Jose Sharks, but still lost 4-0.
  It was their not-so-special teams that told the story.
  The Canucks’ penalty kill has surrendered goals in seven consecutive games now, their opponents scoring 10 times in total.
  And on their own power plays, the Canucks went goalless for th
  
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