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• Steve Ewen: NLL inking CBA reboots speculation on Warriors rebuilding plans

  25-11-2018 23:42 via theprovince.com
  Now that the National Lacrosse League and its players have made up, we can get back to guessing how Dan Richardson will remake the Vancouver Warriors.
  Richardson signed on as general manager of the since rebranded Vancouver Stealth days after the Vancouver Canucks bought them this off-season and moved them from the Langley Events Centre to Rogers Arena. The Warriors were supposed to open the regular season on Dec. 8 against the visiting Toronto Rock, but the league called off the first two weeks
  
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• Helicopter called in to help injured ATV rider in Myra Canyon

  25-11-2018 23:14 via globalnews.ca
  It is expected that the quad rider with need hospital care.
  
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• Kelowna police standoff ends in ‘peaceful’ arrest

  25-11-2018 23:12 via globalnews.ca
  Police said they were originally called in just after 9:30 a.m. on Sunday to deal with "reports of a disturbance involving a distraught male."
  
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• Penalty kill both busy and perfect for Vancouver Giants in victory versus Victoria

  25-11-2018 23:08 via theprovince.com
  The Vancouver Giants’ penalty killers went 9-for-9 on Saturday night to lead the way in a 4-1 win over the Victoria Royals at the Langley Events Centre.
  As of Sunday morning, Vancouver was second in the 22-team WHL on the man short, killing off penalties at an 85.7 per cent clip (15 goals against, 105 chances). The Prince Albert Raiders led the way at 92.9 per cent (8 goals, 113 chances).
  Prince Albert has scored a remarkable 15 shorthanded goals as well. The next best total is seven, from
  
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• Hyacks, Rams keep trending in right direction, advance to Triple A football finale

  25-11-2018 23:06 via theprovince.com
  The New Westminster Hyacks and Mount Douglas Rams both appeared to be going nowhere fast at certain points of this high school football season.
  They’re meeting in next Saturday’s Triple A provincial final at B.C. Place, proving that a little momentum at the right time is a dangerous thing.
  The reigning champion Hyacks, who had dropped three of four games heading into the playoffs, won their third straight post-season match-up on Saturday, thumping the Terry Fox Ravens 33-0 at B.C. Pl
  
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• Meet Michael Tan, the man in charge of B.C. government’s pot sales

  25-11-2018 23:01 via vancouversun.com
  Before Michael Tan was hired to oversee cannabis sales for the B.C. government, he borrowed a hoodie from his 17-year-old son and stood outside a Vancouver pot shop.
  The former retail executive then surveyed about 100 recreational cannabis users to get their take on legalization.
  “The biggest takeaway was that consumers thought the government was going to take the fun out of pot and that the government would ‘mess it up,’ ” said Tan, executive director of cannabis operati
  
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• Rob Shaw: NDP and Liberals use the beleaguered Speaker for a proxy war

  25-11-2018 22:39 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — When Abbotsford South MLA Darryl Plecas defected from the B.C. Liberal party last year to become legislature Speaker, he told his local newspaper he’d work hard to overcome the damage done to his credibility.
  “When I say, gee this is a good job for me, it’s because it’s a direct hit on impartiality, it’s a direct hit on being non-partisan,” he told the Abbotsford News’s Tyler Olsen in Sept. 13, 2017 story.
  “I can make a contri
  
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• How an amazing little Vancouver Island boy saved his mom

  25-11-2018 22:34 via vancouversun.com
  VICTORIA — Six-year-old Jax looked down at his mother just after she fell into the frigid ocean water off the Cheanuh Marina in the Beecher Bay First Nation.
  Shannon Burnside, 44, was wearing a life-jacket, but, weighed down by heavy boots and with a crab trap tangled around her leg, she was unable to pull herself onto the dock.
  What Jax did next likely saved his mother’s life.
  Burnside and Jax, who live in Colwood, had been crabbing at the Cheanuh Marina on Dock 7, about 500 metres
  
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• Koi clearout underway as voracious Chinatown otter proves elusive

  25-11-2018 22:23 via globalnews.ca
  The Vancouver Park Board says several more of the valuable fish were killed over the weekend.
  
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• B.C. announces urgent care centre in Vancouver set to open on Monday

  25-11-2018 22:12 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s health minister has announced the opening of the province’s fifth urgent primary care centre in order to lessen demand on emergency departments.
  Adrian Dix says the facility opening in downtown Vancouver on Monday will provide treatment on evenings and weekends.
  The centres are part of the government’s plan to reform primary care through a “team-based” approach that includes a doctor and other health-care providers including nurs
  
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• New Urgent Primary Care Centre to open in Vancouver on Monday

  25-11-2018 22:11 via globalnews.ca
  The care centre, located downtown, is expected to serve about 35,000 patients per year.
  
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• Photos to sell cannabis wanted, can't glamorize product. Biz opportunity advertised by BCLDB

  25-11-2018 22:07 via vancouversun.com
  Wanted: photographers to take pictures of cannabis products and accessories for marketing materials related to government run B.C. Cannabis Store retail sales.
  Images must be able to navigate a fine line between being attractive, but not be seen to glamorize the product or promote its use.
  That is the gist of a business opportunity that the B.C. Liquor Distribution Branch put out to the public recently by way of a request for proposals on the province’s B.C. Bid website seeking photography
  
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• Ian Mulgrew: Do the right thing on legal aid, province told

  25-11-2018 22:06 via vancouversun.com
  It’s time B.C. started living up to international commitments and norms for providing legal aid, lawyers affiliated with the United Nations have told a provincial government-ordered review.
  Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada on Thursday delivered an eight-page submission urging the reversal of a generation of neglect documented in scathing reports by UN agencies from 2006 to July 2018.
  The current legal aid plan falls so short of international obligations that the legitimacy of the provinc
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Britannia breakfast program scrapes together funds to feed hungry kids

  25-11-2018 22:01 via vancouversun.com
  By the end of October, the breakfast program feeding hungry and impoverished high school students at Britannia Secondary was on life support and about to switched off.
  “We are out of money,” said principal Alec MacInnes.
  The program, which feeds about 25 students and siblings, has been available to students for a number of years thanks to a grant from The Vancouver Sun’s Adopt-A-School program, but the money ran out at the end of the last school year.
  MacInnes, who is the new p
  
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• Emus, wallabies and cheetahs, oh my! Chinatown otter joins B.C.’s pantheon of viral critters

  25-11-2018 21:21 via globalnews.ca
  Yes, the Chinatown otter is getting all the attention right now, but it's just the latest in a proud tradition of weird B.C. animal stories.
  
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• Push to have B.C. highway memorialized in honour of 2 fallen Sea King pilots

  25-11-2018 21:18 via globalnews.ca
  On April 28, 1994, Bob Henderson and fellow Sea King pilot Wally Sweetman died when their Sea King helicopter slammed into a hillside near St. John, N.B.
  
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• Chinatown koi evacuation begins as otter rampage claims 10th fatality

  25-11-2018 20:52 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver park officials have ordered an evacuation of Chinatown koi after a hungry river otter claimed its 10th victim over the weekend.
  According to a Vancouver Park Board spokesperson, a total of 10 expensive koi fish have now been killed and eaten by the otter as of Sunday morning; there were previously 14 adult koi living in the ponds at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Park in Chinatown.
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  Specialist called in to catch elusive Chinatown river otterAre you #TeamOtter or #TeamKoi? Pick a side with one
  
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• Five reason to check out this year's East Van Panto

  25-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  East Van Panto: The Wizard of Oz
  When: Nov. 28 to Jan. 6
  Where: York Theatre
  Tickets: from $24 at thecultch.com
  1. East Van tradition. Now in its sixth year, the Theatre Replacement production is an annual tradition that is also family-friendly. Kids five and up will enjoy the fairy tale aspect, and adults can laugh at the in-jokes and local references: in this modern retelling, a burst pipeline sends Dorothy to the promised land of Nanaimo and Hastings. The British panto format also includes mu
  
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• Denby McDonnell and Yves Tiberghien: Now is the time for a global pact for the environment

  25-11-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  By 2020, Vancouver expects to be the greenest city in the world. But how does a visionary city continue to define the future of environmental sustainability? Vancouver and Canada should embed their local efforts into the new global negotiations for a global pact for the environment, expected by 2022 or so. This pact, featured at the Paris Peace Forum by world leaders earlier this month, will provide an international legal basis for environmental protection and environmental rights.
  Today, in spi
  
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• Ice pellets, freezing rain and snow expected on Southern Interior highways overnight

  25-11-2018 19:49 via globalnews.ca
  Environment Canada is predicting five centimetres of snow on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt on Sunday night.
  
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• 29-storey Burquitlam tower heads to hearing despite falling short

  25-11-2018 19:43
  
  Highrise proposal comes up short on parking, council concerned developer's offer to make up for it still not enough
  
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• Scallop Crudo

  25-11-2018 19:27 via globalnews.ca
  Chef Liam Breen from new restaurant Verre shares his recipe for scallop crudo, perfect for holiday entertaining.
  
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• Ask an Expert – Winter Skin

  25-11-2018 19:10 via globalnews.ca
  Dermatologist Dr Jason Rivers discusses winter skin care and answers viewers calls.
  
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• OWL I want for Christmas

  25-11-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  The annual O.W.L. holiday event is coming up — giving visitors the opportunity to meet Santa — and get up close with some spectacular raptors. Rob Hope and Colin Iverson of O.W.L join us, with two of their beautiful birds.
  
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• Giant’s Teddy Bear Toss

  25-11-2018 19:07 via globalnews.ca
  Dale Saip from the Vancouver Giants tells Jay about their upcoming Teddy Bear Toss event at the Pacific Coliseum.
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley, up to 60 mm expected

  25-11-2018 18:37 via globalnews.ca
  The worst of the weather should arrive late Sunday and linger into Monday morning.
  
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• Everett Silvertips end Kelowna Rockets’ winning streak

  25-11-2018 18:33 via globalnews.ca
  Kelowna got only 18 shots on goal while Everett peppered Rockets goaltender James Porter with 42 shots.
  
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• Daily Poll: When's the right time to put up Christmas decorations?

  25-11-2018 18:28 via vancouversun.com
  It’s still November but that hasn’t stopped local malls and some homeowners from decking the halls and putting up the lights.
  It’s a long, ongoing debate about how soon is too soon and why can’t some people just let the rest of us enjoy the holidays.
  So chime in – when’s the right time to put up Christmas decorations?Take Our Poll
  For those of you who have already put up your lights, you can submit your display to our interactive Christmas lights map here.
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• Wind, rainfall warnings in effect as storm approaches B.C. coast

  25-11-2018 18:13 via globalnews.ca
  Global BC Meteorologist Kristi Gordon has your weather forecast for Sunday, Nov. 25.
  
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• Vancouver weather: Batten down the hatches, heavy rain's on the way

  25-11-2018 18:05 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C.: Nov. 25, 2018 – Sunday’s weather sees the continuation of a special weather statement forecasting heavy rains. Better batten down the hatches.
  Environment Canada’s alert issued Sunday morning warns of an intense front hitting the south coast in the evening, bringing strong winds and heavy rain overnight. Winds from offshore also threaten to scatter thunderstorms with locally intense rainfall.Weather: Vancouver, B.C.
  Today: Cloudy with 30 per cent chance of show
  
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• Woman, 80, found dead in home is Vancouver's 15th homicide of 2018

  25-11-2018 17:31 via vancouversun.com
  An 80-year-old woman found dead in her east Vancouver apartment is Vancouver’s 15th homicide of the year.
  Around 8 a.m. on Saturday, Vancouver Police received a 911 call after the woman was found dead in her home near Kingsway Avenue and Kerr Street.
  According to Vancouver’s major crime investigators and the B.C. Coroners Service, there are signs the death is suspicious and it is now being treated as a homicide.
  “It is still very early in this investigation and our Homicide Uni
  
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• B.C. professor fights ban amid debate on academic freedom at Thompson Rivers University

  25-11-2018 17:25 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — A professor who has taken a stand against the publication of research in journals that aren’t peer reviewed says he has been suspended from the campus of the university where he works in the Interior of British Columbia.
  In an article written for a journal published by the University of Toronto Press, Prof. Derek Pyne raised questions about the practice followed by some professors who publish research in so-called predatory journals.
  Pyne, who has taught at Thompson River
  
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• See Vancouver’s best holiday lights while singing Christmas carols on this trolley tour

  25-11-2018 16:00
  
  This is bound to put you in the Christmas spirit
  
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• Pettersson helps Canucks end skid in 4-2 win over Kings

  25-11-2018 15:38 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver rookie Elias Pettersson scored to break a tie in the third period as the Canucks ended their eight-game losing streak with a 4-2 win over the Kings.
  
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• Jason Byassee: Ignoring atheist United Church 'pastor' Greta Vosper is the best policy

  25-11-2018 15:00 via vancouversun.com
  “All I know is Jesus changed my life and I can’t stop preaching about him.”
  The seminar question in my class was, “Why do you preach?” And the answer above was not from an evangelical American, or a Pentecostal recently immigrated from Asia, though we have such students at the Vancouver School of Theology.
  It was from a young aspiring minister in the United Church of Canada. She is evangelical in spirit, inclusive on social questions and passionate in her manner of
  
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• ‘I don’t want to die’: 5 years on, inquest into Mountie’s suicide to begin

  25-11-2018 13:00 via globalnews.ca
  Former Mounties who’ve fought their own battles with the force say they will be watching the inquest into Sgt. Pierre Lemaitre's death.
  
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• Moustache Miler shaves taboos by tackling suicide's collateral damage

  25-11-2018 11:55 via vancouversun.com
  A fiery sales manager, who once argued that running full-page ads on the front of a community newspaper was the “big secret” to long-term reader engagement, plunked a full glass of water on my desk, placed her finger in, pulled it out and cackled: “This is how long you’ll be missed” smirking as water quickly refilled the “hole.”
  She also stressed how nobody is irreplaceable. That harsh parting lesson, I suppose, was much cheaper than chipping in for the
  
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• Canucks at Night: Not so Gaudy goals

  25-11-2018 09:08 via theprovince.com
  Youth, they say, is wasted on the young.
  That might be true, but it’s definitely not true when you’ve just scored your first goal in the National Hockey League
  Adam Gaudette was not letting any youthful enthusiasm go to waste when he smiled Saturday night when asked about his goal against the Kings, his first in the National Hockey League.
  For Gaudette, this was his 20th game on the season, the 25th of his career.
  He’s scored at every level.
  He hadn’t in the NHL, not unti
  
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• Vancouver Police investigating elderly woman’s death as a homicide

  25-11-2018 08:21 via globalnews.ca
  Vancouver Police are investigating the city’s 15th homicide after a woman’s body was found in her East Vancouver apartment Saturday morning. At around 8 a.m. on November 24, the VPD received a 9-1-1 call from someone who had just discovered a deceased woman in her 80s inside her apartment near Kingsway Avenue and Kerr Street. “It...
  
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• Canucks 4 Kings 2: Slump busted in Los Angeles

  25-11-2018 07:37 via theprovince.com
  Relief has arrived and for the 2018-19 Vancouver Canucks, it indeed smells like victory.
  The Canucks broke an eight-game losing streak Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, beating the Kings 4-2.
  For the Canucks, it was an especially impressive win, given they’d played just 24 hours before against the Sharks in San Jose.
  But even if they were tired, it didn’t show, as the Canucks did well to keep the Kings to the outside, preventing shots from dangerous areas and making Ja
  
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• Canucks 3 Kings 2: Slump busted in Los Angeles

  25-11-2018 07:01 via theprovince.com
  Relief has arrived and for the 2018-19 Vancouver Canucks, it indeed smells like victory.
  The Canucks broke an eight-game losing streak Saturday night at Staples Center in Los Angeles, beating the Kings 3-2.
  For the Canucks, it was an especially impressive win, given they’d played just 24 hours before against the Sharks in San Jose.
  But even if they were tired, it didn’t show, as the Canucks did well to keep the Kings to the outside, preventing shots from dangerous areas and making Ja
  
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• Strong winds and rain expected Sunday in Metro Vancouver

  25-11-2018 06:15 via vancouversun.com
  Get set for a wet and windy end to the weekend.
  In a special weather statement issued Saturday afternoon, Environment Canada warned of strong winds and rain expected to begin Sunday night, and lasting until at least Tuesday, as a strong November storm arrives on the south coast.
  The main threat will be high winds, especially for coastal areas, but Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, the Sunshine Coast, and Vancouver Island have been told to prepare for gusts and rain.
  There remains some uncertai
  
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• John Copsey

  25-11-2018 05:48 via globalnews.ca
  John Copsey is a national news anchor for CKNW.
  
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• Winter 2019—What’s New and Happening in Whistler

  25-11-2018 05:44 via vancouversun.com
  November in Whistler is like the night before Christmas stretched over three weeks, but the good news is Whistler Blackcomb opens November 22, so get pumped!
  There’s a lot to be excited about this season, starting with a new ten-person gondola that replaces Blackcomb’s historic Wizard and Solar Coaster chairlifts. Blackcomb’s three-person Catskinner chair (aka the terrain park chair) is also being upgraded to a high-speed Quad so you can add more laps to your day, and over on W
  
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• BC Evening Weather Forecast: Nov 24

  25-11-2018 03:56 via globalnews.ca
  The Saturday, November 24, 2018 evening weather forecast for Vancouver, British Columbia and the surrounding area.
  
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• Live-in caregivers anxious with path to permanent residency up in the air

  25-11-2018 03:44 via globalnews.ca
  With Canada's permanent residency program set to end next year, migrant caregivers are calling on Ottawa for a better deal next year.
  
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• Push to rename Pat Bay Highway after two fallen Sea King pilots

  25-11-2018 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  A campaign is underway to rename a B.C. highway in honour of a pair of Victoria-based Sea King pilots who were killed in a crash more than two decades ago. Kristen Robinson reports.
  
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• New air cadet squadron aims to divert kids from Surrey gang life

  25-11-2018 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  Canada’s defence minister narrowly avoided the path of crime while growing up in South Vancouver. And now, as Jill Bennett reports, Harjit Sajjan is hoping a new air cadet squadron in Surrey will help steer kids away from gang life.
  
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• Migrant caregivers calling on Ottawa for a better program

  25-11-2018 03:32 via globalnews.ca
  With Canada’s permanent residency program set to end next year, migrant caregivers are calling on Ottawa for a better deal come November 2019. As Nadia Stewart reports, they are asking for more protection and security which would help them live and plan with less uncertainty.
  
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• West Vancouver cop fired after sending nude photos to domestic violence victims

  25-11-2018 03:28 via globalnews.ca
  A West Vancouver police officer has been fired after an investigation by B.C.’s Police Complaint Commissioner revealed more than 20 acts of misconduct – including sending nude pictures of himself to victims of domestic violence. Paul Johnson reports.
  
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