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• Missing Burnaby man found safe in North Vancouver - Global News

  21-12-2018 23:47
  Missing Burnaby man found safe in North Vancouver  Global NewsPolice say he may be in the Lynn Valley area, and is also known to frequent Vancouver's downtown waterfront.
  
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• Missing Burnaby man found safe in North Vancouver

  21-12-2018 23:40 via globalnews.ca
  Police say he may be in the Lynn Valley area, and is also known to frequent Vancouver's downtown waterfront. 
  
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• A Shooting Just Took Place At A Popular Mall In Vancouver - Narcity

  21-12-2018 23:32
  A Shooting Just Took Place At A Popular Mall In Vancouver  NarcityA shooting took place just this morning on December 21st at Lansdowne Centre in Vancouver and one victim has been taken to the hospital for serious injuries, ...
  
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• A simple pro-rep question could have won, poll finds

  21-12-2018 22:57 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbians are strongly in favour of an electoral system that better represents the intentions of voters and they might well have voted for one, according to a post-mortem poll
  Voters strongly rejected pro-rep in the mail-in referendum, but a simpler question could have gone the other way.
  When pollster Research Co. asked respondents whether they favour a system to better reflect the diversity of political views designed by an independent panel, 41 per cent favoured pro-rep while 36
  
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• Richmond RCMP investigating early morning shooting at Landsdowne Centre

  21-12-2018 22:56 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP in Richmond are appealing for witnesses in an early morning shooting at a popular mall.
  
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• B.C. announces more winter shelters for homeless

  21-12-2018 22:55 via globalnews.ca
  Ministry of Municipal Housing and Affairs confirms winter shelters, housing solutions for 10 communities.
  
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• Vancouverites left to clean up after wind storm downs trees across the city

  21-12-2018 22:51
  
  More than 2,000 still without power Friday
  
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• Here's what's open on Christmas Day in Vancouver this year - Daily Hive

  21-12-2018 22:28
  Here's what's open on Christmas Day in Vancouver this year  Daily HiveIf you're looking to get out of the house on Christmas Day and do something a little different, there are a number of different businesses that are open.
  
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• After Hours at Vancouver Aquarium

  21-12-2018 22:19 via globalnews.ca
  Pucker up for an intimate Valentine’s Day affair at the Vancouver Aquarium’s After Hours event on Thursday, February 14. Leave the kids with the sitter – this evening promises a provocative, sometimes racy, and oftentimes comical exploration of the sex lives of aquatic animals. Singles and doubles alike can spend Valentine’s Day with a drink...
  
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• Vancouver Island cleanup continues after intense windstorm sweeps across region

  21-12-2018 22:17 via globalnews.ca
  Nanaimo residents are being told not to use tap water until further notice as the city's water treatment plant has been compromised.
  
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• The White Towel podcast: I second that emotion

  21-12-2018 22:04 via theprovince.com
  Harrison Mooney and Patrick Johnston are back for another episode of the White Towel podcast.
  http://media.blubrry.com/theprovincesports/p/theprovincepodcasts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/whitetowel-dec-20.mp3
  Olli Juolevi’s season is suddenly over. What’s with that?
  The Canucks and the Lightning got emotional on Tuesday. What’s with that?
  And might the Canucks trade a defenceman in the new year?
  This is Province Sports Radio.
  
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• Stranger replaces Nanaimo Good Samaritan's stolen cellphone

  21-12-2018 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  NANAIMO — The RCMP say a Good Samaritan whose cellphone was stolen while she was helping an accident victim in Nanaimo has had the device replaced by a stranger.
  Const. Gary O’Brien says the local detachment was swamped with offers to help Anne Marie Behan after police issued a news release on her predicament.
  She had rushed from her home in Nanaimo last Saturday night to help a person who had been injured in a car crash.
  While she was providing first aid she placed her phone on the
  
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• Closed and closing soon: 4 Vancouver restaurants to say goodbye to - Daily Hive

  21-12-2018 21:47
  Closed and closing soon: 4 Vancouver restaurants to say goodbye to  Daily HiveThe restaurant industry in Vancouver can be fickle. Here is your update on restaurants in and around Vancouver that have recently shuttered.
  
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• Vancouver Island cleanup continues after intense windstorm sweeps across region - Global News

  21-12-2018 21:17
  Vancouver Island cleanup continues after intense windstorm sweeps across region  Global NewsNanaimo residents are being told not to use tap water until further notice as the city's water treatment plant has been compromised.
  
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• Richmond shooting: RCMP looking for witnesses

  21-12-2018 20:56 via vancouversun.com
  Richmond RCMP are looking for witnesses in an early morning shooting Friday near Lansdowne Centre.
  Police were called to the 5300-block of No. 3 Road around 7:30 a.m. to assist paramedics with a man who had sustained gunshot wounds.
  The victim was transported to hospital in serious condition, police said.
  “This investigation is in the early stages and details surrounding the incident have not been determined at this time,” Sgt. Kyle Simpson of the Richmond RCMP said in a news re
  
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• Woman killed in tent by fallen tree during windstorm in Duncan

  21-12-2018 20:40 via globalnews.ca
  Five people were inside the tent at the time and two other men were injured. 
  
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• B.C. government files forfeiture claim in money laundering case

  21-12-2018 20:29 via vancouversun.com
  The B.C. government has filed a civil forfeiture claim in a bid to seize millions of dollars in property and assets linked to a massive money laundering case.
  In the claim filed this week in B.C. Supreme Court, the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office seeks more than $2 million in cash, $17,800 in casino chips and nearly $10,000 Visa, MasterCard, and Vanilla gift cards, and property on Burquitlam Drive.
  The claim names the owners of the property, Caiman Qin and Jian Jun Zhu, as well as Silver Investment
  
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• How a Vancouver theatre company turned a small holiday panto into one of the city's hottest tickets - CBC.ca

  21-12-2018 20:26
  How a Vancouver theatre company turned a small holiday panto into one of the city's hottest tickets  CBC.caWhen Vancouver theatre artists James Long and Maiko Yamamoto set out to create the East Van Panto, they weren't entirely sure what a panto was.
  
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• Real estate still at ‘crisis’ levels of affordability, despite price growth stalling

  21-12-2018 20:19
  
  Increase in interest rates and mortgage stress test mean a Metro Vancouver home is still far out of reach for many, says RBC
  
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• Make less than $211k? Good luck buying a home in Vancouver, says RBC - Business in Vancouver

  21-12-2018 20:02
  Make less than $211k? Good luck buying a home in Vancouver, says RBC  Business in VancouverSo is it now only rich Canadians who can afford a home?
  
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• This Week in History: 1921 — A Biblical epic gets the Hollywood treatment in Queen of Sheba

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  One of the cool things about going through old newspapers is finding giant ads for movies you’ve never heard of.
  Case in point: Christmas Day 1921, when the William Fox spectacular Queen of Sheba hit the Allen Theatre.
  No prints of the movie are known to exist, which makes it one of many lost films from the early days of Hollywood. But it sounds like it was quite the deal.
  “Ten thousand people in the cast,” said an ad in The Vancouver World. “Two thousand beautiful dancin
  
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• Holiday baking: Vancouver blogger bakes up simply sweet treats

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Oh Sweet Day! A Celebration Cookbook of Edible Gifts, Party Treats and Festive Desserts
  Fanny Lam | Front Table Books
  $35.50Food has always held a special place in Fanny Lam’s heart. Especially around the holidays.
  “I grew up in Hong Kong (where) the most important holiday is Chinese New Year,” the Vancouver-based food blogger and self-taught baker explains. “To me, it meant a lot of visiting with family and friends and getting to see a lot of my cousins th
  
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• Fab 5: In the nick of time

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  If you’re organized, you’ll be spending this last weekend before Christmas relaxed and happy, drinking wine or egg nog in front of the fire and curling up to a movie marathon. If you’re not, you’ll be making lots of last-minute lists, trying to figure out what you can still have delivered in time, and making mental maps of your pit-stops in the mall. Sound familiar? Don’t stress. Whether it’s your boss, your in-laws, your next-door neighbour or the unexpected
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Live theatre lives on

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Live theatre is an emotive experience. It has the power to lift you up and pull you down. Done well, it draws you in and engulfs you. There is a relationship between you as a member of the audience and the cast — a relationship that is built immediately, sometimes it is electrifying and at others it is cold. Either way it is palpable.
  Because the audience is always changing, the dynamics in the theatre change each and every night. Each audience ensures each night will produc
  
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• Brian Minter: Stunning winter centrepieces a passion for Chilliwack tree farmer

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  I’ve already written about winter greens arrangements and porch pots, but there’s a Dutch art form — creating beautiful, natural centrepieces and wreaths using very unusual stems of cut winter greens — that I haven’t mentioned, and it is sadly missing in this part of the world.
  Over the years, Jan Van Wijk has created hundreds of stunning centrepieces, many of which my family has enjoyed on our Christmas table.
  Van Wijk is the owner of Fairfield Tree Nurseries Inc.,
  
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• Book reviews: Three recent volumes show Canadian poetry is still alive, if highly subsidized

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Beyond Forgetting: Celebrating 100 years of Al Purdy
  Edited by Howard White and Emma Skagen
  Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C. (2018)
  $22.95 | 174 pp.
  Practical Anxiety
  By Heidi Greco
  Inanna Publications, Toronto (2018)
  $18.95 | 103pp
  The Broken Face
  By Russell Thornton
  Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C. (2018)
  $18.95 | 93pp.Poetry does not have a big popular audience these days (with the exception of Leonard Cohen and others who crossed over from poetry to song lyrics) and anyone who as
  
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• Adopt-A-School: Trapped by poverty, saved by Downtown Eastside school breakfast program

  21-12-2018 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  To those who don’t live there, the Downtown Eastside is Vancouver’s valley of the poor and the influence it exerts over the imagination of those living in comfort elsewhere is profound.
  It’s the sheer weight of the suffering that’s obvious on the streets of Canada’s poorest postal code — the addiction, the mental illness, the homelessness, the poverty.
  But what isn’t so obvious is the courage and dignity of many of its residents, an example of which are
  
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• B.C. windstorm: White Rock pier split in two, ferries cancelled, hundreds of thousands lose power

  21-12-2018 19:49 via vancouversun.com
  A powerful wind storm slammed the B.C. South Coast Thursday, causing widespread power outages, ferry cancellations, dangerous road conditions and SkyTrain disruptions in Metro Vancouver.
  In White Rock, high winds sent loose boats crashing into the pier, splitting it in two and stranding one individual at the far end.
  A helicopter was deployed to rescue the man from the free-standing section of the pier, which continued to be hammered by wind and waves.
  The pier was closed until further notice, t
  
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• Beauty Bar: Cake Beauty The Posh Wash Shampoo and The Soft Serve Conditioner

  21-12-2018 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  What it is: A shampoo and conditioner release from the Canadian brand Cake Beauty that are designed to, “set your second-day hair up for success.”
  The Posh Wash Sulfate-Free Swirl Shampoo formula promises to “dramatically” extend the freshly washed feel of your hair. Moringa Seed micro-proteins mingle with Apple Cider Vinegar and aloe leaf juice in this cleanser to clean and nourish strands.
  The Soft Serve Cream Rinse Conditioner also employs Moringa Seed oil in its formu
  
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• Help restore Vancouver’s Pacific Spirit Park this Saturday

  21-12-2018 19:25
  
  The Pacific Spirit Park Society is inviting volunteers to restore the forest along the Salish Trail for a final time this year on Dec. 22.
  
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• B.C. Conservatives to run candidate in upcoming byelection in Nanaimo

  21-12-2018 19:15 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER — The BC Conservative party says it will participate in the upcoming provincial byelection in Nanaimo and expects to name its candidate in the coming weeks.
  The party, which currently has no representation in the legislature, made the announcement Friday in a news release welcoming the results of a mail-in referendum that rejected electoral reform.
  Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson says those results show the riding voted 54 per cent against any change and believes that does not bo
  
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• 1918: The year Vancouver got prohibition for Christmas - Daily Hive

  21-12-2018 19:00
  1918: The year Vancouver got prohibition for Christmas  Daily HiveWritten for Daily Hive Vancouver by Glenn Tkach of Forbidden Vancouver Walking Tours. A hundred years ago in Vancouver, there were no Christmas pub ...
  
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• Christmas Morning French Toast

  21-12-2018 18:26 via globalnews.ca
  Ladurée Canada executive chef Mickaël de Monte shows us how to make a ‘Pain Perdu’ that would be perfect for a holiday morning.
  
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• More than 150,000 without power in aftermath of B.C. windstorm

  21-12-2018 18:23 via globalnews.ca
  Cleanup is underway across B.C.'s South Coast following one of the worst windstorms in recent memory.
  
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• Drink this: Raspberry Saison by Strathcona Beer Co.

  21-12-2018 18:15
  
  Strathcona has done a great job of expanding its repertoire over the past year, and Raspberry Saison is one of their most interesting beers yet.
  
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• Movie reviews: “Mary Poppins Returns”, “Aquaman”, and “Shoplifters”

  21-12-2018 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee has a look at some of the new movies hitting theatres this weekend, including “Mary Poppins Returns”, “Aquaman”, and “Shoplifters”
  
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• B.C.’s South Coast digs out from windstorm

  21-12-2018 17:54 via globalnews.ca
  Crews are working to restore power to thousands across B.C.’s South Coast following one of the worst windstorms in recent memory. Sarah MacDonald reports.
  
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• Vancouver Park Board runs aground with marina users

  21-12-2018 17:42
  
  Several members of the Burrard Civic Marina say fees are too high for the level of service
  
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• Power still out for thousands in Metro Vancouver

  21-12-2018 17:21 via vancouversun.com
  Thousands of Metro Vancouver residents remain without power, a day after a powerful wind storm swept over B.C.’s South Coast, causing widespread damage.
  And, B.C. Hydro says it could be days before some customers have their lights back on.
  B.C. Hydro crews were busy through the night, yet early on Friday morning nearly 60,000 customers in the Lower Mainland, and more than 80,000 on Vancouver Island were still without power.
  A post on the B.C. Hydro website said the windstorm was “one
  
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• List of school closures after the B.C. windstorm

  21-12-2018 17:16 via globalnews.ca
  Dozens of schools in the Lower Mainland, Fraser Valley, and Vancouver Island are closed Friday after a powerful windstorm.
  
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• Month of Giving Back: Homeless Partners

  21-12-2018 17:15 via globalnews.ca
  Sonia Sunger learns about a non-profit that connects members of the public with homeless people who need help.
  
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• Shooting at Lansdowne Centre

  21-12-2018 17:09
  
  One victim was taken to hospital in serious condition.
  
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• B.C. Travel: Try these unique spa experiences on Vancouver Island - Vancouver Sun

  21-12-2018 17:05
  B.C. Travel: Try these unique spa experiences on Vancouver Island  Vancouver SunNeed a relaxing getaway? Try one of these spas, which offer much more than facials, pedicures and massage.
  
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• These are Vancouver's best new restaurants of 2018 - Daily Hive

  21-12-2018 17:00
  These are Vancouver's best new restaurants of 2018  Daily HiveWell, that was one heck of a year when it came to eating and drinking. Just looking back at the list of eateries that opened in 2018 makes us feel full.
  
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• B.C. Travel: Try these unique spa experiences on Vancouver Island

  21-12-2018 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Looking at the assortment of services offered by various spas on Vancouver Island, I can’t help but feel hungry, intrigued and slightly confused. A rejuvenating arbutus wrap, hydrating cactus detox, herbal mud soak, and green tea seaweed body scrub are some of the unique services found on spa menus. I never knew the spa world consisted of more than a facial, pedicure and massage.
  Being a spa virgin, it’s difficult to choose a treatment from the list of interesting options that often
  
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• B.C. cities join global movement asking oil companies for climate change costs

  21-12-2018 16:57 via vancouversun.com
  Staff and contractors in Victoria have been crunching the numbers on climate change costs for the coastal city and it’s not looking good, the mayor says.
  Lisa Helps says based on a report commissioned by the regional government in 2015, storm surges combined with a one-metre rise in sea level — which is projected by the year 2100 — could result in business disruption losses of $415,557 per day.
  Victoria was one of the first municipalities in British Columbia to pen a letter to
  
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• World Junior Hockey Championships Preview

  21-12-2018 16:34 via globalnews.ca
  Former Canuck Kyle Wellwood joins Sonia Sunger to preview the World Junior Hockey Championships and explain what it playing in the tournament is like for the young athletes.
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly sunny, wind warning lifted - Vancouver Sun

  21-12-2018 16:11
  Vancouver Weather: Mainly sunny, wind warning lifted  Vancouver SunVANCOUVER, B.C. – The weather for Friday, also the Winter Solstice, looks mainly sunny, with increasing cloud in the afternoon, and a high of 6 C. Environment ...
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Mainly sunny, wind warning lifted

  21-12-2018 16:10 via vancouversun.com
  VANCOUVER, B.C. – The weather for Friday, also the Winter Solstice, looks mainly sunny, with increasing cloud in the afternoon, and a high of 6 C. Environment Canada says it may still be a little breezy in the morning, but Thursday’s wind warning has been lifted. You may want to get outside and enjoy a bit of sunshine on the shortest day of the year, as the weather agency is forecasting more rain for Friday night. That rain may even turn to wet snow at higher elevations overnigh
  
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