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• Vancouver Sun Run: Three reasons to sign up for the Vancouver Sun Run InTraining Clinic

  11-01-2019 23:53 via vancouversun.com
  Things aren’t getting off on the right foot.
  On Saturday a dental appointment will keep me from attending my first 2019 Vancouver Sun Run InTraining Clinic session.
  I’m just plain gutted.
  Last year’s InTraining Clinic was my first time at doing any sort of organized group anything.
  And, I started out as a bonafide skeptic.
  The thought of spending weekend mornings making small talk with strangers about how a good warmup can help avoid “tight hammies” made my soul cha
  
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• Bulls & Bears: Early NFL playoff ratings spike bodes well for weekend games

  11-01-2019 23:47 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  The NFL and its broadcast partners kicked off the 2019 Super Bowl tournament with one of the best-rated wild-card weekends in the past quarter-century. The average U.S. TV audience for the four wild-card games was an impressive 28.35 million.
  Those bullish TV numbers bode well for Super Bowl LIII. The math typically shows that the bigger the wild-card audiences at the start of the post-season, the higher the count come the NFL championship game on the first Sunday in February.
  
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• Vancouver city council to vote on backing free transit for youth, discounts for low-income riders - Global News

  11-01-2019 23:42
  Vancouver city council to vote on backing free transit for youth, discounts for low-income riders  Global NewsThe All On Board campaign is already supported by New Westminster and Port Moody.
  
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• Prince George high school locked down after weapon found on school grounds

  11-01-2019 23:39 via vancouversun.com
  A Prince George high school was locked down early Friday morning, following the discovery of a weapon on school grounds.
  The incident occurred at the beginning of the day at Kelly Road Secondary School, where office staff were alerted to a safety concern within the building shortly after students began to arrive.
  In a letter to parents, principal Steve MacRae explained that “a threat within our school was identified” and a lockdown was ordered as required by the district’s emer
  
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• Do you recognize these Burnaby mail thieves?

  11-01-2019 23:35 via globalnews.ca
  The RCMP are asking for the public’s help to identify five suspects wanted in connection to multiple thefts from apartment buildings in the Burnaby area.
  
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• Judge gives final instructions to jury in murder trial of Monica Jack

  11-01-2019 23:21 via globalnews.ca
  The trial began in October and jurors are expected to start deliberations on Monday.
  
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• New orca calf spotted swimming with Southern Resident killer whales

  11-01-2019 22:45 via globalnews.ca
  Researchers say there are two other pregnant whales in K Pod and J Pod.
  
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• Supporters turn out at court appearance for B.C. couple, friend charged with hog-tying alleged sex predator

  11-01-2019 22:30 via globalnews.ca
  Supporters said the parents were right to apprehend the 28-year-old man on their own after police failed to intervene and are calling for tougher penalties for sex predators.
  
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• In The House podcast: Bold predictions for the upcoming year in B.C. politics

  11-01-2019 22:25 via vancouversun.com
  Postmedia columnists Mike Smyth and Rob Shaw start 2019 by examining critical issues and predicting possible outcomes.
  Is former Premier Christy Clark ready to politics after time on the sidelines? Will rideshare giants Uber and Lyft drive away from B.C. after encountering a number of roadblocks? Can federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh actually win a seat in Burnaby? Smyth and Shaw explore these topics and more in their expansive discussion about what’s to come in 2019.
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• Growing calls to put teeth into B.C. health-care coverage

  11-01-2019 22:15 via vancouversun.com
  When Gabrielle Peters saw a video last month of federal health critic Don Davies challenging the health minister to improve access to necessary dental care, she wondered if her plea had been heard.
  Still sore from having the last four of her teeth pulled on Nov. 20 because she couldn’t afford any other option, Peters, a freelance writer in Vancouver, had taken to Twitter two weeks before the video was posted online to ask people why they felt dental care should be added to publicly fu
  
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• Decision on Allan Schoenborn’s request for limited release not immediately due

  11-01-2019 22:11 via vancouversun.com
  The lawyer for the man who killed his three children and was found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder says a B.C. Review Board will need at least a month to decide the latest request for temporary absences from a psychiatric facility.
  Rishi Gill says Allan Schoenborn was before the review board Thursday requesting limited, staff-supported community outings.
  Schoenborn has been held at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam since 2010, after being convicted of killing
  
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• Newborn orca seen swimming with Southern Resident killer whales

  11-01-2019 22:07 via globalnews.ca
  Aerial footage shows a new orca calf swimming with the K and L Pod whales in the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca Friday morning. According to researchers the whale, who has not yet been identified as male or female, is thought to be the baby of L77.
  
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• Judge gives final instructions to jury in murder trial of 12-year-old B.C. girl Monica Jack

  11-01-2019 22:05 via vancouversun.com
  A B.C. Supreme Court judge says jurors will need to use their common sense in assessing the reliability of an alleged confession by a man accused of killing a 12-year-old girl.
  In final instructions to the jury, Justice Austin Cullen says an undercover police officer posing as a crime boss provided financial and social inducements to Garry Handlen but the man was never threatened.
  An undated photo of Garry Taylor Handlen, charged with first-degree murder.
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• VPD release new information about double homicide in Vancouver

  11-01-2019 21:59 via theprovince.com
  Vancouver police have released new information about a gang-related double murder a year ago that left a young innocent bystander dead.
  On Friday, the VPD released a photo of a vehicle that police allege was involved in the Jan. 13, 2018 shooting, a red Pontiac Montana.Kevin Whiteside, 23, and Alfred Wong, 15, were shot and killed at East Broadway Avenue and Ontario Street near the Indochine Kitchen and Bar.
  Investigators believe that Whiteside was there planning to kill a 28-year-old Vancouver
  
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• Tiny coffee shops help owners save on rent in high-cost Vancouver, Toronto

  11-01-2019 21:55 via vancouversun.com
  Customers who don’t work in the building that houses Kento Kitayama’s tiny café in Gastown better be prepared to settle for takeout. He can only take orders through a little window facing the sidewalk.
  Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand, which opened late last month, has no seating and sparse furnishings. Kitayama could likely stand in the middle of the roughly 17-square-metre shop and reach out to touch the sink, refrigerator and shelving unit, counter, and espresso machine that mark th
  
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• Kelowna cracks top-10 list of national airports

  11-01-2019 21:39 via globalnews.ca
  Just over two million passengers walked through YLW in 2018.
  
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• Vancouver police release new info on anniversary of shooting that killed innocent bystander - Vancouver Courier

  11-01-2019 21:28
  Vancouver police release new info on anniversary of shooting that killed innocent bystander  Vancouver CourierAlfred Wong, 15, was killed in a shootout on Broadway in January 2018.
  
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• Vancouver police release new info on anniversary of shooting that killed innocent bystander

  11-01-2019 21:28
  
  Alfred Wong, 15, was killed in a shootout on Broadway in January 2018
  
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• B.C.’s Callum Montgomery first of three Canadians to go in top 10 of MLS SuperDraft

  11-01-2019 21:24 via theprovince.com
  CHICAGO — Canadians Callum Montgomery, Dayne St. Clair and Tajon Buchanan went in the top 10 of the MLS SuperDraft on Friday.
  Expansion FC Cincinnati picked UCLA midfielder Frankie Amaya, a U.S. under-20 international, with the first pick at McCormick Place.
  Montgomery, a centre back from North Carolina-Charlotte, went fourth overall to FC Dallas while the University of Maryland’s St. Clair, the first goalkeeper taken in the draft, was selected seventh by Minnesota United.
  Buchanan,
  
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• This Week in History: 1922: The Sun denounces the menace of horse racing

  11-01-2019 21:19 via vancouversun.com
  Horse racing has been around Vancouver since the pioneer days.
  On Oct. 29, 1888, a race between steeds like Coquitlam Jim, Slow Dick and Bryan O’Lynn attracted so many local politicians that a city council meeting was cancelled for lack of a quorum.
  In 1889 and 1890, the masses thronged the sidewalks along Howe Street to watch Dominion Day horse races downtown. Racing fans and owners then began to agitate for a civic racecourse, and on Sept. 15, 1892, one opened at Hastings Park.
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• Home prices holding firm in most Metro Vancouver areas, and for condos: report

  11-01-2019 21:02
  
  Price growth has dramatically slowed across region, but still rose 2.1 per cent overall in fourth quarter, says Royal LePage
  
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• Three youths sentenced in swarming death of Luka Gordic

  11-01-2019 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  A judge has finally handed down sentences to three youths convicted in the stabbing death of a teen killed in Whistler four years ago, and one of them will spend life in prison. Neetu Garcha reports.
  
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• Victims sought after suspected voyeur arrested at University of B.C.

  11-01-2019 20:42
  
  The suspectallegedly put a cellphone over the top of a stall in a public women's washroom
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: What will 2019 bring for the wine world? - Vancouver Sun

  11-01-2019 20:33
  Anthony Gismondi: What will 2019 bring for the wine world?  Vancouver SunA review of B.C. liquor regulations, and millennials overtaking the baby boomers as the single largest market sector in North America should make it an ...
  
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• VPD release new information about double homicide in Vancouver - The Province

  11-01-2019 20:26
  VPD release new information about double homicide in Vancouver  The ProvinceVancouver police have released new information about a gang-related double murder a year ago that left a young bystander dead. On Friday, the VPD released ...
  
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• Vancouver weather: five days of sunshine on the way

  11-01-2019 20:26
  
  This forecast is sure to brighten your weekend...
  
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• Look inside Livia before it opens next week (PHOTOS) - Daily Hive

  11-01-2019 20:19
  Look inside Livia before it opens next week (PHOTOS)  Daily HiveVancouver's newest culinary destination on Commercial Drive is all about bread, coffee, and pastries – and we're certainly not mad about it.
  
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• Arson probed as one Merritt church destroyed, second one damaged

  11-01-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  MERRITT — A nearly 150-year-old church has been destroyed by a suspicious fire in British Columbia’s southern Interior, one of two blazes at Merritt-area churches early Friday.
  The historic Murray United Church on Highway 5A in the Nicola Valley was built in 1876.
  Merritt Fire Rescue Department Capt. Carl Johnston says the single-room building was engulfed in flames by the time crews arrived and the structure could not be saved.
  The Crossroads Community Church in Merritt was also dam
  
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• Family history: Paul Wong exhibition inspired by 700 letters written to his mother - Vancouver Sun

  11-01-2019 20:02
  Family history: Paul Wong exhibition inspired by 700 letters written to his mother  Vancouver SunWhen Paul Wong's mother Suk Fong died in 2017, the Vancouver artist found 700 letters that recount the links between his family's tragic history and the ...
  
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• Prolific B.C. writer's story the topic of He Speaks in Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  He Speaks Volumes: A Biography of George Bowering
  Rebecca Wigod | Talonbooks
  $24.95
  Writer Rebecca Wigod first started talking with two-time Governor General’s Award winner, Order of Canada recipient and former Poet Laureate George Bowering about his life and work back in 2011.
  Now, after seven years and many interviews with the 83-year-old Bowering, Wigod has delivered the first biography of the widely acclaimed B.C. author (he has 100 books across genres to his credit).
  Out now from Talo
  
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• Family history: Paul Wong exhibition inspired by 700 letters written to his mother

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Suk Fong Nay Ho Mah? Suk Fong, how are you?
  When: Jan. 12 – Feb. 24
  Where: Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Garden
  Tickets and info: vancouverchinesegarden.com. When his mother died at age 91 in 2017, artist Paul Wong made an amazing discovery. In her bedroom, he found 700 handwritten letters sent to her from relatives in China over a period of more than six decades.
  The letters sent him on a journey into the history of his family and of Communist China. He has transformed and r
  
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• Fab 5: Hit the slopes

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  They say the ski and snowboard season starts (and ends) later and later each year, so if you haven’t been up the gondola at Whistler Blackcomb yet, it’s not too late. Your scene leans more toward après than action? Even better. Whether you’re a ski bunny and can’t wait to hit the pistes or love a good hot toddy in the village, Rebecca Tay presents five ski and snow coats that will keep you nice and toasty.BABY BLUE
  Vancouver-based TNA has pulled out all the stops w
  
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• Brian Minter: Brighten your dark days indoors with easy-care colour

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Once the holiday decor is put away, the interiors of many homes and apartments can look somewhat bleak, and it doesn’t help that, outside, it’s one of the darkest, coldest, dreariest months of the year.
  We all need a little pick-me-up right about now, and a few unique, easy-care plants will do the trick.
  In our Northern Hemisphere, traditional succulents like echeverias, aeoniums, cotyledons and dudleyas, struggle in the low light typical in most homes, but there are some varieties t
  
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• Birks bets on new generation

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Jean-Christophe Bédos is on a mission to modernize Birks.
  As the president and chief executive officer of the 139-year-old Canadian jewelry company, he’s attempting to reinvigorate the historied Quebec-based company. Throughout his past six years with the retailer, Bédos, who boasts a long history with the French jewelry purveyors Boucheron and Cartier, has overseen the introduction of more youthful, “eccentric” and affordable offerings including the Muse Rib
  
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• Aaron Pritchett gets Out on the Town

  11-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Aaron Pritchett Out On The Town Release Party
  When: Jan. 15, 7 p.m.
  Where: Vogue Theatre
  Tickets and Info: ticketfly.com
  Sometimes things just happen out right. That’s pretty much how Aaron Pritchett likes to describe the Score.
  His 2016 album titled to honour his 20th year in the country music business not only saw the singer back in the top 10 for the first time in seven years, but it set up shop there as singles such as Dirt Road in Em, Out of the Blue and When a Momma’s Boy Meets
  
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• Police raid Vancouver house

  11-01-2019 19:43 via vancouversun.com
  A large crowd has gathered in southwest Vancouver where Vancouver police are raiding a house.
  Photos posted on social media by those identifying themselves as Langara journalism students show a large police presence in the area of East 49th Avenue across the street from Langara College.
  The photos show an armoured vehicle and someone being taken into a police car.
  pic.twitter.com/y2e8MGOF6y
  — Cameron Thomson (@CameronJHT) January 10, 2019VPD spokesman Const. Jason Doucette says the Va
  
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• UPDATE: Extensive damage after attempted robbery of Okanagan credit union

  11-01-2019 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  Intentional truck crash causes extensive damage to automated teller area.
  
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• Extensive damage after attempted robbery of Okanagan credit union

  11-01-2019 19:36 via globalnews.ca
  Intentional truck crash causes extensive damage to automated teller area.
  
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• Can Metro Vancouver accommodate another one million people by 2050? - Vancouver Courier

  11-01-2019 19:33
  Can Metro Vancouver accommodate another one million people by 2050?  Vancouver CourierHere's a sentence you probably didn't think you'd read in this space: Fertility rates in Metro Vancouver have shifted by large margins over the past 20 years.
  
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• Can Metro Vancouver accommodate another one million people by 2050?

  11-01-2019 19:33
  
  Metro Vancouver planners predict another one million people will live in an already congested and expensive region by 2050. Where are they coming from?
  
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• VPD release new evidence in 2018 shooting that killed teen

  11-01-2019 19:31 via globalnews.ca
  The Vancouver Police release new information on the anniversary of the shooting at East Broadway and Ontario Street that killed Alfred Wong and Kevin Whiteside.
  
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• Vancouver police release more evidence on anniversary of shooting that killed innocent teen

  11-01-2019 19:22 via globalnews.ca
  Fifteen-year-old Alfred Wong was shot in the backseat of his parents' car as it drove down East Broadway near Ontario Street at the time of the shooting on Jan. 13 of last year.
  
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• Tiny coffeeshops help owners save on rent in high-cost Vancouver, Toronto - The Province

  11-01-2019 19:14
  Tiny coffeeshops help owners save on rent in high-cost Vancouver, Toronto  The ProvinceHigh and rising rents have caused several restaurants in both cities to shutter their doors in recent years, causing some shop-owners to turn to smaller-scale ...
  
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• Tiny coffeeshops help owners save on rent in high-cost Vancouver, Toronto

  11-01-2019 19:11 via vancouversun.com
  Customers who don’t work in the building that houses Kento Kitayama’s tiny cafe in Gastown better be prepared to settle for takeout. He can only take orders through a little window facing the sidewalk.
  Iktsuarpok Coffee Stand, which opened late last month, has no seating and sparse furnishings. Kitayama could likely stand in the middle of the roughly 17-square-metre shop and reach out to touch the sink, refrigerator and shelving unit, counter, and espresso machine that mark the shop&
  
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• Trans advocates rally against controversial feminist speaker Meghan Murphy - CTV News

  11-01-2019 19:02
  Trans advocates rally against controversial feminist speaker Meghan Murphy  CTV NewsDozens of people rallied outside the Vancouver Public Library on Thursday to protest a talk by Meghan Murphy, a feminist blogger whose views on transgender ...
  
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• B.C. radio telescope picks up energy bursts for only second time ever

  11-01-2019 18:44 via globalnews.ca
  For second time in history, a radio telescope near Penticton has picked up radio bursts from outside the Milky Way. Jordan Armstrong reports.
  
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• UPDATE: Vancouver Island man, charged in capture of child-luring suspect, sentenced - Chilliwack Progress

  11-01-2019 18:35
  UPDATE: Vancouver Island man, charged in capture of child-luring suspect, sentenced  Chilliwack ProgressOne man has received a conditional discharge after pleading guilty to assault in a case related to to the capture of a man who was allegedly going to have sex ...
  
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• Survival story show impact of funds raised by lottery

  11-01-2019 18:31 via globalnews.ca
  As the midnight deadline approaches for buying a ticket in the Millionaire Lottery we speak with Daniel and Rita Dekleer. Daniel was seriously injured in car accident, but was treated at VGH and made an amazing recovery.
  
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• Movie reviews: The Upside, Vox Lux and The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

  11-01-2019 18:30 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee has a look at some of the new movies hitting theatres this weekend, including “The Upside”, “Vox Lux” and “The Woman who Loves Giraffes”
  
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• Judge to sentence 3 youths convicted in stabbing death of Burnaby teen Luka Gordic

  11-01-2019 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  The Crown is calling on the trio to be sentenced as adults for their role in the attack in Whistler in May 2015.
  
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