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• B.C. surgery waiting list has grown faster than population, anesthesiologists say

  15-01-2019 23:55 via vancouversun.com
  Anesthesiologists in British Columbia say the waiting list for medically necessary surgeries has grown to more than 85,000 patients.
  The B.C. Anesthesiologists’ Society said Tuesday that since 2002, surgical waiting lists have increased by about three times the growth rate of the provincial population.
  The society said its research up to the end of the 2018 fiscal year shows about one-third of those who require surgery have been delayed longer than the benchmark limit.
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• Vancouver ranks high on Canada's top ten 'bed bug cities' list - Vancouver Is Awesome

  15-01-2019 23:48
  Vancouver ranks high on Canada's top ten 'bed bug cities' list  Vancouver Is AwesomeVancouver ranked high on Orkin's ist of the top bed bug cities in all of Canada, but a few cities saw more treatments for the creepy crawlers.
  
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• Ontario man convicted of shaking his baby to death arrested in Victoria

  15-01-2019 23:48 via theprovince.com
  Victoria police have arrested a London, Ont., man convicted of manslaughter in the death of his 10-week-old son.
  Rourke Desmanche was wanted by Corrections Canada for allegedly violating the conditions of his parole. He was arrested early Sunday by a Victoria police dog handler, who recognized Desmanche from a Canada-wide warrant and stopped him.
  At first, it appeared that Desmanche was going to run away. But when the officer indicated he would release the dog, Desmanche complied with the office
  
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• Alberta mom frustrated her breastfeeding infant needed paid ticket for show

  15-01-2019 23:33 via globalnews.ca
  Preventing a woman from bringing her breastfeeding infant to a show could be grounds for discrimination on the basis of sex, Margot Young, a professor with the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia, said. 
  
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• Delta orders removal of clothing donation bins

  15-01-2019 23:27 via vancouversun.com
  Delta has ordered the removal of all clothing donation bins from the city in response to several recent fatalities, including one in West Vancouver last month.
  At a meeting Monday, Delta city council declared donation bins as “creating unsafe conditions and posing significant risks to human health and safety.” All bins must be removed by Jan. 29 or the city will remove them at the owner’s expense.
  Richmond and Burnaby issued similar orders earlier this month afte
  
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• The Illusionists

  15-01-2019 23:22 via globalnews.ca
  Sonia Sunger chats with Canadian illusionist Darcy Oake about his upcoming shows in Vancouver.
  
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• B.C. chiefs gather in Smithers to support Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs over pipeline

  15-01-2019 23:17 via vancouversun.com
  SMITHERS — Hereditary chiefs opposed to a natural gas pipeline in Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia are holding a gathering of solidarity on Wednesday that is expected to attract Indigenous leaders from across British Columbia.
  Chief Judy Wilson, secretary treasurer of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said she was planning to attend the meeting and other members of the group had already flown to Smithers.
  “I’m heading up there to support the Wet&rs
  
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• Vernon parents line up overnight to secure their children a spot in French immersion

  15-01-2019 23:07 via globalnews.ca
  Parents came prepared with camping chairs, sleeping bags, tents and portable campfires, forming a line that stretched around the building.
  
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• Canadian sentenced to death in China previously warned by B.C. judge to change his ways

  15-01-2019 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  Years before being sentenced to death by a Chinese court for drug smuggling, a B.C. Supreme Court judge warned Robert Lloyd Schellenberg to change his ways.
  
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• Guy Fieri spotted at the Red Wagon Cafe in Vancouver - Daily Hive

  15-01-2019 22:54
  Guy Fieri spotted at the Red Wagon Cafe in Vancouver  Daily HiveHot on the heels of Ugly Delicious' David Chang, comes a Vancouver visit from American restaurateur and legendary host Guy Fieri.
  
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• North Shore Rescue called to Dog Mountain trail for medical rescue

  15-01-2019 22:38 via globalnews.ca
  North Shore Rescue has been called to Dog Mountain to help a hiker in distress.
  
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• Celebration of life to be held for retired Abbotsford cop Shinder Kirk

  15-01-2019 22:23 via vancouversun.com
  A celebration of life will be held for retired Abbotsford police officer Shinder Kirk later this month, while a traditional South Asian service will be held this Saturday.
  Kirk died on Dec. 22, 2018, in a two-vehicle crash in Nanaimo.
  He first served with the Vancouver Police Department before joining the Abbotsford police in 1990. During his time working in law enforcement, he also served with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit and was a media spokesman, frequently speaking to the pub
  
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• Dine Out 2019: Here's the full list of participating restaurants

  15-01-2019 22:20 via vancouversun.com
  Dine Out Vancouver is back for 2019.
  The foodie festival kicks off Jan. 18 and runs until Feb. 3, which is plenty of time to check out some of the offerings. The challenge, however, is that bookings and reservations will disappear quickly, thanks to the more than 100,000 locals and visitors who flock to the restaurants.
  It’s the largest festival of its kind in the country.
  This year, there are more than 300 restaurants participating at price points ranging from $15 to $45.
  Check out our ma
  
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• Canucks’ Elias Pettersson ‘day to day,’ in doubt to face Oilers

  15-01-2019 22:18 via theprovince.com
  After he didn’t practise with the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday, Elias Pettersson seems unlikely to play against the Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday.
  The Swedish centre sprained the medial collateral ligament in his right knee in a collision with the Montreal Canadiens’ Jesperi Kotkaniemi just under two weeks ago.
  After the Canucks practised on Tuesday morning, coach Travis Green said Pettersson was “day to day.”
  The rookie skated on his own for 45 minutes Tuesday and Green s
  
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• ICBC changes its handling of injury settlements

  15-01-2019 22:14 via globalnews.ca
  ICBC is changing the way it handles injury settlements. It is revoking previous settlement offers and is now considering payments based on new criteria. Personal injury lawyer Joe Murphy joins Sonia Sunger to discuss what the changes could mean for drivers.
  
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• B.C.'s anesthesiologists say surgery wait list has grown faster than population

  15-01-2019 21:55
  
  The waiting list for medically necessary surgeries has grown to more than 85,000 patients
  
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• B.C. surgery wait list has grown faster than population, anesthesiologists say

  15-01-2019 21:51 via vancouversun.com
  Anesthesiologists in B.C. say the waiting list for medically necessary surgeries has grown to more than 85,000 patients.
  The B.C. Anesthesiologists Society says that since 2002 surgical waiting lists have increased by about three times the growth of the provincial population.
  The society says its research up to the end of the 2018 fiscal year shows about one-third of those who require surgery have been delayed longer than the benchmark limit.
  CEO Dr. Roland Orfaly says the purpose of a discussio
  
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• International: 20 bestselling books of the week of Jan. 12

  15-01-2019 21:50 via vancouversun.com
  Verses for the Dead, by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. Verses for the Dead  by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
  2. Where the Crawdads Sing  by Della Owens
  3. The Reckoning  by John Grisham
  4. Fire & Blood  by George R.R. Martin
  5. Every Breath  by Nicholas Sparks
  6. A Delicate Touch  by Stuart Woods
  7. Target: Alex Cross  by James Patterson
  8. Long Road to Mercy  by David Baldacci
  9. Past Tense  by Lee Child
  10. The Boy&n
  
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• RCMP investigate fatal shooting in Cache Creek

  15-01-2019 21:48 via globalnews.ca
  Police say a shooting took place Monday evening in the small village of 1,000.
  
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• B.C. home sales fall 25 per cent in 2018

  15-01-2019 21:48 via vancouversun.com
  The number of homes sold in 2018 in B.C. has fallen 24.5 per cent from the previous year, according to the latest figures.
  The B.C. Real Estate Association this week shared its year-end numbers, which show that a total of 78,345 home sales were recorded in 2018, compared with the 103,758 homes sold in 2017. Last year’s figure was also below the 10-year average of 84,800 homes sold.
  “The sharp decline in affordability caused by the B20 mortgage stress test is largely to blame for a de
  
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• Roads from Burnaby to Coquitlam to be torn up for gas line upgrade

  15-01-2019 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  A major FortisBC gas line upgrade project that closed East 1st Avenue in Vancouver last summer will move east this year and bring traffic disruptions to Burnaby and Coquitlam.
  The natural gas supplier is upgrading 12 kilometres of gas lines between the two centres as part of a 20-kilometre upgrade that began last year. The new work — which will see 20-inch gas lines replaced with 30-inch lines — will result in road closures along sections of Broadway in Burnaby and lane clo
  
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• New surgery wait time numbers released

  15-01-2019 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  The B.C. Anesthesiologists’ Society says surgical waiting lists have increased to more than 85,000 patients.
  
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• Svend Robinson announces return to politics

  15-01-2019 21:19 via globalnews.ca
  Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson is attempting a political comeback, nearly 15 years after his theft of an expensive diamond ring brought an end to his decades-long career.
  
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• RCMP say public not at risk after deadly shooting in Ashcroft

  15-01-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  ASHCROFT — A man has been killed in an apparent shooting in Ashcroft.
  RCMP say in a news release that officers in the community west of Kamloops were called to a home at about 7 p.m. Monday.
  The unnamed victim was found at the scene.
  Police are releasing few details but say it appears “an interaction” took place between the victim and his attacker and the two were known to each other.
  Cpl. Dan Moskaluk says investigators do not believe the incident poses a threat to the general
  
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• Gabriel Klein found fit to stand trial

  15-01-2019 21:10 via globalnews.ca
  Klein is charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault in connection with the 2016 attack that killed 13-year-old Letisha Reimer. Neetu Garcha has more on today’s proceedings.
  
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• Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson wants to return to politics

  15-01-2019 21:05 via vancouversun.com
  BURNABY — Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson is attempting a political comeback, nearly 15 years after his theft of an expensive diamond ring brought an end to his decades-long career.
  Robinson is expected to be acclaimed as the NDP candidate in the riding of Burnaby North-Seymour at a nomination meeting later this week after serving seven terms in various ridings in the Metro Vancouver city from 1979 to 2004.
  Robinson made the announcement today outside his childhood home in the riding
  
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• B.C. surgery wait list has grown faster than population: report

  15-01-2019 20:57 via globalnews.ca
  Anesthesiologists in British Columbia say the waiting list for medically necessary surgeries has grown to more than 85,000 patients.
  
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• Canada updates travel advisory for China amid rising tensions, safety concerns

  15-01-2019 20:45
  
  The news comes after a trial found that Robert Schellenberg of Abbotsford, B.C. would be sentenced to death
  
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• Vancouver weather: more fog and seven days of rain on the way

  15-01-2019 20:28
  
  Say goodbye to the sunshine...
  
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• Vancouver’s advertised one-bed rental prices jump 6.5% year over year: report

  15-01-2019 20:27
  
  Median one-bed advertised rents in Vancouver now at $2,130 a month, second-priciest in Canada, says PadMapper
  
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• Canucks find an NHL goalie for Utica — for now

  15-01-2019 20:26 via theprovince.com
  The Utica Comets have found the goalie with National Hockey League experience they’ve been searching for since Thatcher Demko was called up to the Canucks a week-and-a-half ago and Mike McKenna was lost on waivers.
  Tuesday, the Vancouver Canucks’ American Hockey League affiliate announced they’ve signed Michael Leighton to a short-term contract, known as a a professional tryout offer or PTO.
  “We’ll see how it goes,” Canucks general manager Jim Benning said Tue
  
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• Canadian businesses blast Yellow Pages' ad practices

  15-01-2019 20:23
  
  Yellow Pages Ltd., once the country’s largest publisher of telephone directories, has taken aggressive steps to reinvent itself as a digital advertising platform.
  
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• Seven things to do in the Lower Mainland Jan. 18-24: MadeinTYO, free yoga, and more

  15-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Reel to Reel Records CD release celebrations
  When: Jan. 18, 19, 8 p.m. (Cory Weeds/Roy McCurdy Quintet) and Jan. 24 (Dawn Pemberton w/Sharon Minemoto Trio)
  Where: Frankie’s Jazz Club
  Tickets and info: From $16, at the door
  Reel to Reel Records is the new label launched by jazz impresarios Cory Weeds and Zev Feldman. As opposed to Cellar Live, this imprint is going after the reissue market which is so key to most jazz fans’ collections. The first two releases are really top-tier, too
  
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• Five things to know about Somewhere, BC, by Limbs of the Stars

  15-01-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Limbs of the Stars
  Somewhere, BC | Offseason Records
  Juno Award-winning Vancouver musician Stephen Lyons has spent a good deal of the past year crafting music to accompany visual arts projects. The latest from the Fond of Tigers offshoot Limbs of the Stars is a single work by Lyons and cellist Shanto Bhattacharya that runs roughly 43 minutes long. All the creator will say about it is that it is “probably not best-paired with high-energy workouts.”
  In others words, the piece is a cont
  
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• Drink this: Secret Track by Coal Harbour/Doan’s/Bright Eye

  15-01-2019 19:46
  
  Made with all German malt and hops, this hazy pale ale is an Old World take on a New World style.
  
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• Mild weather has left Vancouver teeming with rats - The Weather Network

  15-01-2019 19:45
  Mild weather has left Vancouver teeming with rats  The Weather NetworkCity of Vancouver is fielding calls about construction sites which send rodents scurrying.
  
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• Medical Marijuana – The Difference between CBD and THC

  15-01-2019 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  Family physician Dr. Bryn Hyndman explains the difference between the main chemicals in cannabis. She explains how CBD could be used in treatment without getting patients high.
  
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• Suspect in fatal Abbotsford school stabbing fit to stand trial, review board hears

  15-01-2019 19:33 via globalnews.ca
  The lawyer for Gabriel Klein agreed he is fit to stand trial in the death of 13-year-old Letisha Reimer at Abbotsford Secondary School in 2016.
  
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• Mortgage stress test blamed for 25% drop in B.C. home sales

  15-01-2019 19:24
  Despite significant sales activity slowdown, province's average full-year resale price in 2018 is no lower than 2017
  
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• 2 of Canada's top 3 most profitable malls are in Vancouver - Daily Hive

  15-01-2019 19:23
  2 of Canada's top 3 most profitable malls are in Vancouver  Daily HiveAccording to a newly released study from the RCC, two out of Canada's top three most profitable malls are located in Vancouver.
  
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• Rock thy neighbour: Vancouver’s Smugglers revisit Seattle stomping grounds

  15-01-2019 18:54
  
  Have you been to Seattle lately? Last weekend, I made my first trek to the Emerald City in too many years. The occasion was a concert with my band the Smugglers and Seattle rock legends the Young Fresh Fellows.
  
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• Subtle Asian meetup in Vancouver puts food and fun on the menu - Daily Hive

  15-01-2019 18:29
  Subtle Asian meetup in Vancouver puts food and fun on the menu  Daily HiveAfter a wildly successful dinner back in the fall, the Subtle Asian gang is back with another meetup that's bound to be popular.
  
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• Two missing 12-year-olds found 'safe and well' in Airdrie

  15-01-2019 18:26 via vancouversun.com
  INNISFAIL, Alta. —Mounties are thanking the public for helping locate pair of children from the Red Deer area who went missing on Monday.
  Police in Red Deer and Innisfail were searching for Rhianna Pelletier and Nicolas Givotkoff, a pair of 12-year-olds last seen in Airdrie around 9 p.m. on Monday.
  Mounties say the pair were located “safe and well” in Airdrie on Tuesday morning.
  The teens were both reported missing on Monday, police said, after Givotkoff travelled to Innisfail
  
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• Canucks find an NHL goaler for Utica — for now

  15-01-2019 17:44 via theprovince.com
  The Utica Comets have found the goalie with National Hockey League experience they’ve been searching for since Thatcher Demko was called up to the Canucks a week-and-a-half ago and Mike McKenna was lost on waivers.
  Tuesday, the Vancouver Canucks’ American Hockey League affiliate announced they’ve signed Michael Leighton to a short-term contract, known as a a professional tryout offer or PTO.
  Leighton, 37, is a veteran of 111 NHL games with the Carolina Hurricanes, Nashvill
  
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• Four vehicle crash near Prince George leaves one dead, closes Highway 16 for hours

  15-01-2019 17:17 via vancouversun.com
  PRINCE GEORGE — One woman has died in a four vehicle crash west of Prince George.
  RCMP say the unnamed victim was in an eastbound Ford SUV on Highway 16 between Vanderhoof and Prince George at about 6 p.m. Monday.
  Her vehicle veered across the centreline and slammed into an oncoming fuel tanker.
  Two westbound vehicles following the tanker were also involved but no one else suffered major injuries.
  Cpl. Mike Halskov with RCMP Traffic Services says a cause of the crash is under investigation
  
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• 5 cheap travel destinations for 2019

  15-01-2019 17:00 via vancouversun.com
  Bypass the usual trappings of expensive destinations with these five picks where you can economize on flights, hotels and food.
  1. Turkey
  This country routinely makes the list for the new “it” place to travel as it eclipses both Spain and Greece as a destination, but due to currency issues, it is one of the cheapest places to visit right now. And it may become cheaper depending on any further U.S. trade tariffs. June is routinely cheaper than July or August — much like anywhere
  
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  15-01-2019 16:47 via theprovince.com
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• NCAA Vancouver Showcase Special Offer

  15-01-2019 16:17 via theprovince.com
  SAVE 20% USE PROMO CODE: TIPOFF (valid for P3, P4 and P5 price categories). Offer expires November 17(men) and November 21(women) 2018. Limit: 4 per person
  
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• Vancouver Fall Home Show Special Offer

  15-01-2019 16:14 via theprovince.com
  The first 100 subscribers will receive a pair of e-tickets to the show* on October 18 – 21, 2018 at Vancouver Convention Centre – West Building.
  
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• Surrey needs 350 more cops, says anti-crime group Wake Up Surrey

  15-01-2019 16:14 via globalnews.ca
  Wake Up Surrey spokesperson Sukhi Sandhu said Surrey is lacking a significant number of police officers.
  
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