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• Deal alert: You can fly round-trip, direct Vancouver to Las Vegas for $269 CAD - Vancouver Is Awesome

  01-03-2019 23:58 via vancouverisawesome.com
  Deal alert: You can fly round-trip, direct Vancouver to Las Vegas for $269 CAD  Vancouver Is AwesomeWestJet is celebrating its 23rd birthday with a fantastic deal that offers a round-trip ticket for under $300 CAD including tax to Las Vegas.
  
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• BC Hydro rate hike approved, bills to climb on April 1

  01-03-2019 23:54 via globalnews.ca
  Rates will climb by 6.85 per cent, however, thanks to another change, customers will only see their bills rise by 1.76 per cent on April 1.
  
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• Spill response vessels unloaded on Vancouver Island - Peninsula News Review

  01-03-2019 23:41 via peninsulanewsreview.com
  Spill response vessels unloaded on Vancouver Island  Peninsula News ReviewBoats for Nanaimo, Sooke and Ucluelet won't enter into *service* yet due to funding delays.
  
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• 7 Vancouver restaurants will celebrate the food of France for one special day - Vancouver Is Awesome

  01-03-2019 23:40 via vancouverisawesome.com
  7 Vancouver restaurants will celebrate the food of France for one special day  Vancouver Is AwesomeOn March 21, restaurants around the world will honour their French roots by offering special menus as part of Good France 2019.
  
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• Patrick Johnston: With playoffs now a longshot, Canucks must focus on their shortcomings

  01-03-2019 23:17 via theprovince.com
  GLENDALE, Ariz. — The mood in the Gila River Arena dressing room was unmistakable. If Disneyland is the Happiest Place On Earth, the opposite was the space occupied by the miserable Vancouver Canucks.
  Thursday’s 5-2 NHL loss to the Arizona Coyotes was calamitous for the Canucks’ playoff hopes. Despite having plenty of offensive chances, especially in the early going, the visitors didn’t take care of business in their own end.
  Former Canuck Brad Richardson scored four goal
  
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• High school notebook: Valley teams continue to have their say at Triple A girls basketball championships

  01-03-2019 22:59 via theprovince.com
  The Triple A girls basketball championships will have at least three Fraser Valley teams finish in the top four placings for the fifth time in the past six years this season.
  One of Friday’s late quarterfinals at the Langley Events Centre features an all-Langley match-up between the No. 2 Walnut Grove Gators and the No. 6 Brookswood Bobcats, while the other has the No. 1 Semiahmoo Totems of Surrey facing the No. 5 Kelowna Owls.
  The championship game is Saturday at 5 p.m.
  The 2016 campaign
  
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• NDP MP Nathan Cullen not running in the 2019 federal election

  01-03-2019 22:48 via globalnews.ca
  A baker's dozen of NDP MPs have now announced they are not running for the federal party in the upcoming federal election.
  
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• Conversations That Matter: Unprepared for death

  01-03-2019 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  The book “Death the Final Stage of Growth,” by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross details the fact that we are a death-denying society. That may be the case but as Stephen Garrett points out, there are more than 900,000 people in British Columbia over the age of 65 who are going to die — and pretty soon.
  “We’re woefully under-prepared,” Garrett says. “We’re under-prepared emotionally, psychologically and sociologically for the inevitable.”
  He says that me
  
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• Man throws chair, breaks window at Kelowna bakery

  01-03-2019 22:40 via globalnews.ca
  Security camera footage shows the man grabbing one of the bakery's chairs, walking a few feet, then trying to throw it through a window.
  
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• Vintage BC Electric streetcar to be fully restored for North Vancouver | - Vancouver Is Awesome

  01-03-2019 22:26 via vancouverisawesome.com
  Vintage BC Electric streetcar to be fully restored for North Vancouver |  Vancouver Is AwesomeThe 1908 car, built by the John Stephenson Company in New Jersey, served most of its life working within the North Vancouver streetcar system. It was retired in ...
  
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• Free Solo peaks with Oscar honours, but free agents rope new pay grade

  01-03-2019 22:26 via vancouversun.com
  Bulls of the Week
  In rock climbing, you only have one chance to get it right, especially if you’re doing your thing without a rope or safety gear.
  That’s why it’s only poetic that Free Solo scored for the genre of sport movies in the one opportunity it had at the 91st Academy Awards last Sunday. The story of rock climbing fanatic Alex Honnold and his astonishing 3,200-foot ascent to the top of El Capitan at Yosemite National Park captured the Oscar for Best Documentary, edging
  
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• Vancouver cold: City experiences chilliest February on record - CBC.ca

  01-03-2019 22:19 via cbc.ca
  Vancouver cold: City experiences chilliest February on record  CBC.caThe average daily temperature for the month was 0.3 C compared to the past 30 year average of 4.9 C, a difference of more than four degrees.
  
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• ‘Intrepid reporter’ George Garrett reflects on CKNW’s 75-year history

  01-03-2019 22:15 via globalnews.ca
  The former CKNW reporter reveals what it was like to grow up in poverty on a farm in Saskatchewan before achieving his dream of working in the radio industry.
  
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• 10 things to do in Vancouver today: Saturday, March 2 - Daily Hive

  01-03-2019 22:14 via dailyhive.com
  10 things to do in Vancouver today: Saturday, March 2  Daily HiveHere are 10 fun things to do in Vancouver on Saturday, March 2, including Vancouver Whitecaps, Little Big Town, and more!
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Friday, March 1, 2019

  01-03-2019 21:55 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Fan Expo and the Vancouver Dance Festival
  
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• 5 Things to do this weekend: Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019

  01-03-2019 21:52 via globalnews.ca
  Here are your five things to do this weekend around the province including the Wine Festival and the Toy Expo
  
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• Survey says: Opinions about Commercial Drive change little over 20 years

  01-03-2019 21:49
  
  Much has changed in the Commercial Drive neighbourhood over the years but much has also stayed the same when it comes to people's opinions about community issues.
  
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• Tourism is economic force in British Columbia with 6.1 million visits: ministry

  01-03-2019 21:40 via vancouversun.com
  British Columbia’s tourism industry is outpacing provincial economic growth, contributing $9 billion to the economy.
  Destination B.C., the Crown corporation that co-ordinates tourism marketing, released the latest figure from 2017, saying it’s a 6.7 per cent increase over the year before.
  The Tourism Ministry says in a news release that the industry generated $18.4 billion in revenue the same year, an 8.4 per cent leap in one year and over 41 per cent since 2007.
  It says statistics s
  
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• Dan Fumano: Minister 'monitors' Vancouver rental challenges, landlords want action

  01-03-2019 21:35 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s property assessment and tax system, which landlords large and small say increasingly threatens Vancouver’s stock of older, affordable rental homes, is apparently causing agreement in some unlikely corners.
  Patti Bacchus, the left-leaning former Vancouver school board chairwoman, is largely supportive of the B.C. NDP. But as a landlord expecting a big property-tax hike this year after her 50-year-old, 10 unit building saw a 38-per-cent assessment increase, Bacchus believes the
  
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• Dan Fumano: Minister 'monitors' Vancouver rental challenges, landlords want action - Vancouver Sun

  01-03-2019 21:34 via vancouversun.com
  Dan Fumano: Minister 'monitors' Vancouver rental challenges, landlords want action  Vancouver SunB.C.'s housing minister says her government is monitoring challenges facing operators of Vancouver's older rental buildings.
  
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• Extended: Teens help rescue boy dangling from Grouse Mountain chairlift

  01-03-2019 21:32 via globalnews.ca
  Watch the full video of an eight-year-old boy was rescued by a group of teens after falling from a chairlift on Grouse Mountain.
  
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• BBB releases Top 10 scams of 2018

  01-03-2019 21:16 via vancouversun.com
  Romance scams topped the Better Business Bureau’s national list of top 10 scams in 2018.
  While it used to be that seniors and new immigrants were the main targets of fraud, experts say with social media it is now everyone, including Millennials and Generation Z.
  Danielle Primrose, president of the BBB serving B.C. and Yukon, says there were more than 50,000 fraud reports across North America on the BBB’s scam tracker in 2018. Of those, around 2,000 were in Canada and more than 300 we
  
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• Movie review: Movie Minute featuring Greta

  01-03-2019 21:14 via vancouversun.com
  Filmmaker Neil Jordan, he of Crying Game, is back with his latest film, a horror/thriller Greta starring French acting legend Isabelle Huppert and Chloë Grace Moretz. Is it truly scary or goofy? Find out by checking out this week’s Movie Minute with Postmedia News film critic Dana Gee and Arts and Life editor Aleesha Harris.
  
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• Significant damage but no injuries in fire at Maple Ridge homeless camp

  01-03-2019 21:13 via vancouversun.com
  MAPLE RIDGE — For the third time in a week, flames have broken out at a tent encampment in Maple Ridge.
  First responders were called early Friday morning to the Anita Place homeless camp.
  A large area at the rear of the nearly two-year-old camp is believed to have burned and crews spent several hours dousing the fire and sifting through charred debris.
  There is no word of any injuries and the cause is under investigation.
  Maple Ridge fire department and bylaw officials, supported by the RC
  
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• Man rushed to hospital after gunfire erupts in Chilliwack

  01-03-2019 21:03 via globalnews.ca
  A 23-year-old man is recovering in hospital after a shooting Thursday night behind a firehall on South Sumas Road in Chilliwack.
  
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• Drs. Evan Wood and Keith Ahamad: Regulating heroin would improve public health and safety

  01-03-2019 21:00 via vancouversun.com
  As a result of the emergence of fentanyl into the heroin market, record numbers of our fellow British Columbians continue to die needlessly of overdoses while addiction to opioids continues to spread in the province because of the marketing practices and profit motive of organized crime.
  In a report released last week, the B.C. Centre on Substance Use is proposing a more effective approach to public health and safety for all British Columbians: Regulating and controlling the heroin market.
  As re
  
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• 68 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, March 2 - Straight.com

  01-03-2019 21:00 via straight.com
  68 things to do in Metro Vancouver on Saturday, March 2  Straight.comLooking for something to do on Saturday? The Straight's got you covered. Here are 68 events happening in or around Vancouver on Saturday, March 2.
  
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• 27 things that made Vancouver AWESOME this week - Vancouver Is Awesome

  01-03-2019 21:00 via vancouverisawesome.com
  27 things that made Vancouver AWESOME this week  Vancouver Is AwesomeTake a break from the news cycle and help us celebrate the things we covered this week that are making Vancouver Awesome with a capital “A.”
  
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• This American build-your-own pizza chain is opening a new location in Metro Vancouver - Daily Hive

  01-03-2019 20:59 via dailyhive.com
  This American build-your-own pizza chain is opening a new location in Metro Vancouver  Daily HiveAmerican build-your-own pizza chain Blaze is gearing up to open a brand new location in Metro Vancouver, in Delta to be exact.
  
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• Andrew Wilkinson walks back ‘wacky’ renting comments

  01-03-2019 20:52 via globalnews.ca
  Pressed to clarify his comments, he admitted some renters would be "miffed" by his remarks.
  
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• ‘Out-of-touch’ Liberal leader backtracks over dismissive renter comments

  01-03-2019 20:51
  
  Andrew Wilkinson, slammed for saying the challenge of paying rent is “fun,” takes to Twitter for some urgent damage limitation
  
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• ‘Out-of-touch’ Liberal leader backtracking over dismissive renter comments

  01-03-2019 20:51
  
  Andrew Wilkinson, slammed for saying the challenge of paying rent is “fun,” takes to Twitter for some urgent damage limitation
  
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• Theatre preview: Broadway vet Megan McGinnis on telling Come from Away's "epic" story

  01-03-2019 20:45 via vancouversun.com
  Come From Away
  When: Mar. 5-10
  Where: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
  Tickets & Info: BroadwayAcrossCanada.ca
  Broadway Across Canada brings Come from Away to Vancouver next week for a run that has been sold out for over a month.
  Based on real people and events in the days just after 9/11 when 38 planes and nearly 7000 passengers and crew were grounded in tiny Gander, Newfoundland, Irene Sankoff and David Hein’s show is already the longest-running Canadian musical ever on Broadway.
  With fi
  
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• Susan Orlean opens the book on the world of a library

  01-03-2019 20:44 via vancouversun.com
  Incite: Susan Orlean
  When: March 6, 7:30 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Central Library, Alice Mackay Room
  Tickets and info: Free, vpl.caIn The Library Book author Susan Orlean brushes aside any of the dusty reputation a library may have and instead makes it abundantly and entertainingly clear that these institutions are truly, living, breathing, evolving records of humankind.
  The author of The Orchid Thief (made into the 2002 movie Adaptation), Orlean is one of the great storytellers of our time. She le
  
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• Officials offer food safety advice as herring egg harvest opens on Vancouver Island - CBC.ca

  01-03-2019 20:44 via cbc.ca
  Officials offer food safety advice as herring egg harvest opens on Vancouver Island  CBC.caHealth officials are offering some food safety advice as this year's herring egg harvest opens along a section of Vancouver Island's east coast. Hand-gathered ...
  
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• Movie reviews: Greta, Apollo 11, Rueben Brandt, Collector

  01-03-2019 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Movie critic Dana Gee has a look at some of the new movies hitting theatres this weekend, including “Greta”, “Apollo 11” & “Rueben Brandt, Collector”
  
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• Fantastic Finds – Winter dog parks

  01-03-2019 20:43 via globalnews.ca
  Lifestyle expert Carey McBeth takes us on a tour of three little known places you can visit with your four legged friends.
  
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• Spring arts 2019: Dip your toe into these dance highlights

  01-03-2019 20:42 via vancouversun.com
  Dance and spring are such a great pairing. Heck, International Dance Day is April 29, so get up off the couch and move around a bit and make some plans to check out a live show, there are plenty to chose from.
  The venerable Ballet B.C. continues its 2018/2019 season at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre with shows February 28-March 2.
  On the slate are pieces from international choreography stars Jorma Elo and Adi Salant. Vancouver’s own bright dance light Crystal Pite’s critically acclaimed
  
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• MacEwan University president resigns for new post on Vancouver Island - Edmonton Journal

  01-03-2019 20:30 via edmontonjournal.com
  MacEwan University president resigns for new post on Vancouver Island  Edmonton JournalMacEwan University president Deborah Saucier is leaving the post after less than two years on the job to lead a university in Nanaimo, B.C.In a Friday news ...
  
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• This was the coldest February on record in Metro Vancouver

  01-03-2019 20:22
  
  While Metro Vancouver saw a great deal of snow this February, the snowfall wasn’t the most exceptional component of last month’s weather.
  
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• New spot Kaia Poke to open location in downtown Vancouver soon - Daily Hive

  01-03-2019 20:14 via dailyhive.com
  New spot Kaia Poke to open location in downtown Vancouver soon  Daily HiveOne of the new outposts will be going in at 460 Granville Street, right next to Trees Coffee, while the second new spot will be opening at 990 W Broadway.
  
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• Anthony Gismondi: International vine luminaries flock to Vancouver - Vancouver Sun

  01-03-2019 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  Anthony Gismondi: International vine luminaries flock to Vancouver  Vancouver SunWine expert Anthony Gismondi puts the spotlight on vine stars from 15 countries in town for the 2019 International Wine Festival.
  
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• Spring arts 2019: Art lovers get to explore history of Black Canadian entertainers

  01-03-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  Now that Whistler has a new art gallery with the Audain Art Museum and North Vancouver, The Polygon Gallery, has the time arrived for Vancouver to get a new home for the Vancouver Art Gallery?
  It seems like it’s closer than ever. The new Herzog & de Meuron building took a big step toward reality when the Chan family announced a whopping $40 million donation to the project in January. So far, the private sector has committed $85 million. The province is likely to be asked for at least a
  
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• China ‘firmly opposes’ Canada’s decision to allow extradition case against Huawei CFO

  01-03-2019 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian government, as expected, said on Friday it would allow an extradition hearing to proceed against Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei CFO who was detained in Canada late last year.
  
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• Canada to allow extradition case against Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

  01-03-2019 19:54 via globalnews.ca
  The Canadian government, as expected, said on Friday it would allow an extradition hearing to proceed against Meng Wanzhou, the Huawei CFO who was detained in Canada late last year.
  
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• The 7 most highly-anticipated Vancouver spring restaurant openings - Daily Hive

  01-03-2019 19:46 via dailyhive.com
  The 7 most highly-anticipated Vancouver spring restaurant openings  Daily HiveIt might not be time to skip to our favourite sunny patio just yet, but foodies have several exciting openings to look forward to in the coming months.
  
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• Green Shirt Day 2019

  01-03-2019 19:39 via globalnews.ca
  Green Shirt Day hopes to keep the so-called "Logan Boulet effect" alive, by inspiring more Canadians to become organ donors.
  
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• More bus service between southern Interior and Vancouver - Salmon Arm Observer

  01-03-2019 19:37 via saobserver.net
  More bus service between southern Interior and Vancouver  Salmon Arm ObserverEbus has added a third trip Fridays and Sundays between Kelowna, Kamloops and Vancouver.
  
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• George Takei boldly goes for a trek on Vancouver’s SkyTrain (PHOTOS)

  01-03-2019 19:31
  
  SkyTrain: the final frontier. These are the voyages the TransLink. And one such voyager was actor and activist George Takei, who was spotted at the Stadium-Chinatown Station in Vancouver Thursday.
  
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• Vancouver Courier nominated for six B.C. Community Newspaper awards

  01-03-2019 19:23
  
  Vancouver Courier writers, photographers and videographers nabbed six nominations for the prestigious 2019 BCYCNA Ma Murray Awards.
  
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