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• South Indian spiced pork tenderloin from Vancouver’s The Dirty Apron

  17-04-2019 23:58 via globalnews.ca
  The Dirty Apron’s Chef David Robertson shows off his recipe for South Indian spiced pork tenderloin. It’s feature in his forthcoming cookbook ‘Gather’.
  
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• File closed on complaint against Vancouver police deployment of assault rifles at public events - Straight.com

  17-04-2019 23:54 via straight.com
  File closed on complaint against Vancouver police deployment of assault rifles at public events  Straight.comThe Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner is taking no further action on the matter.
  
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• Orca sighting in Vancouver inner harbour shows health of transient killer whale population: researcher

  17-04-2019 23:53 via globalnews.ca
  While B.C.'s southern resident killer whales teeter on the edge of extinction, a smorgasbord of seals has been good news for their orca cousins.
  
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• Majority of Kelowna residents feel safe in their city: municipal poll

  17-04-2019 23:20 via globalnews.ca
  Poll divided city into four regions; answers varied where respondents lived.
  
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• Frustration brews over double standard for Vancouver 4/20 pot festival

  17-04-2019 22:50 via vancouversun.com
  Beer is legal to drink just like weed is legal to smoke. But you can’t drink beer in public without being at a sanctioned festival or at a licensed establishment, so should breweries get together and stage a beer protest?
  “Landlord,” wearing a marijuana leaf motif jacket, looks over the crowds gathered at Sunset Beach for the annual 4/20 protest in Vancouver.
  That’s the tongue-in-cheek suggestion from Ben Coli, owner of Dageraad Brewing, who posted a humorous tweet Wednes
  
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• Making your own family: Thrilling piano trio 'put on this earth to play together'

  17-04-2019 22:46 via vancouversun.com
  Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt Trio
  When: April 28, 3 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Playhouse
  Tickets and info: vanrecital.comFans of exceptional chamber playing have a major event to look forward to at the end of this season: a performance for the Vancouver Recital Society by the Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt Trio.
  Violinist Christian Tetzlaff (the subject of a remarkable 2012 profile by The New Yorker’s Jeremy Eichler) has been a regular Vancouver visitor since the first days of his career. Both his cellist si
  
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• Mission Folk Music Festival announces 2019 lineup

  17-04-2019 22:45 via vancouversun.com
  One of the Fraser Valley’s top cultural events is the Mission Folk Music Festival. Taking place July 26 to 28 at Fraser River Heritage Park in Mission, tickets are now on sale for the 32nd annual event at missionfolkmusicfestival.ca.
  Known for booking very different artists than the other folk festivals in the region, this year’s event keeps up the trend. Also continuing is the community celebration on July 26, which is a pay-what-you-can event.
  Among the highlights of this year&rsqu
  
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• Canucks season in review: How did the players fare?

  17-04-2019 22:43 via theprovince.com
  At the beginning of the 2018-19 NHL season, we set out to say what would make for a good or bad season for each Canuck.
  With the season over, let’s look at what we said, how the season stacked up and assign a good year, a bad year, or something in the middle to each Canuck on the roster to close the season.
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  Sven Baertschi: We said Baertschi (26 games played, 9 goals, 5 assists, 14 points, 6 penalty minutes) needs to take advantage of his ice time and score, which he did when
  
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• Man dies in targeted shooting in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood

  17-04-2019 22:40 via vancouversun.com
  A man has been shot to death in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighbourhood.
  In a prepared statement, Vancouver police said they were called to the area of West 4th Avenue and Burrard Street at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday and found the victim dead at the scene.
  Bullet holes are seen in the windshield and hood of an SUV as a police officer walks past the vehicle in Vancouver, on Wednesday April 17, 2019, after a person was shot and killed Tuesday night. Vancouver Police say the shooting that occurred in the
  
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• RCMP considers Maple Ridge woman’s death suspicious

  17-04-2019 22:36 via theprovince.com
  Ridge Meadows RCMP want to speak to anyone who has information about the death of May Cunningham.
  The body of the 52-year-old Maple Ridge woman was found March 22 near the trails in Kanaka Regional Creek Park.
  Police are calling the circumstances surrounding her death suspicious.Investigators want to speak to anyone who may have been in the park, specifically in the riverfront area, between 8 p.m. on March 21 and 8 a.m. on March 22.Anyone with information is asked to contact Ridge Meadows RCMP C
  
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• Off The Post podcast: NHL Playoffs a player hater’s ball

  17-04-2019 22:28 via theprovince.com
  Postmedia’s national hockey writer Mike Traikos joins Paul Chapman to talk about the wild start to the NHL Playoffs.
  Why are the Leafs leading the Bruins after lagging behind them all season?Why is there so much hate in the playoffs from Kadri to Ovechkin to Kane?It’s been nasty and violent and fans love it.
  
  
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• Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Its Restaurant Workers Had a Fully Licensed Member's Clubhouse - Scout Magazine

  17-04-2019 22:08 via scoutmagazine.ca
  Vancouver Would Be Cooler If Its Restaurant Workers Had a Fully Licensed Member's Clubhouse  Scout MagazineIf the annual fees were on a scale of accessibility so a dishwasher didn't have to pay as much as a server, this might work...
  
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• Police identify shooting victim in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood - Vancouver Sun

  17-04-2019 22:04 via vancouversun.com
  Police identify shooting victim in Vancouver's Kitsilano neighbourhood  Vancouver Sun"It is still very early in the investigation, but this appears to be a targeted shooting. No arrests have been made," the statement read.
  
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• Transient killer whale pod captured swimming near Vancouver harbour

  17-04-2019 21:56 via globalnews.ca
  Social media video captures a group of transient killer whales swimming near the Lions Gate Bridge on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Vancouver police threaten to arrest anyone selling 4/20 marijuana to minors

  17-04-2019 21:52 via vancouversun.com
  Police in Vancouver are asking parents to have a “tough” conversation with their teenagers about the dangers associated with marijuana at a large unsanctioned 4/20 event on Saturday.
  Sgt. Jason Robillard says the 25th annual event, featuring pot enthusiasts, vendors selling marijuana, baked edibles and drug paraphernalia, is expected to be a big draw this year because of a concert by California hip hop group Cypress Hill.
  Robillard says police will be focusing on arresting anyone sel
  
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• New Vietnamese food cart hitting the street in Vancouver - Vancouver Is Awesome

  17-04-2019 21:46 via vancouverisawesome.com
  New Vietnamese food cart hitting the street in Vancouver  Vancouver Is AwesomeA brand new food cart is launching this month with a prime parking space in downtown Vancouver. NaMì will bring a *fresh* spot to grab Vietnamese eats on the ...
  
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• BBB warns of Notre Dame fundraising scams, urges public to ‘wait to donate’

  17-04-2019 21:42 via globalnews.ca
  The Better Business Bureau has issued a warning about fundraising campaigns to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
  
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• Maple Ridge woman’s death considered suspicious by RCMP

  17-04-2019 21:35 via theprovince.com
  The Ridge Meadows RCMP want to speak to anyone who has information about the death of May Cunningham.
  The body of the 52-year-old Maple Ridge woman was found March 22 near the trails in Kanaka Regional Creek Park.
  Police are calling the circumstances surrounding her death suspicious.Investigators want to speak to anyone who may have been in the park, specifically in the riverfront area, between 8 p.m. on March 21 and 8 a.m. on March 22.Anyone with information is asked to contact Ridge Meadows RC
  
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• Recipe: Carrot cake pancakes with cinnamon whip

  17-04-2019 21:33 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Hawksworth shows off his recipe for carrot cake pancakes with cinnamon whipped cream.
  
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• David Hawksworth’s kid-friendly Easter brunch recipe ideas

  17-04-2019 21:30 via globalnews.ca
  Chef David Hawksworth shows off his recipe for carrot cake pancakes with cinnamon whipped cream.
  
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• Must watch TV shows coming soon

  17-04-2019 21:27 via globalnews.ca
  Brent Furdyk talks with Sonia Sunger about some of the new must watch TV shows like “Motown 60: A Grammy Celebration”, 2019 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony”, “The Red Line”, “The Show Must Go On: Queen + Adam Lambert”
  
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• Frustration brews over double standard for Vancouver 4/20 pot festival - Vancouver Sun

  17-04-2019 21:25 via vancouversun.com
  Frustration brews over double standard for Vancouver 4/20 pot festival  Vancouver SunBrewery owner vents frustration over the 4/20 event going ahead without a license now that pot is legal, sardonically suggests organizing a beer protest.
  
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• Alex Edler up for King Clancy humanitarian award

  17-04-2019 21:19 via theprovince.com
  A year after the Sedins were recognized by the National Hockey League for their years of work in the community, another member of the Vancouver Canucks’s Swedish contingent is up for similar recognition.
  Alex Edler is the the Canucks 2018-19 nominee for the King Clancy Memorial Trophy, which is awarded “to the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community.”
  The Sedins were co-winners
  
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• Vancouver weather: Look forward to some sunshine Easter long-weekend

  17-04-2019 21:17
  
  A mix of rain and sunshine with mild temperatures is forecast for the Easter long weekend
  
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• Doctors approve new fee agreement with B.C. government

  17-04-2019 21:15 via vancouversun.com
  B.C.’s physicians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new agreement with the B.C. government in a deal that will cost taxpayers at least $331 million over the three-year deal.
  Last year, the government paid out $4.516 billion for physician services. By the end of the three-year deal that took effect on April 1, that will rise to $4.85 billion.
  One of the elements of the deal is a signing bonus-like payment of $7,500 to each physician who earned over $75,000 in income in 2018, or in an
  
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• Police seek ‘umbrella bandit’ who allegedly robbed Burnaby bank

  17-04-2019 21:11 via globalnews.ca
  Police say the alleged robber obscured their face using an umbrella as they entered a Burnaby bank.
  
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• Vancouver ranked one of the best cities in the world for students - Daily Hive

  17-04-2019 20:33 via dailyhive.com
  Vancouver ranked one of the best cities in the world for students  Daily HiveAppJobs has analysed the top cities to be a student in and Vancouver was named #20 in the world.
  
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• ‘Umbrella bandit’ wanted in connection to Burnaby bank robbery

  17-04-2019 20:24 via globalnews.ca
  The Burnaby RCMP is asking for the public’s help identifying a man wanted for robbing a bank while concealing his identity with an umbrella.
  
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• Vancouver man, 30, killed in targeted shooting in Kits

  17-04-2019 20:23
  
  VPD investigating if an SUV, found on fire a few hours later, might be linked to the shooting.
  
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• Depression gets egged in Thomas McKechnie's 4½ (ig)noble truths

  17-04-2019 20:17 via vancouversun.com
  4½ (ig)noble truths
  When: April 25 to 27 at 8 p.m.
  Where: KW Production Studio (#10 – 111 Hastings St, entrance through Woodward’s Atrium)
  Tickets: $22 at pitheatre.com/tickets
  When Thomas McKechnie decided to offer his take on depression to the stage, the Toronto playwright figured the best approach would be a direct one.
  “Realist dramas of people pretending to be other people, and talking beside an issue so you sort of overhear it, is an ineffective way of communicatin
  
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• The Cultch 2019/20 season includes the new Raven Transforming Cabaret Festival

  17-04-2019 20:16 via vancouversun.com
  The East Van institution that is the Cultch announced its 2019/20 season last night. A total of 16 productions have been programmed by executive director Heather Redfern for the three stages. Subscriptions for the 2019/20 season are on sale now. Single tickets go on sale July 15. Call The Cultch’s Box Office at 604-251-1363 or go online at tickets.thecultch.com.
  Among perennial favourites making a return is incredibly popular East Van Panto, which will find Theatre Replacement working its
  
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• Making your own family: Thrilling trio

  17-04-2019 20:15 via vancouversun.com
  Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt Trio
  When: April 28, 3 p.m.
  Where: Vancouver Playhouse
  Tickets and info: vanrecital.com
  Fans of exceptional chamber playing have a major event to look forward to at the end of this season: a performance for the Vancouver Recital Society by the Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt Trio.
  Violinist Christian Tetzlaff (the subject of a remarkable 2012 profile by The New Yorker’s Jeremy Eichler) has been a regular Vancouver visitor since the first days of his career. Both his cellist s
  
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• Matt Andersen and the Mellotones tear it up on Halfway Home by Morning Tour

  17-04-2019 20:14 via vancouversun.com
  Matt Andersen and the Mellotones
  When: April 25, 8 p.m.
  Where: Chan Shun Concert Hall, UBC
  Tickets and info: tickets.ubc.ca
  New Brunswick bluesman Matt Andersen first toured and recorded with the Halifax R&B institution the Mellotones in 2015. The two artists are back again on the new album Halfway Home by Morning and the combination of Andersen’s dexterous guitar work and gritty vocals with the band’s in-the-pocket grooves make for some of the best blues rock coming out at the m
  
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• Vancouver Weather: Long-weekend forecast for the Lower Mainland - Vancouver Is Awesome

  17-04-2019 20:11 via vancouverisawesome.com
  Vancouver Weather: Long-weekend forecast for the Lower Mainland  Vancouver Is AwesomeThe Metro Vancouver weather forecast calls for a mix of rain and sunshine with mild temperatures over the Easter long weekend.
  
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• Vancouver baker turns college hobby into a sweet career

  17-04-2019 20:10 via vancouversun.com
  Icing on the Cake
  Tessa Huff | Abrams Books
  $37.99 Tessa Huff recalls how she initially turned to baking during college as a way to escape the “chaos” of classes and to find peace and quiet from her “rowdy” roommates.
  “I didn’t start cooking or baking until I was away at school,” she says. “I started watching cooking shows between classes and picked up a job in the student-run kitchen on campus at the University of California, Davis where I wa
  
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• Female hurler from Tsawwassen makes pitch for men's college ball

  17-04-2019 20:07 via vancouversun.com
  When Marika Lyszczyk played her first game this season with the Whalley Chiefs, the all-boys’ baseball team, she made history as the first female to play in the senior B.C. Premier Baseball League (PBL).
  But for the 18-year-old, it felt like the most natural thing, because she had been playing baseball with boys since she was six.
  “They didn’t have baseball for girls so I had to play with the boys,” said Lyszczyk, a Grade 12 student at South Delta Secondary.
  She also play
  
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• Pro skier Dave Treadway dies in fall in Pemberton backcountry

  17-04-2019 20:05
  
  A well-known local pro skier has died after falling down a crevasse while skiing in the Pemberton backcountry on Monday, April 15, confirmed Pemberton District Search and Rescue (PSAR).
  
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• Vancouver baker turns college hobby into a sweet career - Vancouver Sun

  17-04-2019 20:01 via vancouversun.com
  Vancouver baker turns college hobby into a sweet career  Vancouver SunTessa Huff shares her colourful creations in her second cookbook, titled Icing on the Cake.
  
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• Wine Guy: Hunting for the perfect Easter wine

  17-04-2019 20:00 via theprovince.com
  With the Easter weekend set to arrive, families and friends will no doubt be gathering en masse. And just as certain, this coming together of the clan will involve fun, festivities, chocolate, and undoubtedly a healthy sharing of food.
  But why should the kids monopolize all the fun with their Easter egg hunts? The adults may as well share a bit of the joy in hunting out wine labels!
  Thus with the long weekend rolling around the corner, there is a perfect excuse to highlight a few of my go-to win
  
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• Kasey Wilson: A toast to roast chicken

  17-04-2019 20:00 via vancouversun.com
  A Frenchman hoping to attract women can do no better than to become a butcher. At least that’s what I gleaned from a dinner with author Patricia Wells a few years after she relocated to Paris from the United States. For women in France, she told me, the butcher shop is a central part of life. With a smile, a wink and that masculine assurance that comes from butchering meat, ‘le boucher’ charms and gives cooking advice.
  “I can’t tell you how many times I have gone in
  
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• ‘A big draw for teens’: Vancouver police want you to talk to your kids about 4/20

  17-04-2019 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  Police also say they will maintain a "visible" presence at the event, and will be watching for pot sales to minors.
  
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• Death of woman found in Kanaka Creek Park deemed suspicious

  17-04-2019 19:51 via globalnews.ca
  Ridge Meadows RCMP is looking to speak with anyone who was in the park between March 21 and March 22.
  
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• White Towel podcast: Canucks young core miles away from competing

  17-04-2019 19:17 via theprovince.com
  Ed Willes joins Paul Chapman to talk about the NHL playoffs and how the Canucks’ prospects compare to the other teams in the playoffs. Willes says the Canucks seem miles away from being able to get into the playoffs and compete with the top teams in the NHL.
  
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• Coast Guard ship back in action after North Vancouver repairs

  17-04-2019 19:08 via vancouversun.com
  The Canadian Coast Guard vessel damaged when it hit the Ogden Point breakwater last month has been repaired and is back in the waters off Vancouver Island.
  The 64-metre Sir John Franklin, the newest ship in the coast guard’s fleet, underwent two weeks of repairs in Seaspan Shipyard’s dry dock in North Vancouver, giving it a new rudder, rudder post, propeller, tail shaft and steel work on the port stern quarter.
  “That this work was completed in a matter of 13 days from the vesse
  
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• Asia’s pod hotel trend expanding to Metro Vancouver

  17-04-2019 18:51
  
  At least two pod hotels have emerged in southwestern B.C. in less than a year, and some hotel industry observers say it could mark the start of similar establishments going mainstream throughout North America.
  
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• Jason Kenney’s win in Alberta bodes ill for B.C.

  17-04-2019 18:37
  
  Alberta has swung back to its natural conservative position, leaving British Columbia isolated as the only left-of-centre province from Alberta to New Brunswick.
  
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• Coast Guard ship back in action after North Vancouver repairs - Vancouver Sun

  17-04-2019 18:22 via vancouversun.com
  Coast Guard ship back in action after North Vancouver repairs  Vancouver SunThe Canadian Coast Guard vessel damaged when it hit the Ogden Point breakwater last month has been repaired and is back in the waters off Vancouver ...
  
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• Vancouver's Dude Chilling Park needs its Dude back

  17-04-2019 17:58 via vancouversun.com
  Dude Chilling Park in East Vancouver is missing its Dude, so a campaign has been launched to restore the sculpture and bring it back to the park.
  The Indiegogo campaign is seeking $20,000 to have the natural cedar sculpture bronzed after it suffered extensive deterioration, according to the Vancouver Art House Society, which is spearheading the campaign.
  Reclining Figure is the “dude” of Dude Chilling Park.The natural cedar sculpture, which is officially called Reclining Figure but i
  
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• Journalist puts Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on hot seat for the TED Talks stage

  17-04-2019 17:51 via vancouversun.com
  British journalist Carole Cadwalladr used her TED Talk in Vancouver to put Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on the hot seat the evening before he was due to take the stage.
  Cadwalladr, a writer for the Guardian and Observer in the U.K. who broke the story about how the United Kingdom’s Brexit referendum was hijacked by illegal advertising on Facebook, included Dorsey by name, along with Mark Zuckerberg and Google moguls Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
  “The technology you have invented has been am
  
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• BC Lions head coach Devone Claybrooks cooks breakfast

  17-04-2019 17:45 via globalnews.ca
  BC Lions head coach Devone Claybrooks shows Sonia Sunger some southern style breakfast cooking.
  
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