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Use your library card to get discounted fare to the PNE

Use your library card to get discounted fare to the PNE

Next Wednesday, Vancouver's Fair at the PNE is opening its gates at a discounted rate for all avid readers. With a partnership between the annual summer fair, Raise a Reader, Tim Hortons and Public Library InterLINK, any fair-goer presenting a B.C.
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B.C. government sets 15% mark-up on cannabis, starts accepting applications for retail stores

B.C. government sets 15% mark-up on cannabis, starts accepting applications for retail stores

Mark-up will be in addition to 10% excise tax, GST, PST and possibly a cost-recovery fee
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Pick fruit if you don't want bears in your yard

Pick fruit if you don't want bears in your yard

Coquitlam seeing more complaints about bears eating fruit as apples ripen
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Judge rules that Burnaby can evict Camp Cloud

Judge rules that Burnaby can evict Camp Cloud

City of Burnaby went to B.C. Supreme Court on Friday to evict Camp Cloud residents
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Check out these amazing videos of old from the Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race

Check out these amazing videos of old from the Nanaimo to Vancouver bathtub race

Race returns to Vancouver shores Saturday for the first time in more than 20 years
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Teen bilked of $400 in cheque scam

Teen bilked of $400 in cheque scam

Coquitlam family warning others of scammer approaching people at bus stops
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Someone vandalized Burnaby’s rainbow crosswalk

Someone vandalized Burnaby’s rainbow crosswalk

Members of the Burnaby Pride planning committee woke up to the sad news this morning that someone had vandalized their new rainbow crosswalk.
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This just might be the reason why fish leap out of water

This just might be the reason why fish leap out of water

Two SFU researchers
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Bubble tea business steels for plastic ban

Bubble tea business steels for plastic ban

With fears of Richmond introducing a similar plastic straw ban in line with Vancouver, The Bubble Tea Shop has launched reusable stainless steel straws for their customers.
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PHOTOS: More images from the Fraser River barge fire

PHOTOS: More images from the Fraser River barge fire

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