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✨ BIG NEWS ✨. Meet your new CBC Vancouver News team!. ✔️ 6 pm: Co-hosts @Mike_Killeen and @AnitaBathe joined by @JWagstaffe . ✔️ 11 pm: @DanBurritt . ✔️ Weekends: @LienY . It all starts November 19 ➡️ CBC-TV and streaming online.
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Mark Riddell admitted to secretly taking the SAT and ACT for students, or correcting their answers
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📅 Starting June 1, 2019 .🚫 Plastic straws.🚫 Foam cups.🚫 Foam containers.📍 In Vancouver.
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A new baby orca has been spotted near B.C.'s West Coast 🌊
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Four Abbotsford-area neighbours are being recognized for their early work helping to save the Barrowtown pump station after it was nearly swamped by floodwaters during November's #BCStorm.
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The Ministry of Health says a gender surgery clinic will be opening at Vancouver General Hospital by the end of September, meaning patients no longer have to fly to a private clinic in Montreal, the only one in Canada to perform the procedure
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Julia Grosso, from Vancouver, scored the winning penalty to bring gold to Canada!
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A drone carrying an emergency EpiPen and Narcan spray flew the six kilometres from Duncan to Salt Spring Island in 11 minutes
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CBC Vancouver condemns the hateful and racist social media comments on Dr. Narang’s segment from last night’s 6 p.m. newscast. We stand with and support @DrBirinderSingh and urge everyone to act with kindness and respect.
1/ What does it mean to be Canadian in 2021?. I truly appreciate the position of privilege I have in the community today & the responsibility that comes with every patient encounter & interview I give. If is not one that is taken lightly.
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It's been a decade since anyone's seen an orca like this in provincial waters
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"We couldn't treat one set of staff differently than another staff. So we just decided to bite the bullet and do what is right for everybody"
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With 882 arrests so far, the old-growth logging protest at Fairy Creek has now surpassed Clayoquot Sound as the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, according to B.C. Green Party Leader @SoniaFurstenau.
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🥤 They're making a full switch to paper straws by the end of the year. Paper straws: .✔️ last 2-3 hours in a drink without breaking down.✔️ biodegrade in 3-6 months in the environment.
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David A. Robertson, a Cree author based in Winnipeg curated this list of books by Indigenous writers about residential schools
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A CBC series on #SyrianRefugees in B.C. & the communities that welcome them. FINDING REFUGE:
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🕺💃Sikhs across Canada groove to Bhangra during the Sikh heritage month.
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Congratulations @CBCStephenQuinn and @CBCGloria for being named Vancouver's best local morning and afternoon radio hosts for @CBCEarlyEdition and @CBCOnTheCoast!
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Canada's women's eight rowing team wins gold at Tokyo 2020! Congratulations to our B.C. rowers Lisa Roman (Langley), Andrea Proske (Victoria), Madison Malley(Lions Bay), and Avalon Wasteneys (Victoria).
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🌈Thank you for coming out everyone! What a great crowd 🏳️🌈
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Many of the trees standing in the City of Vancouver were donated by governments in Japan in the 1930s and late 1950s.
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🐟 Salmon fry was spotted in Bowker Creek on Vancouver Island a first in 100 years! .
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The 'World's Most Extreme Grandpa' lives in Trail, B.C., apparently
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🦅 VIDEO: Haida Gwaii's James Williams was hoping to capture some cool video of birds. He got that - and more - when an eagle grabbed his camera and flew off.
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Originally for #Canada150, the Lions donned these shirts over the weekend as a response to the violence in Virginia.
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BEHIND THE SCENES 👀. Our @LisachristCBC chatting with @dvntownsend in Studio 700 live on @CBCOnTheCoast!. Devin is playing a special acoustic show tonight at @CBCVancouver — tickets are all spoken for BUT there will be a rush line starting at 6:30pm 🎶
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Known as Canada's first lady of jazz, 102-year-old Eleanor Collins (who now lives in B.C.) will be on a commemorative Canada Post stamp 🎷.
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Colour the Trail, founded by Vancouver resident Judith Kasiama in 2017, is an organization with a mission to inspire Black, Indigenous and people of colour to get out and enjoy nature.
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All light-duty cars and trucks sold in British Columbia would have to be zero-emission by 2040 under legislation tabled Wednesday.
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Canadian artist Ted Harrison has died. He was well known for his paintings of the Yukon: http://t.co/AbtcKvaT3L
http://t.co/bYJ1dLLVOu.
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One woman says she was paid $150 to hold a sign, another thought she was hired as a movie extra.
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The Royal Canadian Mint launched the new coin last week
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🏊♀️ #DidYouKnow Taylor Ruck was born in B.C.?. 🇨🇦 She is now the most decorated Canadian female athlete EVER at a single #CommonwealthGames -- a record that stood for 52 years!. #GC2018 @CBCOlympics .
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Only fully vaccinated guests are welcome on Grouse Mountain for the upcoming winter season.
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Harbour Air successfully tests the world's first all-electric commercial seaplane in Richmond this morning. 🛩️
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They came to Kamloops by the hundreds — from B.C. and beyond, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, young, old, alone, together. They stood in the unsettled June weather to spend even the smallest moment in silence
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Today is #AboriginalVeteransDay.Thanks @duncanmccue for explaining your beaded poppy.
@PnPCBC My poppy was beaded by an Indigenous artist. I wear it to respect contributions & sacrifices Indigenous vets have made to Cdn armed forces
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Another gold medal for Canada! Greg Stewart, from Kamloops, B.C., wins shot put gold at Paralympics! #Tokyo2020 @CBCOlympics.
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BIG NEWS today for CBC Radio One 📻! Starting January 2nd, @CBCStephenQuinn will be your new host for @CBCTheEarlyEdition and @CBCgloria will be your new @CBCOntheCoast host! ✨
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Krisi Ferris was addicted and homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. RCMP Staff Sgt. Brent Elwood offered Krisi a bus ticket and hope. Thirteen years later, the two are reunited. Listen to the emotional reunion on @CBCEarlyEdition .
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CONTEST ALERT! Show us why you're B.C.'s biggest music fan & you could win the ULTIMATE @TheJUNOAwards experience! Including 3 nights stay @parqvancouverbc and tickets to ALL The JUNOS events. #bcjunoscontest
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The former home of Vancouver's iconic Army & Navy department store is now co-leased by B.C. Housing and the city and will be renovated to create a 60-bed shelter.
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Check out how this Vancouver couple has managed to produce just 4 bags of shopping bags of garbage in 3 years. ♻️
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Scientists discovered an extinct underwater volcano off B.C.'s Central Coast that is home to forests of red tree corals and animal species never before seen by humans
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Congratulations Steveston! Vancouver voted and crowned the picturesque Richmond suburb #BestNeighbourhood.
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Put your hands together (or paws?) for volunteers who spent the weekend spaying + neutering feral cats #FeralCatDay
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Advocates in the cystic fibrosis community are celebrating after the B.C. government announced it will cover the high-cost treatment drug Trikafta.
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The grandmother of famed musician Jimi Hendrix, Nora was an important member of Vancouver's Black community.
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On Autism Awareness Day, take a moment to read this account of what living on the spectrum is like.
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For the past few nights, people have taken to their balconies and windows to applaud, cheer and bang pots and pans at 7 p.m., a time chosen to coincide with the shift change at nearby St. Paul's Hospital.
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#Vancouver has got some weird street names! @j_mcelroy takes you through ALL of them. And there are A LOT. Watch Sunday on our Youtube channel
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The newborn orca was seen swimming with J Pod off Tofino
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Congratulations, @AngelaSterritt! 🎉.
Congratulations to @AngelaSterritt, winner of Best Local Reporter! @CBCVancouver @CBC_Publicity #CdnScreenAwards
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A true friend and hero, Tai Caverhill, the thirteen Vancouver Island boy who was killed by a falling tree last week, was trying to save his classmates.
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Tips to reduce phone use:. ✅ turn off notifications.✅ keep phone away from 🛏️.✅ change display to greyscale .✅ aim to make 1 phone charge last all day .
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There are more than 275 independent bookstores across Canada.
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⚓ Aquabus owner Jeff Pratt, whose family has owned the firm since 1985, says switching to electric vessels has long been a goal, and now that desire has become a reality thanks to breakthroughs in battery life and size.
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Anyone remember "The Odyssey"?. Besides its imaginative storytelling, the show, which ran from 1992-1994 on CBC, may best be remembered as a launchpad for a young Ryan Reynolds! #tbt
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Congratulations on your Order of Canada @CBCGloria! @CBCStephenQuinn hosts a special lunch honouring B.C.’s nominees.
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Prince William and Kate have left the BC Legislature. They will be in Vancouver tomorrow! #RoyalVisitCanada
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The trio is campaigning to have their school renamed after the legendary Black athlete — who, after her running career ended in the 1930s, would go on to become a teacher there.
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In the new CBC British Columbia podcast "Land Back," Gitxsan investigative journalist Angela Sterritt takes a deep dive into land theft in Canada. Learn more at
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We're loving these! 🤗 Print 'em for your kiddos to become official members of #GarysHugClub @CBCKids
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Scientists shot the whale with a dart containing antibiotics in 1st treatment of its kind
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Twenty-one years ago, Sinclair made her national team debut, at just 16 years old.
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Sept. 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to recognize and reflect on the legacy of residential schools in Canada. CBC will have day long programming, including a special provincewide @CBCEarlyEdition hosted by @AngelaSterritt #NDTR
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😂 😂 😂 Watch until the end.
Snow's no problem for this particular Vancouver driver . watch till the end to find out why.
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British Columbians, we live in earthquake country too. Be prepared: make a kit & listen to Fault Lines w/@jwagstaffe
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More than 50 southern resident killer whales, including whales from all three local pods, were spotted Tuesday in Haro Strait.
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Small acts, big impact! Great suggestion for a 2016 resolution.
@CBCVancouver My NY's resolution is to use less disposable coffee cups in Vancouver and the rest of Canada in 2016
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After missing out on the 2018 Pyeongchang Games due to a concussion and losing her brother in 2020, B.C. snowboarder Meryeta O'Dine has overcome difficulty to earn bronze 🥉 at #Beijing2022 🏂
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In Delta, B.C. where Immler lives, he saw people lining up with large printouts of their vaccination receipts. So, he got his QR code printed on something he could wear.
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🐰Happy Lunar New Year everyone ! .🤝Come join us at the parade in Chinatown 🎉🎊
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One @CBCRadio host. One Vancouver mayoral candidate. Two wheels each. 🚲. We're taking the inteviews out of the studio and on to the bikes. Join @CBCStephenQuinn Thursdays for ELECTION CYCLE on @CBCEarlyEdition. This week: Stephen is joined by @kensimformayor. #VanPoli
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