Goodbye 2017...
Once again, we had the pleasure of writing about all the strange, wonderful and incredible聽stories that came out of B.C. in this past year. There were plenty of highlights along the way, including the beginning of our own聽. Thanks for another awesome year, we couldn't be more excited about what's to come in 2018.
For now, let's revisit our most popular stories of the year.
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We鈥檝e all made that panicked jog鈥� Launched in 2012 by our friend David Walker of St Bernadine agency in Chinatown, #runningfortheseabus is an Instagram hashtag that is just waiting to go viral.
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With a central pickup location at Burrard Station, the Parkbus offers transportation (round-trip or one-way), to seven beautiful provincial parks and destinations.
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Doughy, deep fried and highly likely to be adorned with sugary treats (sprinkles, cookie crumbles, etc). Doughnuts are kind of the ultimate sweet indulgence and 麻豆传媒映画is full of them, .
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We鈥檙e here to assure you that the real Archive would never say such things, and that in fact when he visited in 1986 he said nothing but happy fuzzy stuff about the city we all love.
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A West 麻豆传媒映画woman who had two seasons of fame on a reality TV show that focused on lifestyles of Vancouver鈥檚 wealthy 鈥渉ousewives鈥� is being sued by her credit union for not paying her overdraft loans.
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Think of it like tiny houses meets your favourite Swedish DIY furniture store: A B.C.聽company that makes pre-fab cabins that are delivered by helicopter and you assemble yourself.
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Need a break from whatever it is you鈥檙e doing? The 24/7 livestream from a Vancouver-area cat rescue group could be just the distraction you鈥檙e looking for.
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Left photo: archives. Right: Karen Hilburg via Twitter
There鈥檚 been a lot of about UFOs in the media lately, as the U.S. Defense Department confirmed it had been spending millions of dollars investigating 鈥渁nomalous aerial vehicles鈥�.
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Adrian Crook wanted his children to learn how to be independent, and live a car-free urban life. He spent weeks teaching them the skills to ride the bus alone. Now the province has said they have to always be accompanied. Photograph By 5 Kids, 1 Condo
A 麻豆传媒映画father鈥檚 fight to give his children the freedom to travel on a bus alone has gained widespread support. Adrian Crook鈥檚 crowdfunding campaign to 鈥淟et Responsible Kids Take Transit鈥� surpassed its $15,000 goal in just a week.
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Cat lovers, this event next year is just purrrrrrfect. is hailing itself as 鈥渢he ultimate festival for cat lovers,鈥� and it happens this July in Vancouver.
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Photo: Lindsay William-Ross
Considered one of the harbingers of warmer weather in damp springtime Vancouver, Reflections is a favourite downtown hang鈥搘ith all the trimmings and more聽mid-November to the last day of the year.
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Quebec natives Laurence Ricard-Lacombe and Yanael Prat-Samuel spent $8,000 converting a school bus into a home. 鈥� photo Cindy Goodman, North Shore News
These are the stories of people on the North Shore who found themselves living on four wheels, and have no plans to stop rolling any time soon.
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Christine Raverty and husband Steve Handy were part of a successful bid to block the sale of their 麻豆传媒映画condo building. Photograph By ROB KRUYT
They won a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that dismissed their neighbours鈥� attempts to sell their building.
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Mak N Ming took fourth place in the popular annual ranking issued by Air Canada鈥檚 enRoute Magazine.
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Various brands of bread sit on shelves in a grocery store in Toronto on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives
Loblaw and George Weston Ltd. revealed that they participated in an industry-wide bread price-fixing arrangement from late 2001 to March 2015.
Here we go, the top 10 posts of the year...
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A chart created by Andy Yan shows the relative percentage of low-income households by age group, comparing West 麻豆传媒映画to neighbouring communities. The analysis uses after-tax low-income thresholds from Statistics Canada. graphic supplied Andy Yan
The affluent community of West Vancouver, where average home prices hover at $3 million, has one of the highest rates of people with 鈥渓ow income鈥� in Metro Vancouver. At least on paper.
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Not Yaletown. Photo @brookecagle/Unsplash
A divisive post from our new series about neighbourhoods that people love. Not everyone agreed about this writer鈥檚 take on Yaletown, but that didn鈥檛 stop them from reading鈥� or commenting... or tweeting.
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Sad news in both the worlds of conservation and filmmaking in B.C. Twyla Roscovich鈥檚 body was found after days of her being missing on Quadra Island. Best known for her 2013 documentary, , she blew the lid off of the issue of salmon farms.
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Ladysmith artist Mya DeRyan, 52, was saved after she jumped off a B.C. Ferries vessel on Oct. 30. Photograph By ADRIAN LAM, Times Colonist
The 52-year-old from Ladysmith is the woman who, on Oct. 30 at 5:45 p.m., removed her clothes and calmly jumped from the Queen of Cowichan ferry, halfway into its journey from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo鈥檚 Departure Bay.
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Opening day lines at Uniqlo 麻豆传媒映画(麻豆传媒映画)
The day so many 麻豆传媒映画shoppers had been waiting for was a bit鈥� crowded.
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Park Theatre, Cambie Street, Vancouver, 1986
Photographer has been shooting in BC for decades. In the 1980s he ran a commercial studio in the city and he sensed that 鈥淲ith Expo 86 looming, great changes were in store. Indeed, they had already begun.鈥�.
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Distracted driving is becoming more costly
B.C. drivers caught talking on cellphones or texting behind the wheel will now pay $740 in higher penalties for repeat offences.
Almost there...
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Photo @PChiddy on Twitter
A funny one regarding Canadian hero/figure skater Patrick Chan forgetting his ID.
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The Ministry of Transportation released a wonderful archival video from 1966! In it they drive from Horseshoe Bay, through downtown Vancouver, up Main street then onto Kingsway to Burnaby. It was part of their 鈥榩hotologs鈥� where they would mount a camera on a car and produce a film on 16mm.
Our most popular post of the year...
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Ted Walkus, hereditary chief of the Wuikinuxv Nation in Rivers Inlet, B.C. This Chinook was captured for brood stock to raise the next generation of Wannock Chinook at the Percy Walkus Hatchery.
鈥淐aught鈥� is a bit of a stretch as it wasn鈥檛 caught on a fishing line, but it was captured in a net as it was heading up the river to spawn. It sounds like a bad thing but it鈥檚 quite the opposite; it was one of 94 fish that were captured as part of a conservation project by the nearby .
