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“We’re not allowed to bring peanut butter sandwiches to schools to protect those kids who have peanut allergies. So why are children who are unvaccinated, who are potentially spreading a deadly illness around allowed to go to school?"
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"My career can wait. And my family cannot."
@steeletalk tells listeners why she's decided to leave the CKNW airwaves at the end of May.
We're going to miss you, Lynda! ❤️
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Two weeks after receiving his second dose, the man said one of his legs started feeling tingly. Two hours later, he was paralyzed from the waist down. | Globalnews.ca trib.al/s4nTiqM
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The mayor of Vancouver says he doesn't want to tell people who to vote for, but he does say voters should choose "anybody but Andrew Scheer" #cdnpoli #elxn43
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The Invictus Games' CEO says nearly 100 people signed up to volunteer for the 2025 sporting event after Prince Harry's surprise puck drop at the Vancouver Canucks' game Monday night.
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Aside fr. @theweeknd's 7 @TheGRAMMYs nods representing the #Canadian front, @Drake has three and @justinbieber has 1.
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If you're having problems with your cell phone, it could be because of the latest solar flare. glbn.ca/wBxKwx
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The company says the employee was terminated for violating its “philosophy of tolerance.”
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The Township of Langley took down Lisa Ebenal's pride flag on a complaint from a neighbour. Days later, 15 of the flags have sprouted up in the neighbourhood.
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B.C. is offering free post-secondary tuition to anyone who was in foster care and doing away with its previous age limit.
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The Canadian Press is reporting the play-by-play announcer for the Humboldt Broncos was one of the 14 people who died in yesterday's bus crash. Tyler Bieber worked for CHBO and in an e-mail to staff, its management has confirmed he died in the crash
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“Prime Minister Trudeau once said that governments grant permits but communities grant permission. On behalf of Burnaby Council, I can assure you that we do not grant permission."
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JUST IN: A British Columbia restaurant that publicly defied the province’s COVID-19 vaccine passport system has lost its business licence for six months.
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It is with very heavy hearts that we announce the passing of our beloved Deb Hope. She was one of the most iconic faces in B.C. for decades and will be deeply missed. We are thinking of her family and loved ones. RIP Deb. trib.al/Wf5D5Fi
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Former BC Liberal health and environment minister Terry Lake says he'll consider voting for the BC NDP if the BC Conservatives don't shift to the political centre, especially on the issue of climate change.
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"Your dedication and commitment to journalism and the public will be missed."
@JustinTrudeau pays tribute to @steeletalk, whose final show is taking place after six years on the CKNW airwaves.
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#BREAKING A pod of orcas has been spotted making an incredibly rare appearance in Vancouver's False Creek.
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Former B.C. Lions linebacker Adam Bighill (@Bighill44) is calling out American TV host Wendy Williams after she appeared to mock people with cleft lips on her show.
Bighill spoke to @steeletalk on @CKNW.
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One day after surprising fans at the pinnacle of Canadian football in Vancouver, Prince Harry got down to ground level with a game of sitting volleyball with schoolchildren in the city.
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"If you drive like a normal person you will not get a ticket. If you drive like a self-entitled jerk, you will get a ticket," said Solicitor General Mike Farnworth.
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"There's no need to defend it. There's nothing to comment on."
Surrey City Councillor, Allison Patton, speaks to @steeletalk about the 2.3% pay raise awarded to Mayor and Council in a closed-door meeting. #SurreyBC
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Mayor of Port Coquitlam said his municipality passed a bylaw banning public drug use, as the region is seeing an increase in drug use in places like parks and playgrounds.
Do you think other municipalities should pass similar bylaws?
#Poco #Drugs #publicsafety
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"My Dad hasn't had a hug from someone who loves him since March. He is slowly leaving me, before my very eyes."
@steeletalk shares the story of her father's isolation, as visits to long-term care homes continue to be restricted.
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Meghan Markle paid a visit to Justice for Girls, a non-profit organization that promotes social, economic and environmental justice, and calls for an end to violence, poverty and racism for teenage girls in Vancouver.
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"Just stop with these protests. Make noise on the sides. Don't inconvenience families."
Caren McSherry is the founder of the Gourmet Warehouse, located close to the corner of Hastings and Clark. She tells @steeletalk the protests in the area have impacted her business.
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"They're not helping Wet'suwet'en people. It's causing more divisions between Indigenous people and the rest of Canada."
Wet'suwet'en member Candice George tells @steeletalk the nationwide protests against the Coastal GasLink project are causing additional pain.
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For small businesses forced to close, this might be an opportunity for you! trib.al/2TJY6tv
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LISTEN: Metro Vancouver will go blue in honor of Abbotsford Police Constable John Davidson @jonmccomb980 omny.fm/shows/the-jon-mccomb…
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"The hippo (Rosie) did not appear to be injured, but startled. Rosie got the slap on the butt & didn't do much, but her Mother went OH,what are you doing? They heard the audible slap of the hippo rump."
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#TheShiftwithDrex Daily Podcast
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.@simisara980 will be the host of 980 CKNW's new morning show. trib.al/ioiw2Eq
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“I hope young people in B.C. don’t kill my mom frankly. Or David Suzuki. Or each other. Let’s not kill anyone." Ryan Reynolds has a message for B.C.'s young people. trib.al/gNLp3AD
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BREAKING: Teen found alive in Golden Ears Park after missing for over two days trib.al/30uqDPW
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"Thank you for letting me learn on this job, and I hope that you learned a couple of things along the way too."
@steeletalk's message to listeners as she marks her final show after six years on the CKNW airwaves.
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“I can’t actually say what I think of what these people have done. You would need to bleep it out. To have people try and sell supplies that are short-stocked in our hospitals and try to make a buck is beyond anything I can comprehend.”
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This puppy has had a hard start to her life but now she's getting love and vet care here in British Columbia trib.al/k8hXNAE
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Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, are in Vancouver to meet with Invictus Games athletes at a curling rink on Friday.
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The long-promised SkyTrain extensions to UBC and Langley City could be cancelled altogether under the Conservatives' infrastructure platform, the chair of the Mayors' Council says
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#BREAKING: RCMP say Cody Martin and Tamara Sandulak's truck broke down about 16 km past where they were thought to be. The pair and their dog Rex have been airlifted to safety and are cold and hungry but unhurt.
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"One of my main goals also for doing this was to defeat @VanCityReynolds," @SethRogen quipped on CKNW’s The Simi Sara Show.
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Students in the 2020 MacNeill Secondary grad class donated the money they raised for their grad dance to Richmond Hospital
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Police officers appear set to make a return to Vancouver schools in the coming months, following the sweeping victory of Ken Sim's ABC in the recent civic elections.
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“Here's the best part. When you come to my movie sets it's like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory dude,” said @TheRock
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#BREAKING: Quebec City police are hunting for a man dressed in medieval clothing and armed with a bladed weapon who they say has left ``multiple victims'' near the national assembly. Police asking people to stay indoors. The number of those hurt and the severity is not known.
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Starting in May 2020, private businesses in B.C. will be required to keep transparency records of their true owners, including people or entities with direct or indirect control of the company or its shares
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BREAKING: B.C. to remove all U.S. liquor products from store shelves.
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Nanaimo Mayor Leo Krog is advocating for involuntary secure care for individuals dealing with serious mental-health challenges.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you agree with Mayor Krog?
#healthBC #Nanaimo #Mentalhealth
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COMMENTARY: This week there was nowhere else Canadians wanted to be, @CharlesAdler says. “We were in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Canada.” trib.al/KNLEgmD
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WATCH LIVE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier John Horgan to make announcement regarding 2025 Invictus Games
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A sincere apology to @balkissoon from @CKNW. We regret our host was unprepared to have an informed & open-minded convo about race in Canada.
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In 2009, former B.C. Solicitor General, Rich Coleman, disbanded an RCMP unit tasked with investigating illegal gaming.
Former Crown prosecutor, @Garossino, tells @steeletalk why she thinks that was a "staggering" decision.
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He wrote the catchy tune in 1958, while working as CKNW’s creative director. trib.al/gXDjN68
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Wally Oppal, Former B.C Liberal Attorney General and colleague of John Rustad, joined @JasJohalBC to speak out against Rustad's comments on telling police not to enforce federal gun laws.
Listen to The Jas Johal Show wherever you get your podcasts:
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"At least 30 to 40 per cent of patients are housed in beds in corridors, in toilets, in storerooms. They're not in wards. It's simply unsafe." An Abbotsford doctor is sounding the alarm about conditions at the hospital.
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Two internationally trained doctors spoke to Global News Thursday about their struggles to afford to get certified in Canada. After we aired the story, many viewers reached out with offers to help and one person wrote two very large cheques.
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In videos posted on social media, Aaron Gunn — the Conservative candidate in North Island-Powell River in British Columbia — has said Canada’s program of residential schools did not constitute an act of genocide and that the schools are “much-maligned.”
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The organizer of a Kelowna protest against #COVID19 restrictions has been slapped with a $2,300 fine.
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His name is Miguel. He’s in Grade 6. Here’s what he told a B.C. March for Our Lives rally
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"I would suggest this is the last season of falling back and springing forward.” Premier John Horgan vowing to get rid of seasonal time changes next year even if U.S. doesn't follow.
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Wade Grant, Member of the Musqueam Indian Band, and former Indigenous Advisor to Premier Christy Clark joined @JasJohalBC to announce that because of controversial remarks made by B.C Conservative candidates, he's now decided on voting for the B.C NDP...
Listen to The Jas Johal Show wherever you get your podcasts:
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#ICYMI B.C. realtors now banned from representing both buyer and seller in a deal.
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A report on the use of SOGI 123 in schools across B.C. finds that it has been effective in reducing violence and discrimination, even for heterosexual students.
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British Columbia’s transportation minister says the province has suspended the entire fleet licence for the trucking company involved in a hit-and-run crash with a North Vancouver overpass.
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Weather doesn't bend to the will of meteorologists' predictions. Warnings are a call to prepare, whatever the outcome. The Lower Mainland was grazed by the same system that slammed Washington state, where 109,000 customers are without power. We were lucky... this time.
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'For the City of Vancouver to say no to veterans for an hour's parking is pretty bloody disgusting,' said the man who received B.C.'s first honourary veteran's licence plate.
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You might see one of these new $2 coins soon, honouring B.C. artist Bill Reid. trib.al/3Pvl6xq
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Should police in British Columbia be required to wear body cameras?
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Being blocked in by a rogue driver is a dilemma many of us have faced. But one B.C. man had a solution that's getting him a lot of attention online. @KRobNews1 reports trib.al/64M7nvv
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Anjali Appadurai says if she becomes B.C. premier, she'll make transit free in urban centres and freeze fossil fuel extraction.
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A large majority of British Columbians polled said B.C. premier John Horgan is doing a bad job at dealing with the protests and blockades.
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Now that the B.C. Liberals are buying billboards that "Blame John Horgan" for rising gas prices, the Greens are calling for a stop to taxpayer-funded political advertising
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Premier David Eby says effective immediately, B.C. liquor stores will pull all liquor made in red states off the shelves in response to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs.
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"I don't believe that the least-paid workers in B.C. should be the first ones to pay the consequences of the situation we find ourselves in."
B.C. Premier @jjhorgan tells @steeletalk he rejects calls to defer the planned minimum wage increase on June 1. #bcpoli
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#BREAKING Metro Vancouver flaggers say if the driver in a June hit and run isn't charged, they'll cause gridlock
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As the road to the provincial elections continue, B.C NDP leader @Dave_Eby joined @JasJohalBC to provide his thoughts on B.C Conservative candidate Brent Chapman's controversial comments that were recently made public...
Listen to The Jas Johal Show wherever you get your podcasts:
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BREAKING: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is aiming to allow fully vaccinated U.S. citizens and permanent residents into Canada by mid-August. More to come.
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#UPDATE: Read all about how a community and search crews rallied to safely locate a missing 4-year-old boy who became separated from his mother while berry-picking on Saturday. bit.ly/2P1f03v @GlobalBC
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Right now, the coronavirus is like a giant dark cloud on a horizon that is drawing ever nearer -- making someone in Dr. Bonnie Henry's position all the more critical, Keith Baldrey writes
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Education minister Rob Fleming called Barry Neufeld's latest comments "hateful," "unhinged" and "false news in the middle of a pandemic."
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Ex-One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson will be at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver on July 23.
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#BREAKING: Global News has learned Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West has been approached about leading a potentially merged BC United-BC Conservative Party and is considering it. Both parties' current leaders would still need to agree to step down.
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Trudeau says it will be really important for Canadians to pick a government in the upcoming federal election that is committed to “climate action.”
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MUST WATCH: Two callers were expected to battle it out to win a pair of Janet Jackson tickets on CKNW.
But what was supposed to be a contest, ended up as a reunion between two old friends, Stuart and Ben.
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The University of British Columbia is investigating a social media post possibly from a UBC professor, which was posted shortly after former President Donald Trump was injured in a shooting.
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Jaspreet Singh jumped into action when he saw the driver in front of him stop for no apparent reason. And then as the car started rolling away, with a child in the back, Jaspreet leaped through the window to steer the car to safety. trib.al/0zGts5E
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"Oh man... I'm actually choked up!"
An on-air surprise for @steeletalk, as Mayor Kennedy Stewart proclaims this Friday as Lynda Steele Day in the @CityofVancouver!
Tune in from 3pm all this week for the final episodes of the Lynda Steele Show on CKNW. 🎙️ #vanpoli
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The company says starting Wednesday, the store will be reserved for health care workers and first responders for the last hour of the shopping day.
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The BC Coroners Service says it has no record of any recent drug death at a Vancouver intersection where BC Conservative Leader John Rustad said he saw a man die on his way to a televised election debate.
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Victoria police have issued what may be the first fine in B.C. under new #COVID19 enforcement powers granted on Friday.
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BREAKING: Some good news! The missing 7-year-old girl has been found safe!
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"Most people who live in the Greater Vancouver region would be afraid to walk down this street," Vancouver Police Chief Const. Adam Palmer said at a press conference. trib.al/E9xmeCB
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#BREAKING: The Abbotsford Canucks are the 2025 Calder Cup champions, after dropping the Charlotte Checkers 3-2 in Game 6 of the finals.
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Radio legend and voice of the #Canucks, John Ashbridge, has died at age 71. John started at @CKNW in 1965, and from there went on to become the man behind the mic through years of #Vancouver hockey.
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After the B.C NDP posted a video of Conservative Leader John Rustad commenting on COVID-19 vaccines, @JasJohalBC asks about his views on the matter.
Check out Mr. Rustad's response below...
Listen to the full interview and more of The Jas Johal Show on 980 CKNW and wherever you get your podcasts:
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