Simi Sara
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Simi Sara
@simisara730cknw.bsky.social
Host, Mornings with Simi 5:30-9AM Monday to Friday on 730 CKNW. [email protected]
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EXCLUSIVE: Chilliwack girl, 6, recounts 24 hours lost in woods
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EXCLUSIVE: Chilliwack girl, 6, recounts 24 hours lost in woods
'She used her smarts for her to be found,' says Lily Coursol's grandmother Brenda Brintnell
www.surreynowleader.com
May 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Who says people don’t care about municipal by elections? This is the lineup to vote at one polling place this morning. Poll hasn’t even opened yet.
April 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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The recording appears to be from the band’s 1962 audition for Decca Records, which notably rejected the group. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/a...
Rare Beatles Audition Tape Surfaces in a Vancouver Record Shop
The recording appears to be from the band’s 1962 audition for Decca Records, which notably rejected the group.
www.nytimes.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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B.C. eliminating consumer carbon tax as of April 1
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No carbon tax in B.C. as of April 1, 2025
People will see immediate savings through the elimination of the consumer carbon tax in British Columbia.
news.gov.bc.ca
March 25, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Reporter: "Your Foreign Affairs Minister [Melanie Joly] yesterday called all of this a psychodrama. How do you how do you characterize it?"
Trudeau: "Thursday."
#cdnpoli
March 6, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Trump has based his ENTIRE tariff attack on Canada on the claim that 43 pounds of fentanyl, of the 4,500 that entered the United States last year, came through the northern border. This investigation found that the actual figure is closer to zero

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
White House using misleading fentanyl data to justify tariffs
Some fentanyl seizures attributed to the ‘northern border’ had nothing to do with Canada and were traced to Mexico
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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BREAKING Trump delays tariffs on Mexican goods after Sheinbaum agrees to rush 10,000 troops to border. Canada, source of 1.5 percent of migrants and 0.2 percent of fentanyl, spent $900M on new border security to appease Trump. Tariffs on Canadian goods are still set to start Tuesday

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Trump halts tariffs on Mexico as it rushes troops to border
Mexico agreed to rush 10,000 national guard troops to the border to strengthen efforts to block the flow of drugs, especially fentanyl, coming into the United States.
bit.ly
February 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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As expected, the Bank of Canada cuts interest rates by 25 basis points. The benchmark rate is now down to 3%.
January 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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NEW: Handout refused. A local politician tells Metro Vancouver he won’t accept the $534 taxpayer-funded stipend for attending meetings.

Metro’s response to his request—on Global BC at 5 & 6.

#bcpoli
#vanpoli
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Dominic Leblanc, who replaced Freeland as finance minister, says he will not run for the Liberal leadership
January 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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This is such a fun story by @sthomas10.bsky.social!

How boots for horses made by a Sunshine Coast company helped save the Beyoncé Bowl

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How a Roberts Creek company helped save 'Beyoncé Bowl' halftime show
Cavallo Hoof Boots saved the day when stage and entrance for NFL 2024 Christmas Day performance, turned out to be too slippery for the horses.
www.coastreporter.net
December 30, 2024 at 11:23 PM
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ICYMI over the weekend, @risingaction.bsky.social with a great mailbag on why seats are empty at Rogers Arena.
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Canucks mailbag: Fans have spoken — tickets are too expensive
Why do the Canucks only have one sellout this season despite on-going success? Look at the cost of going to a game, fans say.
theprovince.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:03 PM
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An #update on this story. Witness says someone was trying to steal from Vancouver 7/11 when staff member intervened. Suspect then pulled out a large knife and stabbed a woman. Police on scene within moments. Witness captured what happened next on video:
globalnews.ca/news/1090189...
December 4, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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As first reported by @tombogert.bsky.social: Whitecaps have fired Vanni Sartini
November 25, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Statement from Premier David Eby on the passing of John Horgan.
November 12, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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Former B.C. Premier John Horgan dies following battle with cancer:
The 65-year-old has been in the hospital for much of the past five months after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in June.
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Former B.C. Premier John Horgan dies following battle with cancer | Globalnews.ca
Horgan has been in the hospital for much of the past five months after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer in June. He was serving as Canada’s ambassador to Germany.
globalnews.ca
November 12, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Thinking about my visit this summer to the Canadian cemetery in France. Can't help but be moved by how young these soldiers were and how their families wanted to remember them, eighty years later.
November 11, 2024 at 2:05 PM