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Summer is doing the hokey pokey at the moment. Put the warm weather in! Take the warm weather out! In, out, in, out! Do you commit to wearing shorts even when it suddenly starts raining, or just carry an umbrella you can double-up as a parasol? 

The good news is that cooler weather should help Metro Vancouver stay below the water usage goal of 1.4 billion litres per day—a figure that makes you go "damn, we really use 1.4 billion litres of water per day?"

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The Goldeneyes got the first pick in the PWHL draft, and they wasted no time in choosing the impossibly talented rearguard Caroline "KK" Harvey. Harvey, for her part, is excited to head to the 604. "I was really hoping it would work out the way it did," she tells the Straight, "because this is definitely a place I want to call my home for years to come.”

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More sports! Editor in chief Nathan Caddell was at BC Place to watch Canada play Switzerland in the home team’s final group stage match. Here are his takeaways from the match and why the result might come with a silver lining.

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Peanuts might be best-known as a comic strip and a 1985 animated TV special, but the latter was originally a musical in 1967. Not that any of the cast of the Vancouver version would have been alive to contemporaneously experience any of that content, as the Charlie Brown kids are all played by child actors. “When I had kids come in and I saw their youthfulness, I was like, nobody else can portray kids better than kids," says director Ryver Santos Cegnar. "The amount of talent that these kids have is just astonishing."

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From Monteverdi's groundbreaking opera Orfeo to Vivaldi's timeless The Four Seasons, Early Music Vancouver presents the finest in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music with their annual Summer Festival (July 31 – August 7, 2026). Artist Include: Marc Mauillon, Rachel Podger, Idan Cohen, Jaap ter Linden, Myriam Leblanc, and many more!

Remember when you were a kid and you gave everyone a party bag as a thank-you for attending your birthday? Fanny Bay is doing the same thing for its 10th anniversary—except there's a treasure hunt involved to get it.

Celebrate July 1 at one of the country's most cherished Canada Day events! The 79th annual Steveston Salmon Festival features a show-stopping parade, live music across three stages — including headliners Barney Bentall & The Legendary Hearts — sports demos, and delicious food like the iconic wood-fired Salmon Bake.

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