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The friend also noted that Braley’s office in Ontario had been receiving get-well wishes from “across the country and overseas.”

Few of those greetings will have been coming from Lions fans, not knowing his whereabouts because of the cloak of secrecy locally.

To send along your best wishes, email getwellmrb@bclions.com.

HERE ‘N’ THERE: Vancouver Sun columnist Iain MacIntyre penned a splendid farewell to outgoing Sun sports scribes Gary Kingston and Brad Ziemer in these pages a week ago Friday, the morning after a celebration of their careers at the aptly named Rogue Wetbar on Vancouver’s downtown waterfront. Lost in all of the commotion was a presentation to Kingston off in a corner by Whitecaps president Bob Lenarduzzi and team communications execs Nathan Vanstone and Tom Plasteras. Kingston, the Whitecaps’ beat reporter, was handed a club jersey with his name stitched across the shoulders above the number 28, representing the years in which he worked at The Sun — from 1989 to 2016.

SHORT HOPS: With the increased number of visits that Vancouver Giants owner Ron Toigo has been making to the Langley Events Centre in recent weeks, it would appear a move by the Western Hockey League franchise from the Pacific Coliseum to Langley is imminent. Toigo and his hockey people have been taking in Stealth lacrosse games as well as the provincial high school basketball championships to get a feel for the building that can house 5,276 for hockey. Some PNE managerial powers have been expressing cavalier attitudes indicating there is hardly an emotional tie with the junior franchise that brought a Memorial Cup title to the Coliseum in 2007, just a few years after setting up shop at the former home of the NHL Canucks.