aggregated from: Vancouverite

Apparently it snowed last night, but they are trucking the snow in from Manning Park now. Drudge linked this story under the title, Olympic Mess. Awkward. (via Reuters)PS: Also not awesome. Obama isn't bring his hope and change to Vancouver. On the...

topics: park, vancouver-2010

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Worst day of the year?It's always about money: VANOC and the aboriginal torch relay. For many native leaders, it's easier to rail against the government as the source of all that ails first nations people . And for most media its been super easy to ...

topics: musicians, olympic-games, olympics, park, show

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

Winter Solstice at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Gardens + Roundhouse + elsewhereI usually help organize a team social for attending the Winter Solstice events at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Gardens - but this year I must attend AGM and Christmas Party at Joy Kogawa House.Che...

topics: arts, park

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

BC Housing plans campaign to combat negative press on homelessness. Not negative press on the homeless, negative press on homelessness. So go ahead and talk shit about junkies and crackheads all you want, but don't you dare suggest the government has...

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

Toddish McWong's inaugural 7 day visit to ScotlandI am now back in Canada. It was an incredible learning experience for my first trip across the Atlantic to one of the most important cultural and historical ancestral homes for this country called ...

topics: mayor, museum, park, poet, premier

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Looking back to 2007, you'd think the idea of creating a Marvel Comics Theme park in Dubai would seem both why there and why ? At the time Dubai was the hot spot of the world. But there here are designs for crazy Marvel Dubailand. And yet, Dubai w...

topics: dessert, park, skiing

aggregated from: GungHaggisFatChoy

the JC volunteers from BC had been unable to enlist in this province. They marched, paraded and trained, hoping that their demonstrations of patriotism would win public sympathy for giving them the vote. They were ignored. (Less than a decade earlie...

topics: park, stanley-park

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Disclaimer the first: Not all of these happen on Halloween nightDisclaimer the second: Yes, I know I missed that event, and that one, and that other one, so include them in the comments.Disclaimer the third: There isn't one. I just think things shoul...

topics: park, pne, stanley-park

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Protester in Stanley Park causes major traffic headaches. We don't care what he was protesting, just that traffic was delayed. That is all we care about. Bacon is suffering grave psychological harm . Namely because Ma Fratelli dropped him on his hea...

topics: busted, olympics, park, stanley-park

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Movies: Jennifer's Body. It was filmed her. It stars Megan Fox. She kisses Amanda Seyfried. Can I make it any clearer than that? Oh, Diablo Cody wrote it. Good times. Or you could see fat Matt Damon in The Informant! Which will probably be better mos...

topics: blues, gastown, jazz, park, stanley-park