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Tour de Gastown: Pinfold wins, Beijing-Bound Tuft Impresses

Andrew Pinfold of Symmetrics won a bunch sprint in the most exciting Tour de Gastown in recent history. The Tour de Gastown is now part of the 11-race USA Crits Series which helped draw some big names to the race....

1 in 10 Children in Canada are in Poverty

More than 1 in every 10 families with kids in their household are in poverty.  The "2009 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada" released a report containing statistics on poverty.  It...

Intensive exercise may be bad for your lungs

'It is believed that in the winter there is nothing like sports and exercise  to improve your health and breathing.. yet this advice may be wrong as it is recently being proven that intensive exercise may be...

Kuba Oms Tops Peak 100.5 Performance Project: Debut How Much Time

How much time do you have for great local BC musicians? Well, make some. Victoria’s Kuba Oms’ Bohemian 70s soul/funk debut How Much Time, co-produced with his own label Digniti and Warner, has propelled him to...

Canadian border agents seize shipment of gay media

Canadian border agents have seized a shipment of gay media en route to the Inside Out Ottawa-Gatineau LGBT Film and Video Festival. Toronto-based Inside Out Film and Video Festival , who intended to show the films...

New Moon Movie Review - Advance Screening In Vancouver, BC

Last night I attended the advance screening of “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” in Vancouver, BC and let me tell you, it was Twi-hard crazy! When my best friend and I arrived at 6:30pm for the 10:00pm show, there...

Air Canada treatment at Check In Counter

I took Air Canada Airlines for the first time on Nov 17, 2009 and had a really bad experience with the checkin counter. First of all the checkin attendant asked for $100.00 for extra luggage weight, because the luggage weighed more. I never had that happen with Alitalia,...

Welcome to George Orwell’s Vancouver 2010

Barry Artiste Op/EdGeorge Orwell’s 1984 in part, mirror one aspect of Big Brother is watching you as Vancouver prepares for the 2010 Olympics this winter. Many Vancouverittes and British Columbias civil...

Privatised Law Enforcement Trampling On Our Justice System

Orwell's 2009: How Privatisation Of Law Enforcement Threatens Our Civil Liberties Imagine a day not in the far future when the police is legislated into a private corporation independent of the government. Its...

Help Us Save Japan’s Dolphins!

  Help us save Japan’s dolphins!_ Around 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and other whales are cruelly slaughtered in Japanese waters every year. Now, we have a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to stop the appalling suffering inflicted upon these beautiful,...

Two Baby Goats Try To Board Washington Bus: Video

Two baby goats who had escaped from their home tried desperately to get on board a Vancouver Washington bus a few days ago and it was all caught on the on-board video camera system. The two goats, Yoda and Yates...

Prince Charles Partners with SFU despite "Sexual Harassment Ring"

Photo:  Prince Charles shakes hands with SFU President Michael Stevenson during his November visit to CanadaDespite the 'social responsibility' theme of their Canadian tour, Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Dutchess of Cornwall, made an official visit to Simon...

More and more INCs shout, "Where is Sir Erano Manalo?"

Third Call, Still Deaf Ears Would any of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) correct me if I say, "More and more Iglesia ni Cristo members shout and even ask, Where is Sir Erano Manalo, also known as Ka Erdie Manalo,...

Classic Smokehouse Smoked Salmon -- Listeria Alert

The CFIA in conjunction with Classic Smokehouse (2003) have issued a Listeria alert for some products sold in the Vancouver, BC area.  Subject of this alert are a smoked salmon cream cheese roll and smoked...

Space Clown trumps Afghan war: study

Barry Artiste Op.Ed Yep, pretty much explains most Canadians in a nutshell, including other important issues, even the environment, politics, social issues.   Attention span of a piece of fruit.  When you have a generation growing up on Reality TV, American...

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