Turnabout's Fair Play

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada Nanaimo Clippers BCHL hockey team answered Friday's loss to the Langely Chiefs last night.  The teams are in a battle for the provincial championship.  Both teams...

Audubon Society Sets Standards For Habitat Destruction!?

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada Opinion More on the ongoing saga of the Cable Bay Chronicles. A large, fragile forest is the subject of controversial development by out of province land speculators.  The...

You Can Tell It's Spring When the Herring Spawn

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada Early spring on Vancouver Island brings the annual phenomenon of the herring spawn.  The herring spawn in such numbers in the shallow, protected waters of Georgia Strait...

Nanaimo 'Capital of Google Earth,' says Time Magazine

The unlikely Google hotspot of Nanaimo, BC, a 78,000-person city about an hour north of Victoria, has made waves by pioneering new features of Google Earth, and Time Magazine recently took note.  Check out...

Guam, a Family Vacation Spot?

Guam, Micronesia We spent a few days on Guam this February after a couple of weeks on Yap.  We thought, "It's a transfer point, an island in the sun, when would we be back?  Let's have a look." ...

Yap, Island of Stone Money

Yap State, located within the Federated States of Micronesia We were looking for a place inthe sun that was away from brash commercialism.  We found it in Yap.  We took two days to get there, but it...

Vancouver density debate needs to be reinvigorated

Trevor Boddy looks at the unfolding EcoDensity debate in Vancouver:"It is too bad the EcoDensity debate got dragged into an election year. Over the last few months, this discussion has entered an unwelcome and...

Land Speculators Eye Rare Habitat

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada This is definitely an opinion piece.  I'm so mad I could spit!  The City of Nanaimo annexed part of Cedar By the Sea, a part of what is now the Regional District of...

Searchers Looking For Missing Boater

Nanaimo, BC, Canada Another winter storm passed over Vancouver Island last night.  It brought with it gale force winds and dropped snow on many areas.  It also brought disaster to some boaters in...

Surrey Eagle Soar Above Shipmen

Nanaimo, BC, Canada The BCHL saw a victory by the Surrey Eagles over the Coastal leaders, the Nanaimo Clippers on Saturday night in Nanaimo.  The hard fought victory added to their victories accrued over...

British Columbia: Stoner enters Police Roadblock, Joint dangling from mouth.

Certainly speaks volumes of British Columbia's Drug mentality which seems straight out of a Cheech and Chong Movie, when a stoner, joint hanging between his lips, enters a Police Roadblock.  "Man rolls up to...

Ladysmith Lights a Candle Against the Darkness

Ladysmith, Vancouver Island, Canada Ladysmith is a small town on the east coast of Vancouver Island.  Like many of our small towns here, it is having to reinvent itself as industry and jobs change. ...

Anarchists target official bank of Vancouver Olympics

A rocky situation at the Royal Bank."Anarchists are targeting the 2010 Winter Olympics official bank with a campaign of vandalism. A "small group of anarchists" damaged windows of the Royal Bank of Canada branch...

Clippers Miss By One Goal

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada The Nanaimo Clippers junior hocky team had their sails trimmed on Friday night.  They were outplayed by the Langley Chiefs in an entertaining evening of hockey and...

The River's Rising

Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada Mother Nature has given the east coast of the island a one/two punch.  First, we received about 40 centimetres of snow, then a tropical downpour known in this area as The...

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