Stage 18 of the Tour de France saw the end of the Alps, but there were still some challenging climbs along the 196.5 km route today. A breakaway by Marcus Burghart for Team Columbia and Carlos...
Stage 17 of the Tour de France may have seen the race winner emerge after a punishing 210 km run. Carlos Sastre for Team CSC emerged as the stage winner with about a two minute advantage. It was enough to...
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, CanadaWhat do swallows swallow? Bugs and lots of them. This spring we hosted a couple of barn swallows on our porch. They are messy as they make a nest out of packed mud...
Stage 16 of the Tour brought a serious sorting out of the peloton. It was an unrelenting climb through the Alps, from Italy back to France. Today's stage was a grueling 157 km with two major climbs on the...
Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, CanadaThe waterfront was the place to be on Sunday. It was the Silly Boat Regatta in support of the Child Development Centre. Participants have a short period of time to build...
The Lords of Chaos attended stage 15 of the Tour de France. Stormy weather, slick roads, spectacular crashes and surprise wins bedeviled the riders.The pelloton failed to reel in an early breakaway to give...
Today's stage across the south of France saw a new stage winner -- Oscar Freire. The pelloton kept together for much of the 194.5 km run today, dragging back breakaways consistently. It was the last part...
Today is Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday. Maybe those of us can give him his birthday wish by being a little more generous to those less fortunate than ourselves. "On 90th birthday Mandela urges rich to help...
Mark Cavendish chalked up another stage win today in the race to Nimes in southern France. Today's feature to deal with was the heat with riders coping with 30+ degree weather. It sounds like a lovely...
This stage of the Tour de France of 167.5 km saw more attrition in the pack. Ricardo Ricco left the Tour in disgrace after a positive drug test. His entire team withdrew as well, leaving a bad taste in...
Cadel Evans retained his yellow jersey on this 167.5 km stage through the Pyrenees. Yesterday was a rest day for the Tour and gave riders a chance to recover from the grueling pace of this year's tour.Team...
Nanaimo, British Columbia, CanadaThis past weekend the City of Nanaimo played host to the Dragonboat Festival raising thousands of dollars to fight breast cancer. The weather cooperated and Nanaimo was...
Today's stage of the Tour de France was a hard slog of 156 km through the Pyrenees. The route gave no quarter with the finish decided only at the last second. Team CSC did an admirable job bringing their...
Today's stage of the Tour de France was a test for the climbers with two steep parts to the 224 km course. Tomorrow will bring more challenges to the riders who have been on their bikes for over a week now with...
Opinion"Sterile terminator seeds are dangerous and should be banned in Canada.Terminator seeds - also know as GURTS (Genetic Use Restriction Technologies) - are a class of genetic engineering technologies that produce seeds with sterile offspring. This means that farmers...