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Granville Street's future begins today
Ultan Kampff in the Vancouver SunUltan Kampff is vice-president of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association and general manager of Cadi...
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3D baby...?
A local Vancouver spa is offering packages for scoping out your unborn embryo whilst enjoying the spa experience. Watch the 3D spectacle unfold on a 4...
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cosmo_girl |
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Waiter, There's Monkey Spit in My Coffee!
Vancouver's 49th Parallel Coffee Roasters have enlisted the aid of some unlikely workers in Southern India to help harvest the best coffee beans -- rh...
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Fresca |
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Since When Are Spandex Pants Sexy?
I wear them, you wear them. Guy or gal, you don't find many Vancouverites without an article of clothing from Lululemon in their closet. It's just...
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Today's port story
Actually the original article is more about how the global credit crisis is much worse than earlier crises because the system is overoptimimized ...
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Greening of the Film Industry
Pete Mitchell, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Vancouver Film Studio explains how their company has achieved Carbon Neutral st...
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Becky |
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Road Emissions Dominate Global Transport Emissions
Science DailyThe world's car park is growing. It has become so big that the impact of emissions from today's road traffic on the global temperature in...
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The Price of Crude Oil is a Crude Reality
The price of light, sweet crude oil just kept on rising in New York trading Wednesday, ending the day at a record-shattering US $132.72 a barrel.
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politix_pete |
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Move over Telus
Now everybody can afford to prank call overseas!...
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TommyDouglas |
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How to choose an online stock broker to deal with ?
If you want to get into stock market and wondering which broker is good for you. This link will definitely help you a href= http://www.northv...
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shahin |
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Vancouver port plans big spending for expansion
Journal of Commerce OnlinePort Metro Vancouver plans spending of just under C$1 billion to improve and expand operations between 2008 and 2018.The 10-...
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Hold the Front Page!
The headline on yesterday's Richmond News was Oval land not sold to highest bidder which I thought might make for an interesting read. Actually ...
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What do port activities contribute?
The Port of Metro Vancouver has produced a press release on a report it commissioned from InterVistas to show how important it is. I thought one thing...
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Community Profile: Ziggy Books
The Drive is home to a brand new bookstore with an interesting story of it's own to tell.The owner, Kali Jones, was recently found herself in a dilema...
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First step: a limited company.
As we head down this winery project road, we feel our first step is to incorporate.A limited company allows us some protection of personal assets and ...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Renaming General Motors Place?
My knowledge of all things business is extremely limited but every time I watch the supper time or 11 O'Clock news I can't escape hearing about how ba...
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Beyond Robson |
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Record fine for Facebook spammer
A U.S. federal court has ordered Adam Guerbuez to pay Facebook a record $873 million in damages after he hacked into the social networking site and se...
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The world of driving Miss Daisy is over.
The current economic crisis is increasing the chaos in the North American automobile manufacturing sector, as millions of cars go unsold. North Americ...
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Maersk Decision Means Less Cargo, Jobs At West Coast Ports
Cunningham ReportWork on the expansion of Roberts Bank to provide new container berths is currently suspended. My advice to the Port of Vancouver woul...
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People inclined to steal if others breaking rules
SunIf you saw $10 in an envelope sticking out of a mailbox, would you steal the money, or pop the envelope in the mail?If there is graffiti all over t...
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Local elections offer some good news for NDP
Municipal politics are their own world. But last weekend's election results raise interesting issues for both parties with six months left until the n...
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Paying attention |
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Another view of the 100 mile diet
This neat little animation was passed along to me by Des Bliek, one of the newer readers of this blog.The similarities of this place and Japan are act...
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A Sea of Unwanted Imports
Jamie Rector for The New York Times A lot at the Port of Long Beach may be used to park carsThat is one of those pictures worth a thousand words. The...
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Identity theft plagues 1.7 million Canadians
(AP Photo)A man of many identities, Sacha Baron Cohen ( Borat , Bruno ) gets dragged off a runway during Milan fashion week Victim of identity fraud...
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Live at Five |
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Guest Post from Damien Gillis
City Hall Leak Ignited Anti-Olympic Powder Keg The Real Political Lessons From Vancouver's Leakgate, Electionby Damien GillisNovember 16, 2008I'm gett...
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New PBS Series e(2) transport
NEW YORK, Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) kontentreal, a NY-based documentary filmmaking company, announced the upcoming debut of environmenta...
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Big Dig pushes bottlenecks outward
Thanks to Patrick Condon (a native Bostonian) for this link.For those of you who may not be aware of this project, a huge freeway tunnel has been dug ...
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There's always a morning after.
What an exciting morning it must be for our Mayor-Elect Gregor Robertson and his new Vision council. Last night, Vision Vancouver were given a solid m...
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Walter Schultz |
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Another Plug for Bob Rae as Liberal Leader
It's the delegates, stupid . When I appeared on CBC Radio's Daybreak program on the morning of Monday Dec.4 to read the entrails of the Liberal ...
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B.C. Policy Perspectives |
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The case for and against Gregor Robertson and Peter Ladner as best mayor for Vancouver
As anyone who reads this blog or my 24 hours newspaper columns knows, I am a big supporter of Vision Vancouver candidate Gregor Robertson.But my evil ...
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Bill Tieleman |
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You Say You Want a (Green) Revolution
While the jury is still out on whether President-elect Barack Obama will prove able to usher in meaningful change during his time in office, his...
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Bicing in Barcelona
Kris Olds passes on this Memo from Barcelona :In increasingly green-conscious Europe, there are said to be only two kinds of mayors: those who ha...
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Price Tags |
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Cambie merchants sue transit builder
Vancouver SunThis was to be expected.Three Cambie Village merchants have filed a lawsuit against builders of the Canada Line, claiming the rapid-trans...
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Loan Reveals Two Spins on Democracy
Most political news in Vancouver has been swirling around the $100 million loan that is reportedly been authorized as a bailout cushion to either Mill...
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Conscious Earth |
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Canada's Oil Sands: $1.4 Trillion Worth of Trouble
The Canadian tar sand deposit - the largest oil deposit in North America and the second-largest in the world - is worth $1.5 trillion or $34,591 for e...
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Campbell keeping BC a "deficit free zone".
As the growing global economic crisis continued, BC Premier Gordon Campbell addressed the Province on October 22nd with a televised public address, wh...
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Walter Schultz |
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Made in the U.S.A.
Have you been wondering what the hell just happened to the global economy? Let me give you some simple insight into what has caused some of the recent...
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Walter Schultz |
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Good news: Harper turns conciliatory
The Harper government is finally toning down its antagonism towards their political enemies. I love that. In fact, if Harper et al are serious about l...
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Sustainability and Tradition
This was the second Hank Dittmar lecture I attended this week - this one at the SFU downtown campus. He subtitled this oneArchitecture and Urbanism as...
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NAAAP honours Harry Aoki, Robert Fung and Maggie Ip for their leadership
NAAAP Vancouver wanted to put their 2008 Spotlight on Leadership Celebration on newsmakers who innovate, educate and collaborate to make Metro Vanco...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Gregor Robertson is the best choice for mayor of Vancouver
Bill Tieleman's 24 Hours ColumnTuesday November 4, 2008Robertson's the one for mayorBy BILL TIELEMANUnless commitment is made, there are only promise...
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Hints of Comeback for Nation's First Superhighway
Erie CanalNew York TimesThanks to Ron Richings for passing this link alongThe Erie Canal was once very important indeed. It never exactly closed and n...
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We need immigrants, but how to retain them?
Immigration Reforms Put Canada On The Right TrackConference Board of Canada release The convergence of Canada's temporary and permanent ...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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The Abbotsford Report
If you had told me six months ago that the City of Abbotsford wants to see exclusive tram tracks in the curb lane of its main drag (South Fraser Way) ...
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Forecast: Vancouver area house prices to fall 10% in 2009
BRITISH COLUMBIA REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATIONFALL 2008 HOUSING FORECASTfull report here.CONSUMER CONFIDENCE STALLS HOME SALESResidential unit sales on the ...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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The Choice in Vancouver
Don B wroteWould you consider doing a post on the NPA/Vision policy platforms wrt transportation? I know you live in Richmond but it would be great to...
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Business Not As Usual
From my Business in Vancouver column, (October 21-27, 2008; issue 991).Business not as usual: life and enterprise in a warmer worldOut in the bar, th...
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Price Tags |
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Court decision on homeless 'camping' is ticket to
Court decision on homeless 'camping' is ticket to real changeSo now people can sleep in our city parks, but have to be gone first thing in the morning...
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A Closer Look |
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Auto makers want a bail out
The news at 6 on CBC tonight conflated these two stories. Autoparts makers say they need help from the Ontario and Canadian governments. And on the ot...
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You still think we need a Gateway?
My thanks to Donna Passmore and Rita Dawson for supplying the following The slump in traffic to the West Coast of the United States is hitting the m...
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