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Size Matters to Vancouver Coffee Drinkers
At my coffee shop we have (brace yourself) 3 sizes.
Yes thats right, only three.
They are SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE.
This size naming practice ...
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Midol Girl |
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News: TransLink Adds Security to Curb Queue-Jumping at Broadway Transit Hub
Source: CBC News Posted: 09/04/08 2:16PM Filed Under: Canada Extra security guards and transit police officers have been brought in...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Theatre: All Sorts Opens Tonight
Start the Fringe off right with a night of All Sorts, a Theatre Terrific production opening up tonight at the Japanese United Church. From left: Katie...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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East Van Podcast
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warren-frey |
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East Van Heritage Homes Vandalized
From 24 Hours --
Heritage homes in East Vancouver were once again the target of a vandal attack.
Sometime Saturday night, police say suspects...
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VanRW |
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Taking Cinema from the Streets to the Park
Louvens Remy, local filmmaker and Co-director/producer of a new homeless documentary The Ride Home , talks with Matt Reed from VancouverIAM...
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biggiesmallz |
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Justice Rocks
Pivot Legal Society, along with partners from the Downtown Eastside, organized Justice Rocks, a free one-day concert in East Vancouver's Strathcona Pa...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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News: Brazen Killing on Commercial Drive
Vancouver SunPublished: Saturday, August 30, 2008VANCOUVER -- A man has been shot and killed in a brazen killing early this morning.Vancouver Police s...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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"Justice Rocks" is highlighting music and social activism at Strathcona Park on Saturday June 30th.
Justice Rocks is a FREE one-day concert in East Vancouver's Strathcona Park. August 30th, 200812 noon to 8pm features live music.This sounds like a ...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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1 East Van house sold last week
This info courtesy of Larry Yatkowsky of Yattermatters.com - Out of the 1015 listings for detached single family homes for sale in East Vancouver for ...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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KEVIN POTVIN'S ATTACK on WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION DISGUSTING
Oldtown NewsVancouver, BCKEVIN POTVIN'S ATTACK on WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION IS DISGUSTINGKevin Potvin, publisher of the Republic of East Vancouver, se...
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Oldtown News |
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Morning Brew: August 19th (Already?)
Metblogs FTW: We're all tough behind the keyboard: Sean Orr of Beyond Robson, whose life goal is to defeat poverty with sarcasm, called the people at...
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Beyond Robson |
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the view from here
Things still look stoopid out there. Prices and quality are all over the place. I gave up on trying to keep track of asking prices for comparison a wh...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Morning Brew: August 12th
Because it just hasn't gotten weird enough in Canada recently, Feuding Kitimat families decide to settle their differences by having a sword fight. Se...
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Beyond Robson |
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Transformers… and not the cool robot kind
After my complainy comment in Jeffery's earlier post that nobody had news on what's happening downtown, details are starting to come together. But fir...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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News: Violent Purse Snatching in East Vancouver
Wednesday, July 02 - 12:41:32 PM Shane Bigham VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - Vancouver Police are investigating a violent purse snatching that happened ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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random repair residences
Yay! I was allowed back in!I was out perambulating with li'l solipsist today and grabbed a few shots for curb appeal/appall/whatever. I don't think th...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Vancouver Voters' Guide Blogging Contest
The following came to my inbox today from Mark LathamI'm a semi-retired economist working on democratic media reform. Based on similar contests I've s...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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One More Memorial to Angus McInnes, Lest We Forget--Again
Tom Berger recalls a formative event from his childhood in the early and mid-1940s in his memoir, One Man's Justice. His father remarked to him that M...
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B.C. Policy Perspectives |
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in other words
I checked the listings today to see what's up, and detected a change. There is not a single house in East Vancouver for $2m! For that matter, the high...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Live On The Drive: Theatre In The Raw Takes Big, Raw Step
I had a chance to sit down with the Artistic Director of East Vancouver's Theatre In The Raw, Jay Hamburger and Serge Saika, one of the cast of its 2...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Upcoming events
Changing the Political Climateon Climate ChangeWhen: April 16, 2008 7:30pm-11pmWhere: Wise Club and Hall, 1882 Adanac Street, East Vancouver (nr. Vict...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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A head count of businesses on Commercial Drive
Came across this interesting little article from The Republic of East Vancouver's Kevin Potvin about the make-up of Commercial Drive's Businesses. I ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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East Van condo prices crashing?
I found this shocking bit of info over at Rob's blog posted by Awum:Here's something I was wondering about. I heard anectdotally that Vancouver east s...
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Vancouver Condo Info |
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News: Police Probe 'Act of Savages'
Disabled man's body found in his East Van homeStuart Hunter, with a file from David Carrigg, The ProvincePublished: Wednesday, March 26, 2008The f...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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finding comparables
A search confined to Renfrew Heights in East Vancouver between $200k and $900k produces but 40 listings. This has been fairly constant for a while. Bu...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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The East Van Podcast: Episode 2
The East Van Podcast is back! In this episode, Jonny Vancouver checks out the East Van Culture Crawl, a yearly exhibition of East Vancouver artists th...
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Beyond Robson |
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“Toque” a fundraiser at the Western Front
On Friday, November 30th and Saturday, December 1st, the Western Front, Canada's oldest artist run centre held their annual fundraiser featuring an ex...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Christmas Craft Fair Highlights
Highlights from the first day of Britannia's Christmas Craft Fair.(Top) Julia Markus of Possible Design, manning the EMBERS Spirit of East Vancouver ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Britannia Crafter Highlight: My Crafty Heart
Marj Kidd of My Crafty Heart is a professional portrait artist working from live models and photos - painting in oils, sketching in charcoal.She also ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Crafty Collective Aims For Higher Christmas Returns
Thanks to a pilot program partly funded by EMBERS (Eastside Movement For Business and Economic Renewal Society), seven BC-grown micro-businesses are t...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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bitch-slap ahead
I always enjoy reading The Republic of East Vancouver, and this week, there is a good article about Dan Rather coming to Vancouver with a camera crew ...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Remembrance Day
While heading home from a Remembrance Day ceremony on Commercial Drive in east Vancouver, one radio commentator talked of the sad possibility of Canad...
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Currents |
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Why don't you just shut up?!
Who knew the king of Spain had it in him? (For that matter, how many of us were even aware that Spain still had a king?) King Juan Carlos at an intern...
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Currents |
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Gung Haggis Girls Love David Beckham
Gung Haggis Girls Love David BeckhamLinda and Wendy hold up their souvenir towels with LA Galaxy soccer star David Beckham somewhere in the background...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Vancouver Women Love David Beckham
Vancouver Women Love David BeckhamOur Gung Haggis girls, Linda and Wendy, hold up their souvenir towels with LA Galaxy soccer star David Beckham somew...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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BR's First Podcast: The East Vancouver, feat. 'Temple of the Modern Girl'
I've setup a snazzy Podcast for BR. If it all goes well and, most importantly, if you are excited about this pilot feature, we'll try to whip it up f...
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Beyond Robson |
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Terry Glavin's trip to China in search of his "Chinese-Canadian roots" now published in Vancouver Review
Terry Glavin's trip to China in search of his Chinese-Canadian roots now published in Vancouver ReviewWhat was Irish-Canadian author Terry Glavin do...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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News: Bus Driver Assaulted
Vancouver police are looking for two teenage girls after a TransLink driver was assaulted and a trolley bus was lit on fire Wednesday night. TransLi...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Cityphile: Sean Devlin - Comedian/Filmmaker
For the past 5 years Sean Devlin has been busy in Vancouver as both a comedian & filmmaker. This September he performed at the prestigious Bumbershoo...
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Beyond Robson |
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Cityphile: Sean Devlin - Filmmaker & Critic
For the past 5 years Sean Devlin has been busy in Vancouver as both a comedian & filmmaker. This September he performed at the prestigious Bumbershoo...
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Beyond Robson |
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Artisan and Crafter Survey
ATTENTION ALL EAST VANCOUVER ARTISANS AND CRAFTS PEOPLE Hi Folks,I'm looking into the possibility of putting on a craft fair and variety show ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Morning Brew: October 12th
RCMP pose with women and handcuffs at UBC, photos show. Hey RCMP, stop doing stupid shit. via Tyee: Burnaby Mayor Corrigan on Gateway: Kevin Falcon a...
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Beyond Robson |
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News: Fire on Commercial Drive Sends One Person To Hospital
Friday, September 28 - 10:08:29 PM Andrea Macpherson EAST VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) - A building fire has shut down several blocks of the Drive this even...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Cityphile: AJ Bone
With Double Jab Promotions's Vancouver Fights coming up tomorrow, a long wait is over for East Vancouver boxing fans. And it's going to be a worthy co...
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Beyond Robson |
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Holly McNarland at the East Vancouver Cultural Center
Photo credit: gusgreeper on Flickr I know the picture is dark, but this whole venue was dark except for the light that shined on the performers. Act...
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John Bollwitt blog |
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9/11: Views from the left coast
Six years on from the 9/11 attacks of 2001, Canadians still stand in solidarity with their southern neighbors.Of course, not everyone is on the same p...
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Currents |
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so, what gives?
I picked 3 houses in East Vancouver that are within 4 blocks of each other, on virtually identically sized lots - though the last house has about 400 ...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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New Campaign to Save The York!
By ETHAN RIBALKIN, 24 HOURS A group of Vancouverites want to make sure one of the ...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
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Metro Vancouver downplays location-efficient mortgages
Straight.com Vancouver From a pure mortgage underwriting perspective, it appears that CMHC would not consider the transportation-linked mortgage to be...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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