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Ménage a Trois: Sports Style
World Triathlon Championships Baby!!!...
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TommyDouglas |
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HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY B.C. Douglas Day 2008 at Ft. Langley
HAPPY 150th BIRTHDAY B.C. Douglas Day 2008 at Ft. LangleyThis is the birthday cake given out at the Ft. Langley Community Library. I sneaked...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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It's Douglas Day in BC.BC's first governor Sir Jam
It's Douglas Day in BC.BC's first governor Sir James Douglas was raised in Scotland, afterbeing born in British Guyana to a Scottish father and a Creo...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Bad News for Big Oil
Oil industry operatives are sweating bullets over whether the incoming Obama Administration will be keen to buy dirty oil from Alberta tar sands...
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Episode 1: The Pilot
The introduction to our characters...
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OfftheGround |
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Stuart Mackinnon elected to Vancouver Parks Board
MACKINNON, StuartGRN48415Good friends rejoice: Andrea Reimer, Stuart Mackinnon and Andrea's daughter - photo Todd Wong You beat Andrea's numbers! exc...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Gregor Robertson and Vision/COPE/Greens win Vancouver elections!
I go to the DTES to hand out votingpamphlets at Oppenheimer Park alongHastings St. to Strathcona CommunityCentre.COPE victory party at COP...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Nov 15th Civic Election Day:
Last days of campaigning in VancouverIt's the last day of campaigning for the Vancouver civic election. There have been lots of surprises. There h...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Ping Pong Playa opens in Vancouver: imagine a hip hop speaking basketball playing NBA wannabe - but he is Chinese?
Ping Pong Player: Imagine a Chinese Will Smith playing table tennis with attitude C-Dub Wang - the hippest hoppest ping pong player ever to wear a ba...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Why haven't the NPA talked about last year's civic strike? Even while it was happening they ignored it!
The NPA will not talk about the strike. They refuse to talk about the issues we believe are important to Vancouverites, said Andrea Reimer at last...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Georgia Straight: The Straight slate for municipal elections in Vancouver and the burbs
The Georgia Straight released their annual recommendations for Metro Vancouver civic elections.The Straight slate for municipal elections in Vancouver...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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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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Businesses to Mandate Vacation Time During Olympics?
Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong spoke to the BC Business Council on Thursday. The audience was not sure if he was trying to be funny or serious wit...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Breaking: EPA Kills US Coal Plants
Wow. A decision by the Environmental Protection Agency today has ruled that all new and proposed coal-fired power plants must have their carbon dioxid...
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Vote for Kilt wearers in the upcoming Vancouver civic election! Mackinnon... Louie... Deal... Robertson... Chow... Stevenson and Capri
Everybody talks about the Chinese block voting... what about Scottish-Celtic block voting?Wear a kilt and go after the Scottish-Celtic ethnic vote!Van...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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The [Climate Policy] Change We Need
by Sheril Kirshenbaum Just a week ago, Barack Obama addressed the nation that had just elected him the 44th President of the United Stat...
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Remembrance Day 2008: First Nations Lt. Governor Steven Point attends Chinese-Canadian veterans ceremony in Chinatown
Lt. Gov. Steven Point acknowledges the Chinese Canadian veterans for their support of Aboriginal veterans at Chinatown Remembrance Day ceremonyLt.Cdr....
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Gung Haggis Fat Choy Pipe & Drum band makes its performance debut for Remembrance Day!
Bob Wilkins has created the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Pipe & Drum Band. First public performances are Remembrance Day at 3 legion halls.Members of the G...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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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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Nov 11 Ceremonies in Vancouver Chinatown at Canadian Chinese Pioneer monument begins at 12:20pm
It's now a 5 year Chinatown Remembrance Day tradition for Chinese Canadian Veterans: 12:30pm ceremony after Victory Square ceremonies. Here is the C...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Phil Vernon's story about Chinese Canadians in WWI
Phil Vernon submitted a story to CBC Radio ' s BCAlmanac last month, as they were soliciting family stories. Mark Forsythe hadit read on the air and s...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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An American Point of View
The day before the American's elected their new president there was a reporter wandering the streets of the USA asking people their thoughts about Ba...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Yellow Fellas debuts at Vancouver Asian Film Festival for director/writer/actor Tetsuro Shigamatsu
Yellow Fellas... Western Canadian premiere at Vancouver Asian Film FestivalIf you don't know the name Tetsuro Shigamatsu... maybe you've heard his voi...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Peter Ladner and Estelle Lo Mystery
If you want to see what it a political sandbagging looks like in action, watch the video clip of Peter Ladner finding out in the middle of a public ...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Kilts Night at Doolin's Irish Pub + 6th Anniversary!
Kilts Night is the first Thursday of every month at Doolin's Irish PubKilts Night gang celebrates with Doolin's chef Jorge Franco - a Guatemalan-Canad...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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A Landslide Victory for Obama In Antarctica
Dear Mr. President-Elect, Greetings from Antarctica! I'm about to begin my mission to become the first American in history to reach the Sout...
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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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Obama triggers first environmental dividend
Canada moves to protect U.S. market for dirty oil The world enjoyed the first environmental dividend of an Obama presidency yesterday when a worried C...
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Nov. 5th All Candidates meeting for Parksboard at Kerrisdale Community Centre
Which Parks Board candidate will you choose?COPE? Vision Vancouver? Green Party? NPA? Independent?How about one of each, then your next favori...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Breaking: Canada to seek climate change deal with President-elect Obama
One day after the United States voted Barack Obama as their next president, Canadian government officials are saying that the time is ripe for a conti...
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False Creek paddling after a rain storm in the fall...
False Creek is beautiful after a November rain storm - the water is flat like glass, the sun is shining through broken cloud. We paddle from Scien...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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George W Bush Sewage Plant
As well as voting for who will be the next president of the USA and who will be the local dog-catcher, voters in San Francisco were also voting on P...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Barack Obama Projected to Win
Looking at the projections on the map of the critical electoral districts of the United States, theleftcoast.ca is projecting a Barack Obama win. This...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Election Day USA
Today is a historic day in the United States; the American people have the choice to elect an African-American President...or another grandfatherly ol...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Heart of the City Festival: Stories of Chinese food from "Eating Stories" read at Chinese Benevolent Association historical building
The Heart of the City Festival celebrates Chinese food and Chinese buildings - with stories of pioneers and their descendantsCHINESE CANADIAN HISTORIC...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Cool Booster McCain all spin no substance on job promises
One day to go and McCain (R-AZ) is re-branding himself the coal booster in a last ditch effort to pick up some support in coal States like Pennsylv...
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Coal Booster McCain all spin no substance on job promises
One day to go and McCain (R-AZ) is re-branding himself the coal booster in a last ditch effort to pick up some support in coal States like Pennsylv...
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World Financial Crisis Victims
With a minimum of political wrangling, the United States government was able to come up with $700 BILLION to bail-out the greedy money manipulators of...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Gung Haggis dragon boat team is busy... paddlers are reading at Heart of the City Festival and running for Vancouver Parksboard + paddling?
Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team is BUSY this Sunday:Paddler Stuart Mackinnon is running for Vancouver ParksboardPaddler Dan Seto is giving a rea...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Manipulative COMPAS poll bolsters skeptics' position
A COMPAS poll (attached) sponsored by the neo-con Frontier Centre for Public Policy offers an embarrassing example of a survey that sacrifices the di...
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Dear Red States
A dispatch from our Eastside correspondent:Dear Red States,We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other ...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Ron MacLeod Report: November Ceilidh at the Scottish Cultural Centre + Vancouver/Victoria Gaelic Choir concert
Here are some Scottish/Gaelic events courtesy of Ron MacleodGreetings, three messages and a comment (?). Regards, the other Ron1. November CeilidhWHAT...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Jenn McGinn and Spencer Herbert Victorious in By-Elections
A great big welcome to the Legislature for the two newest MLAs...Jenn McGinn and Spencer Herbert. The voter tradition of electing members of the op...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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DSCOVR Mission May Be Gutted
Here is the latest twist in the bizarre story about the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). Apparently, the US Air Force is in discussions with N...
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A 100 Day Climate Change Crash Course for the Next President
Of the many daunting challenges facing the next president, few loom larger than climate change. Though the languishing economy will likely dictate his...
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Tucumcari, New Mexico Now Powered by a Wind Turbine
The following submission was sent to us from our New Mexico correspondent; we particularly enjoyed the irony of the fat cat politician windbags being...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Scott Young Running for Council
Residents of the suburban community of Port Coquitlam are gnashing their teeth, pulling their hair out and screaming in outrage all because of their ...
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theleftcoast.ca |
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Chinese Canadian Military Museum celebrates 10th Anniversary with dinner at Pink Pearl
Important WW2 Canadian history is celebrated by the Chinese Canadian Military Museum, celebrating 10th Anniversary. My grand-uncle Daniel Lee and his...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Survey Set New Direction for U.S. Climate Policy
We'll either choose one of two paths: one that will reverse global warming while creating a new, more prosperous economy; or one that will make us inc...
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Big Brother Spies on Climate Activists
How crazy is the so-called climate debate ? Consider the bizarre case of three young climate activists who were just informed by local police tha...
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