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My Top Story #2 - Commercial Drive
Topics: Corruption, Tibet, Darfur, China, Drugs, Consumption, GM Food, Local Food, Magpie Books, Housing. Location: Commercial Drive...
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Jeff-Birmingham |
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ICBC has forfeited moral authority to monopolize our auto insurance
My first car was a 1965 Ford Galaxy 500 that was in outstanding mechanical condition and required only a paint job.
I took it to a nearby body shop...
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Nag_Champa |
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It's good to see there are folks out there holding out against the web
So John McCain doesn't use e-mail or look at websites. More power to him. It's not that this attribute makes him the best candidate for U.S. president...
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travelbug |
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Trashing appointment of police to the parole board is so bush-league
For all its merits, a parliamentary system of democracy has a few pitfalls. One notable shortcoming is the tendency for opposition parties to oppose e...
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Nag_Champa |
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Women have come along by leaps and bounds, but still face hurdles
In the normal course of events, the only women you can reliably count on seeing on TV or in newspapers are women currently or formerly married to Brad...
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travelbug |
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My Top Story #1 - Downtown Vancouver
Topics: China, Global Warming, Homelessness, Merritt Murders, Olympics, Overpopulation, Poverty, Smoking Ban, Tibet, US Elections. Location: Downtown...
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Jeff-Birmingham |
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Academics can no longer remain silent about these kangaroo courts
The past year has seen a groundswell of opposition to the abuses of the country's human-rights commissions. Long able to flex their politically correc...
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Nag_Champa |
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How happy should we feel about being bribed with our own cash?
I heard on the radio an alleged expert on happiness warbling away to the effect that British Columbians would be so overjoyed to receive their $100 ...
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Nag_Champa |
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Let's learn to care
As British Columbians, we are proud to say we live in a compassionate society. So it comes as shock to learn that our taxpayer-funded health system do...
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MintyPop |
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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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The abridged, um, history of B.C.'s 150 years
It's the B.C. Day long weekend, time to celebrate the 150th anniversary of, um, what?
The Liberation of Duncan, I told the American tourist who a...
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Nag_Champa |
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Tent cities are not ideal, but who has a better suggestion for now?
Let me start by saying critics are right that suggesting a regulated tent city as a short-term solution for the homelessness crisis, as I have done, i...
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Nag_Champa |
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Tent cities are not ideal, but who has a better suggestion for now?
Let me start by saying critics are right that suggesting a regulated tent city as a short-term solution for the homelessness crisis, as I have done, i...
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Nag_Champa |
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Absence of deterrence
Given the slap on the wrist handed an alleged associate of the Hells Angels for cocaine trafficking, you have to wonder whether there is any point in ...
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travelbug |
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Governments around the world are managing to worsen the AIDS crisis
AIDS in Canada today would be unrecognizable to the thousands of Canadians who contracted the illness between 1981, when it was discovered, and 1996, ...
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Nag_Champa |
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Frivolous discrimination complaints make it tougher to tackle real bigotry
When exactly did everyone start becoming so hypersensitive that complaining about hurt feelings is now a cottage industry? The way things are going, p...
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travelbug |
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Let's put lid on council perks
Do you think mayors and other municipal councillors deserve severance pay and other work benefits similar to those enjoyed by many regular workers in ...
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Nag_Champa |
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The dark priests of the Fraser Institute
There is no doubt that if you've read enough of the news you've seen a story quoting the Fraser Institute, especially if you've loitered in the financ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
active:6 weeks 4 days ago |
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Thoughts on the STV campaign
Greens should understand and take it to heart that the STV referendum in BC went down to defeat in the last election because the leadership of the Gre...
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Green Party of BC blogs |
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Vancouver Five: Vancouver STFU
There's a few things that I'm tired of hearing about around town. Be warned these five things are on notice.5) The Hollow Tree in Stanley Park [gm]: ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Pickton's conviction says more about us than we'd like to admit
Jeffery Simpson: W Originally uploaded by eyeye. Truthfully I have not been following the Robert William Pickton [wp] Trial with any keen inter...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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15 Cool, Sexy Jobs In The Wine Business
Somebody asked me the other day what kind of jobs there were in the wine business.Here's a few -1. Wine maker - duh.2. Cellar master - any place that ...
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Wine & Vine BC |
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Plastic Bag Ban
Maktaaq:With all the clamour about using cloth bags instead of plastic bags rising in recent months, more and more people are buying the recycled plas...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Ban plastic bags now
Jeffery Simpson: Shopper's dress, pie! Originally uploaded by mleak. With London becoming the world's largest plastic shopping bag free city [l...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Take That Vancouver, Love the Suburbs
Maktaaq:As a suburbanite who's only managed to snaggle four years of living in Vancouver proper out of my 22 total years of living in the Metro Vancou...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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We all need a strong (holiday) drink
Jeffery Simpson: IMG_0051 Originally uploaded by Jeffery Simpson. The mind boggles that there has been eggnog [wp] on store shelves since Septe...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Three new terms for Vancouver's usage
Jeffery Simpson: IMG_3966 Originally uploaded by Cassandra's Eye. Three new terms for the citizens of Vancouver that come from the language of ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Dealing with garbage during the strike
Jeffery Simpson: IMG_0042.JPG Originally uploaded by Jeffery Simpson. 1) Malls have garbage cans. Walk around Metrotown, Oakridge or your loca...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Hippies own bikes now? Damn, isn't anything cool anymore?
Jeffery Simpson: Critical Mass along Seymour Originally uploaded by realaworld. Trying to drive around the city, especially downtown is hard du...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Verrus, Revisited
Matt:A couple of weeks back I raved about the convenience of the Verrus automated pay-by-phone parking program [verrus]. Most of what I said I still h...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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