I was asked to post this article about a Personal Fitness Trainer I know - Nikki Patterson. She just launched her new business called Full Circle Fitness. Compared to a fly-by-night personal trainer, Nikki Patterson is one of the BEST personal trainer I know! As you may or may not know, anyone can become a personal trainer in a matter of a couple hours by obtaining some personal training certifications online. Neither personal training certifications nor personal trainers are regulated by the state or municipalities, making it possible for anyone and their brother to become a personal trainer. Fortunately for you, Nikki has all certifications you need — her education, knowledge combined with her enthusiastic personality and genuine interest in her clients and their fitness goals, ensures that everyone Nikki works with will receive the best possible program to fit their lifestyle needs.

Here’s a list of Nikki certifications:

* BCRPA Certified Personal Trainer

* BCRPA Certified Weight Training Instructor

* BCRPA Certified Fitness Leader

* Can-Fit-Pro Pre and Post Natal Fitness Specialist

* Usui Reiki MasterTestimonial:

Testimonial 

“I’ve belonged to gyms, done boot camps as well as exercised on my own with varying degrees of success. I really liked the idea of someone with expertise focusing on my fitness goals and needs in the comfort of my own home. This has allowed me to see for myself exercises I can do within my home confines and the personal touch has allowed me to have someone check in on my goals and tailor my program around my health issues. I chose Nikki because of her wide knowledge on a variety of fitness topics, her ability to be flexible and adapt to any last minute schedule changes I may have, her positive and cheerful outlook and ensuring my workouts are never boring and always challenging. Since I began training with Nikki my asthma has improved, my back issues have diminished, my core strength has greatly improved, I’ve lost inches in those hard to lose areas and my mental clarity at work has greatly improved. There are many programs out there and many trainers, but Nikki takes a holistic approach to health and sees you as an individual, not just another client.” Lisa

You can visit her site — Vancouver Personal Trainer

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What’s in the news today? Translink cops use tasers on fare evaders, Vancouver Island Cocaine Sailor wants mercy and natives want to riot like Tibetans in case they don’t get enough money before the Olympics.

Is Translink Police, who’s the only armed transit police in Canada, electrocutes fare evaders? The force’s board of directors now has a majority of senior police officers on it, which has been adding to concerns about the force’s use of Tasers on SkyTrain passengers.

The Canadian Press reports that B.C Natives plan to use same strategy as Tibetans in the upcoming Winter Olympic games. Canada’s top native chief says the Vancouver Olympics are a potential target for First Nations protest much like Beijing has been a flashpoint for Tibet supporters.

Vancouver Island cocaine sailor asks for mercy - Court martial continues for former navy officer who used drug off-duty

Vancouver Sun reporter John Mackie says that Developer Marc Williams wants to restore the old Pantages Theatre at 144 East Hastings and this at the cost of $26 million. Up to 136 units of social housing may be built in a new building adjacent to the theatre.

The City of Vancouver OK’s automatic toilets after testing these for one year and 20,800 flushes later, the City’s self-cleaning toilet near the Main Street SkyTrain station has been judged a success worthy of further expansion.

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KITSILANO.CA
Rob says, “Vancouver Museum to leave Kitsilano? […]The Vancouver Museum is one the country’s largest and oldest civic museums - established in 1894, it moved to its current location on Vanier Point in Kitsilano in 1968.” link

GAY SENIOR HOMES proposed in Vancouver - […] Plans have been unveiled for a condominium for Vancouver’s LGBT seniors to be built by an American company that already has completed a similar project in New Mexico. link

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RANDOM TOUGHTS
RAUL says, “I am (as many of you may know or may not know) a non-native English speaker. However, I speak six other languages in addition to my native tongue, so if you’ve heard me speak, you probably know that it is *really* hard to tell my accent. I speak good enough (this is commonly designated near-native fluency) to not only make myself understood, but to have been able to create deep friendships and share meanings and communicate my thoughts with fairly good precision.” link

KEIRA-ANNE.COM
Oui, c’est vrai! Sometimes a girl needs a little retail therapy to make herself feel better, and sometimes she needs it for no reason whatsoever. link

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That Pepsi Can must date from the 1950s.

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After Spitzer scandal who got the gets Virgin treatment and beginning today, Virgin Mobile Canada is giving Canadians the chance to vote for Barack Obama by voting for their favorite Obama “You Call the Shots” ad at Metronews.ca.

“Virgin Mobile Canada has political fever, and
is calling on Canadians to cast their vote for Barack Obama and tell them
which Obama-themed ad should be the next in Virgin Mobile’s “You Call The
Shots” campaign.
As part of its latest campaign to introduce their new “no-con” contracts
to mobile phone lovers from coast to coast, Virgin Mobile has run a new series
of ads in Metro News featuring politicians who are making the news. First
Hillary Clinton wondered if she could get her bill under control. Next, former
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer was lamenting about how tired he was of being
treated like a number.” [CNW]

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Next time someone tells you that “Canadians enjoy the highest level of free speech in the world” present him or her with this scenario :

On March 26th 2008, Maclean’s magazine reported that the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) investigators were trolling Canadian neighborhoods for unprotected wireless internet connections, to leech onto. Why do you think Canadian public servants would do such things? So they could post racist comments under assumed names on web sites and then charge the site’s owners with publishing hate speech.

That’s right, you’re not dreaming: the CHRC HACKS INTO CONTROVERSIAL BLOGS using what could be YOUR home wireless connection and YOUR home IP address to post racist comments on websites as if it was YOU posting them and then summons YOU to come in their kangaroo court to testify (to justify yourself) about these racist comment they assume YOU’VE made because your Internet Protocol Address corresponding to your home address was used. What do you think of that?

That’s how an innocent Canadian’s name and address got read aloud— in open court, as evidence in one of the CHRC’s most widely publicized cases. That is how CHRC actions could be a breach to your Privacy rights under the Federal Privacy Act. Ironically, this could be a matter of complaint to the Privacy Commissioner. I would like to see the Privacy Commisioner of Canada investigate the Canadian Human Rights Commision for alleged privacy breaches.

Can you imagine the face of your Kitsilano green activist and left-wing friend accused or suspected of being either a right wing extremist, a racist . All of that because a Human Rights Official stole his or her internet connection and IP address to post hate comments on some website with the goal to create evidences to prosecute that particular web site’s owner … and to make himself some work paid by our taxes.

On March 29th, 2008 Nigel Hannaford of the Calgary Herald wrote an article on the subject. Here is a snippet:

“[…]here the federal snivel servants were, logging onto Internet hate sites under assumed names, trying to conceal what they were up to by using the wireless Internet account belonging to a young woman who seems to be completely uninvolved in any of it and, according to Lemire, trying to entrap people who visited his site.

Only the unusual circumstance of these people being publicly cross-examined brought any of this to light.

Boy, did we ever not quite get it. We thought this was a high-minded disagreement over fundamental principles. Instead, we find the CHRC tolerates sleazy behaviours among its investigating officers that have no place in a free society.” [Calgary Herald]

Johnatan Kay of the National Post said in his column titled The CHRC’s entrapment chickens are coming home to roost (or has someone else already used that metaphor?), “Still, the fact that anyone takes that kind of idea seriously shows how thoroughly the CHRC has poisoned its own well with its over-the-top tactics in going after marginal Canadian hatemongers. This is one of the reasons why the recent Lemire hearings were such a disaster for the CHRC: From now on, every time anyone sees hate speech on the Internet — or some hysterical anti-racist claims to have found a Swastika scribbled on a bathroom wall — people are going to wonder who put it there: Was it a hatemonger, or was it someone whose livelihood is based on convincing others that hatemongers are rampant?” [National Post]

Read also Maclean’s Mark Steyn’s article titled Kangaroo Court in Session

… and more on the crushing of dissent in Canada, from Eric Scheie.

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EAVES.CA
David says, “The sale of RADARSAT-2 is one that has been bubbling below the surface and is finally starting to get some media attention.”  link

MY OPINIONS ARE IMPORTANT
Any good coffee in Canada? Not according to Australians. Recently I saw these comments on The Age, on a forum where readers were asked what they were homesick for when travelling abroad: link

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NOWPUBLIC
Vancouver Condo Crash in the Making? Has the East Vancouver condo market finally caught up with reality? link

SHANESWORLD.CA
Shane says, “I am conflicted about something. Today, while out walking the dog, I ran into a guy asking for money. This is not unusual in Vancouver since every day you are bound to run into a few people begging for change. Normally, I dismiss them as I tend not to carry money (being the Interac addict that I am).” link

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The Delirious World of Anime Opens May 17 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

Krazy! The Delirious World Of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art is the first exhibition of its kind, a groundbreaking project that offers unique and dynamic insight into the world of comics,animated cartoons, anime, manga, graphic novels, computer/video games and visual art. Spanning a century of artmaking, the works in this exhibition reveal an extraordinary history of production, one that is poised to redefine the scope of visual culture in the 21st century. [Vancouver Art Gallery]

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