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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
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
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
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
ART THREAT
Ezra sez, “Two new Canadian documentaries are tackling the subject of Vancouver’s troubled downtown East Side. Devil Plays Hardball, by Nijole Kujmickas was broadcast earlier in March on CBC’s Passionate Eye and Nettie Wild’s latest offering, Bevel Up, will premiere this month at Hot Docs.” link
VANCOUVER METBLOGS
Rebecca sez, “After a heads up from Carolyn I discovered that there is a larger-than-life Waldo (of Where’s Waldo fame) somewhere on a rooftop in Vancouver.” link
DAVID EBY
Global TV caught footage of a homeless man’s possessions being crushed in a garbage truck with a police escort in Yaletown last week [If you click on the link, choose “BC Stories” and look for “Humble Possessions Crushed”, and sit through the 30 second commercial]. The man had left his belongings for an hour, going to get information about access to affordable housing. Seriously. link
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE
SAGN is open. We had a glorious show for a very appreciative Portland audience, who clapped wildly at “The Great Northwest - where it is in him for a man to be as big and important as it is in him to be.” It was fun and well-deserved. We partied at the Armory, the Life of Reilly, and a club in Southeast that I couldn’t tell you where it was. I slept through my first train, and made the second one. link
PURPLE SLINKY
Bizarre Viagra Inspired Food Items - Ever since Pfizer developed and patented the drug Viagra in 1996 with all its success and popularity, people have adopted and created products particularly foods having the word “Viagra” and also finding alternate products that have similar effects with the real one too. link
LIVEJOURNAL
mformilly: I’m just wondering if anyone’s ever had a problem with returns. There’s a book I returned at Koerner on Wednesday, but under my account online, it says I still have that book on loan. link
ONLY
By punching you in the face over and over and over, Translink saved up 408 million dollars. It’s all spoken for though (construction of the Thirteenth Temple). link
RANDOM TOUGHTS
Recently, the Canadian airline Westjet launched a campaign (the “Caring Comes Home” campaign) whereby their employees undertake random acts of kindness. link
MUCHMOR
A prestigious sports industry magazine has named Vancouver the top-ranked city in the Americas and the fifth in the world among “Ultimate Sports Cities,” the B.C. government announced today. link
BEST IDENTITY THEFT BLOGS
While the fact that the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) computers were exposed to badware because an employee was doing some “unauthorized surfing” makes good press — it highlights what can happen to any business, or government system when human beings use them to go to the murkier waters of the Internet. link
BLAZING CAT FUR
Let’s get behind brave backbencher as he stands up to an Orwellian law John Martin Vancouver Province. “One of the consequences of a free society is that we don’t have a guaranteed right never to be offended. link
April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, enemies and neighbors, or sending them on fools’ errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.
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