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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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