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1 29%
The Tyee
Mar 12 Visiting the Greatest Baseball Player (in Life):
Mar 12 'Empire of Illusion' (in Tyee Books):
Mar 12 'A Prophet' (in Arts and Culture):
2 27%
Frances Bula - Vancouver city life and politics
Mar 12 Vancouver engineering head retires: I’ve been hearing about Tom Timm’s impending retirement for a year, one of the names that kept popping up on the list of “people most likely to get fed up and quit after Vision and Penny Ballem took over.” Then I also heard that he’d been saying even before that he w...
Mar 11 Data junkies alert: More info now available from Vancouver data sources: The city just sent out a memo saying it has added more to its list of “open” data sources available to the geek-prone public. Here’s the site for what’s available: http://data.vancouver.ca/
Mar 11 Olympics bid a bad idea, 40 per cent in B.C. still say: Here’s a news item that will cheer up some on this site: B.C. continues to lead the way, even in post-Games euphoria, in disapproving of hosting the Olympics.
3 9%
Stephen Rees's blog
Mar 12 Transit tests out hybrid bus: Times Colonist Can you hear the wailing and the gnashing of teeth? Once again the sub editors have undermined a transit story. The whole point about this bus isn’t that it is a “hybrid” (I am not at all sure it meets any normal usage of that term) but that it runs on hydrogen. T...
Mar 10 Mayors fear being railroaded on transit financing: BC Local News Speculation about what the province intends to do about financing the Evergreen Line continues.  The Mayors think they ought to be consulted – but it looks rather like legislation is in the offing The province’s solution is expected to be contained in a new overhaul...
4 9%
Geoff Meggs - Vancouver City Councillor
Mar 8 A Sullivan legacy: the transfer of control and cash from the city to the province: France’s Bula’s review of the troubled Streetohome Foundation in the latest Vancouver magazine spells out how a city homelessness initiative, launched under the Sam Sullivan council, may generate a windfall for the province. In effect, more than a year and a half after it was launched...
Mar 5 City achieving budget savings with minimal layoffs: The 2010 city budget, adopted in December, required the layoff of up to 126 city employees. City manager Penny Ballem advised staff yesterday that number has been reduced to 14 through transfers, retirements and other measures. Still to come: staff reassignments and changes related to the Vancouv...
5 5%
The Vancouver Observer
Mar 15 More on March: Your Numerology Cycles for March 16–31:
Mar 13 Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Paralympic Photo Album Opens with a Chat with Canada Paralympic Ambassador Sam Sullivan:
6 5%
Alex G. Tsakumis - Rebel With A Clause
Mar 11 Dr. Julio Montaner and International AIDS Society Upbraided for Wasting Money: One of the best parts about observing people who are always accusing their philosophical opponents of playing politics, is that, more often than not, they are simply trying to deflect their own political agenda from scrutiny–by doing precisely that to which they object. A great example of s...
Mar 11 Another Hollywood Drug Story Ends in the Inevitable Way: Death: I never did drugs. I’m not sure why. I suppose it probably had to do with the fact that I took my athletics very seriously growing up. And, too, I was never comfortable with the loss of control I noticed in others. It didn’t hurt either that I watched another boy in one of my classes ...
7 5%
Price Tags
Mar 1 Spring Break: Back on March 25. 
Feb 28 Sacred and Secular: If you’re satiated with stories and images about Vancouver – but still fascinated with the urban condition – take a breather at the Jennifer Kostiuk Gallery at 1070 Homer until March 14 for some extraordinary images from other lands. Vancouver photography artist David Burdeny&n...
8 5%
paulhillsdon.com
Mar 9 Why we need to tax unhealthy foods: “I think this issue of health promotion has to go far beyond just printing brochures and telling people they ought to live a healthier life. I think we have to figure out how we can be much more aggressive in pushing that kind of health promotion onto British Columbians.” – Kevi...
Mar 4 The Olympics are over, time to jump start our festivals!: The cauldron has been extinguished, the venues are being dismantled, and traffic is back to normal. Yes, the Games are officially over. Have you caught a bout of post-Olympic blues yet? Some people seem to wander mindlessly about their day, lacking the enthusiasm and collective spirit that seemed...
9 3%
David Talks/The Berner Monologues
Mar 13 This is an interactive site. The Name of the Game is ENGAGEMENT. Don't be Shy. Tell us what you think. Post your comments.
Mar 12 Just Hold Up Your Hand, Dear: You're cousin, Bobby, being the shmock that he is, is texting his girlfriend and walks smack into a moving bus.You go to the hospital and you get the following report from the Head Nurse.Bobby is "progressing with difficulty."Translation?He's about 12 shakes from dead.Or. he's "progressing well."...
10 2%
Currents
Mar 12 Will Israel Become a Pariah State?: It’s looking more and more like a strong possibility. The odd support of the left around the world in support of an extreme right wing violent agenda may make this a reality: This problem is not exactly new, though the trends have certainly worsened over the past few years. For years after...
Mar 11 The Afghan Scandal Ottawa Doesn’t Want You to Know About: The Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee has released a report urging Canada to continue an active role in Afghanistan after the military mission ends next year. Committee co-founder Terry Glavin and Nasrine Gross, an Afghan-American writer at Kabul University, discuss the situation on the gro...
11 1%
Hummingbird604.com
Mar 13 Happy 19th Birthday to my niece E: Earlier this year, I was reading this blog post written by my friend Shannon and I remember clearly I commented on her post I’m just warning you that my niece is turning 19 in March and I’m totally plagiarizing this post (changing the name, quite obviously! and adapting some stuff to...
Mar 13 Muscle memory and competitive training: photo credit: chrisamichaels I was having a conversation with my friend Terra over GTalk on how I need to slowly add on to the training regime I have so that my body continues with its pattern of reshaping. I went directly, as you may have read in previous posts, to swimming 3 times a week, ru...
12 0%
Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
Mar 13 Sunshine Coast: Gibsons Landing: Copyright © 2010 Miss604. Visit the original article at http://www.miss604.com/2010/03/sunshine-coast-gibsons-landing.html.I’ve profiled Gibsons, BC as a day trip destination before but having been able to take a walking tour yesterday with John, I figured it was time for an updated ar...
13 0%
Peter Ladner
Feb 17 And when the Olympics are over, then what?: As I write this, there’s an erie calm in the air in Whistler before the storm of Feb. 12. Everything is ready, more than ready. Manned snow plows wait, idling, with their lights on, in pulloffs along the clear, balmy Sea to Sky highway, with no snow in the forecast for the foreseeable futur...
14 0%
BetterParks for Vancouver
Mar 8 The Cove director argues against holding whales, dolphins in captivity: HOLLYWOOD - The director of Oscar-winning documentary "The Cove" said the recent death of a trainer at SeaWorld in Florida proved whales and dolphins should not be held in captivity. Speaking after collecting his Oscar at the Kodak Theater, Louie Psihoyos said the death of trainer Dawn ...
15 0%
CityCaucus.com - Vancouver Politics Blog
Mar 13 Price parking poorly and you pay the price - Part II: Could technology be the answer to our parking woes?Impossible as it might seem, the price of parking can have massive repercussions on the vitality of a city’s downtown. In Part 1, I talked about how finding the right price can reduce congestion and boost business, but that’s not all ...
16 0%
CivicScene.ca
Mar 12 Partial Success!: “CTV has announced it will carry live the opening ceremonies of the Paralympic Games at 6pm tonight, across British Columbia.  Yesterday the network said it was only going to carry the opening ceremonies on a tape-delay basis, to be shown on Saturday.” Until a shit storm started ...
17 0%
Vancouverite: High speed news - powered from Vancouver
Mar 13 Winnipeg man charged in dual murders:
18 0%
Vancity Buzz
Mar 12 Vancouver 2010 St. Patrick's Day Pub Guide (and Contest!):
19 0%
MattCoolen.com: Vancouver Entertainment Guides
20 0%
Oldtown News
Feb 18 LOVELY LUNCH with MADAM SCARLETT TODAY: Oldtown NewsVancouver BCLOVELY LUNCH with MADAM SCARLETT TODAYToday I had a great lunch with Madam Scarlett Lake at the world infamous Elbow Room Cafe and co-owner my lovely Bryan Searle brought me a copy of the Straight which I was featured in. The piece on the Vancouver sex trade and whether Ol...

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