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Canadians are “idiots”, Ignatieff skit reveals

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, News, politics and current events, tagged , , , , , , on January 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Thank you, Gavin Crawford of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, for your impression of prime minister-in-waiting Michael Ignatieff, unveiled to a grateful TV audience last night.

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Live (to tape) blogging the inauguration

Posted in B.C. History, News, politics and current events, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

It all seemed pretty quiet for such a big crowd. Watching the presidential inauguration ceremony on TV this morning, I was struck by the sheer size of the crowds in Washington D.C.
There were so many people, the Mall looked like a massive, undulating carpet – later I realized it’s because everyone was wearing a tuque [...]

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Surreal glow

Posted in British Columbia, White Rock B.C., tagged , , , on January 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Lingering winter fog creates a surreal glow along White Rock’s iconic landmark and its famed promenade, a 2-km walkway on the shore of Semiahmoo Bay that’s nearly deserted on a chilly January evening.

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Golden Globes 2009 – gone to the dogs?

Posted in Movies, music and pop culture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »

In honour of last night’s 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards, presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a few awards of my own:
Worst use of screentime: When Miley Cyrus STUCK HER TONGUE out at the camera as it panned the otherwise glamorous celebrity-filled ballroom of the Beverly Hilton during the show’s opening moments. I know [...]

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Pemberton festival’s a bust, Live Nation admits

Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, tagged , , , , , , , on January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Pemberton music festival has been scuttled for 2009.
Despite getting the go-ahead on the outdoor venue in November, promoters Live Nation finally revealed this week they just don’t have enough time to line up talent for the budding music festival.
The mega-concert company wasn’t able to secure the land through the Agricultural Land Commission until November, [...]

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Things I liked in 2008 – the black bear who went to Subway

Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, Northern British Columbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , , , on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

A lone Subway employee in Kitimat, B.C., got the surprise of her life this summer, when dark and early one morning a black bear with the munchies wandered into the deserted sandwich joint hoping to find a snack.
The persistent bear managed to open the restaurant door and walk inside.
The employee, working all alone in the [...]

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Things I liked in 2008 – Sasquatch sightings along Hwy 16

Posted in British Columbia, News, politics and current events, Northern British Columbia, tagged , , , , , , , , on January 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

See also: Sasquatch sightings are still a hot B.C. trend
After spending the past couple of decades pushed to the sidelines while jazzier unexplained phenomena like crop circles, alien abductions, and UFO reports grabbed all the attention, North America’s elusive, hairy ape-man is back, baby.
Community newspapers along a stretch of remote highway in northern B.C. were [...]

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