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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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The PM’s handcuff fetish (Things I hated in 2008)

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Movies, music and pop culture, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Does Stephen Harper even have a sense of humour? Consider this awkward moment from September 2008, when comedienne Geri Hall of CBC’s long-running fake news show This Hour Has 22 Minutes caught the PM and his staff off-guard at a press conference in Halifax.
Hall, standing in a sizable crowd of reporters, tried to ask Harper [...]

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Sarah Palin (Things I hated in 2008)

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, News, politics and current events, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

John McCain’s Hail Mary Pass running mate announcement – coming practically on top of the triumphant Democratic party convention’s endorsement of Barack Obama and his VP choice Joe Biden – was one of the swiftest and most divisive political buzz kills of the summer.
I’m not sure what was more disturbing about Republican vice president hopeful [...]

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Trailer Park Boys got cancelled?!?

Posted in Exiled in Suburbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, tagged , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Yep, it’s all over for dope-smoking recidivists Ricky, Julian, Bubbles and the rest of the gang at the embattled Sunnyvale Trailer Park in Nova Scotia.
Director/creator Mike Clattenburg has supposedly promised another feature-length movie, but the TV series is finished. The last episode, Say Goodnight to the Bad Guys, an hour-long special involving a country and [...]

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Women’s ski jump is not an Olympic sport? (Things I hated in 2008)

Posted in British Columbia, Things I liked/hated in 2008, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, tagged , , , , , , , on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Women’s ski jump isn’t an Olympic sport, so forget about cheering the gals on in 2010.
But wait! I (and every other Canadian taxpayer) helped pay for the damn ski jump venue at Whistler. Who says they can’t jump? The International Olympic Committee, that’s who. Apparently, ski jumping is the only sport at the winter Olympics that [...]

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