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Keeping it weird in Portland: cycling the brew pubs

Should you choose to bike the brews, you might run into a condition at about hour ten on the first day: Getting too hopped. Portland beers are very hoppy.

Senator Duffy scandal: Harper's culture damaging to Canadian values

The mere FACT that PM Harper's now former chief of staff, Nigel Wright, being who he is, could hand over a $90,000 cheque to Senator Mike Duffy is alarming for its far broader implications. Some of...

Vancouver Art Gallery's latest FUSE

It was a warm, breezy and welcoming spring evening on Friday, May 3rd and Vancouver's Art Gallery was just opening its doors for the popular and much talked about FUSE night.  I wasn't quite...

The Gitga’at First Nation asks Enbridge to leave territory following botched consultation

Gitga’at First Nation reminds Enbridge that Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tanker project is not welcome in Gitga’at territory.

Harper promotes oil sands and Keystone XL in New York

Canadian Prime Minister, Premiers and federal ministers on intensive global road trip to promote Alberta crude. Environmentalists and climate change scientists worried.

Senators continue Canadian push for stupidity award

Earlier this year, I suggested that we need a World Cup of Stupidity. Shortly thereafter, the new twenty-dollar bills came out and Canada was off to an early lead. Since then, the race has tightened...

Native American leaders storm out of Keystone XL talks

Native American leaders from eleven tribes pulled out of talks with US federal officials over the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, which they say would damage the environment and pollute their...

David Eby takes over Christy Clark's seat, credits environmental goals and local focus

Christy Clark won the provincial election for her Liberal party, but she didn’t win her own seat. The NDP's David Eby, 37, defeated her in Vancouver-Point Grey by a margin of 785 votes, a wide enough...

Inspiring social change in the wilds of BC at Hollyhock

At the north end of the Salish Sea lies Cortes Island, remote and thickly forested, with only a thousand residents. This June, close to 100 professionals will congregate there to discuss creative...

Vancouver+Acumen celebrates social entrepreneurship at DIGNITY 2013

Vancouver+Acumen hosted DIGNITY 2013 last night, May 15, to raise money for Acumen.

Of Monsters and Men Erupts at The Orpheum

I kind of have a thing for Europe. Specifically Scandinavia and the Nordic countries. The bands and musicians that come from that area seem to have a greater appreciation for music (so do the fans)...

From fisher to chef: BC spot prawns are delivered to YEW

BC Spot Prawns
While you can buy frozen BC prawns year round, it isn't until May that fresh, wild, BC spot prawns are "in season"...