Vancouver: I stopped by the Farmers Market on the lawn of Pacific Central Station, a magnet for people making an effort to follow the Hundred Mile Diet. I bought an organic Macintosh apple to snack on as I walked home.  It was $1.09, an expensive apple it seemed to me.  I bit into it, expecting […]

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A lot of nonsense being written in the news about Conservative writer George Will deciding to throw in the towel in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is a mess. Big deal. It’s been a mess for a couple thousand years, and trying to “win” a war there and put in a crumpets and tea democracy is a bit delusional.
But […]

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There has been some shocking news to hit the world of reality television this week. A man by the name of Ryan Alexander Jenkins was a contestant on the Vh1 show Megan Wants a Millionaire produced by 51 Minds. Apparently, he was also a contestant on a third season of the show I Love Money […]

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When agreeing to sponsor Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympics, Acer, a manufacturer of laptop and netbook computers,would have been aware of well publicized complaints against the City of Vancouver of human rights abuses targeting computer users and bloggers. Acer has therefore been asked to pull out as a sponsor.  The request was made to Acer’s public relations representives Stella Chou and […]

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(London, UK) Lee Scott MP, a leading autism campaigner in the House of Commons in Westminster recently helped launch a thriller, a book titled ‘Gauntlet’ written by the Canadian author Richard Aaron. Scott met with Richard Aaron and autism campaigner Ivan Corea in the House of Commons.
‘Gauntlet’ is a nail biting, action packed novel. A […]

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(London, UK) The Canadian author, Richard Aaron (who recently released a fiction masterpiece recommended by the UK Autism Foundation), will be in the United Kingdom, in May 2009, to promote his book called ‘Gauntlet.’
Ivan Corea of the UK Autism Foundation said: ‘Gauntlet, written by Richard Aaron, is a fascinating piece of fiction, it puts autism […]

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The LATimes has an article about outsourcing medical transcription to Manila.
I have no problem with that. Waiting three days for the notes to get on the chart usually means you have to not only dictate everything but write it all out in longhand too, since you need the information right away..
But the part of the […]

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April 8th 2009, a little girl is seen walking down the street with a person seemingly happy and in no danger. There is nothing in the video to suggest that anything is wrong. This little girl could be walking with her sister, cousin, or possibly, though remotely, even her mother. Victoria Stafford does not seem […]

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Wednesday, April 8, 2009 around 3:30pm was the last time that anyone has seen little Victoria “Tori” Stafford. A video has been released showing Victoria (in black jacket) walking with an unidentified woman in a white puffy jacket. Anyone with any information regarding this video no matter how small you may think it is, please […]

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From what I can gather, the figure being tossed around is $3.29-$3.3 billion dollars. Those figures were released December 2008. And just in case you were wondering just how much IS a billion dollars, have a look at this. The energy Minister, Tony Clement, said the deal was contingent on GM, Ford and Chrysler working […]

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When I read that a Vancouver Police spokesman told reporters that Tyson Edwards had been “rushed” to hospital after being stabbed around 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 1, I thought of a man collecting beer bottles and cans that night who tells a different story.
Roughly ten days after 21 year old Tyson Edwards, who was becoming […]

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This morning as I am going through the news as I do every morning I came across this story from FOX news, and the video in question. Is it a joke? Are they trying to be funny? If so then their idea of humour is a far cry from mine. As Canadians wait the arrival […]

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Reports of abusive husbands, who beat and even kill their wives, gather lots of publicity and create huge outcries, as they should.  For example, there are two recent reports from Buffalo, New York and Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.  I hope these guys and any others who do such heinous things to other people, including wives, get […]

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I am so flippin angry right now I don’t know where to begin. Vincent Li.  That freakish barbaric attack in Winnipeg, has resulted in a hospital stay as punishment for the lunatic guilty of the crime. Vincent Li. Can you believe that? No I mean really, seriously. He is not going to spend one day […]

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According to the globe and mail this morning, some people believe now is the time for Quebec to sever ties with Canada. Parti Québécois Leader Pauline Marois said that “Quebec would handle the economic crisis better without Ottawa”. She also said that “Sovereignty is a pressing need,” when speaking to a gathering of 500(they say) […]

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On his first day on the job, President Barack Obama signed an executive order (his second) barring executive branch staff from accepting gifts from lobbyists. All well and good, but this  could create a sticky wicket with the government of Canada, which is in a position to give the president a rare and precious gift: […]

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Vancouver:  There was a long line-up last Saturday for the free turkey dinner cooked and served by students in the cooking, baking, and food service programs at Vancouver Community College, Pender St. campus. One man in the line said he’d never seen the line-up so long at the annual dinner. The line-up snaked from the […]

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After the reports that melamine contaminating baby formula in China had sickened thousands of children there, some parents felt that soy products for their beloved children was safer.
Well, think again.
As early as mid December, Health Canada was noting trace amounts of melamine in soy products, including some that were labled “organic”.
The level wasn’t high enough […]

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Roughly a thousand people turned up at the sprawling Schara Tzedeck Synagogue on Oak St. in Vancouver on Thursday evening to a high security – no purse or back pack got through the door unexamined — “Community Solidarity Gathering for Israel”. Some in the overflow crowd at the rally organized by the Jewish Federation of […]

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Judy Rogers has been fired after ten years as Vancouver’s City Manager. While Rogers acknowledged to the media that it had not been her choice to leave the job she “loved”, Mayor Robertson was twisting his tongue into euphemisms: “Technically, it’s a cessation of her duties by mutual understanding.” 
The firing has swept Rogers off […]

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Did I hear that right? I craned my neck over the crowd at the anti-coalition rally to see speaker Senator Jerry St. Germain, but all I could see was a black cowboy hat bobbing on the stage.  I was at Saturday’s rally at Vancouver’s Library Square listening to people protest the new coaltioin of Liberals, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois to topple […]

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Vancouver’s former police chief Jamie Graham is working at Simon’s Bike shop on Robson St., selling bikes. And that’s where he should stay, say members of Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry. Graham’s record as Vancouver’s chief of allowing constables to practice Soviet-style political psychiatry and evidence fabrication, makes it is nothing short of criminal, in the […]

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Transparency. That’s a promise Gregor Robertson has been making as he asks Vancouverites to vote for him as Mayor. Robertson knows that Vancouver residents are upset after discovering that City Council had voted for a $100 million loan bailout of an Olympic developer in a secret meeting. And they are upset at the lack of […]

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Photo: All Candidates meeting at Carnegie (left to right) Audrey Laferriere, R.H. Maxwell N Bur, Raj Hundal, Andrea Reimer, Michael Geller, Leanore Copeland
Creating shelters for Vancouver’s homeless population until permanent housing is built was a central theme of Monday’s All Candidates meeting at Carnegie Center in Vancouver’s low income Downtown Eastside neighborhood.
Getting Storyeum, a Gastown […]

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Soviet-style political psychiatry practiced in Vancouver has been attracting attention internationally but I’d never heard it mentioned by a candidate in the civic election campaign.  Until Monday.  At an All Candidates meeting in the theater of Carnegie Center, Independent mayoral candidate Golok Buday (pictured above in black cap), said:
“Car 87 forces it’s drugs on […]

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Today is Veterans’ Day.
So congratulations to all Veterans, including my husband Lolo (World War II) and my son in law John (Iraq) and my cousin Billy (Viet Nam).
Veteran’s day started out as “Armistice Day” to celebrate the end of the “war to end all wars”, AKA “The Great War”, AKA “World War I”.A lot of […]

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When it comes to conducting government business on her private email account, rather than on her official government account that would put the email on public record, Vision Vancouver’s Eleanor Gregory is beginning to look as much like Sarah Palin as Tina Fey.
Just as hackers exposed Palin for conducting business as Alaska’s governor on her […]

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I have an insight. The block party Insite supporters held yesterday afternoon was an attempt to embarrass Canada’s freshly re-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Insite supporters — particularly executives and staff at the PHS Community Services Services Society which operates Insite — do not want Harper to shut down this space where junkies in Vancouver […]

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Now it seems we are the problem. Now he is not talking about CO2, or global warming, or climate change. Now it’s just us. Humans. The scourge of the planet, that somehow all the changes are our fault, we are killing everything. I wonder if he has ever heard of “the natural order of things”? If […]

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