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Top of Mt. Seymour

October 12, 2008 10:45 am /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
I like to make an annual hike to the top of one of Vancouver's North Shore mountains. Usually it's Seymour (a 90-minute trip to the top), and some years the weather doesn't allow for it. ...

It’s a transport nightmare, it’s an energy nightmare. It is absolutely bloody terrifying.

October 11, 2008 2:29 pm /Cities, Zeitgeist /Comments Off
"It's is not going to work on many levels, from social to infrastructure and ecological" – Thom Mayne The nightmare referred to in my entry title is not Canada's federal party election platforms. The nightmare ...

Google’s Golden Decade

September 27, 2008 7:55 am /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
Happy 10th Birthday, Google. You've been a good kid. I first read about you when you were only four months old (thank you, Scott Rosenberg of Salon.com for the introduction). Soon, you'll be in your ...

Boris Johnson: The Olympics are coming home to Britain

August 24, 2008 3:22 pm /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
Expect to hear a lot more from London's new mayor Boris Johnson in the days ahead as London gears up for its own summer Olympic games in 2012. Click the above image to listen to ...

Canadians seeing changes to police culture

August 19, 2008 8:08 am /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
What is happening to policing in Western Canada? The story appears to be an evolving one, but change is clearly happening. Why it is happening now is difficult to surmise. In Southwest British Columbia the ...

The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon

August 18, 2008 4:01 pm /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
Vancouver has had more than a few sunny afternoons lately, so I thought I’d share a favourite tune. The Kinks brilliant Sunny Afternooon hardly looks like it was shot in The Bahamas with all the ...
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