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According to the CTV News, the City of Vancouver, which is cutting its spending, will shell out $300,000 for Olympic tickets, and the provincial government, also cutting, is spending $1 million on tickets. And one federal government ministry has spent $447,000 on tickets. These are three of the many governing bodies in the province and [...]
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Update: At the suggestion of Anthony Floyd (via Twitter, of course), I’ve added another column to the table below: the number of Twitter accounts that media are following. Some of the numbers are interesting. I got curious about Twitter numbers this morning, particularly about Twitter numbers for media in Vancouver. I’m not sure how to [...]
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With the Winter Olympics on their way to Vancouver and Whistler next February, we are being inundated with feel-good stories about the coming of the games. Fair enough. The Olympics are a big deal and there is plenty to feel good about. But there are some stories that I would like to read that I [...]
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The clouds lift and give us the word that winter is on its way to Vancouver. Shot from 41st and Cambie, Friday afternoon.
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Riding the small people-moving ferries that work Vancouver’s False Creek is one of the pleasures of the city.
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The view from our back deck, shot with the 300mm lens on the Canon SX100. If they added RAW capabilities to this camera, it would be a monster. A raw sight in Vancouver: icicles hanging from the licence plate of a neighbour’s car. Also shot with the Canon SX100. The blossoms have tightened up a [...]
DesiFest was a 10-hour extravaganza of south Asian singing and dancing, with hip-hop, singer-songwriters and infectious bhangra and Bollywood numbers, held yesterday here in Vancouver. The above captures highlights from about an hour of entertainment: it still needs a few tweaks, which I may get a chance to make later today, and I didn’t work [...]
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