I haven’t yet done a link fest this week and with so many strange, interesting, odd, and somewhat amusing things happening around town within the last few days I’d decided round them all up here:
- Box from crematorium found at English Bay. “A broken wooden box–apparently from a crematorium in Chilliwack–was sitting in the sand.” [...]

Photo Source: The Hockey News
Thanks to my all-knowing husband and his Twitter stream, I discovered a short while ago that Vancouver crowd-favourite ex-Canucks GM, Brian Burke will be leaving the Anaheim Ducks.
There is a press conference today at 12:00/12:30pm Pacific where the Ducks will make the announcement regarding Executive Vice President and General Manager, Brian [...]

I’ve been fairly disconnected all weekend, mostly by choice but partly due to the fact that John and I were in need of some downtime. To get us all caught up on news happenings since Halloween Friday, here’s a news fest:
“Movember: (the month formerly known as November) is a moustache growing charity event held during [...]

Whatever happened to the basement suite? Those were the days. Just a few weeks after the Quattro fire (by the way, it’s worth taking a look at some of the comments on that post), Surrey largest development, Infinity at Central City, is now seeking bankruptcy protection.
Photo via Caleb Quinton
The developer of the five-tower Infinity project [...]

Each year housing developments in the greater Vancouver region creep higher and higher up the side of the mountains, encroaching on wild animal habitats. Combine that with global warming and every other element under the sun and we have a clash.
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
The 25-year old Australian [...]

Photo credit: © Carol Browne on Flickr
I have to give my sister credit, after having four kids she is the grand master of stealthy breastfeeding in your presence; it’s like she’s got some kind of cloaking device.
What I have learned over my 8 years of being an auntie is that when the baby is [...]

For the record according to Miss604.com readers, 58% would like to see beaches go smoke free, 90% would have preferred a free Slurpee over an iPhone on July 7th, 40% care very much about the fate of the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park and 91% agree that the responsibility for vicious dogs lies solely on [...]

Power outages, transformer blowouts and traffic gridlock are all part of a chaotic scene in downtown Vancouver today.

I’d include some traffic camera footage here but go figure - they’re currently offline.
About 4,500 BC Hydro customers are without power in the area stretching from Beatty to Burrard and Hastings to Robson, roughly between Canada Place and [...]

The Georgia Straight (the newspaper, not the body of water) is known for being an authority on all-things passing through and within Vancouver and they’re putting the call out for your picks for the 13th annual Best of Vancouver 2008.
There are 238 questions in categories like City Life, Media, Arts, & Culture, Travel, Mind Body [...]

I was contacted earlier this week by the CBC, wanting to do a story about my blog but looking for some unique angles. Turns out the most prominent discussion on my blog at the moment is about the Dana Carvey Surrey Girl Joke so they wanted to talk about that, and I was more than [...]