It has been announced that a first wave of tickets to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games will go on sale in less than a month.
Thirty per cent of tickets for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be made available to the public, a spokesman for the organizing [...]

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 [...]

I decided to toss in a link fest this week to lighten the mood, get some more topics out there, and cover some ground before I take off.
- The last year has been a big one for smokers in BC; first there was the patio smoking ban, then the updates in March that made it [...]

A while back I was invited to a Facebook event that would celebrate the (official) arrival of the iPhone in Canada on July 11th. Lately with all the news about plans and the fact that you can only get the iPhone at a Rogers or Fido outlet several people have had enough.
This afternoon on Twitter [...]

A few months ago the Park Board met to discuss the fate of the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park as it began to lean - becoming a safety hazard for visitors to its site. The results of this meeting in March had the Park Board come to the conclusion that there were only two options, [...]

Last year I participated in Blogathon, which is an organized event for a charity of the author’s choice which involves said blog author to post every 30 minutes for 24 hours.

48 blog posts in 24 hours is quite the feat but with the encouragement of the entire Blogathon community, your readers, friends who [...]

The only pets I’ve ever owned are a hamster and my Kitty (who is pushing 17 years old and going strong) so I’ve never really known either side of the story, but growing up I knew which house to avoid walking past on my way home from school. You know, the one with the growling, [...]

The Hollow Tree in Stanley Park is a tourist favourite. On the West side of Stanley Park Drive, it’s a frequent stopping zone and photo op. During the storms of 2006, the tree was weakened beyond already being hollow at the base, and the Parks Board would now like to spend $200,000 to restore it.
From: [...]

Aside from Raul, who is finishing up his doctorate in environmental studies, and DaveO who works for happyfrog and was there at Clayoquot, I’d have to say Keira’s one of my most eco-conscious friends.

A few weeks ago she wrote a blog post inspired by words printed on the side of a Starbucks cup. As [...]

Remember when there was a Zoo in Stanley Park? Monkeys, nocturnal critters, kangaroos, and polar bears. There was horseback riding and those little penguins that would swim up and glide down a slide into their own little pool.
Photo credit: © caelie on Flickr - all rights reserved
The Stanley Park Zoo is now walking trails, [...]