I spend a good part of my week defending my hometown of Surrey. Sure the city isn’t perfect, it’s people aren’t either, but I honestly don’t think Pleasantville can be found anywhere in the Metro Vancouver area.
Over the weekend a terrible incident, fueled by intolerance and hate, occurred in the West End.
Early Saturday [...]

This summer I had the chance to visit the Vancouver Aquarium for the first time in about a decade. What I discovered was that it was far from simply being a tourist attraction and an entertainment destination. It’s a valuable research facility, a way to teach children about sustainability and its impact on animals and [...]

It’s been a while since I did a Vancouver History segment so I have decided to look at some familiar streets and neighbourhoods around town and share how their got their name, with help (as always) from my favourite VancouverHistory website.
Shaughenessy Thomas George Shaughnessy, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the President of the CPR until 1918.
Photo [...]

Since I have done about 15 live blogs in the last week or so I’m not going to be liveblogging today’s sessions. However, I will be updating this post throughout the day with a day blog in order to take notes, jot down links, and share photos.
10:00am: Right now we’re just doing the schedule jam [...]

I have found my way to the auto/ONE Trunk Gallery located on 3rd Ave between Pine and Burrard and now have internet access thanks to Cecilia and her dedicated IT guy who took my call.

The gallery is actually a car dealership (talk about fusion) with white leather couches, ambient music, and cars so shiny you [...]

We are at Salt in Gastown right now with Tris Hussey, Kris Krug and Raul - come on down and join us for lunch. Kris is giving impromptu photography advice and I’m live blogging before delicious our “Butcher Plate” arrives. Canned food donations are being accepted for the Food Bank.
Update: Anthony just arrived as well [...]

It’s here! Today is National Digital Media Day and I’m going to be embarking on a tour of Metro Vancouver, stopping at various points to live blog and promote digital media in our region. Why am I doing this you may ask?
… As you may know, there is wide speculation that the federal government [...]

The official snaps won’t be in the Vancouver Sun until tomorrow morning however earlier today I had the pleasure of traipsing around downtown with John, Jeff, and Alanah and meeting all kinds of Canucks thanks to Raise a Reader Day.
“The Canwest Raise-a-Reader program has excellent momentum and this year, on the morning of Wednesday, September [...]

I figured it may be best to speak about this before it happens so that I can get my readers to tune in, if they weren’t already inclined to do so. I will be doing a guest spot on Radio 1410 this afternoon (formerly known as CFUN) and will be sharing some thoughts and insights [...]

We’re only a few days away from BarCamp Vancouver 2008 and due to some recent changes, here’s a quick update.
… BarCampVancouver 2008 is taking place all across Granville Island.
… Opening night party is Friday at 7:00pm at Workspace in Gastown and the official start time on Saturday is 9:30am (check out the schedule).
The [...]

Last night between my interview and the Less Than Jake concert, John and I headed over to Launch Party Vancouver 5 for some schmoozing, networking, and all out good times. As I’m currently sitting in the Phoenix airport waiting for my flight to Vegas for Blog World Expo all of my energy from 3 hours [...]

UPDATE - September 19th: The concert was amazing and we had such a blast. John was able to take some awesome photos which are now online - here’s a sampling from his set on Flickr.

September 18th: This afternoon I was able to interview one of my all-time favourite bands, Less Than Jake. I did a [...]