If you could nominate anyone, who would you want to lead our country? Earlier this year, CBC re-launched its contest to seek out and find, The Next Great Prime Minister.
According to Pat Zaph, local blogger, SFU student, profiled blogger, and contestant, the contest was created, “to generate interest in political participation among Canadian youth.”
He wanted [...]

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 [...]

While watching the “halibut battle” on Iron Chef tonight I was reminded of an email I received inviting me to the 1st Annual BC Sustainable Seafood Chowder Competition taking place tomorrow at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Come, watch and taste the creations of five of BC’s finest chefs during the first Annual BC Sustainable Seafood Chowder cook-off. [...]

I only have one more trip to the polls this fall. Federal election done (won by Hedy Fry in Vancouver Centre), BC by-election done (won by Spencer Herbert in Vancouver-Burrard), and now I just have to catch up on my civic politics for the Vancouver Vote on November 15th.
I’d like to conduct some interviews, like [...]

A few years ago those “You know you’re from Canada when…” and “You know you’re from Vancouver when…” lists were forwarded from inbox to inbox and have now settled in nicely as Facebook pages for the masses to read and chuckle to themselves, “hehe, it’s funny because it’s true.” One item that was always on [...]

I am currently in a ballroom of the Renaissance Hotel on West Hastings street to hear a talk from the Vancouver Board of Trade about “communicating via social media” in the non-profit sector in a series called Tough Talk for Tender Causes.
If it seems slightly foreign for an entity such as the Board of [...]

If you live in the Vancouver-Burrard or Vancouver-Fairview districts, you should be heading to the polls today (open 8:00am until 8:00pm) to elect your new representative in the Provincial government.
Candidates in Vancouver-Fairview:
Emery, Jodie - British Columbia Marijuana Party
Hanni, Wilf - BC Conservative Party
MacDiarmid, Margaret - BC Liberal Party
McGinn, Jenn - New Democratic Party of B.C.
Sterk, [...]

Yesterday I was having a pretty bad afternoon; I felt really down and things didn’t seem to be going my way. John got home and while I was going into doting-wife-getting-ready-to-prepare-dinner-for-her-man mode he placed two items on the coffee table, which just so happened to be tickets for tonight’s game. Needless to say my mood [...]

Usually I promote upcoming meetups and unconferences that circle around social media however a large part of my audience is not involved with blogging (and isn’t concerned with whether it is dead or not). I’m thankful for all of my readers who find my site through Google or other sites (or even my mom). I [...]

After a 4-5 hour long live blog of Interesting Vancouver the other night I pretty much decided to disconnect for the weekend (save a few posts that were preset to publish on the site). Now that I’m back in touch with the world, here’s what I’ve discovered:
Twitter can be used for terrorism! Much like telephones, [...]