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Conan O’brien is now off the NBC air waves, and after a whirlwind pair of weeks, he left with a bang. Amazingly, his ratings skyrocketed and online social manifestations took life. Facebook’s “I’m with Coco” has over 750,000 fans. A true indicator that social media is taking some traction as brand success indicators. Nielsen ratings, [...]

TransLink and Vanoc are urging residents and downtown workers to leave the car at home and take transit, bike or walk during the Games.
So while we are all urged to take transit, VANOC has 4,600 courtesy cars and drivers, who will be largely centred at the Olympic Family Hotel at the Westin Bayshore. At the [...]

As the olympics approach, residents of Vancouver are looking at alternatives for their work commute. VANOC has suggested to leave the car at home and choose transit, walking or biking instead as the roads should be extremely congested. At the same time VANOC has warned that commuter-ship will be so high that during typical rush [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Alex Burrows was called for interference in a controversial call that to any eye would clearly deem a phantom call – as in, there was nothing to call when the whistle was blown. That call may have lead to the short handed goal that lost the canucks that game.
Burrows commented [...]

Vanoc has claimed that the 2010 Olympics will be a green and eco friendly one, after all the third pillar of the olympics after sport and culture is environment. On speaking of the Power options for the games, Paul Toom, Director of Energy for the games says: “Quiet, no odor — just the sounds and [...]

With only a few weeks to go, Vanoc, public transit and the Liberal government have transformed a quaint friendly city in one of the most beautiful regions of the world, into an orwellian police state. Changes include Visa will be the ONLY credit card accepted during the games, commuters to and from work are to [...]

Learning about the latest RCMP scandal on Global TV news, the BC Solicitor General, Kash Heed, was furious that he wasn’t made aware of the latest misstep by RCMP and the sex hungry Brassington, as well as a newer story of another investigator who filed fraudulent overtime claims while working on the surrey six crime [...]

270 sq. ft. loft rentals will be renting for 750/month once the Burns Block building is renovated in March 2011. The open spaces have innovative features for their tight quarters such as murphy beds that have dining tables swing out when the bed is folded up. The bathroom has urinals within the shower. This in [...]

Another day, another mistake by the vancouver police department. Two plain clothes officers showed up at the door of a suspect and when an Asian man answered, they pulled the man out to give him a nice beating before they realized, uh oh, they had the wrong dude! With a few different stories floating around [...]

Amidst stories that the order of Canada was removed from Steve Fonyo because of criminal charges comes an outpouring of support for the cancer survivor who completed Terry Fox’s run across Canada to raise $14M. His fans cry out that Fonyo is just as human as any one of us and deserves credit for his [...]

When I was a kid, my dad used to yell at the TV everytime the news came on. He’d yell at the Mayor of Vancouver announcing a new program, or at the Premier of BC, or the Prime Minister of Canada. There was so much cynicism and mistrust that I, as a child, thought my [...]

Roy Anderson, a frequent flyer of our local jails, has 10 counts of robbery, many of which involved a knife and previous convictions for serious sex offenses notched on his belt. He was on statutory release to a halfway house, and today he’s walking the streets after having not reported back in on January 27th. [...]

In a story that just takes more twists and turns than a 60 minute episode of Grey’s Anatomy, the RCMP are reeling at the news that their horny investigating officer, Sgt. Derek Brassington, managed to impregnate the girlfriend and key witness of the head suspect of the Surrey Six shootings. Bravo. As if he wasn’t [...]

In a very comical twist of events in the notorious case of the surrey six murders, a senior RCMP officer involved in the case, couldn’t resist the lure of love with the leading suspects girlfriend. While she’s scheduled to testify in the case, the case may be jeopardized if evidence and testimony has been compromised. [...]