Canadians find vast computer spy network: report

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China Releases over 1,000 Detained after Tibet Riots
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This important story is now getting popular attention:

In a report provided to the newspaper, a team from the Munk Center for International Studies in Toronto said at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries had been [...]

Vancouverites rally to save UBC farm

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This weekend the NYTimes wrote a cover piece that states we are in The Food Revolution.  In Washington Barrack Obama is planting a food garden at the White House.  Given that, it seems ridiculous that a city like Vancouver is taking [...]

Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?

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My first attempt at urban food
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China to US: ‘We own you’

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The inevitable has happened.  For a long time China has held a lot of cards and is [...]

China to US: ‘We own you’

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The inevitable has happened.  For a long time China has held a lot of cards and is [...]

Stewart destroys Cramer on ‘The Daily Show’

Those who don’t know history are bound to repeat it.  That is what happened tonight on the Daily Show where Jon Stewared decimated Jim Cramer in the same way he crushed CNN’s Cross Fire.

NEW YORK – Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on [...]

Top Intelligence pick hits ‘Israel lobby’ on way out

A story that is getting a lot of attention in the blogosphere has pitted one of Obama’s top Intel picks against pro Israeli government officials.  In announcing his departure Charles Freeman blames this group for his inability to accept the role.

President Barack Obama’s controversial pick for a top intelligence post blasted [...]

Are we experience Irrational dispair?

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Alan Greenspan warned us during the tech bubble [...]

Community garden coming to Vancouver city hall

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This is a great message to send to Vancouverites and those who visit the city. 

VANCOUVER — Mayor Gregor Robertson wants the city to join the “grow food locally” movement. Really locally, in fact.
Robertson announced Wednesday morning that a [...]

The earliest film of Vancouver

This video shows what Vancouver looked like just over 100 years ago.  A fascinating (slightly sped up) look into what life was like then.

In 1907, Seattleite William Harbeck bolted his hand-crank camera to the front of a streetcar and filmed along Granville, Hastings, Carrall, Cordova, Cambie, and Robson streets (Woodward’s [...]