Share Globe and Mail — The Liberals and NDP have struck a tentative deal to defeat Stephen Harper’s minority Conservative government and replace it with their own coalition government, with cabinet ministers from both parties, sources say. The Liberals would have 18 ministers in the coalition government, while six cabinet members would be drawn from [...]
Share (Caption: One of the mummies found in the Yanghai Tombs near Xinjiang, where the world’s oldest marijuana was found. The tombs are believed to belong to a northern Chinese nomad tribe who practiced Shaman over 2000 years ago. The group of tombs was discovered in 2003 and has since raised international attention. PHOTOS OF [...]
Share Toronto Star’s editorial of today discuss Harper’s flipflops on deficits. Harper wasn’t forthright during the election about the economic reality and now he’s saying voters are too “simplistic” if they expect balanced budget? Dion was stupidly too honest during the last days of the election campaign when he admitted that some of his platform [...]
Share BCREA release – British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports residential sales dollar volume on the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) in BC declined 54% to $1.69 billion in October, compared to October 2007. Residential unit sales were down 51% to 4,018 units during the same period. The average MLS® residential price in the province [...]
Share I’m glad to see that Citizenship and Immigration Canada is once again publishing complete immigration statistics as it has for the last 20 years. CIC under Diane Finley has stopped publishing detailed immigration numbers, especially missing were those of source countries. (see previous post) Jason Kenney replaced Finley as the CIC minister after the [...]
Share (Caption: One of the potential Chinese burial sites Bill Chu found with help from his aboriginal friends. CIV PHOTO) We were able to catch the premier on record to support protection of historic Chinese sites in the interior last week. Here’s what Gordon Campbell said on record (click to listen). Bill Chu is a [...]
Share I went for a casual stroll in Steveston today and bumped into a beautiful sunset scene. Feel so blissful. :) Tags: Photos
Share Surprise, surprise…. Peter Ladner indeed sings quite well :) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QQG7NCdhtk Just to add my friend’s David Wong’s recent creation on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/FansofPeterLadner Tags: Election, Vancouver
Share The $100m loan scandal is just getting juicier everyday! Global TV reports tonight that city staff’s investigation into how the document was leaked (see Vancouver Sun) has made major progress. Going through surveillance tapes and entry swipe card records, the investigators now have a main suspect … who is a councillor! Global didn’t say [...]
Share CREA release – In line with the recent downward revisions of Canadian economic and job growth forecasts, The Canadian Real Estate Association is updating its MLS® housing market forecast for the balance of 2008, and 2009. National home sales activity is now forecast to decrease by 12% to 461,200 units in 2008, and decrease [...]
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