Share Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB]. At the very beginning of BC’s Throne Speech, there appear these sentences: “As British Columbia endures its worst recession in 27 years, many are worried about their economic [...]
Share Sorry too busy to update lately… let these cute photos fill in for me for now :) Tags: photo, seal
Share Interesting…. so people of the three major immigrant-taking western countries don’t even want to have LEGAL immigrants? If the majority of immigrants coming to Canada are from Europe instead of Asia, do you think the public opinion towards immigration in general will lean to the opposite? Just like what the poster above indicates in [...]
Share DFO release – Five recreational anglers were convicted and received a total of $21,500 in fines in Surrey Provincial Court February 2, 2009, for committing offences in violation of the Fisheries Act. Han Ly and Raymond Ouyang pled guilty to molesting and injuring sturgeon, and possession of a dead sturgeon, and were fined a [...]
Share CIV – And the winner is…. In the race to be the first to visit China, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff has won over PM Stephen Harper. While the PMO is still checking with China re Harper’s possible visit in Nov after the APEC meeting, Ignatieff has accepted an invitation from China’s FM Yang Jiechi [...]
Share The Globe and Mail has an article today that talks about Tories’ China policy (if there has even been one), as if the Globe has known it for ages that China is important to Canada, as if the Harperites were the ONLY people who got stuck in their ideology when it came to dealing [...]
Share saw this in Richmond today…. a 50ish Chinese woman invented her own version of sun block…. i actually witnessed her putting the “shade” on. lol Tags: oddity, photo
Share This is super cute!!! An Alberta ground squirrel is poised to become Canada’s most famous animal — at least for a week or two — after the creature inserted itself hilariously into a timed photo being taken by an American couple at a lake in Banff National Park. The resulting image, which features the [...]
Share STATCAN – Contractors selling prices in Canada decreased 0.2% in June compared with a 0.1% decline in May. Between May and June, prices declined the most in Vancouver (-0.9%) followed by Edmonton (-0.8%) and Victoria (-0.5%). In Vancouver, some builders lowered their prices to stimulate sales and sell off their houses in inventory while [...]
Share Looks like the most high profile delegation led by Canada’s finance minister Jim Flaherty to China this week will open REAL business for Canadian enterprises… finally. If China and Canada can sign extradition treaty before PM Harper goes to China in the fall, the stage is all set for a full-blown recovery of Canada-China [...]
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