Neil and I met downtown for dinner before I hit the open road. It was 8pm by the time I was splashing along the drenched streets of Vancouver, the rain exploding against my windshield as I darted in and out of traffic lanes to avoid buses boarding passengers, or turning vehicles waiting for pedestrians [...]

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I love Autumn. It is my favourite season of the year. Hands down. I love the colour (particularly in Ontario). I love the smell. I love the cooler temperatures and the long shadows. I also love that my birthday is in the Autumn
Neil and I will be [...]

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After months of shoving food and alcohol down my gob, I’ve finally had enough. Since pretty much our honeymoon, we’ve done very little to watch our consumption. It started with ten days of food and alcohol on-demand, without much exercise to counter the extra intake. As expected, we’ve put on extra pounds and have [...]

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As of January, 2009, it will be legal for British Columbian pharmacists to renew prescriptions, alter dosages and dispense substitute drugs without the oversight of a doctor. This announcement is on the heals of a recent hidden-camera report that exposed Vancouver pharmacists as having dispensed kickbacks along with prescription drugs. Pharmacies were giving [...]

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I had started reading “Blindness” by José de Sousa Saramago. In summary, the book is comparable to “Lord Of The Flies” by William Golding, but on steroids. It explores the degradation of society without rules and order, hastened by fear. There are underlying tones of sacrifice of the individual for the common [...]

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