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CBC iPhone App

August 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

The greatest thing on earth!  I am so happy to have access to CBC radio from a portable device, once again.  This download has just made my week; no, my month; no, my year!  Youtube has just been bumped off of my first page of apps for CBC.

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Tags: cbc · iPhone · iPhone Application

Water Footprint

August 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

How much water do you think it took to enjoy your cup of coffee this morning? One? Two? Try one hundred and forty litres of water. Yes, it is absolutely astonishing. I had listened to an award-winning, CBC Radio broadcast several weeks ago, explaining the reality of our Water Footprint. [...]

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Tags: cbc · consumption · freshwater · green · sustainability · water footprint

Fast & Furious

August 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Thursday evening, I finally rode the CBC trail on Mount Seymour.  I have been wanting to ride this trail for some time, but I was always hesitant having heeded the many warnings about its complexity and degree of difficulty.  I haven’t ridden much on Seymour, only Ned’s a couple of times.  However, with the recent [...]

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Tags: Corkscrew · Empress · Mount Seymour · Pangor · Pingu · cbc

Read, Canada

March 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments

This week, CBC Radio is hosting a Canada Reads program that invites five guests to suggest a single book that every Canadian should read. The five guests debate and deliberate on the five books over the course of a week to single out the one book that every Canadian should read. With spring [...]

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Tags: canada · cbc · david adams richards · fruit · gil adamson · lawrence hill · mercy among the children · michel tremblay · peter paddington · the book of negroes · the fat woman next door is pregnant · the outlander

Bellevue

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: CHOM · bellevue · border-crossing · canada · cbc · ideas · polio · post polio syndrome · usa