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Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
March 27, 2009 – 9:45 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

The payoff for living through Vancouver’s damp gray winters comes in the spring, when flowers around the city burst into bloom.

And what better way to celebrate spring’s arrival than with the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival?…

Green Drinks (and no, we don’t mean green beer)
March 17, 2009 – 4:37 pm | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Green Drinks (and no, we don’t mean green beer)

St. Patrick’s Day seems like a good time to promote an organization called Green Drinks, which is not a group that gathers to drink green beer. Rather, it’s an opportunity to meet — and raise…

Vancouver: “Supermodel of North American cities”
March 13, 2009 – 1:23 pm | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Vancouver: “Supermodel of North American cities”

Most Vancouverites are used to the press gushing over their city. After all, if you spend even a brief time in Vancouver — particularly on a mild summer day when the entire city seems to…

Fat free in B.C.
March 9, 2009 – 12:31 pm | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Fat free in B.C.

Following the lead of locations as diverse as Denmark and New York City, British Columbia will be the first province in Canada to restrict the use of trans fats in restaurants.

Restaurants, delis, cafeterias,…

Say “please,” please
March 6, 2009 – 11:47 am | No Comments yet. Add yours.
Say “please,” please

Canadians have a reputation for being nice.

But this week, a British Columbia man learned that niceness may not extend across the U.S. borderor at least not across the border crossing.…