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No dilemma for Vancouver foodies this Saturday
June 2, 2009 – 8:20 am | Comments Off on No dilemma for Vancouver foodies this Saturday
No dilemma for Vancouver foodies this Saturday

If you’re concerned about food in North America and you’re in Vancouver, you’ll have no dilemma about what to do this Saturday, June 6: Head for the UBC Farm.

Author Michael Pollan, who …

Cheap Ethnic “Eatz” in Montreal
May 29, 2009 – 8:25 am | Comments Off on Cheap Ethnic “Eatz” in Montreal
Cheap Ethnic “Eatz” in Montreal

New to Montreal? Love food? On a budget?

If you want to meet fellow foodies without spending a fortune (and these days, that’s a requirement!), check out the Montreal Cheap Ethnic Eatz Meetup Group.

The …

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
March 27, 2009 – 9:45 am | Comments Off on Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival
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

Green Drinks (and no, we don’t mean green beer)
March 17, 2009 – 4:37 pm | Comments Off on Green Drinks (and no, we don’t mean green beer)
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 …

Counting down to 2010
February 12, 2009 – 8:27 am | Comments Off on Counting down to 2010
Counting down to 2010

One year from today, February 12, 2010, the 2010 Winter Olympic Games open in British Columbia.

The Vancouver Province published the following schedule of celebratory events happening today in Vancouver and Whistler, the …