One of the main reasons why I love Vancouver so much is because of the great natural beauty in and around it. There are also many good restaurants and shops, and if you can successfully shut out the frequent mumblings and harrassment from panhandlers, just walking around and taking in the sites can be a really [...]
“Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” Everyone has heard the expression, and for most of my life, I thought it was a harmless way to wish someone a good night’s sleep. Well, 2 years ago, I got to experience those words literally. Around a year before I got the first-hand experience, my apartment building manager came to my [...]
Every year at around this time, the residents of Metro Vancouver, who are also Shaw cable subscribers, are treated with a special broadcast. It is the 24 hour, 7 day per week video of a bunch of logs burning in a fireplace, formerly known as the Yule Log, and now called the Holiday Fireplace. In this [...]
Every year, visitors and residents alike get a nice visual treat while driving or walking down Burrard Street. It is the annual Christmas light display at the front of St. Paul’s hospital. It seems to take them a couple of weeks to put everything up, and they start early, like around Halloween. I’m not entirely sure, [...]
When I first came to Vancouver in early 2003, one of the first things that surprised about this city was the high number of homeless people and panhandlers on the city streets. Homeless people are the ones you often see sleeping on the sidewalks, and they are quite pitiful and usually harmless. Panhandlers, on the [...]
I first came to Vancouver on March 31, 2003, away from all the baggage of an old life, and with the hope of starting anew. Before that, I had been living in Ottawa for around 5 years, and previous to that, I had spent most of the first 25 years of my life living in [...]
