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Tonight - 7:30 pm PST on Melodies and Minds on CJSF fm: http://www.cjsf.ca/Read more... )

Last Saturday caught on the webcam looking at Burrard Bridge - we had an epic lightning storm and fireworks all in one night. I love how the sky turned BRIGHT orange, it looks like the sun exploded.

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The Vancouver Women's Health Collective just opened a new pharmacy on West Hastings called "Lu's: a pharmacy for women". I was pretty happy to see it, as the collective has been shut down for a while.

Then, I read that the pharmacy will exclude health care services for trans women, only catering to women born as women. I did a bit of research as ( Read more... )

This makes my day

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My coworker randomly searched the radio and came up with 104.1 FM...so far, I think it's the best station in the city. Today I have heard Neko Case, Teagan and Sarah, Radiohead, a bunch of old school blues, some good classic rock, and some lovely Indie Rock stuff that I loved listening to and had to go run and look up the artists ( Read more... )

Apparently SoI find it strange. They ranked the cities of the world based on "health-care, stability, culture and environment, education and infrastructure". The survey says that "Any city with a score above 80 percent "will have few, if any, challenges to living standards ( Read more... )

Matthew Good has a really well written piece about Vancouver and the Downtown East Side. How it came to be, why it is growing and what could possibly be done.

Please do read it!

A heartbreaking article from a woman explaining the reasons behind her late-term abortion: hereJust something to highlight and remind us that late term abortions are almost always done due to a tragic complication in fetal development. This children are wanted, and it makes the decision so much more difficult but usually there is no other choice. ( Read more... )