“The Medium is the Message”, coined by Marshall McLuhan was a question tonight as we played Trivial Pursuit 80s edition with the Carlsons. It sparked a brief discussion about Canadian Heritage Minutes that used to play during commercial breaks when we were in high school, as there was a feature on McLuhan. A friend of mine had the one about Emily Murphy down to a tee so I rattled off a few lines from memory, which immediately took me back to the hallways of West Whalley High.
Of course I knew when I got home I would be able to do a YouTube search and find them all, but they’re also listed (and searchable) on the Heritage Minute website. Here are a few gems you might remember from growing up with Canadian television in the 90’s.
I recently received an email from Malcolm, a teacher and volunteer who is also a participant in the annual Canuck Place Adventure Challenge. He informed me about this event that place in the fall (going on 3 years now) that involves performing various physical tasks while raising funds for Canuck Place Childrens Hospice.
Canuck Place Children’s Hospice provides palliative and respite care services for sick children in BC Canada
On Saturday September 6th, 2008 over a hundred participants will gather in Panorama Park in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. Leading up to the event they will be collecting pledges and as for Malcolm, he’s also been blogging about the whole thing, every step of the way.
[In 2007] “The run was uphill in both directions, or so it appeared …5 hours and 17 minutes of being in one of the most beautiful areas of the world was a great way to spend a Saturday despite the number of bike riders swearing their way through the boulders and hills of Mt. Seymour.” [Adventure Challenge – Blog]
Best of luck to Malcolm doing the 6km kayak plus 32km bike plus the 8km run for such a great cause. If you’d like to support him he has his personal online pledge link listed on his blog.
Canuck Place Children’s Hospice opened its doors in 1995, offering specialized care for children with progressive life-threatening illnesses and for their families. Thanks to funding support from individuals, organizations and corporations, hundreds of families from across B.C. have access to Canuck Place’s services, at no cost to them.
Canuck Place was the first free-standing hospice for children in North America and its model of care has been used for many hospices recently established… …The goal of this specialized care, known as pediatric palliative care, is to enhance the comfort and quality of life for both the child and their family. [Canuck Place – About]
You may have caught Andrew Morrison’s Waiter Blog in the Westender or even seen his name while paging through an issue of EAT or Vancouver Magazine. Now Morrison’s latest creation, Urban Diner, has become a staple of restaurant listings and reviews in this city.
As such, they will be presenting the first ever Urban Diner Restaurant Industry Awards this coming Monday at Nu Restaurant. The voting has been taking place since January in the UD forum in the following categories: The “News”, The “Regional”, The “Industry”, The “Media” (including Best Food Blog, excluding UD of course), The “Dining”, and The “Retail”.
If you’re not already an UD forum member it’s too late to join up and cast your vote as the cutoff was Feb. 11th. However if you’re an existing member you have until midnight tonight to stuff those ballot boxes.
With some awards being presented by famed local chefs like John Bishop [of Bishop’s], and Vikram Vij [of Vij’s], it seems like Monday should be quite an entertaining evening (especially now that I’ve been added to the guest list).
Update: Feb 18, 2008: The winners have now been announced. Congrats to the So.Cial Custom Butcher Shop & Deli as the “Best Bargain”.
With DemoCamp and Launch Party Vancouver out of the way we only have one week left until Northern Voice. Before that however, there is still CaseCamp this week. Here are some of the details:
I’m looking forward to Vancouver’s 3rd CaseCamp as it differs slightly from my usual events. “CaseCamp is an unconference for marketers. Following in the footsteps of BarCamp, and building on the model of DemoCamp, CaseCamp brings together people interested in marketing-oriented activities to learn from their peers via case study presentations.” It all takes place this Wednesday, Feb. 20th at the Lamplighter in Gastown.
Northern Voice is SOLD OUT again! Almost 300 people have signed up for the 2-day conference consisting of MooseCamp on Friday (theme: Internet Bootcamp) and the more structured tracks on Saturday with keynote Matt Mullenweg of WordPress. I’ll be helping out all day Friday and be sure to check out the Sports Blogging and Podcasting panel that I’ll be moderating on Saturday. New this year, catered lunches and the tiki lounge dinner on Thursday evening (Feb. 21).
This year’s Massive Technology Show in Vancouver will take place April 1st. It’s a giant one day convention featuring booths, demos, speakers and keynotes for those curious about corporate technologies of today. “At the Massive Technology Show executives will increase their knowledge on a wide range of technology solutions for corporate communications, system infrastructure, product usability, and other critical business activities.”
John attended last year (as did John Chow) and even though both weren’t highly impressed, I’m looking forward to it as I’ll be involved with a new media panel, which should be pretty interesting.
Leading up to that special day that Hallmark created for us this Thursday, I want to feature things that I love, or maybe even just like-like a lot. Sure, my husband, family and friends are a given but these are some of the intangibles, some things that honestly, I wouldn’t be able to be without every day.Part Three: Simply, this City.
“I began to realize that Staten Island was like a quaint European country, the music was twenty years behind and you could smoke anywhere you wanted.†[SATC] – I kid 🙂
The nerds.
45-60 minutes away from camping at any given point.
A clear day when you can practically spot every single evergreen on each of the North Shore mountains.
The Bay downtown. You can shop, eat, get a haircut, why leave?
Bus drivers that are helpful and courteous that make you want to shout out a little “Thanks!” when you reach your stop.
I’m going to meet my mother for breakfast, but I’ll be adding to this list throughout the day. That is unless I get cut off in a crosswalk by a car that fails to stop at the stop sign, or someone pokes me in an eye while carrying their umbrella under an awning. Watch for a more sappy, tear-jerky post on February 25th, when it will be our 2nd wedding anniversary.
