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Coyote Sightings and Attacks in Vancouver

Comments 36 by Rebecca Bollwitt

60sharesLiving so close to such a wonderland of natural beauty, towering trees, babbling brooks and amazing cliff-side outlooks we often forget that Stanley Park is in fact filled with wildlife and is by no means completely urban. Even though ducks, swans, raccoons, squirrels and skunks are the animals spotted most often, recently coyote sightings and […]

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Team Diabetes Fundraising Pub Night Save the Date

Comments 4 by Rebecca Bollwitt

4sharesLast September I profiled two local women who are gearing up for a marathon run in support of Team Diabetes Canada. One of them was Candice, whom I’ve known since junior high school. Her run is coming up in July, and in an effort to do some fundraising she is hosting a pub night in […]

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Sunday Times

Comments 9 by Rebecca Bollwitt

12sharesThe big conference is over so Miss604.com will return to its regular format tomorrow and I’ll also be launching a fun new contest that my readers can enter. It’s my father’s birthday so we’re heading out to Surrey (as we sometimes do on Sundays per my story in the The Province this morning). To say […]

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Northern Voice 2009 Rock and Roll Photography Kris Krug Dave Olson Bev Davies

Comments 8 by Rebecca Bollwitt

8sharesI first started delving into the works of the legendary Bev Davies only just over a year ago but after discovering what I have (which is simply scratching the surface) I realized what an important person she is to rock and roll history, along with Vancouver history. Along with Kris Krug, whose rock photography is […]

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Northern Voice 2009 Citizen Media and the Olympics Robert Scales and Andy Miah

by Rebecca Bollwitt

0sharesThe first Northern Voice 2009 session following lunch in room 1005 here at the UBC Forestry Sciences building is Robert Scales (of Raincity fame) along with Dr Andy Miah, whose various credits include writing for the Huffington Post during the 2008 Beijing Olympics (he also came all the way here from Scotland, just for this!) […]

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Northern Voice 2009 Making the Radio Station of the Future Steve Pratt

by Rebecca Bollwitt

0shares“Traditional corporations have been doing this for a long time – there’s science behind it, they know what they’re doing.” Steve’s opening comment is following by a “ha” from the audience. “I think before we define the worst, I think we should define what would make it the best.” Steve Pratt starts off showing promo […]

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Northern Voice 2009 Keynote Rob Cottingham

Comments 4 by Rebecca Bollwitt

4shares“He might look like your average college professor but he’s f’ing insane – he’s the funniest guy I know,” notes Kris Krug as he introduces Rob Cottingham, today’s second keynote. Nancy White will also be doing a freeform graphical interpretation of Rob’s talk as we go along. He says his daughter told him to “Break […]

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Northern Voice 2009 Keynote Nora Young

Comments 1 by Rebecca Bollwitt

1shareWelcome to day two of Northern Voice 2009 we have two keynotes this morning and the first is Nora Young (from Spark on CBC Radio) to discuss On Buried Hatchets and Better Tomorrows discussing a new ecology of information for content creators, from mainstream media to online publishing. Photo credit: mstermaq on Flickr Update: When […]

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