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New Westminster is Awesome, Day 8
We’ve teamed up with the City of New Westminster to bring you two weeks of blog posts exploring Western Canada’s oldest city on our BC Is Awesome site! Today our editor Ghazal Elhaei brings it outside...
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New Westminster is Awesome, Day 9
We’ve teamed up with the City of New Westminster to bring you two weeks of blog posts exploring Western Canada’s oldest city on our BC Is Awesome site! Today our editor Ghazal Elhaei explores the...
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GIF: Proper ashtray selection in Vancouver
Every week I bootleg at least one of GIF from the Vancouver Rising Tumblr blog which takes archival videos and turns them into quick and awesome animations. VISIT THEM and be sure to follow! Use your...
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New Westminster is totally Awesome!
We teamed up with the City of New Westminster over the last two weeks, bringing you blog posts exploring Western Canada’s oldest city on our BC Is Awesome site! Today’s the final day and our editor...
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New Westminster is Awesome – a complete recap of the BC Is Awesome series
For the past two weeks we collaborated with the City of New Westminster to discover and uncover the best of what the Royal City has to offer. We explored the city in every aspect possible – from...
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Why Do You Love Your Hood? How could you make it better?
Images: courtesy Exhaling Change Back in May, my good friend and roommate, Justine Zeisman, and her business partner, Matt Schroeter, formed a collective called Exhaling Change. Their first venture,...
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What the Heck is Goodbomb?
Words: Ben Scott, Goodbomb Founder GoodBomb.com is a showcase for awesome projects that are making our communities better. Where “bad bombs” blow stuff up, GoodBombs build stuff up. GoodBombs are all...
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GIF: The lineup for the Stanley Park Miniature Train ride (1964)
Every week I bootleg a GIF from the Vancouver Rising Tumblr blog which takes archival videos and turns them into short and sweet animations. VISIT THEM and be sure to follow! The lineup for the Stanley...
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GIF: Granville at Robson (1973)
Every week I bootleg a GIF from the Vancouver Rising Tumblr which takes archival videos and turns them into sweet animations. VISIT THEM and be sure to follow! Granville at Robson (1973)
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Goodbye DefinitelyRaining.com, thanks for all the laughs (cc @VancouverWTF)
Our friends at Definitely Raining, THE funniest blog in the history of Vancouver, have decided to call it quits. They had a great year and a half run where they delivered sizzlingly truthful...
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GIF: The Vancouver Soap Box Derby! (1954)
Every week I highjack a GIF from Vancouver Rising on Tumblr which takes archival videos and turns them into sweet animations. VISIT THEM and follow! The Vancouver Soap Box Derby! (1954)
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Our 10 most popular stories of 2013
It’s been an incredible year here at V.I.A. and, like everyone else, we’ve got an end-of-2013 list for you! Going over all of the stats for our site, we dug out the most popular blog posts we of the...
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What the Heck is the Vancouver Web Fest?
“What the Heck is” introduces you to organizations and causes you might not have yet heard about, written from an insider’s point of view by people working within them. View the archive HERE. Words:...
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This is what’s Awesome in Canada this week
The Canada Is Awesome network has websites and social media extensions in Vancouver, Whistler, Calgary and Toronto, with many more on the horizon. Our goal is simple: we let people know about all of...
View ArticleWhy we do what we do
Here’s a piece that one of our community sponsors, TELUS, produced about myself and my work with V.I.A. a little while back. It touches on the genesis of this project, the stress-induced eye disease...
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In case you forgot how awesome the Vancouver Public Library is
The VPL is offering a FREE course on creating your own blog or website in WordPress! This is the content management system that we use here at V.I.A., and it’s a free platform that many of the world’s...
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Here’s what Robson Square looked like back in 1983
Every week or so I highjack a GIF from Vancouver Rising on Tumblr which takes archival videos and turns them into sweet animations. VISIT THEM and follow! Robson Square (c. 1983)
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FOUR floating gas stations in Coal Harbour… in 1984
Every week or so I highjack a GIF from Vancouver Rising on Tumblr which takes archival videos and turns them into sweet animations. VISIT THEM and follow! Vancouver skyline reveal (1984)
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Hatching a West End pigeon family
A little more than a week ago I shared the news of BalconyPigeon.com, a wonderful new webcam of a pigeon couple tending to their eggs on a West End balcony . It was set up by my friends James and Ceone...
View ArticleThe miracle of pigeon birth! Welcome Squab #1
By now you’ve certainly checked out the BALCONY PIGEON live stream which has been broadcasting a pair of West End pigeons tending to their eggs. I’m happy to report that one of the eggs has hatched!...
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