Vancouver

Canadian Man Living in Vancouver Airport for 80 Days

Vancouver Airport © fujitariuji A Canadian man will be spending the next 80 days confined to the Vancouver airport. No, this is not a remake of Tom Hanks’ movie The Terminal. Jaeger Mah, 29, campaigned for two weeks until being named the clear winner of the Live@YVR contest. In celebration of the airport’s 80th anniversary, [...]

Canada Roundup: Cops, Lollipops, and Living at the Airport

Canadian Flag© Gavin St. Ours Time for a roundup of what’s happening with our friendly neighbors to north. First, from The Globe and Mail, comes the revelation that in order to pacify rambunctious drunken crowds of Canadians, all you have to do is hand them lollipops. According to Victoria Councillor Charlayne Thornton-Joe, this strategy successfully [...]

Auto-Tuning, Fur Coats and a Casio Keyboard: The New Face of Tourism Vancouver?

Behold this: I can’t help wondering whether this is a real, honest-to-goodness effort at a tourism video … that thoroughly failed. Or is it an incredibly clever viral video? If the latter, kudos to you, Tourism Vancouver, because you got me. Truly. Who would’ve thought that auto-tuning this gussied up, fur coat-wearing “gal about town” [...]

Photo of the Moment: Tofino Sunset

On the West Coast of Vancouver Island in the province of British Columbia, Tofino says good night to the Clayoquot Sound region, a world UNESCO biosphere reserve. The area boasts one of British Columbia’s most prized nature reserves, Pacific Rim National Park and offers the best way to experience BC’s pristine wilderness first hand. Gorgeous! [...]

Vancouver Boasts Perhaps the Coolest Pizza Oven Ever

Over at This Is Pizza, Adam Lindsley shares this photo of an awesome pizza oven at Vancouver’s Marcello Pizzeria & Ristorante: The wood-burning oven at Marcello’s is probably the coolest I’ve ever seen. Don’t ask me to identify the cultural significance of it, whether it’s tribal or completely the product of someone’s imagination. I just [...]

Artist Creates “Where’s Waldo?” Easter Egg for Google Earth

A young artist and web designer has created a game that she hopes will take off. Melanie Coles has hidden an enormous 55 ft painting of Waldo – the nerdy, lanky spectacled character clad in a red and white striped top and cane, from the Waldo books – on a rooftop of an undisclosed location [...]