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Still a lot more bottom in Vancouver Real Estate

January 30, 2009

This just in:  Vancouver has been ranked fourth on the world’s list of least affordable cities.  This is well ahead of cities like Manhattan, San Francisco, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.  As most rational people know, the city’s thundering real estate market has been bolstered by rampant speculation and constant construction of new condominiums.. but [...]

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How to Properly Export Hockey

January 1, 2008

It ended this afternoon (early evening, Buffalo time) with a shoot-out goal by phenom Sidney Crosby on Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller before 70,000 freezing, mostly-drunk fans mixed from Canadians and the occasional actual Buffalo Sabres fan amid a blinding snow storm.
If you squint a little, that’s kind of how professional hockey began, more than 125 [...]

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Despicable

May 3, 2007

As the Stanley Cup playoffs rage on, a select crew of Canadian players whose teams are out of the running are over in Moscow defending Canada’s great cultural hockey tradition at the IIHF Hockey World Championships. The 2007 team, which was given a pass this year by past, current, and future greats like Sidney [...]

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Old Time Hockey…

September 2, 2003

http://www.heritagehockeyclassic.com/
he Edmonton Oilers Hockey Club has announced further details of its 25th Anniversary season, which will include the first ever NHL regular season game played outdoors. The game, to be titled “The Heritage [...]

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Au Revoir, Sucker

May 29, 2003

I still contend that Patrick Roy’s biggest enemy is his tremendous goaltender’s ego. He couldn’t WAIT to divert attention away from the Stanley Cup Finals, announcing his retirement (two years too late, in my view). His career will forever be marred by his characterless departure from the Montreal Canadians. I still contend [...]

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Inside the Meet Market…

December 30, 2002

http://www.shift.com/content/web/444/1.html MEET MARKET Meetup.com allows people to easily arrange offline get-togethers for like-minded netizens. But does it really work? Al Mousseau crashes two Meetups to find out. | Dec.23.2002 |
I walk into Future Bakery on Bloor Street. It’s rather chilly out, and I’ve come out of the cold to check out a meatspace “Meetup,” [...]

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FW: Buy beer AND beer stocks

May 2, 2002

—— Forwarded Message From: Shiuman Ho Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 15:50:48 -0700 To: hello [at] ianbell [dot] com Subject: Buy beer AND beer stocks
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/020502/5/m62f.html
It would appear that if I had bought Molson (the beer and the stock) in the past two years, I would now be richer and happier. Molson’s stock [...]

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June 26, 2001

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news/ap/20010626/ap-avalanche-bourque.html
Bourque retires after 22 years in NHL, Stanley Cup win
By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer June 26, 2001
DENVER (AP) — For 22 seasons, Ray Bourque performed like few others on the ice. On Tuesday, he showed he knew how to make a grand exit, too.
Bourque announced his retirement 17 days after [...]

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This Guy Makes Me Mad…

April 18, 2001

I honestly have a hard time believing that this guy is for real. He’s just the sort of crass, bigoted, moronic, ugly American that gives citizens of the US a bad name around the world.
Anyway, what’s afoot right now is a major hellstorm of flame email targeted at this moron. He made [...]

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