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Larvae tacos and caramelized mealworm icecream are on the menu at a new food cart in San Francisco. Chef Monica Martínez told PRI’s The World...
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Simon Garfield explores the peculiar history of typefaces in his new book, Just My Type: A Book...
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Mr Ratburn runs the blog I wish I ran.
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mayerthorn asked: im in a journalism type news class in college right now. my teacher whos a fairly well established journalist who was a correspondent for CNN and such told all of us about 5 minutes in on the first day that getting a degree in journalism was unnecessary. He said "learn to write and study the international community like an int. studies degree, youll be better off." true or false in your opinion. Im a big fan of culture dynamics and want to work for a culture/news blog some day or start my own. I read the atlantic on my tumblr almost daily and wanted to know what you thought?
I say false. But I’m sure I could find you a handful of people in the office that would disagree with me. There are a lot of different ways into...
The difference between Italy’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and its new one, Mario Monti, could not be more stark.
Mounties are investigating three B.C. teens who posed as underage girls online, lured men to meet them for sex then confronted the accused sexual predators dressed as superheroes.
The shenanigans were videotaped and posted in recent weeks on YouTube, under the title To Troll a Predator.
One video features what the boys describe as a 44-year-old male who was seeking to perform oral sex on a 15-year-old girl. The video shows screen grabs of the online chat, dated Nov. 5, and the agreement to meet at a Tim Hortons.
The video then cuts to footage of a man dressed as Batman, speaking in a Cookie Monster-esque voice, claiming to be with the “Chilliwack police department.”
Read more.
Police and firefighters intervened last night at Occupy Vancouver to extinguish a “sacred fire” reportedly lit by native Canadian Occupiers. Vancouver Police Department chief Jim Chu said today that two firefighters were bitten, Occupiers said several demonstrators were injured and a pregnant woman was punched.
More:
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/5676509/story.html
OH MY GOSH - A SINGLE RAINBOW!
Oh wait, it’s just a double rainbow. This one happened this morning in London.
Photograph by: LEON NEAL, Getty Images
More photos: http://goo.gl/vflX5
On Monday, the Vancouver Police Dept laid the first charges since riots broke out following the Stanley Cup Finals Game 7 this past summer.
Below are some of the details on the charges:
Charges being recommended for first 60 suspected rioters:
- recommending 163 charges to Crown against the first 60 suspected rioters
- 50 men and 10 women
- average age is 21 years old
- youngest male 16 years
- oldest male 52 years
- youngest female 17 years
- oldest female 22 years
The most charges being recommended against one individual:
- 10 charges
Top three most common charges being recommended:
- participating in a riot — 60 charges being recommended
- mischief — 41 charges being recommended
- break and enter — 35 charges being recommended
City of residence of first 60 suspected rioters:
21 Surrey
12 Vancouver
9 Burnaby
4 Maple Ridge
2 Abbotsford
2 Delta
1 Richmond
1 Victoria
1 Coquitlam
1 Courtenay
1 Langley
1 New Westminster
1 North Vancouver
1 Port Coquitlam
1 Seattle, Washington
1 Westbank
- 35 per cent are from Surrey
- 20 per cent are from Vancouver
- 15 per cent are from Burnaby
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and hundreds of Palestinians crossed Israel’s borders in opposite directions as a thousand-for-one prisoner exchange brought joy to families but did little to ease decades of conflict. More photos: http://bit.ly/n545EW
TV personality Guy Fieri sat in a shiny red Camero on Hastings Street in downtown Vancouver this afternoon, revving the engine while filming a scene for his travelling foodie show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.
Of the city, the chef opines: “I mean, I wish I could give you a real quick sentence to kind of wrap it all up, but I’ll just pick one word: Outrageous.”
A man was reprimanded by police earlier this month for trying to load a full-size refrigerator into the trunk of his car, officials said today.
Photograph by Richmond RCMP.
Jack Layton has lost his battle with cancer, dying Monday morning at his home, surrounded by those closest to him.
The charismatic, 61-year-old politician had recently stepped down as federal NDP leader, but had expressed hope that he would return when Parliament resumed next month.
On his death, Layton’s final letter to Canadians was released, with this as its conclusion:
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.”
Read the letter in full here.
More on Jack Layton:
Canadian politicians and celebrities pay tribute to Layton (Storify)
