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Friday Cocktail: “Mickey Rourke”

by Gerry Jobe 05.18.2012

On a recent trip to Vancouver, I had the privilege to climb the stairs high above Save-On-Meats and witness the makeshift Boxing-Gym for the service industry known affectionately as “The Meat Locker.” Inside, skipping rope and sweating up a storm was a veritable “Who’s-Who” of the Vancouver Service industry training for “Aprons for Gloves” a [...]

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Getting Started – The Revolution Begins at Home!

by Ron Berezan 04.10.2012

As a child of the sixties, I can’t help but have this strange compulsion to want to “get back to the land” – that is, to run away from everything that annoys me about city life and embrace that elusive Shangri-la lying somewhere out beyond the suburbs. I know I am not alone in this [...]

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Shark Finning Jeopardizes Ocean Ecosystems

by Rick Green 01.10.2012

^ NDP Fisheries and Oceans Critic, Fin Donnelly, launches shark fin import ban petition at C Restaurant. (L to r, Claudia Li, Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark, Fin Donnelly, Rob Stewart, Cécile Yuen, Robert Clark)
Sharks are sublime creatures. For 400 million years they have survived on Earth, evolving to become the oceans’ supreme hunters and shaping the [...]

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Food Freedom Alert: Rally for Dairy Farmer Michael Schmidt

by paulkamon 11.01.2011

On Wednesday, November 2nd at 9 am there will be a rally for Food Freedom outside the New Westminster Supreme Court (651 Carnarvon Street) in support of dairy farmer Michael Schmidt who has been on a hunger strike for the past 33 days fighting contempt of court charges imposed upon him for distributing raw milk [...]

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Dairy Farmer Michael Schmidt on Hunger Strike for Responsible Food Freedom

by paulkamon 10.12.2011

(Image courtesy of The Bovine)
Ontario dairy farmer, Michael Schmidt, has been fighting for the rights of Canadians to drink raw milk since the early 1990’s. And during that time, his farm has been raided by health authorities along with RCMP officers on two separate occasions (in 1994 and again in 2006 where 25 armed officers [...]

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Vancouver Aquarium’s 2011 Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown Competition

by Editor 10.12.2011

Former Food Network colleagues Ned Bell and Anthony Sedlak square off in this hilarious video promoting the upcoming Ocean Wise Chowder Chowdown Competition at the Vancouver Aquarium on November 23rd.

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Contest Winner! “Coffee Story: Ethiopia”

by Editor 09.16.2011

Tracey Charette, you are the winner of the Coffee Story: Ethiopia book. Congratulations!

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September PR Flower

by Editor 09.13.2011

Two Chefs and a Table expands to Richmond; YEW restaurant + bar Launches new seafood concept; Mission Hill Family Estate celebrates the Fall Okanagan Wine Festival; Araxi celebrates 30 years at Whistler’s Cornucopia; The GLOWBAL COLLECTION
Going Global: September features; BCHF matches funds for those in need – October to be Tip Out To Help; Month; [...]

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Coffee Story: Ethiopia

by Editor 09.07.2011

If there ever was such a thing as the perfect coffee table book, this would be it. I have ONE FREE COPY ($65 value) of Coffee Story: Ethiopia to giveaway. Come inside for details…

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30 Mile Dive: Attention to the Unseen Ocean Crisis

by Editor 08.26.2011

This September, veteran deep-sea explorer and combat diver Scott Cassell attempts a world-record breaking, non-stop SCUBA dive from Catalina Island to Los Angeles.
It’s an extraordinary endeavor, rife with risk. But he hopes it will draw much-needed attention to an unseen ocean crisis happening around us.
“If we were to see the [...]

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Comox Valley’s First Farm Cycle Tour

by paulkamon 08.17.2011

Last week, I was invited to take part in the Comox Valley’s inaugural Farm Cycle Tour, a self-guided, pedal-powered jaunt through one of the most picturesque farming valley’s in all of British Columbia, affording me a chance to visit with some of the region’s local producers and to sample their wares.
With over one hundred and [...]

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Beerlesque Ticket Giveaway!

by Editor 08.07.2011

I have 2 FREE tickets ($100 value) to giveaway for BEERLESQUE – “An Adult Carnival for the Senses” on Friday, August 19th from 7 pm til midnight. Come inside for details…

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