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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>I just came back from the <a href=\"http://www.nten.org/ntc\">Non-Profit Technology Conference</a> and had to change planes in Salt Lake City.</p>\n<p>It\'s a strange place physically, on a large flat area lodged between the mountains, next to a huge lake with an island that looks like a battleship. I didn\'t have much time to check it out socially or morally, though I did try by doing a bit of research by going to the Squatters Brew Pub (Terminal C in the event that you also change planes there).</p>\n<p>Good selection of beers including a good pale ale, Captain Bastard, Provo Girl (which unfortunately does not feature an Irish Tricolour on the label) and the Polygamy Porter (\"why have just one\"). Also a wheat beer served with a slice of lemon (probably after many complaints).</p>\n<p>So maybe it\'s not such a straight place as I\'d imagined.</p>\n', created = 1328659829, expire = 1328746229, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:c36662d0e248f81022496f7a4e12309f' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>There was an article in the local paper, the Vancouver Sun, about the fact that Vancouver is now the 13th least affordable city.</p>\n<p>Researchers compared the average earnings with the average house price</p>\n', created = 1328659829, expire = 1328746229, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:b2dcaf8f09a92b4747383edf666dcb45' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Well my career has not exactly taken off in Vancouver. I have been a stay at home woman for the past 6 months with the exception of a couple of temporary jobs in insurance agents and real estate offices. The most recent was with Dominion of Canada, General Insurance Company. It was mainly filing and a bit of reception work. So I\'m not exactly fulfilled in my work life at present. However, we are in the process of setting up a new company called Blue Moon learning, which is very exciting. We will look at the company\'s present training and develop it into online learning where appropriate. The first contract we have is with a Mortgage Broker (our mortgage broker actually), who wants some post course basic training putting online, and who, by coincidence, is also part of the Dominion group. It will take a while to get it all sorted out but I think this first contract will be good practise for us, I\'m really looking forward to doing something that combines my educational skills and fantastic interpersonal skills (even though I say so myself...).</p>\n<p>I must say that I am ready to do something other than reception work now though, but we do need the money - just a minor issue :-) Hopefully we will have the first product up and running by Feb next year, I\'ll keep you posted how it goes.</p>\n', created = 1328659861, expire = 1328746261, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:a72d2763f0ab674b654aea1daf674c3b' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Keeping in touch with home is easier now using email. I also listen to the radio online - it\'s great waking up and choosing whether to listen to Terry Wogan, Steve Wright, Chris Evans or Woman\'s Hour. We are 8 hours behind the UK so it\'s all happened by the time we get up! Simon is very happy that he can get up on Sat morning and see the football results immediately :-) Crystal Palace don\'t seem to do any better though ;-)</p>\n<p>The TV is quite bad here, due to the excessive amount of adverts you get so I will often sit and listen to a play online with headphones on in the evening (we have a small apartment at the moment so there\'s not many places you can go....) - it\'s very reassuring somehow, to hear UK accents. What did we do before t\'internet?</p>\n', created = 1328659861, expire = 1328746261, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:16deefa08bb004bd53297d9cfd58f825' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>It was the last day of freedom before the boys went to school yesterday so we went 10 pin bowling in Burnaby where we lived when we were over in 2004. There isn\'t another 10 pin bowling alley downtown which I was very surprised by. Aparantly they have 5 pin bowling here which is unique to Vancouver, but I shied away from going to it with the boys as it is quite hard to do when you first go.</p>\n<p>Travelling back across the Burrard Inlet on the seabus the sun was shining on the North Shore Mountains and it was really beautiful. I thought, this is a fantastic place to live, we\'re so lucky. It is absolutely stunning when the sun shines.</p>\n<p>People are, for the most part, very smiley, and want to help you if at all possible. They do have a problem with my accent though. Most people who work in shops and coffee bars are Chinese or Japanese and are used to hearing the North American version of English - they don\'t understand my dropped vowels, so I often have to repeat myself.</p>\n<p>But I don\'t have to talk to the Mountains, just look at them.</p>\n', created = 1328659861, expire = 1328746261, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:76ba5c8ace4f9fd2a9ee70719d33de50' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We had The Police playing at our local pub last night.</p>\n<p>Or rather, we\'ve just moved to our new apartment which is across the road from <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Place\">GM Place</a> - the stadium where the Vancouver Canucks ice hockey team play their home games and sometime music venue for touring bands.</p>\n<p>They have reformed for a world tour of which this was the first date, and looking out the kitchen window we could see plenty of limo\'s taking the estemed audience home afterwards.</p>\n<p>To be honest I\'d forgotten they were playing in Vancouver as it was a while ago the date was announced, and it wasn\'t until I looked at the BBC News website the next morning I realised what had been on.</p>\n<p>Initially I was confused why a two-year old story about how highly <a href=\"http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4306936.stm\">Vancouver is rated as a city</a> was in the list of the top five most read stories. But then I realised that it must have been The Police\'s presence in the city that had drawn attention to it.</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:0c572db92e5add6f13ad2c58d0f897e6' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We went to see <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarvis_Cocker\">Jarvis Cocker</a> last night. We had to really as he\'s also originally from Sheffield....</p>\n<p>He was in Vancouver as part of a short tour to promote his recent solo album, co-incidentally also named Jarvis, which was released here about a month ago.</p>\n<p>It was great to hear some music </p>\n<p>Or at least absent from mainstream radio/TV </p>\n<p>Any pointers from Vancouver locals welcome.....</p>\n<p>It did make me a bit homesick </p>\n<p>As Pulp are on my list of local bands that I\'ve never seen, this slightly made up for it.</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:575500174aa949f43df03d80485e28ba' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We went to our first ice hockey game, the Vancouver Canucks v. Minnesota Wild, for Rowan\'s birthday. Luckily the Canucks won after extra-time and a shoot-out, thanks to some good saves by his hero Robert Luongo, the goal-keeper.</p>\n<p>I\'m only just getting the hang of knowing which team is playing better, who is likely to score and whether a goal was due to good attacking or bad defensive play. It\'s coming though.</p>\n<p>Compared to UK football (soccer) matches the music is better, but I was a bit thrown by the national anthem played before the game as it was only a league match. It was against a US team though.</p>\n<p>There\'s more shoving and pushing on the pitch. Although some of it seems a bit ritualistic and half-hearted, referees do not intervene until somebody falls down. As a friend of mine made out, he once went to a boxing match and a game of ice hockey broke out half-way through.</p>\n<p>Strangely the game seems based on threes which seems unusual for a sport. There\'s three periods in a game, three referees on the pitch, and three sections to the pitch.</p>\n<p>We\'ll be living just across the road from the stadium so it was great to see what goes on inside, although I don\'t know how often we\'ll be going as it\'d be expensive to go to regularly. It was the 159th consecutive sold-out home game (beat that Man U.) so there\'s no incentive to bring the prices down.</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:8012c3b8ac9dd09548b8d94c796d0d9a' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>Took the kids to school on the bus/seabus again today.</p>\n<p>Tickets are valid for 90 minutes travel on buses, the skytrain (elevated light railway) or the seabus (which goes back and forward across the harbour).</p>\n<p>For the last 4 days in a row the time stamped on my ticket has been 9:24. It\'s getting slightly predictable - I almost wish it would be late one morning just for variety. But then it\'s timed to get to the seabus on time so if it more than 2 minutes late we\'d miss it.</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:107aa4d4d70d80a5edd566d1236a9f17' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We went to open an account with a Canadian bank today.</p>\n<p>It wasn\'t exactly like \'Bowling for Columbine\' where Michael Moore gets given a free gun for opening an account, but the background music that they had on while we were there included \'Armed and Extremely Dangerous\' by The Three Degrees.</p>\n<p>The main difference between the banking systems is that here banks charge by the number of transactions, and there is a fee for drawing money out of bank machines that belong to other banks.</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:7316fffccce69ebed2fe0036fc4bab5b' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We went to see the school that the boys will be going to today. They are starting on Thursday, so we\'ll have been in the country for just a week. It\'ll be good as they\'ll be able to start getting to know some other kids and we\'ll be able to get on with sorting out various bits of bureaucracy.</p>\n<p>The school is named after Lord Strathcona (will have to look up who he is) and is on the edge of Chinatown. For Vancouver it\'s a fairly old school, but not as old as the archetypal Victorian school that Rowan was going to before.</p>\n<p>Once we move to our apartment it\'ll be walking distance, but for now it\'s a walk, a trip on the seabus and a bus journey. It\'ll be great commuting to school by boat but I guess the novelty will wear off in a couple of weeks....</p>\n<p>There\'s more info at <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Strathcona_Elementary_School\" title=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Strathcona_Elementary_School\">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Strathcona_Elementary_School</a></p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:515b7a27eef475b66f6c386ff581c656' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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  • user warning: Table './sheff2va_drupal/cache_filter' is marked as crashed and should be repaired query: UPDATE cache_filter SET data = '<p>We got a booklet for new immigrants when we arrived. It\'s got the words of the national anthem on the inside cover:<br />\n\"O Canada! Our home and native land!<br />\nTrue patriot love in all thy sons command.<br />\nWith glowing hearts we see thee rise<br />\nThe true North strong and free.<br />\nFrom far and wide, O Canada<br />\nWe stand on guard for thee.<br />\nGod keep our land glorious and free!<br />\nO Canada, we stand on guard for thee.<br />\nO Canada, we stand on guard for thee.\"</p>\n<p>I know that some people change the first line to \'Our home on native land\', but what stands out for me is \'free\' being repeated several times, and the use of the word \'North\' (if we\'re in the north, who is it that we\'re standing guard against?)</p>\n<p>By comparison, the British national anthem simply claims we\'re happy having a monarch and hopes that no harm comes to her (catches the flu, chokes on a fish bone, etc).</p>\n', created = 1328659884, expire = 1328746284, headers = '' WHERE cid = '4:bd2129fdb2864bc5928bb19bfd9be1af' in /home/sheff2va/public_html/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 167.
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30 November 2004 - 8:15am — simon

It was the final of 'The Greatest Canadian' last night.

In third place was Pierre Trudeau, the Prime Minister in the 70's, and probably the only one of the top ten who'd be known in the UK besides Alexander Graham Bell (who was born in Scotland). Second was Terry Fox, who was from Vancouver and famously attempted to run across the country after having a leg amputated due to cancer.

And the winner was..... Tommy Douglas, who sounds like a Canadian version of Nye Bevan, as far as I can make out. He was the premier of Saskatchewan province five times from 1944 and was 'responsible for 70 bills aimed as social and economic reform' including starting Medicare (the equivalent of the National Health Service in the UK). And he did it while reducing the provinces debt by $20M.

He was a leading member of the New Democratic Party, the main federal socialist party. A couple of quotations of his are 'we can now fly like a bird, swim like a fish and burrow like a mole - if only we could we walk like men' and 'watch out for the little fellow with an idea'.