Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Bear and Garbage Fines in Coquitlam

Published on July 17, 2010 in coquitlam and council.

Do you live in Coquit­lam? If so, you may face an increase in fines if you are irre­spon­si­ble with how you dis­pose of your garbage!

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M.L.A Profile: Harry Bloy, B.C Liberal

Published on July 14, 2010 in british columbia and legislative assembly.

Harry Bloy has served for the cit­i­zens of British Colum­bia for almost a decade since 2001. He was first elected as the MLA for Burquit­lam. In 2009, he was elected to the rid­ing of Burnaby-Lougheed, due to the rid­ing redis­tri­b­u­tion. Over the years, he has con­tributed sig­nif­i­cantly to Simon Fraser University.

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M.L.A Profile: Mike Farnworth, B.C N.D.P

Published on July 13, 2010 in british columbia and legislative assembly.

As an ini­tia­tive to bring more atten­tion to who your MLAs are, I have started writ­ing MLA pro­files for each of the MLAs. The MLAs are cho­sen at ran­dom orders and are posted once a day for 85 days.

Mike Farn­worth is a BC MLA. He cur­rently serves the rid­ing of Port Coquit­lam, where his pri­mary con­stituents are the res­i­dents of Port Coquitlam.

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Thank You for the Birthday Wishes!

Published on July 13, 2010 in life.

As most of you know, my birth­day was a few days ago. Thanks to friends and fam­ily, it was one of my best birth­days yet. I have received many Happy Birth­days through var­i­ous means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion and I would like to thank you for it.

If you have a known Twit­ter or web­site, I will link your name with the appro­pri­ate web address. If you have been pub­lished in the news­pa­per before, I will write your whole name. If I miss some­ones web­site, please feel free to bring it up.

If I missed any­one, I apol­o­gize. Feel free to mes­sage me and I will post you up.

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Going Green: Tips for Staying Cool

Published on July 13, 2010 in life and wisdom wednesday.

This Sum­mer, we have record tem­per­a­tures in most parts of the world, espe­cially Van­cou­ver. Peo­ple like to take advan­tage of this by going to the beach. Oth­ers, such as me most of the time, like to stay indoors.

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Translink Smartcards and Faregate System

Published on July 10, 2010 in translink.

Ear­lier this year, I posted on Face­book and Twit­ter about Translink want­ing to move to a more ver­sa­tile (and I guess envi­ron­men­tal friendly) method of fare sys­tem. If you did not read my tweet or post, I will sum it up for you. Translink is look­ing into imple­ment­ing a Fare­gate Sys­tem at all Sky­train Sys­tems (Expo Line, Mil­le­nium Line, Canada Line and the Ever­green Line) and using a Smart­card System.

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Vuvuzela Hero!

Published on July 4, 2010 in tourism.

This is just like Gui­tar Hero — except its not a Gui­tar! It gets annoy­ing after a while.