Blogroll - November 8

| Published: November 08, 2007

Beware of Black Friday!
by Christine Persaud
Marketnews
"As retailers south of the border gear up for what's traditionally known as "Black Friday" (i.e. one of the busiest and most heavily promoted shopping days of the year), we're all wondering how things will fare. Will customers hoard into stores trying to get the best deals? Most definitely. Will retailers drop prices to record-breaking lows? Very possibly. Will chaos ensue? Time will tell" More...

The Vancouver Emergency
by Yoshi
The Shotgun Blog
"So far there year there have been at least nineteen gang-related murders in metropolitan Vancouver. There have been four in the last week. Fifteen people have been killed – in what police characterize as four or possibly five simultaneous gang wars – in the last two months. Events are escalating. A major leader of a criminal syndicate was assassinated outside of his home a few days ago. About a week before that, six people – including two civilians – were brutally slain inside of a Surrey apartment. This is a crisis." More...

Thinking Outside the Box Store
by Andrew
The Livable Blog
"An article by Ned Jacobs in The Tyee describes how the proposed 255,500 square-foot Canadian Tire on Ontario and SW Marine Drive goes against Mayor Sullivan's self-named eco-density initiative. If the mayor is going to eat his own dog food, then he should not be giving the green light to any big-box retail stores. Such car-oriented retail will only increase our carbon foot-print and increase our dependence on the automobile." More...

Super Natural! Downtown Eastside!
by Alison
Creekside
"United Nations envoy Miloon Kothari, on a tour of Canada to examine homelessness, said he visited Vancouver specifically to assess whether the Olympic bid's pledges 'are being kept.' Vancouver said, 'If we get the Games, we commit to leaving a positive legacy,' and we [at the UN] are taking that at face value, Kothari said. 'So far in Vancouver, there aren't many results on the ground, but we still have some time to go'." More...

Journalist-Only Club, No Bloggers Allowed
by Rebecca Bollwitt
Miss604
"For the record, I am not sitting in a basement while I type this.
My friend Michelle invited me to be a guest lecturer for her “Intro to Journalism” course at SFU this week. She is accomplished in print and radio

(all over the world) and her other guest that night was a science journalist. Kudos to her for inviting me, a representative of a form of online journalism we call blogging, to speak in front of her class, even though I was super nervous." More...

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