Where have all the cowboys gone?

“This could be bloody. How’s your stomach?” asks Mike Rose, ranch manager of Quilchena Cattle Co. Ltd., as we approach the red bull corseted by a steel cage and three cowboys in fringed chaps, smeared with blood.

Cow boss Miles Kingdon clamps a wrench-like device around the bull’s testicles and muscles down on them while the other cowboys steady the squirming 270-kilogram yearling that somehow managed to avoid the typical one-month-old castration. With the placement of his testicles on a fence stump, alongside two others, the Hereford-Angus cross is now officially a steer. more...

Blogroll - October 18

This week's Blogroll turns to the Canadian blogosphere to find out what's going on with the loonie, and to learn that as Canadian prices soar, it may be time to go shopping in the States. Back in Vancouver, we also hear more about Vision Vancouver's call to end corporate and union donations to municipal election campaigns. In the tech arena, Blogroll finally checks in on businesses blogging, looking at why and how CEOs should blog; and at 'beauty blogging' -- explaining what the heck that is. more...

Blogroll - Sept. 27

Blogroll checks in with BC bloggers this week to investigate the recent parity of the Canuck and US dollars; how to solve the drug problem in Vancouver's Lower East Side; whether to measure success by gross or net; and whether to buy a condo in Mount Pleasant. more...

Hollywood North is back

Having recovered from its 2004 slump, the B.C. film industry is on a tear, raking in over $1 billion last year. more...

Bubble trouble

The dollar is strong, gold is flying high, real estate prices are soaring and income trusts show no signs of cooling. Should we be worried? more...