Speaking of BC duers, how many of us are there these days?

Check in Mo-fos

Okanagan

Courtenay.

yvr = Vancouver

Who's to stop us?

So we're the Mod Gaggle.

Victoria here, by the way. That's my city, not my name.

What else is there for a gaggle of British Columbians to do.

I always thought it was about 100K, but I was down there this past October for the first time in ages, and it seems a fair bit bigger.

Can't wait to visit again, soon, and buy me that T-shirt of bush stomping all over the happy faces at Utopia!

Nanaimo is 175,000 and it's a smaller city. I think the whole Island's population is only 750,000, whoich works out to 53 perople per square KM. North on Nanaimo it's only 2 people per sq KM.

More than I asked for!

Courtenay's only about 20,000. I've lived in bigger cities all my life until a year ago, so there's a little bit of that "Green Acres" syndrome. I love it here, but one thing is so strange; everything is a 10 minute drive away. No matter where you're headed, it's ALWAYS TEN MINUTES.

I'm such a noid!

for a while. I believe they're the remainder of the BC Contingent.

I'm not sure where they are?

Wat was I thinking?

There has to be a first time for everything.

:(

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Also.... since I'm not from BC, should I get off this thread? :scared:

Someone needs to get on a ferry.

How many Martinis have you had tonight?

No martinis tonight, actually...it's treadmill and soy-smoothie night. But those ferries go both ways, you know!

I've never been invited...to get on a ferry.

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I could go just to spend $50 bucks on high tea, but why would I do that?

:hi:

that would be rather sad and pathetic. Besides, its way cheaper walking on - maybe I'll find someone to talk to at the terminal.

...the guys who hang around the terminal will practically throw themselves at you.

just the sort of man I'm looking for. Nothing bad can happen to a lady at a deserted ferry terminal.

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It seems I was wrong.

:cry: (A manipulative move, I know.)

Don't forget your hat.

My wardrobe seems bereft of hats at the moment. Is there a style you prefer?

...

Jon Stewart's on in ten minutes! ;)

How long does it take to change the channel?

...but still in Vancouver for a few more weeks...

-SM

...Heading back through Canada, though. I'm counting the days until I depart on the "2005 Sufi Marmot Trans-Canada Repatriation Road Trip". And then I'm going to be home for about a week and then abroad for about 5 months... :-)

Yep. Still here.

Sorry... it's been a very surreal couple of months. I'm getting lots of hours at work and I'm getting twitchy.

By the way... I am now a dual citizen (as of January - and I've lived here for 24 years... it was about bloody time) and I am so looking forward to voting in my first provincial election.

I'm still trying to make sense of it. I like the idea but I'm still not entirely sure that it will work in practice... I've sat through all too many committee meetings where everyone has their own agenda and nothing constructive ever gets done because enough of them can't agree on a course of action. I also have a math block which causes my brain to freeze up whenever someone tries to explain how the numbers are supposed to work... so I'm still trying to reconcile that part.

My typing has gotten really bad. Time for bed.

His passport was siezed by the FBI and he was told he wouldn't be let back into the US if he left.

So he performed at the Peace Arch, for both country's peoples:





http://www.caw.ca/whatwedo/humanrights/robeson.asp



From People's Voice, December 1-31, 2001 (not on-line):

The 1952 Concert
The venue was an odd one for one of the great artists of the 20th century, and the sponsor, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers equally curious, or maybe not. "Mine Mill", as it was known, had been founded in a jail cell in Idaho in 1893. It was a union that represented some of the most militant North American workers, the hard rock miners, whose battles with the mine owners were legendary.
Paul Robeson, whose own uncompromising militancy in the face of oppression and injustice was equally well known, had been invited to sing at the Fourth Canadian Convention of the union in Vancouver in February of 1952. The American authorities, however, had seized Robeson's passport, and he was denied permission to leave his country. The convention heard Robeson sing over the telephone and promised to organize a concert on the US-Canadian border, and indeed they did.

Accompanied by Lawrence Brown on piano, Robeson sang and spoke for 45 minutes. He introduced his first song stating "I stand here today under great stress because I dare, as do you -- all of you, to fight for peace and for a decent life for all men, women and children". He proceeded to sing spirituals, folk songs, labour songs, and a passionate version of Old Man River, written for him in the 20's, slowly enunciating "show a little grit and you land in jail", underlining the fact that his government had turned the entire country into a prison for Robeson and many others.

It was a magnificent performance and a triumph for a movement facing the scourge of McCarthyism and the Red Scare. The Korean War was at its height, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were under sentence of death, and it seemed the social and political gains of the previous generation were being eroded by a right-wing offensive. The Peace Arch Concert was a rare victory, a massive solidarity, and a demonstration that the dream of a different world was still alive. The concert was recorded and issued as a record by the union.

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