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Every Wednesday in February, starting at 7 p.m., a line-up of local writers will hit the stage at W2 (112 West Hastings. ) Organizer says: "These evenings are designed to show the city and the world real and diverse Vancouver culture and real creative individuals in the literary and publishing communities at a time...

Health officials in Nunavut are giving flavoured and coloured condoms to youth in a campaign to prevent the rise in sexually transmitted infections, according to a CBC story from Feb. 12

It's not a protest and it's not connected with the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. It's an annual memorial march for the missing and murdered women of the downtown eastside neighbourhood...

People are chastising CTV on Twitter and demanding the network stop playing footage of 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili crashing to his death on a practice run at the Whistler luge track. Comments to @CTVOlympics are rich with expletives, showing anger and disgust, and asking people to retweet the message.

"I don't have enough time!" That's the first thought that came to mind when I thought about writing this post.

Here in this picture, at the far right, is Virginia Greene - CEO of the Business Council of B.C. - who carried the Olympic torch in North Vancouver yesterday. Just over a year ago, I got some really good advice on networking from Virginia and it's made a huge positive impact on my life.

Today I had lunch with Lorraine Murphy - known online as raincoaster - one of the most well-known people in Vancouver's blogging / social media community. She gave me great ideas and encouragement - but before I get to that, here's something really disturbing...

On Friday, Feb 5, local artist Mad Dog welcomed fans to his first show in seven years - and, as parties go, everyone had a great time. People were loving (and buying) the art, drinking beer, and talking with old friends and new strangers. On til Feb 28...

My friend Astarte Sands has a really cool job. She coordinates a program for MOSAIC called Workplace Connections - matching local mentors with immigrant professionals moving their careers to Canada.