The kid in this picture has a big cast on his arm, but this doesn't stop him from doing risky things. We met at Leeside Park, near Hastings and Cassiar, in an underpass and had seen him around at other parks.
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I am officially on vacation - and enjoying lots of offline family time. This year Santa brought my son a PlayStation 3 and we cleared out a spot in our little townhouse now known as "The PS3 Lounge."
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People can wear their East Van pride with one of these t-shirts created by Alex Usow. Its design was based on a series of t-shirts that started with an original "John & Paul & Ringo & George" design.
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Yesterday my son went to the Dry Spot indoor skatepark in Vancouver and spent nearly an hour psyching himself up to "drop in" on this ramp in the picture. He said he felt "scared as all hell" when he decided to try it.
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Do you think it’s disrespectful to the Mad Carver to not wear a helmet in his memorial bowl? That’s an opinion I heard today from someone who wrote in to the Province newspaper about how upset she was to see the paper’s
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Soccer mom? Hockey mom? No thanks. I don’t want to get up at 5 a.m., spend half a fortune on gear, and cart around a bunch of sticky, chopped up oranges. I’m a skater mom – and I don’t mean a mom who rides a skateboard (though I have tried it). I keep a...
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