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Feb. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: What’s with the snowpeople?

Dianna, our inquiring mind, has an inquiry: OK, Canadian natives, I have a question for you. What’s with the topknots…

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Feb. 12, 2019 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Overheard and Overseen

Dianna has been eavesdropping: Overheard yesterday on the bus. A millennial quite serious and slightly horrified: “Oh, no! I couldn’t…

Feb. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Transition Time

Dianna has been noticing how tough it is for us to choose our outdoor wardrobe at this time of year:…

Feb. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Vancouver vs New York: Compass / Metrocard

Dianna likes New York a lot, like so many of us. So she likes this New Yorker video of “Socially…

Jan. 23, 2016 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary (Kentucky Outpost)

Western Kentucky, at least, where Dianna was visiting just before the Great Blizzard of ’16 hit. And how are they…

Oct. 05, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary in Kentucky

Dianna, our Vancouver Diarist, went to the movies in Kentucky: .…

Aug. 20, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: The Next Generation Gets It

Dianna writes: . This stretch of the Jericho Beach pathway is always crowded with pedestrians, cyclists, swimmers, picnickers, little kids,…

Aug. 19, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Ce Soir Noir – Aug 15

Dianna: A very elegant poster for a picnic described as “actually not fancy whatsoev.” . What is this …? This is…

Jun. 17, 2015 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: How big is Kits Pool?

Dianna is a regular. Everybody in the pool because there’s room for all. . . That’s right. Not 800 people…

Dec. 17, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Overheard

Dianna listens in: Overheard yesterday in Aquarius Mews: Three- or four-year-old boy: But I NEED a baby brother! Mom: Honey,…

Dec. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Movie Moment at YVR

From Dianna: Saturday when I arrived at YVR to collect Michael I was drawn upstairs by the sound of a…

Jun. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: Expression

From Dianna: . Here’s a real life, not overheard, conversation which I had this afternoon with a middle-aged woman outside…

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Apr. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Diary: ‘Ah, Spring’ public service announcement

From my seawall-riding observer, Dianna: . Heads up on the seawall, riders! It’s spring, which means everyone in Vancouver it…

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