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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/06/27/bc-bedbugs.html Bedbugs spreading across Vancouver Bedbugs are spreading across Vancouver. And the city's chief medical health officer is blaming promiscuity for the itchy problem. "People occasionally go to the Downtown Eastside...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/27/bigfoot.ap/index.html 'Bigfoot' expedition planned in Michigan MANISTIQUE, Michigan (AP) -- Researchers will visit Michigan's Upper Peninsula next month to search for evidence of the legendary creature known as "Bigfoot" or "Sasquatch." The expedition...

This is a pretty cool video. Like it says, no wonder our sense of beauty can be distorted. Even supermodels can't live up to the images.

My wife and I had a $100 gift certificate to the April Point Resort Restaurant. It's owned by the same group that own Painters Lodge in Campbell River. The restaurant is on Quadra Island. To get to it we took a water taxi from Painters Lodge. This is not a cheap place. It's a good thing we had a...

Group therapy sessions here.

She's turning 6. Although she can't play guitar, yet, she does like to make noise. I was going to get her a very cheap pink guitar but anything really cheap isn't playable.

Not exactly national news but a pretty exciting time for our community. The first cruise ship docked today. Too bad the weather was the pits.

Have you seen this man?

Does Bigfoot exist? If you believe it does is it human, an animal or an alien?

Got a news story that borders on comedy or insanity, or a bit of both. It has a home. Drop it in the Odd News section.

Some of the posts in here were moved to wreck beach. Dave, please don't rehash old bs. Thanks.

Holy Schmoly

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail May 30, 2007 at 4:44 AM EDT CALGARY — — A boycott is brewing at Canada's iconic coffee and doughnuts chain after a sign that declared "No Drunken Indians Allowed" was taped to a drive-through window at a Tim Hortons [THI-T] outlet in Southern Alberta...

You got that right. My doctor sent me to one years ago and I lost about 50 pounds and felt like a new person. (I think I need to make another visit)

For some time now the politicians in BC and Vancouver have been promoting the idea that the extreme downsizing of Riverview in the 70's/80's was a mistake, and that some of the street people on the Vancouver Eastside would be better off in such a facility. I think they are wrong. What is...

It seems that this is the time of the year to get them at a good price. Does anyone own one and use it?

I'm going back in time, reading Alvin Toffler's "The Third Wave". It's a pretty good read, although I'm not finished with it. It offers a unique insight to the effects of the industrialization and the many ways it has changed society. He even claims feminism rose because of the impact it had on...

OK, maybe not. Who do you think should be a nominee for a Nobel Peace Prize?

What should we do with these people? One idea is to hang them upside down by their testicles with red hot piano wire. Any other suggestions?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/genetics_reproduction/rgtech.html The nine prohibitions listed on the federal government's voluntary moratorium: sex selection commercial "surrogacy" arrangements buying and selling eggs, sperm and embryos genetic alteration creation of an artificial womb...