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Canucks Take on Ducks Minus a Few Key Players

Our blogger over at Canucks Hockey Blog gives us a luke-warm game day post, expecting the worst for tonight’s game against the Ducks. “With Luongo, Morrison, Isbister and Cowan out and Drew McIntyre, Jason Jaffray, Mason Raymond and Mike Brown in,” it’s looking pretty bad for the Canucks. However, that’s the “worst case scenario.” Some media reports say Luongo and Morrison still might be playing. Last season when Salo and Mitchell were injured, the Canucks “dressed a defense consisting of Ohlund, Krajicek, Bieksa, Edler, McIver and Coulombe.” That night they played the Ducks as well and lost 6-0 at GM Place.
 
Our blogger does look at the “positives” as well in his post. Jaffray and Raymond were two of the leading scorers when they played for the Manitoba Moose. “Jaffray is pure offense and even led the Moose in scoring last season.” This is the first time we’ll get to see if he’s NHL level material. “Raymond, we've seen before and we already know he needs to work on being consistent and on his finish.”

Shell’s Road Rebuilding Plans Thwarted

Tad McIlWraith reports on Field Notes: for the anthropology of British Columbia, that the Klabona Keepers have announced that a “temporary injunction has been issued in BC Supreme Court against Shell.” Shell wants to keep exploring the Klappan for “coal bed methane,” and the injunction prevents them from rebuilding the road into the Klappan.
 
The post states that “the injunction was issued on the assertion that BC’s Heritage Conservation Act — which protects archaeological sites and other cultural properties — may be violated by the road building efforts.” Shel has contacted Heritage Branch to see if their construction activities “are consistent with the Heritage Conservation Act.” The Klabona Keepers, whose mission is to “ensure responsible stewardship of the sacred headwaters (Klabona) of the Nass, Stikine and Skeena Rivers,” have requested to participate in an “archaeological assessment” of the area.

Musings After the Final Board Meeting for the GVTA

Stephen Rees relays his thoughts on the last of the Greater Vancouver Transit Authority  meetings. “I take no pleasure at all in the demise of the GVTA,” he writes “It was an experiment that failed… It showed … that governance of metropolitan areas in Canada [do] not recognise their crucial role in promoting economic and social well being.” Rees believes it is crucial to “manage transportation and land use” in a collaborative effort at a regional level. Part of this is “regional restraint on municipalities” that agree to a growth strategy, “but then allow suburban sprawl and highway oriented development of office parks and big box retailers.”

Rees opines in his post that the region is too controlled by the province, “leaving the most important urban area with inadequate services in order to placate smaller rural communities that have a disproportionate representation for their population in the legislature.” He reasons that we can’t expect adequate transit service from a lobby that is obsessed with “low density subdivisions, WalMarts, and office parks.” The region is attractive to people because of its environment and unique ecosystems, the very things destroyed in pursuit of lobbyist’s greed.

One Hundred Episodes of Wine Videos

The Wine Knows, blog for The Wine Press Northwest, celebrates its 100th episode of its Northwest Winecast, a “weekly video show that features the people and places of Northwest wine country.” They are celebrating by opening a “bottle of bubbly with a saber.” Our blogger informs us that “slicing the top off a bottle of sparkling wine is known as sabrage and dates back to the days of Napoleon and the French Revolution.”

For their 100th episode, that had Harry McWatters demonstrate. President of Sumac Ridge Estate Winery in Summerland, B.C., McWatters has been a force “behind the British Columbia wine industry for the past quarter century.”He's also been known to saber a bottle of bubbly now and then (well, more now than then). In the post, readers will find the video of McWatters using an “Okanagan saber,” which was a $12 machete our blogger “picked up at a home-improvement store.”

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