Virtual Connection/Virtual Yogis

It’s official, you no longer need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy one on one yoga instruction. The technology:  virtual yoga offered via your webcam. India based is the first site to offer the services. For the cost of just $20 you can experience live one on one yoga instruction with [...]

Why yoga?

University students are experts at abusing their bodies. They work hard, drink hard, play hard, and run off coffee after pulling repeated all nighters. They tend to get away with it because usually they’re relatively young and healthy.  However every body needs some TLC. That’s where yoga comes in. “We all know that students are [...]

Looks don't matter for Plenty Of Fish

If you’ve managed to find a meaningful relationship, you’ve probably realized that looks aren’t everything. That sentiment holds true on , a Vancouver-based online dating service that The New York Times [/caption] How has a website that plays matchmaker become number one without being visually appealing? When I joined, I was told that I’d increase [...]

Top three e-business blunders

Canada’s e-business industry attracts big money, according to Statistics Canada. Entrepreneurs, small businesses and large corporations alike all want their piece of the multi-billion dollar pie. Professor teaches MBA students about e-business at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. He sat down with me to discuss the major pitfalls associated with online business endeavors. In order, [...]

Boiling the bunny: Forcing puck bunny stereotypes down the rabbit hole

Every female hockey fan battles with . Girls are not always taken for loyal fans of the game. Instead they’re seen as groupies waiting for what goes on after the game. “They’re groupies,” said Matt Krause, who referees recreational games and used to play hockey in the minor leagues. “They congregate around the rink chasing [...]

Life as a female fan

From outside the pub the smell French fries and burgers grilling saturate the senses. Voices from the television can be heard from the doorway. watching the Canucks game from GM Place can be heard cheering in the background, as fans at the pub watch from booths with beers and burgers. A group of guys laugh, [...]

“We Don't Need Your Constitution!” and other protest classics

I have been involved in a few protests the past four or five years, and although there have been many discussions and fights over, say, , there has been, from the perspective of this music geek, a definitive lack of discussion on the music at these events.  Unfortunately, aggressively egalitarian anarcho-politics do not lend themselves [...]

New Core of Canada. Sure.

predicts that are going to form a new majority in various cities of Canada by 2031. Does that mean current members of visible minorities could truly evolve as a major part of this nation? Not just in numbers but in social, economical and political contexts? Having lived in Vancouver for the last 9 years as a [...]

Visible minorities invasion on major league

It is hard to walk by one block in Vancouver without spotting an Asian, Persian, Indian or any other kind of visible minorities. This morning’s edition of had pictures of three visible minorities looking sharp and proud. The headline read, “as minority population booms, a visible majority emerges.” predicted by 2031, nearly 60 % of [...]

FOB in the city

Vancouver Robson Street, Vancouver Seymour Street, and Coquitlam Centre… These are some of hot-spots for international students and tourists. There is a joke that goes, “if you bump into somebody on Robson Street, you might as well just say, “[Sil Lae Hap Ni Da] (“Excuse me” in Korean)”. What about Vancouver is so attractive so [...]

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