Olson, Geoff

Hey Mr. RCMP Bureaucrat Dude, Now that you're being sued by the guy who recorded the lethal taser incident at Vancouver International Airport, are you going to return the video, as originally [...]

Mother Nature sez: "Hello, dearies! Are you sitting down? Are you in a relaxed state of open awareness? Good! It's time for your Zen lesson. It used to be the Alberta tar sands weren't worth [...]

"Wow, talk about scary!" What are you kids supposed to be?" "I'm a blackwater mercenary!" "I'm a cop with a taser!" "I'm an international trade negociator!" "I'm a pharmaceutical lobbyist!" "I'm Dick Cheney!"

DOWN IN AL GORE'S REC ROOM...* Nobel Peace Prize, Oscar for documentary film ("An Inconvenient Truth"), Emmy for television version ("An Inconvenient Truth"), American Dental Association award for [...]

NEWS ITEM: Condoleeza Rice says Vladimir Putin has amassed so much central authority that the power-grab may undermine Moscow's commitment to democracy... "In any country, if you don't have [...]

NEWS ITEM: Appendix not useless after all. Doctors have discovered it protects beneficial bacteria living in the human gut... "Good Lord! Do you realize what this means, Smithers?" "Uh...human [...]

NEWS ITEM: Apple says tampering with iPhone may harm unit... AAAAARRGHH!! That REALLY hurt! Are you nuts or something?! Go mess with your crackberry and leave me the %$#@ alone! HELP, STEEEEEVE!!

Stanley Park Dinos* *Giant animatronic dinosaurs Stanley Park "Dino-droppings"* *Giant heaps of manure courtesy City Hall, for a touch of smelly, strike-based realism.

Outlawed terms for filmgoers during The Vancouver International Film Festival

Claims no knowledge of theft; got computer "from a friend." Says he didn't steal any U.S. elections but "got them from a friend, Karl Rove." Claims there's no theft of British Columbia's rivers: It's [...]

Sketchbook Survey An RCMP officer has been docked two days' pay after punching a diabetic outside a Kamloops hospital. In a separate incident, two RCMP officers were docked 10 days' pay for getting [...]

"Regarding the controversy over veiled women at the polls, Mr. Prime Minister... Things appear to have worked in your favour. You put Dion and Layton into a difficult situation." "If they disagreed [...]

Companion volumes...?

"In tonight's stop story, Bin Laden returns with a new look and terrifying message..."

Sketchbook Survey It was kind of a lame summer, weatherwise, your thoughts, opinions, complaints, please.

Ecodillydally, v. To conserve energy and resources when presented with an environmental problem.* *Trademark registered by Mayor Sam Sullivan

"This is what it's all about, son! Highrises! Ecodensity!" "We're a world-class city, pop!"

Sketchbook Survey Five locations of a Vancouver coffee franchise are offering the first $15 cup of coffee. Apparently it's intensely fragrant with a hint of jasmine and ATM machine. What do you think?

When Reuters reported that Russia had made a deep-sea claim to the North Pole, the news agency's website accompanied the story with a video of submersibles. The images were reproduced in newspapers [...]

"Ever since the "Summer of Love," I've been ahead of the trends. I got into Yoga years before it became hip. Now everyone and their pet are into it - literally. There's even Yoga for dogs! As for the [...]

The Road to Hell on Cambie Is Paved with Gord Intentions

Don Copeman, who owns a health care centre that charges patients a $3500 membership fee, intends to take over a 70-year old public clinic that serves 40,000 patients in the South Granville area. A [...]

The OFFICIAL POSITION on the SECURITY AND PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP [North American Union]

On July 17, President George W. Bush signed an executive order that authorized blocking the use of any property held by anyone he says is a threat to the "stabilization of Iraq." Critics say this [...]