Category Archives: personal reflection

The Economist takes a wrong turn on the highway

Vancouverites are not happy that their city has lost the top spot in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s most liveable cities index. We have been overtaken by both Vienna(#2) and Melbourne(#1). It is small consolation that the downgrade was by less … Continue reading

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Everyone has got it wrong about Canada

Sue and I were discussing how people’s expectations and experience of Canada differ so much. We were wondering why that was and what we could do to help. As we have both trained in NLP, we were reminded of  Alfred … Continue reading

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What’s your favourite area code?

BC is getting a new area code (236) as of June 2012. Up until 1996 we only had 604, but then 250 was introduced to cover the area outside Vancouver. When we began running out of numbers again, 778 was … Continue reading

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