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June 2010

Yaletown Grand Prix

Granville Island Parade 8:00am – 11:00am on Thursday July 1 Granville Island is bursting at the seams with culturally diverse national pride. Around every corner you’ll find entertainment, artwork and food that allows you to wrap yourself in the flag and embrace the rich tapestry of our multicultural nation. A great day for the whole [...]

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Vancity Theatre – South Asian Film Festival

VISAFF is Vancouver’s premier International South Asian Film Festival. Its purpose and vision is to “bridge the gap” between South Asian talent and mainstream audiences. VISAFF will be instrumental in breaking the South Asian stereotype, and expanding North American views on the artists within the culture. The festival will serve as a launching pad for [...]

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Charlie’s Helps Cycling Team FLICK CANCER

Riders to Conquer Cancer Refreshed at Local Restaurant Local cycling team FLICK CANCER met up at Charlie’s restaurant and bar (1265 Hamilton Street) on Tuesday, June 15. The team is participating in the Ride to Conquer Cancer, benefiting the BC Cancer Foundation. Teams cycle from Vancouver to Seattle over two challenging days this weekend (June [...]

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local Yaletown businesses get involved

The Ride to Conquer Cancer is just around the corner and Yaletown.ca has a huge opportunity for local businesses to get involved and help make a difference. For the next 5 days Yaletown.ca is offering 1 free month of advertising for every $100 donation. Not only will you be supporting a great cause, you will [...]

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Dash Bubble Tea opens in Yaletown

Finally, Bubble Tea in Yaletown! Hooray!!! Dash has quickly taken advantage of the recent closure of Raging Bean on Pacific Boulevard and opened up Yaletown’s first Bubble Tea cafe. No longer are ‘quick’ drives into Richmond needed for an authentic cool and refreshing Bubble Tea. What is Bubble Tea? Bubble Tea is a sweetly flavored [...]

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Yaletown’s Best Cookie: My Lucky Charm

They are ‘liked’ on Facebook by 149,000 users worldwide. At 11 grams of fat and 222 calories PER cookie, it’s stupefying that so many people love and INGEST this shockingly unhealthy Subway treat on a regular basis. They mustn’t have seen the nutritional information, like I hadn’t until now. Does an equal portion of PURE [...]

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Ditch the SUV and ride to work

June is bike Month. May 31 – June 4 is Bike to Work week and Better Environmentally Sound Transportation (BEST) is providing a free breakfast to all bike commuters tomorrow (June 2) at the CBC Plaza starting at 7:00am. So get out your old steel 10-speed and bike on over for a free breakfast consisting [...]

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