Category Archives: Canada

Pivot Legal Society Christmas Auction

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Hope in Shadows

The 5th Annual Pivot Christmas Auction

CALL FOR AUCTION DONATIONS!
You are warmly invited to attend the 5th Annual Pivot Christmas Auction on Thursday, November 8, 2007. It’s going to be a great time with some amazing performances, so please mark this date on your calendar! We have some surprises in store this year that you will not want to miss.

You can really help make the Auction a success by donating an auction item, with proceeds to charitable projects benefiting homeless and disenfranchised persons.  We are looking for socially conscious gifts as well as electronics, jewelry and one-of-a-kind items that anyone would love to receive (massages, spa treatments etc). Our goal is to raise $20,000 this year.

Silent auction items generally range in price from $100 to $500.  We are also seeking a select number of higher end items to go to open bidding with an auctioneer.

Examples of items we are seeking include:
– eco-vacation and recreation packages (golf, fishing, mountain biking etc.)
– spa treatments, massage therapy and bodywork
– First Nations artwork
– jewelry, antiques, collectibles
– electronics (MP3 players, digital cameras, personal organizers)
– educational toys
– personal training/yoga session(s)

Thanks for your support!  It makes a big impact on our work.  And we hope you can come, because it’s going to be a very fun event this year!

For more information or to make a donation, please email auction at pivotfoundation dot org or leave a message for Lisa Werring at 604-255-9700 x130.

Thank you for your generosity!

Pivot Foundation

1812 2.0 goes to Canada!

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US Dollar vs Canadian Dollar

It took more than thirty years, but we’ve finally done it. We broke the American dollar.

Now for all the National Post articles claiming this is bad for our country. Of course it is: because you chained us to your bloody Conservative trade policy of bending over and giving the Americans anything they wanted. I only hope it ruins the venal minority who thrust this, unwanted, upon our country.

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over the viaduct

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Yet under the blanket.

I’m not sure if I’ll be able to tolerate the flying vermin which have infested my house for the last three months long enough to blog this, but I’ll try. As I said recently, I don’t look like I’m typing; thanks to the fruit flies which attend every vegan hippie like the pages surrounding Cleopatra, I look like I’m Carol Channing, playing to the back rows on Broadway.

But I’ll try.

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I didn’t really believe it. None of us really believed it. Until the blanket. Until they pulled out the blanket and draped it over him and even then, still, some primal instinct within us was wishing, hoping, truly believing that they’d tuck it under his chin and say, “There you go, Fred,” and he’d say thanks, it’s cold out, but the only one who said it was cold out was the nurse who’d been working on him ever since the car hit him.

And as they pulled the blanket up over his face, it got even colder.

Down the Rabbit Hole: adventures in writing for children

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The Shebeen

What:

The Shebeen Club: Vancouver’s Literary Gathering:

Down the Rabbit Hole
adventures in writing for children

Who: Lois Peterson of the LP Wordsolutions

When: 7-9pm, Tuesday, September 18th

Where: The Shebeen, behind the Irish Heather, 217 Carrall

How(much)? $15 includes dinner and drink

Why: To learn the Children’s Book market

Down the Rabbit Hole
adventures in writing for children

After twenty years writing for adults, Lois Peterson has written four kids novels in the past six months, and just can’t seem to stop. In her informal presentation Down the Rabbit Hole – adventures in writing for children she will share what has changed since she was a bookaholic kid, what remains the same, and how to tell the difference.

Lois (www.lpwordsolutions.com) is also a creative writing instructor and author of 101 – and More – Writing Exercises to Get You Stared & Keep You Going. While her novel Tansy Here and Now is currently under serious consideration at a wonderful kids’ publishing house, she has reverted to another childhood habit – biting her nails.

Bio: Lois Peterson was brought up in the now-beleagued cities of Basra and Kirkuk (Iraq), ran away from boarding school in her housecoat, and over the years was caught telling numerous lies. So she turned to writing. She publishes articles, essays, and short stories, and in 2007 hopes to finish one novel Who Do You Wish was With Us, and begin another, Just Go. She teaches creative writing to anyone who wants to learn, operates a writing and editing business, and has worked for many, many years for a major public library.

Dress writerly. Berets and/or Team Dorothy Parker tees optional.

More info: email lorraine.murphy at gmail.com

7-7:30 Meet & Mingle

7:30-8 Listen and Learn

8-Whenever “Narnians/Middle Earthers” vs “Hardy Boys/Nancy Drews.”

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Macleans Magazine: finally newsworthy

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The correction they ran, after emailing all (both?) of their subscribers with the offending article:

Macleans magazine

And the potentially offensive subject line?

“Why don’t you go f*@! yourself”

In related news, how much joy do you think it gave the Globe and Mail to run that? NOOOOooobody does po-faced intramural sniping like us Canadians.

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