Nathaniel Christopher

Have you ever had licorice ice cream? It’s my favourite flavour but it’s so darn hard to find so I was absolutely thrilled to learn that my neighbourhood ice cream place, Gleburn Soda Fountain and Confectionary, had just added Licorice Marble ice cream to their menu. I’ve gone there twice this week for a scoop… [...]

In the Sound of Music Mother Abbess tells us through song to climb every mountain. She probably wasn’t referring to actual mountains but I think it’s a powerful message of hope. So, with that song in mind I climbed a mountain today. Mount Burnaby to be exact. I was feeling a little sluggish this weekend [...]

I would like to be a more proactive individual. Over the course of my life there have been many instances when I have decided to do something but never got around to it. I would make a plan in my mind and I had the will to do it but would often get sidetracked by [...]

I’ve lived on Capitol Hill in North Burnaby for over seven years now and have always been curious about the history of this neighbourhood. So, last night I attended a wonderful presentation about the history of Burnaby Heights and Capitol Hill at the McGill branch of the Burnaby Public Library. The one hour presentation, organised [...]

On April 20 Vancouver celebrated its 18th annual 4/20 celebration.  That’s basically the day when thousands of people converge downtown to buy, smoke, see, or smell marijuana. Some go down there. The celebration was founded by employees of Canadian cannabis activist Marc Emery who wanted to host a day-long rally to celebrate cannabis and call for its legalisation. This year’s celebration attracted [...]

Last week my friend Andrew went out of his way to buy me an umbrella at the dollar store. I had no idea that dollar stores sell umbrellas but thanks to the magic of one generous friend I will stay dry this spring. Nobody in Vancouver seems to buy umbrellas anymore – every one I [...]

Okay, so I just watched this so-called “Sit your whore ass down” video which shows a scantly clad woman doing what appears to be some kind of public transit pole dance on Vancouver’s SkyTrain I find this video quite disturbing: It’s not the public nudity that bothers me so muchbut the man’s reaction to it. [...]

Emily Carr (1871-1945) was one of British Columbia’s best-known artists and my brother Gino looks just like her see: Here’s a video about Emily: And another video that Gino did about media in Nanaimo:

Watching the mayhem unfold all the way from Burnaby… I could actually see the smoke billowing up from the downtown core!

I’m a bit of a geek. Whenever there’s a change in government or party leadership I go to their website to see how quickly the webmasters make the change. Yesterday the BC NDP elected Vancouver-Kingsway MLA Adrian Dix as party leader. When I visited bcndp.ca I was pleased to see that they quickly put an [...]