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Archive for the ‘BC websites’ Category
Thursday, September 18th, 2008
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
photos from http://flickr.com/photos/dtes_people
What to do with DTES????
Suggestion - right or wrong?
What about some sort of mass institutionalization scheme? Sort of a forced rehab for the habitually homeless, drug addicts and the like? We could take away their children, and take preventative measures to stop conception amongst the less capable. We might be able to break the cycle of parent to child if we removed them from the stiuation early enough. Those that were rehabilitated could rejoin the community, and the rest could be warehoused until they died, and then due to the lack of procreation, and the taking of their children, in a few generations, there would be hardly any ne’er-do-wells left.
Now, of course it would be expensive, in the short term, but property crime would be so reduced, it might help to offset the costs, and if we ran it bare bones, like a prison island, we might be able to keep costs down as well. The more able ones could be used as a workforce as well.
As for the human rights argument… honestly, would they be any worse off than they are now, dying on the streets of the modern plague?
Think the Gulag system.
Thoughts?
from http://www.blogosaurusvex.com
WRONG -WRONG -WRONG
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
http://eflora.bc.ca/
E-Flora BC is an electronic atlas of the plants of British Columbia that provides key information on our plant species for use in conservation, education and research. The atlas covers both vascular plants, including our many colourful wildflowers, and non-vascular plants, which includes the myriad species of mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae and fungi that are found in BC.
http://efauna.bc.ca/
E-Fauna BC is an electronic atlas of the wildlife of British Columbia that provides detailed scientific information on the animal species of our province for use in conservation, education and research. In the atlas, you will find information on species ranging from familiar animals such as bears, wolves and birds, to less familiar animals such sea stars and sea cucumbers, insects, spiders and ticks, and much more.
In developing E-Fauna BC, we have brought online key information on BC wildlife from several expert sources and publications, including both published and unpublished information. Click here to view all of the sources of information that have been brought online in E-Fauna BC.
Read the atlas pages to learn more about species distributions, ecology, behaviour, and food sources. E-Fauna BC provides you with an easy to access, comprehensive, and centralized information on BC wildlife in a simple, easy to use atlas format.
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
http://www.zwadadesign.com/
ZWADA home - an intimate design gallery featuring beautiful furnishings and objects d’art. Our unparalleled collection of antiques and artisan-crafted Asian pieces, exquisitely juxtaposed with our modern line will infuse your home with timeless quality and understated elegance. Signature floral design available upon request.
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
http://enterprisingmomsnetwork.com/
Enterprising Moms Network is dedicated to helping one another succeed with our businesses. The Network is a diverse group with different talents, skills and ideas, but possess one important similarity - they are all moms.
This Networking Group has been created for moms who are just starting out with their business, moms who are already running their own successful business, and moms who are somewhere in the middle.
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Five reasons the Change Everything community has earned the Webby:
- It’s a community committed to social change. As someone who scours the Internet Movie Database obsessively, I’m the last person to complain that so much of the web is devoted to the trivial and inconsequential. But when a site weighs in with a substantive mission and becomes a real success, it encourages others to follow suit, pursuing real-world results – and for those of us convinced of the social web’s potential as a tool for social change, that’s powerful stuff.
By the way, among those real-world results for Change Everything: a warm clothing drive that self-organized on the site in its early days, after a particularly nasty cold snap threatened the poorest and most vulnerable residents of the Downtown East Side. Within a few days, the drive had netted more than 70 garbage bags filled with hats, gloves, scarves and coats – and triggered several spin-off initiatives.
- It embraces the open-source spirit. Change Everything is built on the Drupal content management system in a sector (financial institutitons) where closed-source software is the near-universal rule. And yet, in contrast to its closed-source Webby competition (with the notable exception of open-source browser Flock), Change Everything isn’t just built on Drupal – it regularly contributes back to the development community (most recently releasing the Nudge module).
What’s to stop another credit union or (gasp) bank from using Nudge as part of a site designed to steal Change Everything’s thunder? Not a thing… and the fact that Vancity isn’t letting that fear stop them is a clear sign they’ve embraced the community ethos that underlies the open-source movement.
- It’s a Vancity project… but not the Vancity project. Social networking may not be your business, the way it’s Facebook’s business, but it’s not Vancity’s business either – and that’s why Change Everything is such a success. What Vancity does know is how to serve the needs of its members: not just their banking needs, but their needs for a vibrant, sustainable community. If you’re part of an organization with a distinct social mandate, approach and values, your social smarts are needed in the social networking world.
- It’s small and focused. How can Change Everything’s 3000 users hope to beat Facebook’s 70 million? In sheer numbers, they can’t. But there’s a quality to be had in a small, focused community: intimacy, shared interest, and perhaps a little more willingness to trust a fellow community member. (Not to mention the fact that you’re much less likely to be tracked down by people you’ve been trying to avoid since grade four.)
There’s room online for both the online giants and the nimble niche or hyper-local communities; each serves a different purpose. But it’s about time we started paying a little more attention to those niche communities – while the Facebooks and MySpaces of the web may provide utility, it’s the niche communities that are more likely to capture users’ passion.
- The content, in all modesty, kicks ass. Feeling a little tired of pokes, vampire bites and which of your friends is the hottest-looking? Change Everything can give you the often-hilarious story of EnviroWoman, who went a year trying to live plastic-free (and mostly succeeding) – told with wit and humility. It can give you posts like Alex’s on plastics and BPA, posted nearly a full year before the media started really taking notice and the Canadian government announced a ban. And it can give you stories like this one, about the difference a simple bicycle ambulance design is making in Malawi and Namibia.
But the best way to understand why Change Everything is to explore the community itself. http://ChangeEverything.ca
from http://www.changeeverything.ca/blog
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
 
Internet calling company Skype said on Monday that it would offer an unlimited long-distance calling service for customers who want to reach friends and family without computers or Internet access.
Skype, owned by eBay, is one of the best-known Internet calling firms which allow free calls among Internet users. Users pay to call landlines and mobile phones, but the fee is often lower than standard long-distance services.
The company said it was offering unlimited calls to landline and cell phones in the U.S. and Canada for $2.95 a month.
It also offers unlimited calls to phones in 34 countries including Australia, China, Germany, Japan and the United Kingdom, for $9.95 per month, it said.
Skype users in Europe can choose from unlimited plans ranging from 2.95 euros to 8.95 euros a month depending on the destination of calls, the company said.
Skype is one of eBay’s biggest divisions. The parent firm took a $1.4 billion write-down off Skype’s $4.3 billion price tag last year due to problems in making money from largely free Internet voice communications.
Skype’s new chief executive, Josh Silverman, told Reuters in an interview on Friday that he was pleased with the support it has received from eBay, and brushed off media reports that Skype might be put up for sale.
From http://ca.reuters.com
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Photo from http://flickr.com/photos/iatp/2293462190/
Eluta is a search engine that specializes in just one thing: finding new job announcements at employers across Canada. Our goal is to create a searchable database of every new job opportunity in the nation.
As a vertical search engine, Eluta monitors new job announcements at tens of thousands of employers across Canada every day. Whenever an employer posts a new job on its website, Eluta adds the position to our searchable database. Once added, jobs on Eluta are searchable by keyword and location. An Advanced Search option lets you find new job announcements in other interesting ways, including by occupation and industry.
Eluta also lets you set up an email notification that alerts you as soon as new jobs matching your search are posted. You can also set up an RSS feed that tells you when new jobs matching your criteria are added.
Eluta’s search results include trusted editorial information to help job-seekers evaluate the job announcements they find on our search engine, including:
* a popup tooltip that quickly describes what each employer does;
* a brief review that rates the recruiting programs at thousands of employers; and
* a detailed review of working conditions at the very best employers, supplied by the editors of Canada’s Top 100 Employers.
Objective and unbiased, these valuable editorial features are updated continuously to help you decide which job opportunities – and employers – are right for you.
Eluta also aims to harness the power of mathematics to make job searching easier. Because employers don’t pay to be included in our search results, we can offer more relevant results and filter out commercial messages that aren’t related to your search. Eluta also uses sophisticated mathematics to keep track of recruitment by individual employers, so we can tell you which employers offer good growth prospects and advancement opportunities.
From http://canadianjobs.blogspot.com/2008/03/elutaca-vertical-job-search-engine.html
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
breastcancernowwhat.ca
A new website launched in British Columbia aims to give young women diagnosed with breast cancer the resources and support they can’t find elsewhere.
Even though young women make up a quarter of all women with breast cancer, the “culture” seems to be geared toward older women, whose issues are different, says Lisa Brewster, one of the developers of the new website breastcancernowwhat.ca.
“We wanted to get away from this traditional pink ribbon view of how people view breast cancer, because I don’t think it’s something that many of us share,” Brewster told the CBC’s Pamela Post.
“We don’t necessarily buy into that, we find that to be a little bit corporate. We just wanted to own our own experiences.”
Brewster says the website is the first of its kind to incorporate the interactive component of a web community for young women with breast cancer.
And that aspect is really important, says Saleena Noon, a professional woman in her 30s who has just been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Just married and about to start a family, Noon said the diagnosis led her into terrifying thoughts about how she could be made sterile by chemotherapy, disfigured by surgery or even die.
The website, Noon said, made a world of difference.
“[I am pleased] just to be able to have online conversations with women who were around my age, who get it, who are faced with some of the same issues that I’m being faced with now in my life.”
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