Posts by Dave Semeniuk

This is super weird.

This is a picture of a group of christians praying to the golden bull on wall street.  They’re asking God for money to rain down from…

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A War of Books Ensues at Chapters

I love my camera phone. I spent the afternoon bumming around a few of my favorite haunts in my hood and I found myself doing some…

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Does anyone have any idea of what’s going on here?

There used to be a gas station on the NW corner of Davie and Burrard.  I remember when they tore the building down and scooped out all…

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Vancouver City Council Candidate Debate – Monday, Oct 27th

It’s election season. With another minority win in Canadian Parliament, most Canadians can sit back, relax, and watch our southern neighbours fight for the oval office. …

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One year at Terry – a recap.

Terry and I have been going steady for one year today.  I was unable to come up with anything particularly profound to say, so instead I’ll…

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Voter Apathy: some numbers to think about.

% Voter turnout for 2008 Canadian Election: 51 % Voter turnout for 2004 Afghan Election: 70 (source) % Voter turnout for 2005 Iraqi Election: 80 (source)

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Live-blogging the electoral process: Vancouver Centre.

6:11am – Waking up.  Fuck, I’m tired and I’m, oh no.  There’s a wad of turkey meat slumbering away in the pit of my stomach.  Second…

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Second Annual Blog Action Day: Poverty

Manea’s dream is to go back to Romania and find his mother. He smiles inside his beard, looking upward. Manea is currently homeless and thinks his…

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Scientists: vote for the environment!

120 big names on the Canadian climate change research front (six of whom are at UBC) signed a letter last week urging Canadians to strategically vote for…

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Tell me what you think of this title…

While I was waiting for some acid to dissolve some stuff, I decided to grab a coffee and loiter around the UBC bookstore’s magazine section this…

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