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The Real Estate Weekly, that Metro Vancouver real estate newspaper you get in with your free local paper, has just re-branded itself for the 21st century as rew.ca.  Tuesday night was the launch party at the Four Seasons and they put on a great event, although I have to admit I missed the first half as I had a last minute home inspection in ...

Just a short one here to help you find more fun things to do in Metro Vacouver. The Spring 2009 edition of Check it Out, Metro Vancouver's Event Guide is now available and can be viewed online here.   Matthew Collinge: Vancouver REALTOR®

Emily Carr University Students Annual Exhibit On Now The annual exhibit of works from the students is on now in the Concourse Gallery of Emily Carr University (when did it become a university and stop being an Institute?). Admission is free and the gallery is open whenever the school is open (Mon to Fri - 7:30 am to 12 Midnight and Sat/Sun - ...

Found this one in the paper this morning and it looks like there are some very cool houses around Deer Lake in Burnaby and the tour is supporting a really great cause. Through the Rotary Club Deer Lake resident Marguerite Kohnke has organized a tour of some great homes around the lake is support of Ovarian Cancer research at the BC Cancer ...

This Week At The Roundhouse Community CentreIDENTITY, LOVE AND ACHIEVEMENT: Three Responses To BC’s 150th Anniversary Year I will trying to include more updates on what is happening in False Creek North here on the Comet. This one is an exhibit. I could try to wax poetic about this but there is such a good description of it on the ...

I have to say that Halloween is one of the best nights of the year in False Creek. With the density we have and the large number of townhouses (vs. the trick-or-treating unfriendly condos) False Creek South is a trick-or-treating dream for the kids, and even a trick-or-treating destination. There were a couple of great events for kids at the ...

Off to the Pumpkin Patch Every year we make the trip out to the pumpkin patch in Richmond. This year we almost didn’t make it as the big day is growing very near! So we packed the kids up this morning and headed out to the farm. To be honest we had considered trying a different pumpkin patch this year as the Richmond one seems to be ...

Vancouver’s Best Haunted House? On Sunday night, at the invitation of a neighbour, my eight year old and I checked out what may be the best haunted house in Vancouver. Located on Dunbar St. at W. 48th Ave this was one scary, and popular haunted house. We arrived just after 7pm, which is when the live, scare you out of your pants, actors ...

Tonight is the monthly Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meetup. The organizer, Stephen Jaggger of Ubertor and Reachd, has asked me to join Ian Watt and Tom Everitt on a panel where we will:have a question and answer period about the technology they use, their success and failures, their use of the web, thoughts on technologies like ...

 I have just not been much in a blogging frame of mind (whatever that is) lately and so there hasn't been much fun on Friday's at all. I am back in the game now and here we go. Vancouver's first annual Canary Derby is a soap box derby that is taking place this Sunday on Water St. in Gastown. In case you missed the Red Bull Soap ...