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BC Blogs
Welcome to BC Blogs
We welcome May with a whole raft of B.C. blogs:
Blended Fabric Quilts/Good Earth Quilting: Reusing clothing in all sorts of projects is good for the environment. In Lifestyle, Fashion & Recreation.
Diversified Health Clinic: Victoria-based health clinic, updated once or twice a week with health tips. In Health & Medical.
D'Arcy McGee: Canadian and British Columbia politics. In Political Commentary.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured: Ian Hampton's daily cartoons/drawings/portraits on themes cultural, comical, current and political. In Graphic Arts, Photography & Design.
Kemila Zsange Hypnotherapy & Counselling: A Vancouver Hypnotherapist observes and explores human conditions and belief mechanism and writes everything about our universe within. In Lifestyle, Fashion & Recreation.
Korena in the Kitchen: Cooking, baking, and eating in Victoria, B.C. In Food & Drink.
Hortophile - My New Garden: The development of my new garden with an emphasis on growing food and urban chickens. In Gardening & Farming.
The Wired Reporter: Issues facing today's digital journalists. Blog sponsored by SFU's New Media Journalism Program. In Technology & Media.
No Right Angle: The blog of John Maclachlan Gray. In Personal Blogs.
Not Crocker: The adorably styled food blog of The Tyee's newest intern, Stacey Franklyn.
Vintage Air Photos of British Columbia: Vancouver as it once was, seen from the air. In Graphic Arts, Photography, & Design.
SD Jackson Digital Studio: An exploration of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. In Graphic Arts, Photography & Design.
Want to see your B.C. blog on this list? Any other questions? See the bottom of the page for more information, or click here.
Advocacy
Advocacy BC: Social justice, social service news, information, and knowledge exchange.
Amalgamate Greater Victoria: For those who support amalgamation of some or all municipalities in the Greater Victoria area.
Antigone Magazine: Antigone's blog focuses on women, politics, women in politics and the politics of being a woman.
BC Arts News The latest news from B.C.'s arts, creative and cultural community.
Broughton Island Monitoring Plan: Information on sea lice monitoring, data sharing, research and results.
Car-Free Vancouver: News and tips for being car-free in the Lower Mainland.
Chain the Dogma: Beware of God! Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
Chris Corrigan: To collaborate, to organize, to find one another and make a difference in our communities, organizations and lives.
Collaborative Journeys: Finding ways to develop and support collaborative action in your organization.
Healing the Workplace: Challenges and opportunities in the contemporary workplace.
Homeless in Abbotsford, BC: Advocating for the homeless, addicted, mentally ill and poor.
Homeless Nation: The Internet's only site by, and for, homeless Canadians.
Hospitals and Privacy: Hospitals violate privacy rights.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition: A drug policy reform blog co-authored by a B.C. police officer.
On the House: Opening doors for homeless youth.
Positive Aquaculture Awareness: to provide accurate inofrmation about B.C. aquaculture and to challenge myths about B.C. salmon farming.
Reeferlogic: Admit it, the drug war is a failure.
Save Our Salmon: Everything depends on the wild salmon.
Voice of Gone Ballistic: Gone ballistic scenarios. Mostly angry. Activist by default.
Wild Salmon Are Sacred: The Get Out Migration.
Authors/Books/Publishers
Arsenalia: A blog about book publishing, maintained by Arsenal Pulp Press.
Cascadia's Fault: The coming earthquake and tsunami that could devastate North America.
Claudia Cornwall: News and insights from Claudia Cornwall, author of the recently published At the World’s Edge: Curt Lang’s Vancouver, 1937-1998.
GreatDismal: William Gibson on Twitter.
KnowBC: The blog of the Encyclopedia of British Columbia.
Sarah Leavitt dot com: The blog for Sarah Leavitt, writer, editor and cartoonist.
Mr. Vancouver: Celebrating the life and work of Chuck Davis and the progress of his last book.
Pioneers: Blogging the black pioneers of British Columbia.
Reviews: What I've been reading for the past 60 years.
Virtues of War: Most things sci fi, inspired by a military sci fi novel published in September 2010.
Business & Economics
Accent Inns: Sharing thoughts on running a B.C. business, community events, and worthy causes.
AL6400 Blog: Making, saving and investing money for business and personal finance.
The Boss of You: Everything a woman needs to know to start, run, and maintain her own business.
Blueprint: Fundraising news and views for nonprofits.
CareerByte: Tasty tips to guide your job search in a web 2.0 world.
Comox Valley Real Estate and Life in the Comox Valley.
The Consulting Life: General how and why information for management consultants.
Credit Cards Canada: Canada's resource for credit card news, reviews, and industry viewpoints.
From House to Home with Linda Cunliffe: Essentials for Fraser Valley women on the move.
Giving is Receiving: Celebrating nonprofits and businesses with a strong charitable mandate.
Healing the Workplace: The challenges and opportunities in the contemporary workplace.
Donna Horn: Make things better; businesses more profitable, workplaces more effective, people happier.
HouseHunt Victoria: First-time home buyers wade into the Victoria market.
Marine Harvest Canada: Excellence in seafood.
Move to Nanaimo: Information about Nanaimo and area.
The Progressive Economics Forum
RobberStoppers Community Info Blog: Sharing crime tips, trends, and info on prevention.
Saul Good Blog: Stories from a sustainable business startup.
SEO Small Business: Scores of search engine optimization lessons and tutorials for small business owners.
Tang Marketing and Communications: Tips on everything from social media to traditional marketing.
Tomorrow's Workplace: Research project and guide for the business workplace that features diversity.
Vancouver Real Estate Anecdote Archive: Stories that highlight the personal and social effects of the Vancouver real estate boom and bust.
Victoria Real Estate Voice: Stories and articles about real estate in Victoria, BC.
Where We Go From Here: Rocketday's clients and their unique endeavours to imagine and create a diverse, vibrant, healthy and sustainable world.
Whispers from the Village on the Edge of the Rainforest
Yatter Matters: Vancouver real estate, neighbourhoods, and people.
Community/Regional
604 Pulse: Exploring all the things to see and do in the Vancouver, Coast & Mountains region.
Aim High Salmon Arm: Discussing ideas that matter for Salmon Arm and the Shuswap.
AuthentiCity: The City of Vancouver's archives and holdings.
Bella Coola Blog: Life in the Bella Coola Valley and the Central Coast.
The Busy Catholic blog: The B.C. Catholic newspaper.
Citizens for a Livable Cranbrook: Concerned citizens trying to educate people about Smart Growth principles and civic issues.
The Daily Gumboot: We collect ideas from everywhere and use them to build community.
Delta Nats Casual Birding: Results, with photos, of our weekly Monday morning outings. Newcomers welcome; information on blog.
East of Main: Providing an "East of Main" perspective on news, politics, entertainment, food and photography.
Esquimalt Review: An online magazine for Esquimalt's news and events.
Exploring Kootenay Lake: The lake, the land, the birds and the history.
Every House Has a Story: The secrets of heritage houses.
Jesse Ferreras: Insights into events and developments in Sea to Sky.
Fraser Valley Pulse: Local businesses and things to do in the Fraser Valley.
Gabriolan: It's about life on Gabriola Island, BC.
The History of Metropolitan Vancouver: Chuck Davis's last great chronicle of the city.
Dave Ingram's Natural History Blog: Nature writing and photography--all aspects of natural history from botany to birds.
Island Nature: Places to go on Vancouver Island to discover and experience nature.
Isle: Images of island life: A photo blog of life on Vancouver Island and the Discovery and Gulf Islands by writer-photographer Michelle Buchanan.
The Kootenay Network: News, classifieds, and dozens of local blogs.
Loose Moorings: Liveaboard life in Victoria Harbour.
MayneNews: Mayne Island community announcements and news.
Metro Vancouver Pulse: Local businesses and things to do in Metro Vancouver.
Mich's West Coast Journal: Stories from Vancouver Island.
Mid Island News: Sights and sounds from Mid Vancouver Island.
MtPleaseAunt - Views of the Hood: Observations about things taking place in the Mt. Pleasant Neighbourhood of Vancouver.
My Boots N Me: Travel and photo information on places to visit around Vancouver.
My Maple Ridge: Daily posts on Maple Ridge events and culture, plus reviews and special features.
My Penticton: Photography of people and places.
My Year of Shopping Locally: For one year, starting October 1, I will shop only in New Westminster.
Nanaimo-Info-Blog.com: Your everything Nanaimo website.
North Saanich Online: North Saanich news you won't find anywhere else.
Opinion 250: Your news, your views, now.
Pender Island Community Network: The website for people on Pender.
A Powell River Photo Blog: All the things that make Powell River the pearl that it is.
The Ridge Blog: Tumbler Ridge B.C.'s news blog since October 2011.
Savage States: Photoblogging the more visually vigorous and unruly spaces of Vancouver.
ScrimpOrSplurge.ca: Unbiased, insider tips to help you enjoy the best of Victoria, British Columbia, and beyond...for less!
Sointula: Place of harmony.
Sooke Community and Real Estate Blog: Community events, information, real estate, and more.
Tenth To The Fraser: About New Westminster, from 10th Ave to the Fraser River.
TimeTravelBC.com: All the best events happening around B.C.
Unknown Victoria: The secret history of B.C.'s capital city.
The V3H.com: The best of Port Moody, Coquitlam, and Port Coquitlam.
Vancouver Island Big Trees: Save them before they're gone.
Vancouver Island Reviews: Highlighting local businesses, events, and photos.
Vancouver Latino: News, local events, music and more. Written in Spanish.
Vancouver Street Blog: Vancouver and our neighbourhoods, with pictures depicting what is happening.
Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)
wera: West End Residents Association.
White Rock Sun: Serving White Rock and South surrey.
WTF Langford?: Vancouver Island's hottest new celebrity gossip blog!
Yaletown Condo Living: What's currently happening in my neighbourhood, Yaletown/False Creek North.
Education
Moh Chelali: Bilingual blog on education.
Conviviality: Teaching, learning, policy, and tools.
From Curiosity to Knowledge: A guide to recreational learning.
The New School for Inspired Work: Inspiration for discovering your inspired work.
On Education: Schools for a civil society.
Personalizing Learning: Practical ideas for teachers and philosophical critique of the PL movement.
Staffroom Confidential: Commentary on B.C. education policy from Tara Ehrcke, teacher and president of the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association.
Storytime Standouts: Raising children who love to read.
Student Finance 101: Helping you with your student loans.
Teacher Talk: Sharing and learning for better teaching together.
Energy, Climate & Environment
Adopt a small fry, save BC's wild salmon
Animal Literature: Books, articles, documentaries and websites to do with wild, farm and companion animals.
Bear Matters BC: Bears matter!
Building Bridges: An insider's view of water management in the Okanagan.
Connexions and Contradictions: Environmental and social justice issues.
Desmogblog.com: Clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science.
Farmed and Dangerous: Transforming B.C.'s salmon farming industry from destructive net-cage technology to sustainable closed-containment systems.
The Green Pages: B.C.'s environmental information portal.
GreenPolicyProf: Seeking insights into governance for sustainability.
Hummingbird604.com: Random thoughts of a specialist in environmental issues.
Heather Reid: Stories from an Island: A naturalist's romp around Vancouver Island taking time for the birds, flowers and other sights along the way.
Keep Canada Clean: Raising awareness and reducing litter in Surrey.
megawatt: British Columbia renewable energy blog.
Mind of Dan: Mainly issues of climate change and climate denialism.
Alexandra Morton: The science and politics of impact of salmon farms - join the conversation.
Raul Pacheco-Vega, PhD: Environmental research, teaching & consulting.
Raincoast: To protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.
Salmon Farm Science: Examining the science behind salmon farming, from a pro-aquaculture perspective.
Salmon Guy: How we relate to wild salmon and to people and places within us and around us.
Salmon Leaks: Highlights from key testimony and exhibits from the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of the Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River.
Say the Names: Stories from the people on the route of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.
Solar Home Review: Information for homeowners on residential solar installation.
TheXpress: Canadian citizens are the largest stakeholder group in Canada. I am one member, concerned about wild salmon loss.
water blogged: The latest ocean news, discoveries, and controversies - brought to you by Living Oceans Society.
Wild Salmon Circle: Join the circle, turn the tide.
Expats
Letters Home: Ian in Hamburg.
Life in the Deep South of France: Mostly, but not entirely, about cooking, eating, drinking, markets, festivals, exploring and glorying in life in general in this lesser-known part of France.
The Rebel Kind: Writing, politics, travel and music.
Film & TV
First Nations
Fieldnotes: First Nations, anthropology, post-secondary teaching.
Northwest Coast Archaeology: The archaeology of BC and adjacent regions, as well as related topics in BC history, anthropology and museum studies.
Food & Drink
Audrey needs more wooden spoons: Stirring up food, recipes, tips and the inside scoop on cooking classes in Victoria.
BC Beer Blog: The who, what where, when, why, and how of BC craft beer.
Breakfast in Vancouver: A weekly breakfast adventure to Vancouver's restaurants.
Chow Times: Suanne and Ben's Food and Travel Adventures from Vancouver, BC
The Culinary Adventures of a Greedy Guts: Follow the culinary adventures of Greedy Guts as she eats her way through Vancouver and her own kitchen experiments.
Diary of a Crazed Cook: A fully-loaded food blog filled with step-by-step recipes, 8000+ links – all served up with a side order of merriment!
Food Beyond Hope: Personal reviews and opinions of restaurants in BC outside the GVA and Fraser Valley.
Fresh Savings: Grocery coupons and smart savings for the savvy Canadian shopper.
Go Haggis!: Food and travel.
Grocery Alerts: Grocery deals, product reviews, and printable coupons to help British Columbians save money.
Hella Delicious: Local food, global flavour. Food for health, peace, roots and community.
Korena in the Kitchen: Cooking, baking, and eating in Victoria, B.C.
Largely the Truth: Because life's too short to pay for boring food.
Lemon Savory: Focus on healthy eating, with some desserts thrown in.
Let Them Eat Cake! {and ice cream}: A blog about desserts, baking, candy, and life.
Life in the Lower Mainland: Personal blog of a foodie in the Lower Mainland -- mostly restaurant reviews.
Lip Smacking: A Vancouver Island-based food blog written by a professional chef and cooking instructor.
The Little Piggy: Food, wine and dining resources and commentary in Victoria, B.C.
Love of eating: Culinary adventures in a region that seems to be a culinary wasteland.
My Blog of Cheese: My gastronomic journey into from age -- one day at a time -- one cheese at a time.
Nancyland, Vancouver Foodie Fun
Noshwell: Where to eat in Raincity Vancouver
Not Crocker: Adorably styled food blog by Yukon-born and -raised Vancouverite.
Purple Kale: Food and other things I like.
Sweet on Veg.com: Delicious discoveries and magical inspirations.
Tasting Room Confidential: Mari Kane's Vancouver wine blog.
Thibeault's Table: A Vancouver Island, Cowichan Valley food/cooking blog where I share my love of cooking and recipes.
Tiny Bites: A food blog that explores all things edible and imbibable in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Trompe Chomp: Food oddities and delights, finding comedy in the everyday act of food.
Urban Vintner On-premise craft beer and wine making.
Victoria's Food Secrets: Foodie adventure in Vancouver, B.C. Mainly restaurant reviews, but also an occasional recipe.
The Well-Tempered Chocolatier: Combine in one bowl: one part food science, one part chocolate, and lots of delicious. Read daily.
What I Made for Dinner: Reader-contributed tales and recipes from cooking experiments gone (mostly) right.
Wine Encounters of the BC Kind: The best wines are the ones you really like! Discover some worthy choices to enjoy right here.
Your Restaurant Sucks: Documenting Victoria's worst restaurants, but also revealing some of the city's gastronomical gems.
Francophone
ApollineR: Coups de coeur d'une curieuse éclectique.
Gardening & Farming
B.C. Salmon Farmers Association Hot Topics: Great people. Great salmon.
The Farmer's Stand: Thoughts on farming in the Gulf Islands and beyond.
Hortophile - My New Garden: The development of my new garden with an emphasis on growing food and urban chickens.
Howling Duck Ranch: A city gal learns to grow, gather, raise, fish, and hunt for and preserve food while extracting herself from ‘The System.’
Stellar Seeds: News about our organic farm and seed company. We are a young couple farming in the West Kootenays and blog about the crops and seeds we grow, and the animals we raise.
Sweet Rock Farm: Thoughts and photos about small farming in the Gulf Islands.
Gender & Sexual Issues
Up your alley: Vancouver's official LGBT blog covering news, events, entertainment and pop culture.
Wet Coast Women: A blogging community for West Coast women.
Graphic Arts, Photography & Design
Alpenglowpro: A visual / mental exploration and discovery of places less traveled or noticed in B.C. and western Canada.
Bijou Living: An idiosyncratic mix of fashion, interiors, design and culture.
Country Mouse Studio: The home of artist Carole Barkett, wildlife artist .
designKULTUR: Design, culture + environment.
Existential Existence: A Photoblog of Michael Rawluk's Journey through Life.
Hung, Drawn and Cultured: Ian Hampton's daily cartoons/drawings/portraits on themes cultural, comical, current and political.
SD Jackson Digital Studio: An exploration of Vancouver and the Lower Mainland.
S.D. Jackson Photography: Photos from my journeys around the Pacific Northwest.
Mosses from an old manse: A blog from Nanaimo.
Meandering in Lotus Land: Photos of the mundane and the marginally interesting in Vancouver, B.C.
Sitt: A design blog that is filled with simple and affordable tips for improving your home.
Splinter in Your Eye: The motif is largely Vancouver, B.C. in transition.
Vancouverish: Capturing the life of Vancouver and B.C. through photographs.
Vancouver Versus Vancouver: A city divided by photos.
Nathan Veldhoen: Art, design, training , photography, and building.
Vintage Air Photos of British Columbia: Vancouver as it once was, seen from the air.
Health & Medical
CarinCaron's Counselling Blog: Caron Smith discussing counselling: topics include anxiety, relationships, LGBT, communication, mindfulness, stress, and relaxation.
Diversified Health Clinic: Victoria-based health clinic, updated once or twice a week with health tips.
H5N1: News and resources about infectious diseases: flu, dengue, TB, malaria, cholera.
Heart Sisters: All about women and heart disease -- our #1 killer.
Mothering Touch: We offer advice for expectant mothers and new parents in Victoria and the region.
Quips and Tips for Couples Coping With Infertility: Infertility is ugly, but doesn't have to kill our spirits or wreck our dreams.
SportMedBC Blog: Promoting sport health on the strength of the best people, best practices and best programs.
Wildlives: Natural health for a processed world.
Law
Aviation Law Blog: Recent developments in Canadian aviation law and other topics of interest to the aviation industry.
Juricana: Looks at some of the draconic legislation that has been passed by the B.C. Liberal government.
West Coast Environmental Law: Commentary and discussion on emerging environmental law issues that affect British Columbia.
Lifestyle, Fashion & Recreation
100 Days -- Make it Count! Dedicated to eating healthy, and losing weight naturally by abandoning packaged food and eating like a normal weight person.
The Active Life: Fitness and nutrition tips from a Vancouver-based strength and wellness coach.
Birch + Bird: We are Lily + Rachel, friends, moms, wives and vintage junkies searching for treasures for our homes and yours as well.
Blended Fabric Quilts/Good Earth Quilting: Reusing clothing in all sorts of projects is good for the environment.
Carpe Diem Acreage: A family of four trying to improve our lifestyle by living a more simple life.
Choose Your Own Adventure: Reader-contributed stories of change and transformation that result when life is lived as a daily adventure.
Every Little Thing: Home decor and design, especially upcycled home furnishings and sustainable living.
flourpower: Things I make and do.
GranPaparazzi: Documenting senior fashion and paying homage to our elders.
Ion Magazine: A Vancouver art, fashion, music and culture magazine.
The Mighty Fit Grasshopper: The truth about dietary supplements and natural health products.
Miss Cathie: Lifestyle, fashion and travel/adventure blog, with interviews of Canadian personalities/celebrities.
Ms Exile in Paradise: My philosophy of creativity.
Nesting: The journal: All things home and garden.
Not Buying Anything: Learning to live better with less.
Pin-up Glam to Groovy Kitsch: About vintage and indie fashion from the gorgeous to the downright weird.
Sea to My Heart: Home decor, giving facelifts to free/low-cost items found at garage sales and thrift shops.
Self, Improved: Strategies for self-improvement with equal doses of humour, humility and wit.
Spa Girl: Relax, rejuvenate, and restore.
Stimuli Magazine: Lifestyle magazine for women: Great finds in fashion, beauty, health, home decor, and more.
Style Lounge: Home decor tips and the latest style finds and fast fixes to spruce up your pad.
this time ~ this space: Personal development, growth and relationships blog.
Urban Yarns: The knitters' blog.
Waterborne - A Live-Aboard Blog
Wing Tsun Kung Fu Vancouver Blog: Self-defence and confidence; changing lives, one punch at a time.
Kemila Zsange Hypnotherapy & Counselling: A Vancouver Hypnotherapist observes and explores human conditions and belief mechanism and writes everything about our universe within.
Marketing
Green Briefs: A review of green issues, products, messaging and spin in the growing field of sustainability marketing.
The Ethical Nag: Marketing medical ethics for the easily swayed.
Internet Marketing Tips: Internet marketing firm Collabo shares tips for small business owners.
Lovely Package: The leading source for the very best that package design has to offer.
Lovely Stationery: Curating the very best stationery design.
Metablogging
B.C. Bloggers: Blog aggregator and directory for British Columbians.
The Vancouver Blogger Meetup Group
Miscellanea
Canada Genealogy, or, 'Jane's Your Aunt': Canadian Genealogy & Women's History: Current Ideas, Information & Projects.
Tom Hawthorn's Blog: Human-interest columns and obituaries by a Victoria-based freelancer.
Life as a Human: The weird, wonderful, challenging, funny and poignant experience of being human.
The Phantom Self: A case for conceptual reform.
Quips and Tips for Achieving Your Goals: Where inspirational quotations meet practical life tips, and live happily ever after.
Relevant Woodworking: Woodworking as it pertains to art and manufacturing.
Multicultural
Best Chinese Culture Show in Vancouver
GungHaggisFatChoy: Asian Canadian adventures in intercultural Vancouver.
The Ugly Chinese Canadian: Chinese flavoured Canadians, round eye apologists, unsung heroes, and happenings around town, eh.
Neighbours
Climbing out of the Dark into the conservative light (Alberta): An attempt to raise issues that impact families, or ones that just plain bug me!
The Daily Score (Washington State): Northwest news that matters.
Dennis Mansfield.com (Idaho): Progressive Conservatives: Creating "less bark, more wag" in all of us.
A Family Runs Through It (Washington State): A stay-at-home dad writes about parenting, homeschooling, and family life.
43rd State Blues (Idaho): Blue-shifting the Gem State, one blog entry at a time.
Horsesass.org (Washington State): Politics as (un)usual.
Left in the West (Montana): Views from Dry Land Democrats.
Media Relations in Canada (Alberta)
The Mudflats: Tiptoeing through the muck of Alaskan politics.
Nick's Café Canadien (Alberta): Of all the gin joints in all the sites on all the web...
NW Republican (Washington State): Where Republicans in the Pacific NW can come to share ideas.
John Prince (Crowsnest Pass) Blog (Alberta): "To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
Washblog: Reality-based discourse on Washington State.
Werner Patels - A Dose of Common Sense (Alberta): An opinion on everything.
Performing Arts
The Bonus Track: All things music-related, including classic albums, new releases, and local concerts.
Gypsy Rumor: The Vancouver Flamenco scene.
Jou Tou and Silk Road Music: About two of Vancouver's best world-music groups.
Music That Resonates: A music discovery blog curated by a taste filter born in the '80s.
Plank Magazine: Spanking the ass of culture.
UnNomdeGuerre Media: Vancouver-based Canadian music, film and fashion blog. Year of the Rat: Victoria, BC rock band Year of the Rat maintains this blog about their band, but more generally about life in an indie rock band. Also, music reviews abound.
Personal Blogs
Anodyne: Working diary of a Vancouver-based bookseller, art critic, contrarian investor, occasional mountaineer, and irregular photographer.
ApollineR: Favourites of a curious eclectic.
Being Mrs. Miles: And loving every minute of it!
Shawn Bird: Teacher and author.
Dan With a Twist: Local lawyer, writer and actor Danielle Lemon (aka Danwithatwist) writes about local food, businesses and political issues from her perch in the newly gentrified section of the Downtown East Side.
Delicious Juice Dot Com Unapologetically inappropriate content since 2001.
Mike DeWolfe: Local politics, goals, technology and weight loss -- stuff that gets my attention.
Doug's Delightful Domicile: A portal to food, humour, art, politics and more.
Doug's Dynamic Drivel: Examining the detritus of modern society.
Earthabridge: Immersed in the literary and visual arts.
Elaborately mundane message: Traditional photography, fragmented poetry; mindless ramblings and reviews of comics, with the occasional original work of art.
Everyone wants to be a Roste: Try to keep up.
From the Sidelines: Just my view from the sidelines in many aspects of life.
Grevelingblog: News, views, religion, and 1/25 scale modelling.
Monica Hamburg - Your Dose of Lunacy
A Home Revised: Our journey through a 1912 home renovation.
HUnter 4086: Death, writing, fungus, doom, and trying to hang on to our disappearing analog past.
Katie Hyslop: One young journalist's foray into social justice reporting in B.C.
If By Yes: The musings of an introverted bookworm dog trainer turned mother.
I'm a Sonic Boomer: Musings of a 60 plus boomer who realizes that our views and idea are important to building a just society.
I Hath: From the land of Arabian nights comes a storyteller of a different kind.
I'm Laila Yuile, And This Is How I See It
The Imperceptible Immigrant: Coming to Victoria from the UK, hopefully by 2014.
Ji Won: News about Ji Won Park and her family.
The Kootenay Ranger: A mixture of Zane Grey and John Henry Newman.
Learning To news: Hoping to learn about living, writer and meditation teacher Neil McKinlay explores the intersection of everyday life and human spirituality.
Lost Ironies: A mental health recovery narrative, consisting of humour and prose, written by a Vancouver person with bipolar disorder.
Me, and my imaginary friend: No small talk here! No chit chat, no time-filling, soul-wasting blather. Smilies are good.
michellebuchanan.ca changing focus: Commentary, lifestyle, news, and more.
Mirabilis.ca: An eclectic assortment of stuff: food, archaeology, fun, books, history, geekery, etc.
My Park Life: Looking for a place to happen.
Maple Leaf Rag: Stuff that matters in Vancouver: sporting, cultural, political.
No Nails in My Coffin: An imported furnituremaker's bench-eye view of Canadian and BC culture, life and politics.
No Right Angle: The blog of John Maclachlan Gray.
Observations of a Student: Adrian Corscadden: Science, technology, atheism, humour.
Out on the Big Limb: One of those blogs that go all over the place.
Port Coquitlam Odysseus: Port Coquitlam, Classics, Culture, and the Confessions of a Returned Expat.
Relics and Tales: True adventure stories.
Saige Wisdom: Lessons learned from life, love, and my little ones.
Saltwater & Rain: A visual and literary archive(ing) of the Pacific Northwest.
The Show So Far: Culture, landscape, and plant propagation paragraph
strocel.com: Parenting, life with kids, maternity leave, and finding balance as a mom.
This Pilgrim's Progress: A journal of my Christian walk since moving to and living in B.C.
Yam Bird: What small things can sometimes tell about a bigger story.
Political Commentary
BC Blue: One BC Conservative's view on it all...
BC Election 2013: BC political analysis leading to the May 14, 2013 election.
BC Iconoclast: My iconoclastic look at all manner of politics.
B.C. Policy Perspectives: The web log of Mark Crawford, a political scientist and writer who is currently an assistant professor at Athabasca University.
BC Politica: Keep your government honest, ask the questions, demand the answers, force the truth.
Bridging the Income Gap: Why inequality is hazardous to your health.
Bob Broughton's Blog: British Columbia, Canada, and US politics.
Michael Byers on Politics: Let's define our "Intent for a Nation."
CityCaucus.com: Civic issues for urban minds.
Community of Interest: From the Vancouver Sun.
Cowichan Conversations: A centre-left political blog focusing on B.C. and the Cowichan Valley.
Currents: Vancouver blogger Jonathan Narvey writes about current affairs, politics, media trends and life on Canada's west coast.
CoffeeCrew Blog: Issues that frustrate Canadians.
D'Arcy McGee: Canadian and British Columbia politics.
Doris's Blog: Explorations in Blogland.
Feminist Christian Socialist: The name says it all.
Terry Glavin: Chronicles & Dissent.
How Bad is the Record?: Holding the government's feet to the fire.
Jpolsblog: Jason Morris, a political scientist at UNBC, teaches and writes on B.C. and Canadian politics.
Just Right: Classical liberal with a conservative bent.
Keeping It Real (Harvey Oberfeld)
Langley Politics Dotcom: Langley's longest-running and most popular Town Hall forum.
Let Freedom Rain: Progressive politics and culture.
ManifestDestinyCanada: How the economic and political ambitions of the United States will change the essential character of Canada.
Maple Leaf Rag: For what matters in Vancouver.
The Mud Report: Some of the important issues of our times from a ground up perspective.
Norman’s Spectator (Norman Spector)
Northern Insights: Random thoughts on politics, people and public affairs from a lifelong resident of Canada's west coast.
Oldtown News: My look at the issues of our Oldtown neighborhood and other political news.
The Ryan Painter Show. Bold political commentary with a progressive agenda.
Paying Attention (Paul Willcocks)
Garrett Petersen's Blog: Observations on Economics and Society.
Policy Note: A progressive take on BC issues.
Public Eye Online (Sean Holman)
Rafe Mair Online: Canada's best-known political commentator.
Right Perspective: A political commentary, with the right perspectives.
Scary Fundamentalist: Political and social commentary from a SoCon perspective.
Secrets of Vancouver: Where being conservative means you'll need to keep it a secret.
Song of the Watermelon: A blog of politics, literature, and Oxford commas.
State of Vancouver (Frances Bula)
The Straight Goods: Political punditry, a little humour, opinion, and some hard-hitting stories.
Strategic Thoughts (David Schreck)
Alex G. Tsakumis: Rebel with a clause.
Unambiguously Ambidextrous: Independent thinking since 1974 (and 1947)
Unionman: Trials and tribulations of a union rep and a whole lot more.
Camila Vallejo in English: Tracking Chile's political phenomenon.
Velocity: A multi-author blog where Millennials take charge and prove the experts wrong.
The Well Intentioned Loudmouth: Arjun Singh - interested in people, politics, and the Internet in Kamloops, BC Canada.
Wheat from the Chaff: Politics, the economy, the media, and political philosophy.
Politicians
Alex Atamanenko: NDP MP (BC Southern Interior)
Stephanie Cadieux: MLA for Surrey-Panorama.
Coleman Country: Keep track of what Fort Langley-Aldergrove MLA Rich Coleman is doing, at home and in Victoria.
Don Davies: NDP MP (Vancouver Kingsway)
Libby Davies: NDP MP (Vancouver East)
Adrian Dix: NDP MLA (Vancouver-Kingsway) and leader of the New Democratic Party.
John Duncan: Conservative MP (Vancouver Island North)
Hedy Fry: Liberal MP (Vancouver Centre)
Guy Gentner: NDP MLA (Delta North)
Cairine Green: Councillor for North Saanich.
Nina Grewal: Conservative MP (Fleetwood-Port Kells)
Russ Hiebert: Conservative MP (South Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale)
Vicki Huntington: Independent MLA (Delta South)
Peter Julian: NDP MP (Burnaby-New Westminster)
Maurine Karagianis: NDP MLA (Esquimalt-Royal Roads)
Norm Macdonald: NDP MLA (Columbia River-Revelstoke)
James Moore: Conservative MP (Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam)
Joyce Murray: Liberal MP (Vancouver Quadra)
Denise Savoie: NDP MP (Victoria)
Andrew Saxton: Conservative MP (North Vancouver)
Bob Simpson, MLA: Cariboo North Independent MLA Bob Simpson's political commentary blog.
Chuck Strahl: Conservative MP (Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon)
Alice Wong: Conservative MP (Richmond)
Sports & Fitness
canucks & beyond: odds & ends from the nhl.
The Fifth Quarter (Lowell Ulrich)
Har Journalist's Sports Blog: a local writer (and die-hard Canucks fan) on all kinds of sports from all over.
Raw Meat Vancouver: For women who want to learn roller skating and roller derby skills, and have fun.
Running Overdose: Two young women with a running problem, looking for a more balanced lifestyle. Suggest a non-running challenge for us!
Vancouver Sports News and Events
Technology & Media
BlueFur Blog: From gadgets to marketing to programming, we have the right mix for you.
Cyberbuzz: The convergence of new and old media.
Doctor Arkanoid - Revelations from the Inner Sanctum! Making sense of video games.
Gravit-E Blog: Insights on business automation.
Intuitech - NGOs & Tech: How best to use this stuff and other thoughts.
Question Everything: A tech startup devoted to peace, freedom and fun.
Screaming White Hot Electric Guitars
Sparkplug 9: Technology, social media, and local search.
Those DeWolfes Creative: We're Victoria-based developers and trainers who talk tech and the impact on people's lives.
The Wired Reporter: Issues facing today's digital journalists. Blog sponsored by SFU's New Media Journalism Program.
Transportation
The Buzzer Blog: The web companion to the TransLink Buzzer newsletter.
Cycle Write Blog: Jean Chong's personal blog on cycling.
The Livable Blog: Making our communities better places to live and grow.
Rail for the Valley: The Fraser Valley needs rail service NOW!
Stephen Rees’s blog: Thoughts about the relationships between transport and the urban area it serves.
Third Wave Cycling Blog: Cycling for transportation, community sustainability, and lifestyle.
West Coast Ferries Forum: A "community blog" forum about BC Ferries issues, news, photos, history, controversies, etc.
Travel & Global Culture
Asia Pacific Memo: Accessible scholarly knowledge about contemporary Asia.
Cascadia Kids: Family-friendly travel in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.
Expat Travels: From Switzerland to Canada
the travelling mom: A modern mom's guide to travel sanity with your family.
Why India? Vignettes swept out from under the carpet.
Video Blogs & Podcasts
Written Arts
Ask the English Teacher: Questions and answers about English usage.
Glossolalia Flash Fiction: An online flash fiction journal.
The Love Story Project: Memoir, memory, family mythology and love stories, by writer Mandy Len.
Periodically.org: Vague attempts at humour and alarmingly incoherent fiction.
Plain Language in Plain English: Updates and opinions from international contributors to the book Plain Language in Plain English.
Poetic Edits: Interviews with B.C. and Canadian poets about their craft.
Quips and Tips for Successful Writers: Where writing quotations meet practical writing advice. And live happily ever after.
Slim Volumes: Poetry by Phil Rees.
Spread It Like a Roll of Nickels
Write a Novel: An online guide for fiction writers.
Writers' Choice Reviews: Free monthly book review newsletter.
Writing Fiction: Discussion on writing and publishing novels and short fiction.
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