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Gordzilla: Really Denmark, you wanna piece of me? Oh, you don’t
Like all redheads, I’ve had to put up with a lot of anti-ginger bigotry my whole life. On one level, I get it. You’re jealous. We’re colourful and fabulous while so many of you are just kind of dull...
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Guilty charges in Norwegian plot on Danish newspaper
The two principals who plotted a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper for running cartoons featuring the Prophet Mohammed in 2005 have been found guilty in an Oslo court and sentenced to seven...
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20 kilos of cocaine found inside hollowed-out fruit at Toronto airport
Police and Canada Border Services Agency investigators seized 20 kilograms of cocaine from a fruit shipment at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. The drugs were found inside hollowed-out star...
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Director Spike Lee retweets wrong home address of Florida shooter
Big mistake by movie director and New York Knicks super fan Spike Lee over the weekend: he retweeted an erroneous address for “George Zimmerman”, the Florida man accused of killing a black teenager....
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NASA says Apollo 11 rockets found by Amazon CEO need to be returned
NASA stated today that the rocket engines from the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon mission discovered at the bottom of the ocean by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin crew remain their property. This is...
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Iran blocks access to 2012 London Olympics website
Months ahead of an anticipated near-total ban on the Internet, the Iranian government has suddenly pulled access to the home site for the 2012 Summer Olympics games in London. Citizens inside Iran...
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Ex-Italian prime minister explains payments to women in court
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi admitted in a Milan court Friday that he has been making payments to a number of girls, after investigators uncovered a number of suspicious bank...
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Tom Harrison’s Garage for Oct. 22
NEWS We The City is in Norway making a feature film. I can’t accuse the Kelowna trio of being lazy. The band has co-written the film and also is preparing to record a new album. The next Bluebird North...
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Transatlantic EDM duo Ansol beginning to break out in big way
Two-headed transatlantic EDM (electronic dance music) duo Ansol, which features Vancouver’s Akilesh Nair (An) and Oslo’s Sebastian Sollerman (sol), has begun to hit its stride on the way to the top of...
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Previously unknown “muppet-like” beast discovered in Africa
Namibian media is reporting the strange tale of a hunting party that stumbled across a bizarre, muppet-like beast, wounded it, and then tracked it back to its den where they found 3 more of the...
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Massive goat cheese fire shuts down highway tunnel
27 tons of caramelized goat cheese being transported by truck in Norway suddenly caught fire inside a tunnel near Tysfjord, causing the driver to abandon his vehicle and resulting in a blaze that raged...
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Guns N’ Roses fan suing Axl Rose after mouth injury at concert
A Guns N’ Roses fan in Australia is suing frontman Axl Rose after he claimed a microphone thrown from the stage knocked out his front teeth at a concert in Perth. That’s a pretty shocking and painful...
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Job posting: polar bear spotter
Norway is looking for a new polar bear spotter to patrol the Svalbard Islands and warn researchers when they see bears approaching. Requirements for the position include sharp eyesight, outdoor...
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Messenger spacecraft captures Han Solo image on Mercury
A NASA spacecraft orbiting Mercury and sending back 150,000+ images has taken a photo of a land mass which resembles that of Han Solo frozen in carbonite from the second film in the original Star Wars...
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Capt. Stephen Brown: B.C. mariners reject oil-tanker fearmongering
Most British Columbians are aware the Canadian oilsands provide needed, well-paying jobs. Perhaps less appreciated is the fact that the oilsands industry has an indirect but very substantial positive...
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Expensive Bieber meet-and-greet shakes down Brazilian fans
Bubblegum pop megastar Justin Bieber reportedly arrived three hours late for a $1200-per-ticket personal meeting with fans in a heavily-guarded tent next to his concert arena in Sao Paulo, Brazil....
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Letters: Overtime, nurses contract, hospitals, NDP, drunk driving,...
Look at the contracts I am responding to the article about nurses’ overtime bills with deep concern about the reckless spending of our health budgets. You should take a hard look at the union contracts...
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SeaWorld in online ballot-stuffing controversy over Blackfish
SeaWorld is in damage control mode again after the Orlando Business Journal posted an online poll asking: “Has CNN’s ‘Blackfish’ documentary changed your perception of SeaWorld?” By mid-Thursday, 99%...
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Twenty years after Forsberg put his stamp on Olympics with shootout winner,...
Peter Forsberg slides the puck past Corey Hirsch to score the winning goal during the shootout in the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics.(DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images) It’s the 20-year anniversary of Corey...
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The 10 O’Clock: Those people who assisted on Jonathan Toews’ goal? All 100...
In the leadup to the Sochi Olympics, the commercial I enjoyed the most was the one featuring the Chicago Blackhawk we here in Vancouver have been trained to like the least. You know, the Canadian Tire...
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10-year-old boy steals car, says he’s a dwarf who forgot licence
A 10-year-old Norwegian boy stole his parents car and set off for his grandparents’ house an hour away before veering off a road into a ditch. He told a snowplow driver who alerted police he was a...
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George MacPherson: B.C. Jobs Plan should mean B.C.-built ferries
“Let’s hope Victoria will ‘Buy B.C.’ next time it needs a new ferry.” — Province editorial, Feb. 7, 2014 British Columbia urgently needs more family-supporting jobs — everyone agrees on that from...
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Letters: Off-leash parks, Trinity Western, law, LNG, drivers licences, BCTF,...
Why no action on dogs’ needs? So, the Vancouver Park Board now acknowledges the need for improved off-leash opportunities. It has been nearly two years since the same board approved the off-leash...
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TransLink says SkyTrain delays are a great chance to support local economy
In the wake of another multi-hour SkyTrain delay Tuesday, a spokeswoman said that service interruptions are a great opportunity to support the local economy by getting a bite to eat or a coffee....
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Stewart Muir: Reject the false claims of resource job killers
In coming days, activists in Vancouver will launch a campaign saying that increased oil shipments will inevitably destroy the B.C. tourism industry. They are choosing to do this now because they hope...
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Gordzilla in the City: Friday was Knicker Knacker Day and I still feel blue …
Like some families, we make up words and phrases a lot in our house. That is why last Friday and every Feb. 6 for the next 10, 12 or even 13 years (if we’re very lucky) will be known in our household...
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Province Sports Radio’s Mondays with Marius does Round Two
They haven’t been cancelled yet. Marc and Marius did their first podcast last week. They’re back for their second episode, this time from Portland. There’s a dose of Norwegian history – yes, Vikings...
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Scene & Heard: Hawksley Workman on Old Cheetah and Winter Bird tour
Scene & Heard with Stuart Derdeyn talks to cabaret rocker Hawksley Workman about Old Cheetah. The eleventh album – 15 overall – from the prolific artist sticks to his penchant for driving and...
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