Finally, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp is recognizing Vancouver is NOT the rest of Canada!

[HEyHEY]

After years of them shoving French down our throats... today, the CBC British Columbia website had something different, somethign that reflects THIS city....

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/chinesenews /

Yup! The news in MANDARIN!

[El Supremo]

1. Oh, you mean Hongcouver!

[HEyHEY]

2. Not so much hongcouver anymore

Most of them are coming from mainland china now

[Howardx]

3. i thought canada was all

either 'davinci's inquest" or "corner gas"

[BOSSHOG]

4. Is Canada part of Vancouver??

That's strange.

[HEyHEY]

5. nope!

[maxsolomon]

6. wouldn't Cantonese be a better language to use?

that's what they speak southern china & in Hong Kong, right? i don't know where the language line in China is...

[hfojvt]

7. listen to the Mandarin rain

merde!

[aspergris]

8. tabernac!!!

btw, of course vancouver isn't part of canada. It's a Seattle suburb. Fewer guns, more hockey.

[HEyHEY]

9. We're nothing like that

In fact, the cities are fairly different. Not to mention, we're larger.

[aspergris]

14. nothing like what?

I've been to vancouver a dozen times.

I was being humourous (or trying), but it's true - hockey is more popular there than here. and there are less guns there too

[HEyHEY]

15. Nothing like a Suburb of Seattle

You must understand, you're from Toronto, hence i always get my back up around you people

[aspergris]

17. Zut alors non

I am not from tronna.

I am from Seattle.

Vancouver is our suburb. Annexation starts next week

Assimilation to follow...

[HEyHEY]

18. Oh, I thought you were someone else!

Vancouver is bigger than you, you're our suburb!

[aspergris]

19. Yes, but that

is just canadians. So, it's not "real population". You apply the canuckistan multiplier of *.2

And yes, I'm being sarcastic. I love vancouver. Not so stoked on the exchange rates though!

[Bozita]

10. Hoping somebody told Peter Mansbridge about this.

[Skink]

11. How's gas prices there?

[HEyHEY]

16. $1.40 a litre

[Skink]

21. Is that more than a pint?

[TrogL]

22. You have to factor in the terrain and required change in driving style

Vancouver is extremely hilly so you blow a lot of gas going uphill (there doesn't seem to be any downhill).

The drivers are all on drugs. Really good drugs. That's my only explanation.

They pull the damndest stunts I've ever seen.

1. Driving through red lights. Not "running" not "breaking and failing", just moseying on through. BAMMM!!!
   
2. Failing to acknowledge the concept of "lanes" or "oncoming traffic".
   
3. Simply stopping in the middle of the road. Nobody gets in or out or appears to be doing anything.
   
4. Proceeding down a winding, twisting freeway at half the posted limit in the left lane.
   
5. Proceeding down same freeway at twice the posted limit in the right lane.
   
6. Above in fog.
   
7. Above in blinding blizzard.
   
8. Parking. Don't get me started.
   
9. Signalling. If it was consistently "right means left" I could cope. It's the utter randomness of it, combined with strange hand gestures that are probably "look at the pretty space aliens".
   

You, of course, need to modify your driving accordingly. Slow and steady is NOT going to cut it. You have to be ready to completely lock up the brakes to avoid #4, then floor it to avoid #5, do a drift to avoid #1, then cut in the afterburners to grab the only available parking space in the city.

[HEyHEY]

23. Yeah, it is AWFUL here I've lived all over Canada and Vancouver is just baffling

[TrogL]

26. Just say this mantra over and over

"They're on drugs....really good drugs."

[Zhade]

24. Sounds better than Los Angeles. I can't wait to move there!

All I need is that ten grand in the bank, since even though I pass the skilled worker test there's no way a Canadian company will hire a Yankee like me...

Sucks that it's so hard to move to a place I fell in love with. : (

[LeftyMom]

30. That sounds a lot like driving in San Francisco.

Which I have to do again next week.

[wiggs]

12. Just came back from four days in Vancouver (our 4th trip). Awesome City. nt

[islandmkl]

13. i thought...

eh?

[DavidDvorkin]

20. I thought it was the best of Canada.

[XOKCowboy]

25. I love Vancouver...

Everything from the Cambie to the beautiful bay and mountains. It very well could be the most beautiful city in North America...

[Zavulon]

27. I used to live in Quebec, and

I can sympathized with your desire not to have French shoved down your throats.

One question, though - I thought Cantonese was more prevalent in B.C. (?)

[HEyHEY]

28. used to be

But now, Mandarin is catching up, big time

[Zavulon]

29. I've been gone too long. (NT)