Burrard downtown? If you like good beer, Ensemble Tap at Burrard and Smithe (same building as the Scotiabank Theatre). A little more pricey than most places but it has the best selection in the area - I live around there and have tried most places along Burrard.
I got this computer back in 2004, I've fixed a few hardware problems and such over the years, but I think it's done. It's just getting blue screens left and right with different errors, not saving the dump files, randomly turning off. I think it's done, and right now I can't even get a new one I might have to venture into the sunlight.
In Nanaimo the RCMP have new crime fighting technique - the undercover Easter Bunny.
Acting Sgt. Norm Smith, head of Nanaimo RCMP's municipal traffic services, donned a bunny suit on Friday to give police an extra edge in cracking down on offences such as using a cellphone while driving and not wearing a seatbelt.
In Nanaimo the RCMP have new crime fighting technique - the undercover Easter Bunny.
Acting Sgt. Norm Smith, head of Nanaimo RCMP's municipal traffic services, donned a bunny suit on Friday to give police an extra edge in cracking down on offences such as using a cellphone while driving and not wearing a seatbelt.
In Nanaimo the RCMP have new crime fighting technique - the undercover Easter Bunny.
Acting Sgt. Norm Smith, head of Nanaimo RCMP's municipal traffic services, donned a bunny suit on Friday to give police an extra edge in cracking down on offences such as using a cellphone while driving and not wearing a seatbelt.
The Birth of Nation - 95th Anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge
Today marks the 95th anniversary of storming of Vimy Ridge in WWI- one of the watershed events in Canada's path to nationhood.
For months British and French troops had tried to take the German strong point without success - 150,000 French and British soldiers had already died trying to take the ridge, viewed by Allied commanders to be impregnable.
Major General Arthur Currie had all four Canadian Divisions (about 100,000 troops) to be placed under his unified command and he and his Canadian staff officers devised an ingenious plan using close artillery support while the Canadian troops stormed Vimy Ridge on Easter Monday April 9, 1917 and most of the heavily fortified portions of the ridge was under Canadian control within 6 hours of the assault commencing. By the fourth day, April 12, Canadians controlled the entire ridge at a cost of approximately 11,000 casualties, nearly 3,600 of them fatal in the battle, which was hailed as the first allied success of the long war.
The victory was celebrated in Vancouver at the Victory Square Cenotaph.
Vets and cadets stood in unison Monday for a minute of silence to commemorate those who gave their lives in 1917 at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
A piper mournfully played “The Lament” as a reverent crowd gathered at the Cenotaph in Vancouver’s Victory Square to remember the 95th anniversary of the crucial WWI battle where some 3,600 Canadians lost their lives.
And in France it was celebrated by the Governor General on land granted to Canada for all time by a grateful France, the Canadian National Vimy Memorial sits atop Hill 145, rising above the now quiet surrounding countryside. This great monument is inscribed with the names of 11,285 Canadian soldiers who were listed as “missing, presumed dead” in France. Thousands of Canadian students joined the Governor General and the minister of veterans affairs in France today to mark the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...-johnston.html
The Battle of Vimy Ridge marked "the birth of a nation" for Canada, says Gov. Gen. David Johnston.
Johnston and a Canadian delegation of politicians and 5,000 students gathered at the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France Monday afternoon to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the surprising and striking victory for Canada's military.
The brutal Easter Monday battle killed more than 3,500 Canadians and wounded scores more, according to Veterans Affairs Canada, but was a turning point for the Allies in the First World War and a key moment in Canada's military identity.
"In many ways it was the birth of a nation. It was the first time Canadians fought together shoulder to shoulder," Johnston told Postmedia News Monday from Vimy, France. "Not as a subordinate unit in the British army, but on our own."
The Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge — the first time all four divisions of the Canadian Corps worked together as one formation — also gave Canadians a heavy-hitter reputation for breaking through the centre of the seemingly impenetrable German defence.
Here is the Veteran Affairs Canada webpage on The Battle of Vimy Ridge which marked one the first large scale battles which used close infantry support following an artillery barrage. Canadian troops would perfect this strategy and win other battles decisively as a result.
The Battle of Vimy Ridge began at 5:30 a.m. on Easter Monday, April 9, 1917. The first wave of 20,000 Canadian soldiers, each carrying up to 36 kilograms of equipment, attacked through the wind-driven snow and sleet into the face of deadly machine gun fire.
The Canadians advanced behind a “creeping barrage.” This precise line of intense artillery fire advanced at a set rate and was timed to the minute. The Canadian infantrymen followed the line of explosions closely. This allowed them to capture German positions in the critical moments after the explosions but before the enemy soldiers emerged from the safety of their underground bunkers.
Battalions in the first waves of the assault suffered great numbers of casualties, but the Canadian assault proceeded on schedule. Most of the heavily-defended ridge was captured by noon. Hill 145, as the main height on the ridge was called, was taken on the morning of April 10. Two days later, the Canadians took “the Pimple,” as the other significant height on the ridge was called. The Germans were forced to withdraw three kilometres and the Battle of Vimy Ridge was over. The Allies now commanded the heights overlooking the Douai Plain, an occupied portion of France that was still controlled by Germany. The Canadian Corps, together with the British Corps to the south, had captured more ground, prisoners and guns than any previous British offensive of the war. Canadians would act with courage throughout the battle. Four Canadians would earn the Victoria Cross, our country’s highest medal for military valour, for separate actions in which they captured enemy machine gun positions. They were: Private William Milne, Lance-Sergeant Ellis Sifton, Captain Thain MacDowell and Private John Pattison.
And the Canada was on the path to full nationhood, not just a colony of the British Empire. The British High Command did not at first look on Canadians as a separate people - we were considered British but that was not our self-image.
Canadians had a different view of themselves than the British. Although most Canadians viewed themselves British subjects, they did not view themselves as British. They were Canadian. The devastating losses under British command in the first years of the war served to reinforce this feeling of nationalism, particularly for the troops at the front. In Ottawa, Prime-Minister Robert Borden began to press London to place Canadian troops under Canadian command, in a separate and independent army. His motives were more than political (although emotions at home and at the front were running high on this matter). Canada had a small population at that time, and the Canadian units serving in British divisions made up the single largest contingent of colonials in the British army. At that current rate of attrition Canada would have no more men left within a year. Economically and politically it was vital that Canadian units be withdrawn from British command.
Following the disastrous Battle of the Somme in 1916, the British, bleeding and running out of men themselves, and nearing starvation as the German U-boat offensive in the Atlantic increased, finally agreed to Borden's demands. By this point Canada had the third largest armed forces on the Allied side, and her industry and agriculture was outproducing the British. With the Germans nearly strangling Britain at sea and Canadian goods desperately needed in England, Robert Borden suddenly found himself with a great deal of political clout in London. His demands for an independent Canadian command were granted.
By early 1917 all Canadian regiments serving in British units had been withdrawn from the front, supplied with Canadian-made weapons and uniforms, placed under Canadian officers, and formed into Canada's first independent army. To command them, the Chief of Staff in Ottawa chose General Arthur Currie. Currie was a furniture-store owner from Victoria, British Columbia who had used his money to raise a regiment at the outbreak of the war. Before that he had commanded one of the citizen's militia clubs that were popular in the early twentieth century. He had studied military science and was an amateur historian. More than anything, though, he was a natural leader who instilled respect and confidence among his troops.
Currie had been appalled at the tactics employed by the British. After taking part in his first battle with his regiment he immediately recognized that charging a defended trench line was a terrible waste of lives, and even once called his British superiors "murderers" for knowingly sending their troops to their deaths. Currie was determined to preserve the lives of the Canadian soldiers. "I won't waste single one of my boy's lives if I can help it" he once told a Daily Telegraph reporter. As commander of the new Canadian forces in France, he immediately resolved to alter tactics.
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Canada's independence from Great Britain was achieved through an unusual manner, that is, mainly by fighting alongside the British as opposed to being in direct conflict with them. The Great War (or First World War) provided the theatre for Canadians to earn such great respect from the British that independence was the only natural course. Throughout all of Canada there is one significant name that conjures up the heroism, sacrifice and dedication of Canadians in that terrible conflict: Vimy Ridge.
While Vimy Ridge was not the most strategic of battles fought by the Canadian army between 1914 and 1918, nor was it the biggest, it was nevertheless the first time that all the Canadian divisions fought together, unaided by the British, and planned and executed the operation to success. It was a purely Canadian battle, and the results so impressed the British high command that the process for Canadian independence began.
My dog ate about 3/4 of a fish oil pill. I ended up giving him a bit of peroxide to make him throw it up, but he puked like 3 times. Now he's just sleeping. I don't know if he's okay or not and I'm already late to my class. I don't know if I should stay with him
Edit: Well I looked it up online, I think he should be fine. The only thing is I got no one to look after him and I don wan't to come back with my dog looking like
I might have to venture into the sunlight.
