Paul Sullivan is an award winning journalist and communications strategist in Vancouver , British Columbia.
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I woke up yesterday morning and half the animals were gone.Since 1970, 52 per cent of the world's population of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles -- every living creature except people -- have vanished. There are still lots of people, you'll be pleased to learn. During the same period, 1970-2010, the world's human population nearly doubled, from 4 billion to over 7 billion....
Yikes! It's only the first week of December and I'm already suffering from an overdose of yule. It's only the first week of December and I'm already suffering from an overdose of yule. Barely a minute goes by before someone, from Mercedes Benz to Victoria's Secret, tries to twist my Christmas goodwill into cash at the till. Santa Claus is more common than the cold, and any turkey that survived Thanksgiving is sure to be done like dinner by December 25....
How cool is this: A transport system that gets people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour using currently available technology? It's called Hyperloop, the latest crazy plan from Elon Musk, the visionary who has so far given the world PayPal, The Tesla electric car, and SpaceX, the world's only private space program....
So WestJet is now going to charge $25 to lose, er, transport your bag to your destination.If you're surprised, welcome to modern travel, where the airline industry does everything it can to take the miracle out of flight.You already have to pay for a blanket and a pillow, so the real surprise is that it took so long for the airline to charge for basic baggage....
Math problem!Little Johnny has 37 candies and wants to divide them evenly among his five buddies, leaving an equal number for himself. How many candies does each of the boys get?Answer: Little Johnny hasn't the faintest idea....
Have you ever borrowed anything from a hotel room? A nice fluffy bathrobe? A copy of Where Saskatoon? A souvenir hangar from the Hanoi Hilton?...
Guilty -- that's me -- of reading Young Adult novels instead of the latest literary fiction by the latest literary lion or lioness.I devoured Harry Potter, The Golden Compass, even Hunger Games (although I admit it got a little tedious by Volume Three), while nibbling demurely at some prize-winning tome in which generations of people where it snows a lot have been artistically victimizing each for ...
Good morning, class. Today's topic is: NHL hockey -- Big League or Bush League? Yes, we have to go there after Saturday night (January 18, 2014) when the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames re-enacted that classic hockey movie Slapshot by starting a brawl off the opening faceoff....
When you're a reader, there's nothing like finding a new series. It's even better when, by the time you stumble upon it, there is already a bunch written that you can plow through with relish....
I think we're texting ourselves to death. I was reading a story by a relationship therapist who claimed that Canadians text 8 billion messages a month. The point was something like: "How can anyone have a relationship when there's all that texting going on?"...
