Our resident health expert Dr. Art Hister brings us the latest news on the medical and wellness front. Don't forget to catch him this weekend at the Public Health Fair, November 19 from 1:00 to 6:00 pm. For more information, call 604 732 4636.
www.drarthister.com
Fred Tutt and Gerry Haggman are the handy guys who know a whole lot about home improvement--today they came in with a few vintage radios (their passion) and tips to give your house its fall and winter checkup.
www.fredandgerry.com
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist, military historian and contemporary thinker who studies and writes about war, and fears we are hightailing it to World War Three. He hopes for a day when the US is back as an architect of global order, not chaos, and makes his case in a new book called Future Tense: The Coming World Order.
www.gwynnedyer.net
Trevor Boddy is an architectural hipster who writes a column for the Vancouver Sun that gives us his take on everything from skyscrapers to bus shelters. Recently he wrote a column full of good news about BC's abundance of architectural talent, as evidenced by our five recent Governor General's Medal winners for architecture.
www.vancouversun.com
The Wild Guys started out as a smash hit stage play about four guys who bumble around in the woods on a wilderness weekend where nothing goes right, and lots of life lessons are learned. Now it's a movie of the same name starring Jackson Davies, and it opens Friday, November 12 at Tinseltown in Vancouver.
www.thewildguys.com
Ib Hansen is a practicing architect and an accomplished underwater photographer fascinated with the world's oceans and its creatures, sharks most of all. Recently he left on an expedition to the Soccoro Islands off Mexico, and has lots to say about the need to stop the illegal killing of sharks for their fins.
Meteorologist David Phillips can barely get through an airport without someone stopping him to talk about the weather: he is Canada's unofficial weather wizard, a rain snow and sleet ambassador who produces
a yearly calendar about weather that outsells the Playboy calendar.
www.eg.gc.ca/envhome.html
www.theweathernetwork.com
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter are two rebels with a cause: they examine everything from deep ecology to fast food, and how the quest for cool affects how we all live in their new book, Rebel Sell: Why the Culture Can't be Jammed.
www.rebelsell.org
Former foreign press secretary to Mexican President Vicente Fox, Alicia Buenrostro loves her new role as the Marketing Director of the Vancouver office of the Mexican Tourist Board, where she helps take us beyond her country's stereotype as the land of tequila and tacos (good as those are!).
www.visitmexico.com
Will Ferguson is a nuts-and-bolts humuorist who is best known for his hilarious books on Canadian history; his eminently readable latest is called Beauty Tips From Moose Jaw: Travels in Search of Canada.
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