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Local comedian makes American debut on Late Late Show

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Vancouver comedian recently landed a gig that would become one of her career’s biggest highlights -- she also got to meet Jeff Goldblum.

Sophie Buddle is no stranger to the Canadian comedy scene. Starting out at 15, she recorded her first comedy album at 22 and shot a televised set at Montreal’s Just For Laughs: All Access.

She won a Juno Award for her 2019 comedy album A Lil Bit of Buddle and has worked as a television writer for the sketch comedy series This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

Buddle moved to the West Hollywood neighbourhood of Los Angeles with her boyfriend just last month. The couple were still in the midst of unpacking and moving in when Buddle was confirmed to do a set on The Late Late Show with James Corden.

The gig came about when a standup booker, the people who scout out the new talent to feature on late night shows, watched a set of hers in L.A. “I had actually done a really dirty set

and he came up to me afterwards and he was like, 'Hey, do you by any chance have some television-friendly material?'” Buddle remembered with a laugh.

If you’re not familiar, Buddle’s brand of comedy often includes unique and hilarious observations regarding the sexually scandalous or

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taboo. Between convincing her new landlord she was a real person and that she had money (“Comedians are just kind of career unemployed people,” she explained) and landing the gig with Corden, she’s been “taking nothing but W's.”

Leading up to Buddle’s appearance on the show she learned Jeff

Goldblum and his wife would be guests on that night’s show. To say Buddle is a Goldblum fan would be a bit of an understatement.

“I have a group chat with some of my girlfriends in Vancouver where we just send each other pictures of Jeff Goldblum,” Buddle said.

Seemingly aware of this, Corden had a surprise in store for Buddle.

When he introduced her to the audience on the day of the taping he let Buddle know that just through her green room door she could actually meet Jeff Goldblum. Sure enough, a completely surprised Buddle was soon face to face with Goldblum, a meeting she was not prepared for in the slightest.

Buddle got over her shock eventually and was pictured after the show with Goldblum and his wife, another Canadian.

“He's totally the vibe that you think he is in person too, he's just like that all the time," Buddle recalled.

It wasn’t all strangers on set though - Buddle is good friends with Reggie Watts, the Late Late Show Band’s leader, having opened for him several times in Canada. Also

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in the audience were her mom and boyfriend.

Buddle remembers her set going well, having selected three jokes that spanned across her 12-year comedy career.

During one of the jokes, the camera cuts to Corden who is nearly doubled over on his desk in laughter.

After she finished her set the host came up to her to congratulate her, this is roughly what else was said, according to Buddle: C: Come back anytime!

B: Okay, see you tomorrow.

C: Well, you know, we're not taping a show tomorrow.

B: Okay, well, I will still come because you did say.

Needless to say, it went well.

Staying busy, Buddle will be opening for Nikki Glaser in Portland, has her first comedy special coming out soon and will be getting her podcast Obsessed with Sophie Buddle back up and running with new Los Angeles guests.

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Opinion: Mayoral hopeful sends deceptive 'important civic election information' junk mail

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he campaign for 2022 Vancouver mayoral hopeful Ken Sim went into damage control mode last week due to a piece of direct mail they've been sending out to Vancouverites.

Misleading, dishonest, deceptive, manipulative, gross, and unethical are all adjectives that Vancouver voters are using on Twitter to describe a piece of mail that has the words "IMPORTANT CIVIC ELECTION INFORMATION" emblazoned in red ink on the envelope.

Many of them point out the fact that, no, there's no important election information contained in the letter inside that very official-looking envelope.

Disguised to look like a piece of critically important information from a voting body like Elections BC it is, in fact, a simple simp ple introduction to the former NPA candidate who lost to Kennedy Stewart by a mere 957 votes in the 2018 civic election.

It was sent out by Sim's new party, A Better City Vancouver, and ends in a plea for the reader to give money to them so that they may "build a more affordable, livable, and safer city for everyone."

To add insult to injury, whoever is running the party's account has decided to reply to many of the angry responses to a tweet sent out by CBC Radio host Stephen Quinn in which he says "it contains zero important election information."

One Twitter user says they "recycled [the letter] immediately" after they received it, and the @ ABetterCityVan account thanks them for doing the right thing and being environmentally conscious.

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Another A other user demands an apology for the deceptive An solicitation for cash, to which the account responds, "We’re not going to apologize for doing everything we can to engage an electorate that has a lower than 45% voter turnout rate."

In Sim's defense, who doesn't think that tricking people into reading a plea for cash isn't IMPORTANT (all caps) when it's them doing it? Who among us has not resorted to a bait and switch to make a fast buck, at a critical time when we are looking to gain trust, then tried to pretend that all we were doing was trying to save democracy and encourage a healthier voter turnout?

Perhaps most of us. Oh well.

Remember to vote on October 15th, 2022.

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Our panel of fast food 'experts' reviews the Justin Bieber

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e've reconvened our V.I.A. Fast Food Panel in order to get to the bottom of the most important question in Canada right now: are the Justin Bieber Timbiebs any good?

Members of our panel are reporters Brendan Kergin whose credentials are that he once worked at a snack stand at a waterslide park, Cameron Thomson who once

held the position of "Scrambled Egg Slopper" aboard BC Ferries vessels, and Thor Diakow who self describes as "a frequent purveyor of fast food."

I'm on the panel because I say I'm on the panel, and I've added our managing editor Lindsay WilliamRoss who is a bonafide food expert that serves on VanMag's restaurant awards jury. We bring in others from our newsroom from

time to time to assist in these very important stories.

THE LEAD UP Our panel hasn't yet reviewed something so highly-anticipated in Canada, and it's safe to say most were feeling some pre-Timbieb jitters.

Celebrities Michael Bublé and Brent Butt have both been posting about it online, there are billboards

and social media ads saturating the market, and this whole thing is kindof a big deal.

PRESENTATION The Timbiebs packaging could best be described as cute - like the Biebs back when he was a prepubescent little guy posting videos to YouTube.

Each cute, branded box holds a variety of 3 different Timbiebs

(Birthday Cake Waffle, Chocolate White Fudge, Sour Cream Chocolate Chip), in a supposed quantity of 10 (some of our boxes held 9, others 10, and one even had 12).

The panel stands somewhat stiffly in a lineup in the V.I.A. lunch room, each perched in front of their individual box.

DONUT DISCLOSURE We discuss the overall issue of

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THE VERDICT As mentioned, on offer are three new flavours of Timbits that are Justin Bieber-approved.

Heck, they might even be his "favourites."

We sink our teeth into Birthday Cake Waffle first, and... ...drum roll please...

The panel is collectively underwhelmed and all but Thomson feel it's "too sweet."

Second up is the Chocolate White Fudge Timbieb.

The panel is even more underwhelmed with this selection, and WIlliam-Ross sums it up by saying it's like a "chocolate-adjacent cottonball," that "has no flavour."

Redemption comes in the form of a Sour Cream Chocolate Chip Timbieb, which is well received by all.

In the end, none of us feel we would get these again, and if we were to buy Timbits we'd go with "the classics."

While not a total disappointment, the Justin Bieber and Tim Hortons co-branded donut holes left quite a bit to be desired.

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Thomson lets it be known that he "occasionally" eats donuts and he enjoys Timmies, while Kergin laughs that he eats them "more than occasionally."

Kergin describes that while he frequently finds himself inside Tim Hortons locations he views their business as "an essential service," in that "you don’t enjoy being there, but you have to be there,” because you like sweet, convenient snacks.

William-Ross and Diakow eat donuts when they're handed to them on silver platters or when they appear in the lunch room for free.

Neither are regular donut purchasers, though they both say they prefer Lucky's, Lee's, or Cartems Donuts (the finest donuts in the city, but only if they're free).

I grew up on Timbits that a friend's parents provided, made fresh at their Tim Hortons franchise and eaten while attending Boy Scout field trips in a bus provided by the franchise owners for free. I've held a personal grudge against the chain since they stopped producing their donuts in-house many years ago, but still hold a soft spot in my heart for them due to the kindness of those franchisees in the mid-1980s.

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Free ice skating returns after one-year hiatus While there’s no admission fee, skate rental costs $5, ice cleat rental is $2 and skate sharpening is $5.

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t’s finally that time of year again to renew a classic Vancouver tradition and have some good old-fashioned fun.

On Dec. 2 the Robson Square ice rink opened once more to the public after a year-long hiatus. The best part? It only costs the skates on your feet.

This year the rink features an all-new skate rental complete with a skate dryer as well as a heated outdoor patio. There’s also a new café at the rink to complete the night with a cup of hot chocolate.

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nce again kicking off the new year with hundreds of enticing menus, events, and delicious happenings all around town, the popular Dine Out Vancouver Festival has announced its dates for 2022.

Running January 14 through 31, the 20th-anniversary edition of the food fest that means special menus at hundreds of restaurants in and around Vancouver along with enticing food-focused events, like the always-exciting return of Street Food City and special meals featuring visiting chefs from around the world.

Diners can enjoy multi-course set menus at four price ranges: $20-$29, $30-$39, $40-$49, or $50-$59.

Additionally, some restaurants will have special promotions tied to Dine Out on offer.

Along with Street Food City - happening Jan. 15-23, when top local food trucks convene to take over the entire plaza in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery for a fun outdoors Dine Out experience - the festival features the Vancouver World Chef Exchange, which sees select Vancouver restaurants hosting culinary luminaries from different destinations for one-of-a-kind dinners.

Dine Out Vancouver will reveal participating restaurants and more festival details in the new year, though tickets for some key "experiences" on the schedule are available to purchase right now at www.dineoutvancouver.com/events/

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ell service provider Fido turns 25 years old this year, and it has some of us thinking back onmemories of the Vancouver Grizzlies and what it was like to live in this city in the late 90s.

The company is a subsidiary of Rogers Communications and first burst onto the scene in 1996 in Montreal. Fido expanded into Vancouver in the summer of 1997 with a massive marketing splash which included TV, billboard and newspaper ads, as well as a branded hot air balloon that circled the city for days on end.

A Vancouver Sun column published amidst the cellular provider's west coast launch blitz in July 1997 raves about the service, quoting self-professed "gadgets guy" Gaetano Fasciana as saying that all of his friends were telling him "you've got to get a Fido."

The man mentions his other "latest toy," - an electronic daytimer. This was long before all of these gadgets were conglomerated into smartphones, and barely anybody was sending text messages, let alone eating up multiple gigabytes of data.

The buzz Fido drummed up was centred around their new digital PCS service, with handsets that ran from $175-$300. The service promised more clear reception and fewer dropped calls than the analogue phones that most of the existing players in the market were selling as their primary product.

The plan they sold during their launch was simple: $40 for 400 minutes of talk time.

Again there was no data on offer, and you had to pay extra to send and receive text messages on your Nokia.

To pay your monthly bill you literally had to go to one of two Fido storefront locations and hand them a cheque, cash, or a credit card.

Internet billing was not a thing.

These days you can find monthly plans for under $40 from low-cost providers like Fido and Virgin, but if you want a plan that takes full advantage of the capabilities of your "modern toy" (your smartphone) that sort of pricing is indeed a thing of the past.

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Jennifer Lopez films hilarious TikTok with co-star on B.C. film set

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ennifer Lopez is sharing a fun moment she had with a co-star on a B.C. film set.

The popular singer, actress, producer, and dancer was in Vancouver filming a Netflix thriller called The Mother that also stars Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare In Love), Omari Hardwick (Power), and Gael Garcia Bernal (Y Tu Mamá También).

Lopez plays an assassin who comes out of hiding to protect her daughter that she gave up while she was on the run from dangerous men, according to Variety.

"JJenny from the Block" filmed several scenes in Vancouver before the production moved up to Smithers to resume filming.

JLo's latest TikTok video from the B.C. town featu t res actress Lucy Paez who plays

her daughter in the film. The pair dance to the F**k it up Challenge Remix — a popular TikTok selection.

In September, production company Great Lakes Pictures ULC alerted residents of the Downtown Eastside that actors would be rehearsing scenes in Victory Square and a nearby EasyPark parkade.

The shoot called for a kidnapping scene that involved "high-speed vehicle movement" on the 200 block of West Hastings, the 400 and 500 blocks of Cambie Street, and the "lane south of 100 West Pender." One of the scenes calls for "simulated gunfire,," too.

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Elephant: Tiny restaurant with big name opens said Ellis in a media release. “With Justin’s bright flavours in his changing menu and Kelcie’s exciting and unexpected pairings, we are having a lot of fun bringing this restaurant to life.”

The timing aligns with the end of another Ellis-Whiteside venture, which was operating Ugly Dumpling, or Ugly, with partner and chef Darren Gee, who is closing the Commercial Drive restaurant down at the end of December.

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The 525-square-foot room had previously been home to TransAm, the critical darling cocktails and burger spot that was open intermittently over the last couple of years, shuttering for good in September.

The team behind Elephant has an impressive resume: It's the venture of Miki Ellis and Stephen Whiteside of nearby Dachi, and chef Justin Lee. Lee's got a bit of a cult following of his own, thanks to stints at Crowbar and Superflux, and is known for his adventurous, elegant dishes that tend to turn flavours and foods we love just the right amount on their ends.

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he City of Vancouver is encouraging residents to register for a new application that provides emergency alerts in the event of a disaster.

The Alertable app provides location-specific warnings, including everything from road closures due to flooding and landslides to incoming extreme weather, major fires and hazardous material spills.

Vancouver’s director of emergency management Daniel Stevens says the app will complement the city’s emergency notifications it sends out through social media, its website, door knocking or the press.

“Alertable is one of the fastest ways we can reach people. Now, more than ever, we need to be able to deliver important safety information to people in various ways,” said Stevens in a written statement.

On the morning of Dec. 2, for example, the app provided a Vancouver resident five alerts, warning of rainfall, overland flooding and an ongoing state of emergency across several locations

in the Fraser Valley.

Unlike the Canada-wide Alert Ready system — which allows governments to beam out emergency alerts through text messages, TV and radio transmissions — the Alertable app allows users to customize what information they receive.

Once the free app is downloaded

to a smartphone, tablet, computer or smart speaker, users can choose whether they’d like to mute alerts for road closures or whether they would like to receive notifications in other municipalities if they travel outside of Vancouver.

This is not the first time a B.C. community has used an app to bolster local emergency

preparedness.

Web and device-based apps have grown increasingly popular as a tool to plan and survive emergencies.

In California, a pathbreaking smartphone app was developed to plan escape routes from wildfire.

And during Hurricane Harvey, a geolocation app helped first responders rescue at least 25,000

flood victims, while another ensured tuberculosis patients took their medicine on time.

In B.C., seven Vancouver Island communities received access to a disaster app in November to help families design their own emergency plans.

The Canadian Hazards Emergency Response and Preparedness mobile app (CHERP) allows roughly 150,000 residents of Vancouver Island to identify potential natural hazards threatening their homes.

The app will prompt residents to input data on family members, and then create a custom household emergency plan if things go catastrophically wrong.

UBC researcher Ryan Reynolds, who led the creation of the app, said the Vancouver Island communities will act as a testing ground for other towns and cities across B.C. and Canada.

The Alertable app is currently available in English and French and can be downloaded for both Apple and Android users.

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It appears to be a local number calling, with varying messages: you’ve won a trip, a warrant has been issued for your arrest, your computer isn’t working.

And they’re irritating, part of an array of scam calls that have been targeting Canadians for years now.

Now, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) says it has tools for Canadians to determine what calls can be trusted and which from spoofed numbers can be ignored.

“Caller ID spoofing is frequently used in nuisance and fraudulent calls to mask the identity of the caller,” the CRTC said.

The CRTC has introduced new

technology aimed at combating those calls.

It’s called Stir/Shaken and will allow telecommunications service providers to certify whether a caller’s identity can be trusted by verifying the caller ID information for Internet Protocol (IP)based voice calls.

“This new caller ID technology will empower Canadians to determine which calls are legitimate and worth answering, and which need to be treated with caution,” CRTC chair Ian Scott said.

“As more providers upgrade their networks, Stir/Shaken will undoubtedly reduce spoofing and help Canadians regain peace of mind when answering phone calls.”

The CRTC said as service providers continue to upgrade IP networks

and offer compatible phones to their customers, more and more Canadians will be able to see the effects of Stir/ Shaken.

The CRTC said it’s also working with the industry to develop a process to trace nuisance calls back to their points of origin.

The CRTC stressed not all calls will be verifiable due to device and network compatibility requirements, including calls that are not entirely performed over an IP-voice network.

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he Weirdos Holiday Market returns to Vancouver this holiday season to deck the halls with oddities galore.

Since 2017, the Weirdos Holiday Market has been an annual shopping destination for locals seeking totally unique gifts. Last year, however, the event had to pivot from a market-style holiday offering to a pop-up shop for pandemic-related capacity restrictions.

Now, visitors may enjoy the market in its original form and in one of its original homes at The Venables Hall (1739 Venables Street).

The market kicked off on Saturday, Dec. 4 and Sunday, Dec. 5, and will pop up again on Saturday, Dec. 11 and Sunday, Dec. 12.

Rachel Zottenberg, founder, organizer, and "head weirdo," tells Vancouver Is Awesome in a phone interview that having the vendors together in the market to sell their art will create a totally different atmosphere.

"One of the great things about the Weirdos' market is that there are actual weirdos that make all of this wonderful art," she underscores. "So the characters behind the art are all just really interesting, passionate people."

Due to occupancy limits in last year's market, Zottenberg notes that the artists couldn't mingle and prepare together, which was a source of inspiration for everyone involved.

"The energy that you get in a market where everyone gets to live and vibe off of each other's energy and everyone gets to be present and prepare and be together...I feel like it has just been missed by everyone," she explains.

The 2021 Weirdos Holiday Market features more than 25 vendors, personally curated

by Zottenberg, each of them hosting their own tables full of items – from witchy wares, anatomical curiosities, unique

collectibles, quirky clothing and eccentric art to magical pottery, one-of-a-kind prints, candles, books, stickers and much moreHoping to find something holiday-inspired?

You might not find your

typical festive items—but you might find something even better.

"There's plenty of Santa-ish paraphernalia lying around... but there's always a little edgy hint to anything you see," she

describes. "Nothing is the average version."

That said, many of the items at the market aren't holidayrelated. For example, one of the vendors has been crafting "plague doctor" masks for

several years, long before the foreboding, crow-like pieces became timely. They are a big hit these days, however.

For the first time, the market will also feature a selection of baked treats from Punk Rock Pastries, a local company known for crafting impressive and eccentric cakes and goodies.

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Your cup of coffee or your child’s favourite toy could end up costing you a pretty penny.

This year, a global shipping container shortage has seen the average cost to move a 40-foot steel container of cargo by sea rise by upwards of 500% above the seasonal average, according to Drewry Shipping.

The long-lasting impact could mean we see price increases in many common household goods, including appliances, furniture, toys and more.

Then came an atmospheric river event in B.C. on Nov. 15 that wiped out large sections of the province’s highway infrastructure, largely cutting off the Interior and the Lower Mainland.

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Shopping online and picking up instore or curbside is now commonplace for many businesses, including local independent retailers to big box stores like Best Buy and Canadian Tire.

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Etsy is the go-to online destination for handmade goods, but did you know you can filter your results for local Canadian artisans? Type an item into the search bar (ie: “party decorations”) and from there click “All filters” and set the shop location to Canada. #4: PRIORITIZE YOUR SHOPPING LIST

Start with the most in-demand stuff first: tech and toys always fly off the shelves. Shop early and always triplecheck delivery options and estimated dates for your area. #5: DEDICATED CANADIAN SHIPPING

Current road conditions aside, ordering goods that don’t cross a border is a smoother process than international shopping (no duty and fewer delays). Have your heart sent on a gift that you can’t find in Canada? Before caving into a pricey and lengthy international shipment, check the manufacturer’s site to see if they list stockists and retailers who carry their goods. Whenever possible, choosing a Canadian retailer—whether they be big or small—will mean a smoother shipment. Keep in mind that some U.S. big box retailers, such as Zara and the Gap, also have warehouses within Canada. If you’re purchasing through Amazon, a Prime subscription offsets shipping costs and speeds up the process, too.

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he fall of 2021 was as quite a seas ason.

Vancouver saw weather bombs, seven atmospheric rivers in a month and a tornado, among other things. An A d along with all of that came the rain.

The City t of Vancouver, pelted with near-constant rain for three months, smashed its record for rainiest fall on record (which meteorologically speaki k ng ru r ns from Sept. 1 to Nov. 30) says Environment Canada warning preparedness meteorologist Ar A mel Castellan.

Over September, October and Ov November 611.5 mm of rain fell here. That breaks the old record of 531.9 mm in 1996, smashing it by almost 80 mm; in meteorological terms, that's a lot. An A d records go back over 120 years.

On averag a e we see 364.4 mm, so this year we got 168 per cent of the usual.

But it was asn't the most, with Abbotsford getting an "as astounding" 884.5 mm over the three months; the average there is 475 mm.

"The previous wettest fall for Abbotsford was 2016 and was only 666 mm, so you overshot that in Abbotsford by over 200 mm which

is absolutely jaw-dropping," says Castellan.

A d in Victoria, where the total An wasn't as high, the difference from the usual was massive; at the Victoria Gonzales station they had 509.6 mm, compared to the normal of 230.1 mm. That's 221 per cent of the normal.

"Honestly, for a seasonal record to be broken by that much, I don't kn k ow if I've ever seen that," Castellan says.

While daily records can vary r quite a bit, for an entire seas a on to break records by those numbers is extremely unusual, given that it requires such a long pattern of weather.

Speaki k ng of daily record for a second, Penticton set a heat record on Dec. 1; it was as 22 C in the South Okanagan town, that's the highest temperatu t re ever recorded in Canada in December.

Castellan notes that every r one will remember the atmospheric river storm that dropped over 250 mm of rain on areas like Hope and the Coquihalla betw t een Nov. 13 and 15; he says it's likely the most financially impactf tful weather event in the nation's history r , and happened just

months after the deadliest weather event in Canada (the mid-summer heat dome).

He adds that the situ t ation was exacerbated by soil conditions which were already satu t rated after t o months of rain, meaning water tw wasn't able to soak into the ground.

A d that was followed by backAn to-back-to-back significant atmospheric rivers, each dropping up to 100 mm on areas.

"That was essentially adding insult to injury r ," Cas astellan says.

Things could have been worse, though. He notes there were multiple weather bombs (when there's explosive cyclogenesis, a term for the rapid pressure drop over an area that's part r of bomb cyclone).

One massive one lucki k ly didn't hit Vancouver; to be a weather bomb a drop in pressure of 24 hectopascals has to happen in 24 hours; the one off the coas ast of B.C. dropped closer 40 hectopascals in 24 hours, but changed directions instead of continuing west.

Castellan says if that had happened over Vancouver it would have led to high winds and hundreds of thousands without power, if not

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more. An And it would have happened in early November.

"It is hard to say we got lucky k , that it could have been worse, but it eas asily could have been," he says.

While not as extreme as the other events, temperatu t res were high throughout November, even for Vancouver.

"7.5 C was the mean," Castellan says. "Normally it's 6.3 C. That's a 1.2 degree anomaly."

Over a month that's notable he says, Ov but expected as seven atmospheric rivers flowed over the Lower Mainland. They aren't rare, he adds, with up to 25 over the fall, winter and early spring, but they're often not as intense as the last few have been. An And with them comes higher than usual temperatu t res.

"November was a a fairly

extraordinary r month in several respects," Cas astellan says.

Oh, and there was as a legitimate, measured, rated tornado that start r ed off the coas ast of the Vancouver airp r ort r and came aground at UBC. An And it wasn't a little waterspout that happen once in a while in the Strait of Georgia.

"It had a supracellular stru r ctu t re," says Cas astellan. "There was as deep, organized convection."

Nothing like it has as been recorded near Vancouver in November, he notes.

"To see a rated tornado just goes to show how extraordinary r 2021 has been," Castellan says. "An And, without question, November as well."

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Plus many more artists offering unique products.

And how does Zottenberg define "weird?"

"To me, it's always the stuff that not everybody is going to like. It's the stuff that's a little left of centre, and often it has something that's a little grotesque or abnormal or a little antique or a little strange or a little snarky or a little over-the-top silly," she explains.

"But to be a weirdo is just to have those feelings in your heart while you create. To be an artist in itself is to be a weirdo."

Face masks are required for everyone ages five and up and vaccine passports will be required for all patrons and vendors over the age of 12. Admission is $4.

A portion of the door proceeds will be donated to the Urban Native Youth Association.

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