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Every Friday I join The Peak 102.7FM in studio to share One Awesome Thing. Today Clinton Herman and I talked about the Black Strathcona project! Learn more about it at blackstrathcona.com .

A friend of mine recently passed along a link to the Northern Army Preservation Society of Canada .

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community.

If you were to create a Venn diagram where one circle was labeled "cheap" and the other labeled "awesome", the middle point where they cross over could be labeled "Vancouver on the Cheap".

When I was on Galiano Island last weekend (working on THIS FEATURE ) I had the great pleasure of attending Grant Lawrence's book reading at the Galiano Island Literary Festival .

La Vida Local is a feature aimed at connecting you with some of the best foods and goods within Vancouver while raising awareness of how buying local benefits everyone involved.

Remember when we released a free print magazine last year sharing a bunch of stuff that we think is awesome? Well, we're about to release the second volume of this now-annual publication! Again for FREE! Yesterday we held a meeting in our downtown of

Our Daily Photo #1054 is just further proof of why the Pacific Northwest is the most visually pleasing place to be. Plus, the talents of photographer, Maurice Li of Stay and Wander are a huge help in making the PNW look its best.

From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, the East Side neighborhood of Strathcona was home to Vancouver’s first and only black community.

Thanks to everyone who voted for us in WE Vancouver 's Best of the City for 2014! We won 2nd in the blog category and our @VIAwesome Twitter account got 3rd! Check out all of the winners for every category - some of which are broken down into neighbo