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Another Vancouver Kickstarter project coming at you today. This one is from Jonny Hetherington who you may know as the frontman of the rock band Art of Dying .

For many, hiking BC's West Coast Trail once in their lifetime is a rite of passage. For others it's an annual outing. Originally constructed in 1907 as a passageway to transport survivors of shipwrecks, it's 75 kilometres of raw BC beauty.

It’s not all doom and gloom out there in the local media. Bad news dominates the news cycle but even we can’t accuse the mainstream outlets in Vancouver of only focusing on the negative.

Each Friday I join our friends at The Peak 102.7fm to share One Awesome Thing in Vancouver. This week I shared the story of a mysterious character called The Great Pumpkin who has been keeping Halloween alive in Mount Pleasant for years.

Photo: Britney Gill Photography Vancouver is home to some of the hottest emerging and established startups, but thanks to The Next Big Thing Foundation (TNBT) , our local startup scene just got a whole lot cooler (and younger).

Back in June I wrote "if you only support one Kickstarter project in your entire lifetime, make it this one", in regards to Jeremy Koreski's This Is Nowhere book that he was crowdfunding.

It’s not all doom and gloom out there in the local media.

Vancouver-based photographer and art director Sophia Hsin has been nailing it on Instagram over the past few months with her @AmeliaHedgehog/ account. In it she styles her sweet pet in the cutest minimalist scenes you've ever seen a hedgehog inhabit.

It's almost criminal that it's taken so long for a product like this to be designed in this rainy city of ours, but a local design group called Hedgehog Products has just launched "the last umbrella you will ever buy".

With election day in Canada falling on a very important game day for Toronto Blue Jays fans, there's been talk in the media of it possibly affecting the turnout of voters.