Get it here. But the new brand-image of biking still isn't total. Members of one of these rackets are suspected in the recentnear-fatal shooting of a Montreal tabloid reporter who was investigating it. The B.C. economy still has a ways to go. And thanks to recent trends in the Canadian dollar, consumer goods there are no longer significantly costlier than here.
Wages are stagnant.
Taxes are still higher than here. I still got in, despite having no caked mud on my pant legs. Had my first taste of maple taffy, a gloriously gooey concoction that could be described as especially-thick real maple syrup on a stick. Saw a piece of the Vancouver Fringe Festival, a more established and slicker operation than Seattle's fringe-theater event. Took the SkyTrain, the quite costly light-rail system that could provide some lessons for our own fledgling Sound Transit scheme.