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Canucks Riots
Vancouver is one of the most beautiful places in the world, highly regarded by many around the world, but tonight in the aftermath of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final where the Vancouver Canucks lost to the Boston Bruins, the horror of the 1994 Vancouver riots returned.
Cars, including police cars, have been overturned and set on fire. People have been badly injured. Disgraceful Vancouverites taunting the RCMP and riot police. Stores are being raided and burned. The air in downtown Vancouver is a mixture of tear gas and smoke. #canucksriot is trending Canada worldwide.
This is not the city that I have come to love. This is not the way for the world to remember Vancouver on the day its heroes bravely lost to its opponents. This is a disgrace.
But I still have hope. A Facebook event inviting the people of Vancouver to help clean our city tomorrow has been created, with a 1000 people already marked as “Attending”. A website to help the Vancouver Police Department catch those who have been idiotically creating chaos in our fantastic city has been created.
Let’s show what a beautiful, kind and smart city we are. I believe that the Vancouver Canucks will hoist the Stanley Cup and in the people of Vancouver. It’s game time.
A Red Blue Blur
You know the saying: time flies when Eric is chowing down on something foodgasmic. At least that’s how I imagine things.
It’s June 13. Boom. It’s like I wasn’t awake for the last month and a half, but lucky for me I’m on Twitter every day so I have my tweets to remind me that May has come and gone and I was conscious for all of it. Well, almost conscious for all of it. 
From what I have deduced from my tweets, two things come to mind: red and blue. If you guessed that I’ve been contemplating whether reality is real or not, or following what the Democrats and Republics are up to *cough* Weinergate *cough* then you’d be wrong. Red and blue represent the two sports that I’m most passionate about and the last month and a half has been the most exciting period for both of them.
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