Writer and actress Nia Vardalos is sponsoring a toy drive at Raleigh Studios on Monday, November 26th. The event will take place from 10am-1pm at the Van Ness gate (south of Melrose Avenue). All WGA, SAG, Teamsters, AFTRA, other unions and supporters are welcome.

The third hour of the festival of shifting line ups, saw a flurry of trades take place in about twenty five minutes.

First across the wires was word that the LeafsNation had moved Wade Belak to the Florida Panthers. A not unexpected move as Cliff Fletcher begins to dismantle the Ferguson era Leafs collecting draft picks as the exodus from the Air Canada Centre begins.

TSN--Maple Leafs trade Belak to Panthers
Sportsnet--Belak to Panthers

According to SDLookup, Rancho Bernardo 92128 currently has 310 listings for sale. For a population of 42,728, that gets us a listing per population ratio of 1:138. Should this ratio be lower? Is 92128 also suffering from the phantom inventory phenomenon?

12047 ALTA CARMEL CT #187 SAN DIEGO 92128--5/14: NOD filed--not listed on MLS

His five goal performance still fresh on the sports highlight shows some 24 hours later, Marian Gaborik is getting rave reviews and comparisons to some of the greats of hockey who also achieved quintuple success on the ice.

Here's a challenge, perhaps a dare. Find me a home to rent. It needs to be in View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Mill Bay, Shawnigan, maybe Cobble Hill. It must have 3 bedrooms up, 3 bedrooms (or 2 bedrooms and den / office) down (down is a suite). They must be separate living spaces. The lower suite must be above ground, with minimum 8 foot ceilings and large windows. The house must have a garage and a decent sized yard. The house must be available to rent April 1st or later.

All this for $2500 a month.

If you can find me this house, I will seriously consider renting it. I don't think it exists. I'd love to be wrong.

Thanks to anonymous for mentioning this occasion on Craigslist.

Yes, according to The Globe and Mail, and specifically Douglas Porter, deputy chief economist at BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc., the housing boom in Canada is now officially over. First quarter statistics are what helped him come to that conclusion.

Certainly, we are seeing this in Victoria. Inventory is ballooning and sales are the lowest in years.

Will we follow in the footsteps of our neighbours south of the border? Perhaps. Perhaps not. But the market is definitely not what it was in the previous 2 or 3 years.

Discuss away!

There was No Luongo, No Bieksa and No Morrison available to suit up and a pair of Moose were called up, but all in all the Canuck’s didn’t seem to miss a beat.

En estos momentos se debe estar grabando el discurso que en unos minutos será transmito al país por parte de Leonel Fernández, al cual se ha invitado a todo el gabinete, representantes de los Poderes del Estado, el Cardenal, representantes de grupos religiosos, Síndicos (Alcaldes) y Gobernadores.

Eso me dá mala espina

The bad blood between the Bruins and Flyers apparently won't be ending anytime soon, this after yet another dangerous hit resulted in yet another Boston player to be helped from the ice, not to return to action on Monday night.

Something's very different on the picket line.

Since Thanksgiving, the energy on the picket lines has fallen off. One picketer was even seen reading a book while he walked the picket line.

It seems like only yesterday that we were chanting to stop trucks from crossing the picket line or "2-4-6-8, Why won't they negotiate." The turnout and the energy paid off. The AMPTP rejoined us at the negotiating table and that was great.

But now....we wait....in a news blackout.

Getting the agreement to restart the negotiations felt climactic, because so much energy had to be expended to get the AMPTP to do the right thing, but "restarting" the talks didn't mean "concluding" them.

While its residents may feel that their burg is still the centre of the universe, as for its hockey team it's off to the margins..From the early days of radio, the CBC has been the home of the Maple Leafs, from Foster Hewitt first coming through the tubes on the old RCA radio, to Bob and Harry as the Sunshine boys, keeping those Maple Leaf spirits lifted on your Hi def, flat screen television.

He's been scratched from seven of the last eight games that Penguins played and now it seems he will be taken off the list completely.

Mark Recchi, who has had trouble getting un tracked all year long, was placed on the waiver wire Tuesday by the Penguins.

Empresario Gustavo Cisneros debe comparecer juicio SPM

POR SILVIO CABRERA

Responding to my post ("The Faces of the Strike") earlier today, Anonymous said what a lot of us have been thinking. I think it's worth reprinting in its entirety.

Anonymous said...

Not "some accountant in one of the AMPTP companies"...every single company has done extensive financial analysis on this situation, and it's what will drive all decisions made from the AMPTP side.

Business decisions from executive management are based almost exclusively on finances...and often short term finances over long- or medium-term finances.

AMPTP knows exactly when this strike will end.

Our most recent 'If Only I Waited...' post on Oxnard prompted one irate anonymous reader to write, "What's up with slamming Oxnard? There are places to live that are in worse shape than Oxnard..."

And we wholeheartedly agree!

Case in point, Bakersfield. Here we have a REO going for 33% less today compared to a year and a half ago...

12109 Trackside Dr., Bakersfield, CA 93312

The Colorado Avalanche continued on along their theme of bring em all home, as the NHL West division team signed on Tony Granato for a second tour of duty as the Avs head coach.
Granato coached the Avlanche for a couple of years until the 2004-05 season will succeed the man who replaced him that year, as Joel Quenville chose to move on last month apparently finding philosophical differences with the Avs management team.

Ooopsie, a little preview of the NHL Awards slipped out of the NHL head office on Friday as the NHL on line shopping portal, shop.nhl.com , apparently provided a sneak look at what the best dressed fans of what will be this years Hart Trophy winner will want to be wearing. .In what passes for the best that they could think of for damage control the NHL is busy denying that anything of such nature took place..
The NHL clothing marketing line will apparently include a lovely medium blue tee shirt emblazoned with the likeness of Alexander Ovechkin, who if the leaked material is any indication is this years NHL MVP.

On Wednesday they were like nervous teenagers trying out for the school musical (which in this case would surely be Les Miserable’s), as the Toronto Maple Leafs took the stage anxious to prove themselves for the new director.

With Cliff Fletcher encamped in the box that John Ferguson Jr. once stood watch from, the Leafs showed their stuff Wednesday night with taking a hard fought battle with the Washington Capitals. Each no doubt hoping to show a few hints to their new boss that there is still something to show and something of value for the blue and white.

Damien Cox won’t let go of the Maple Leaf Nation’s dream, that apparently of having Brian Burke take charge of their wandering band of under performing and overwhelmed hockey players.

It was a divisional game that had been anticipated in Edmonton for the last couple of days, the suddenly resilient Oilers had been making a bit of a run towards the playoffs, while the Canucks were struggling and hearing the anxious commentaries from the Vancouver hockey chorus.

An Oiler win would move them ever closer to a playoff spot, while a Canuck loss would set off a new round of speculation in Vancouver as to how the wheels fell off the cart this time.

Thursday night, the Canuck fans could put thoughts of failure behind them for one night as the Vancouver squad went into Edmonton and took charge of the hard hitting showdown.

I'm not quite sure if it seems like only yesterday, or if it seems like ages ago that Patriots Linebacker Tedy Bruschi suffered a stoke and experienced a brush with death. I was just thinking about this just the other day and I couldn't believe that the media was too busy talking about Tom Brady's ankle to give a great story like this some pub.

The new executive director of the NHLPA will have no shortage of places to drop into on his next vacation that is if he feels like traveling to Canada.

Out of Jim the Realtor's April Actives vs Pendings zipcode comparisons, Rancho Penasquitos is the best out of all of the zip codes with a strong Active vs. Pending ratio 1.80. Sure enough, out of a population of 47,217, there's only 173 listings, translating to a listing per population ratio of 1:273, in stark contrast to 92127's 1:69.

But what about that Phantom/Shadow/Stealth Inventory? Here's Watson Ranch, a smallish development built in late 2002 and 2003 just north of Route 56, we got a single home for sale on Torrey Bella Court:
13878 Torrey Bella, San Diego, CA 92129

The always intense New York Ranger-New Jersey Devil rivalry renewed the latest chapter on Wednesday night, the first time that the Blue shirts of Broadway had an opportunity to travel to the Devils new digs in Newark.

I had a great weekend last weekend! Darcy and I headed out to a party all by ourselves, which was a first. We were lucky enough to attend the second Sacramento Food Bloggers Potluck. As a result, I updated by blog roll to include all the new blogs I discovered while chatting with people at the event. (Actually, I pretty much stole Garrett's, since he is our Social Chair.) A highlight in my book was Garrett's Chipotle Flourless Chocolate Cake and you can find the recipe over on Simply Recipes.