Hot and Fresh Wanderism

In a world where travel prices are rising, one company is lowering theirs. Why?


Wanderism = You Are Here!

from the "crack shack or mansion" dept.

Fire Sale!

Vancouver, BC is home to some of the highest real estate prices in North America.

Daily Business News reports: the price for the average detached bungalow in Vancouver has increased 21.8% to $906,045 in the first quarter of 2010 when compared with the same period in 2009.

So, what will a cool million bucks get you in Vancouver? That's what one website set out to discover in their Crack Shack or Million Dollar Mansion game.

Play HERE.

Cheers!

from the "blow out prices" dept.

Bust the TV

It's not a good sign for the Canuckian media landscape when TV stations, once thought to be cash cows, are selling for $1. A DOLLAR! And a Canuckian dollar at that. That's what Shaw just paid CTV for stations in Windsor, Wingham and Brandon.

CTV head Ivan Fecan said the company has accepted the offer of $1 per station by Shaw (TSX:SJR.B), Canada's second-biggest cable TV operator.

"Cable is rolling in money and can obviously afford to underwrite the losses. Good for them," Ivan Fecan, president and CEO of CTVglobemedia and CEO of CTV, said in a statement. [MORE]

Good times. Come visit me in Guatemala!

Cheers!

from the "it's the sub-primes, stupid" dept.

There's some scary stuff going on south of the border... is this another long-lasting gift from W to the people of the U.S.A.? Maybe not directly, but a stupid war and a corrupt administration don't do much for the economy. Four More Years! Four More Years!

Take note the last sentence below. What does that say about the state of today's media?

The details and link from BoingBoing:

In this chilling BBC clip, a newsteam ventures to one of LA's new shantytowns made up of people who've lost their homes in the subprime meltdown and now live in tents, improvised shacks or RVs on abandoned land. It's the contemporary Hooverville, and, as the Subliterate Cinephile notes, I wonder why I found out about this from the BBC and not US media. Link

Cheers.