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Parallel 49 Brewing has been giving back throughout the pandemic and continues to support local

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Since the pandemic has begun, we have seen hand sanitizer be one of the most used items to help protect us from the transferring of the virus.

A local brewing company has stepped up over the past year and made a conscious effort to help support local businesses and charities in their fight against COVID-19.

Parallel 49 Brewing has been well-known throughout British Columbia since 2012 and they have been recognized worldwide in many different beer awards, and for their funky can art.

During the first wave, many beer companies began shifting alcohols as they were able to create hand sanitizer with their brewing equipment. Parallel 49 was one of the first BC companies to move that way and they have been donating hand sanitizer for a full year now.

On Thursday, they put out the call to charities and businesses in need to come by and take some free sanitizer that they had already made.

“We’re in the beer industry, we want to make beer and these pallets of sanitizer take up room in our warehouse,” said Michael Sleeman to CTV News this week. “We want to give to charities as we know that things are tough financially for a lot of people right now. We’re in a position to give it away so that’s what we want to do.”

Parallel 49 Brewing has been a staple in East Van as they have had the same building of operation for nine years since their launch in 2012. In 2017, they opened their new Tasting Room and Street Kitchen Restaurant. These two new additions include 40 of their amazing beers on tap, indoor and outdoor seating and feature a street style-inspired menu to help those beers go down with a savoury snack.

The company has always been very supportive of the local Vancouver scene and continues to knock it out of the park with all of their seasonal beers that feature some of the best can art in the world.

What’s your favourite P49 beer?

A Vancouver Canucks Super Fan Turned into a Meme Overnight

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Memes are weird, heck, some people can’t even pronounce the word correctly.

Most memes are tweaked and grow like wildfire on the internet. Earlier this week, YouTuber, podcaster and super fan Clay Imoo became a meme.

Imoo was part of a Tuesday night feature on CTV News Vancouver talking about what it has been like to be a Canucks fan throughout the pandemic and how he leaned on his Twitter community to fill the void that is left from him not being in Rogers arena this season.

https://twitter.com/CanuckClay/status/1387246215453052933?s=20

The highlight of the video was Imoo’s slow thumbs up that blew up on Twitter with the Canucks fans community.

“Given how much I vlog, how much I post, how much content I create, and how many silly things I do and say (sometimes unintentionally), I’m truly surprised it’s taken me this long to become a meme,” said Imoo in a tweet to his followers. “After my family first saw the clip on tv, they ragged on me for the next hour”

Lots of people went the route of screenshotting Imoo’s smile with and without the thumbs up and attached it to good and bad news surrounding the team.

On Tuesday night, it was mostly Canucks fans and some media members getting involved in the fun. As the night passed along and Wednesday morning came, some of the bigger hockey accounts hopped on with their best attempt at the “Good Guy Clay” meme.

The Canucks’ minor league affiliate, the Utica Comets jumped all over it as they have been killing it this season with their social media presence.

The biggest post had to come from CBC’s iconic show Hockey Night in Canada. They picked fun at the meme with a joke about receiving emails.

Imoo has been a long-time supporter of the Canucks and loves the fact that people are having fun even if it’s at his expense. He swears that the video is not slowed down and chuckled saying “it’s my pleasure, I love the memes.”

You either make the memes or live long enough to become one.

On Tuesday night, Clay Imoo became the meme.

Be sure to check out Clay’s YouTube channel where he posts daily videos to his over 6,000 subscribers and does live streams for Vancouver Canucks games where he interacts with his viewers. He has also recently launched a video podcast called Canucks after dark with his co-host ParkersPucks over on their podcast’s Youtube channel.

Do yourself a favour and listen to some Nelly Furtado today

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Do you ever catch an old song on the radio and think, “damn, I need to add this to my library now!”

Here’s a tip, do yourself a favour and go through some old Nelly Furtado songs and put your phone to work on the downloads.

Furtado is a local, BC-born artist who hit the music scene like a meteor back in 1997 after graduation from Victoria’s Mount Doug Secondary School in 1996. She travelled to Toronto to visit her sister and that trip resulted in her meeting music executives that enjoyed her writing and gave her a shot to create her first album “Whoa, Nelly!” which launched in October of 2000.

She hit the scene hard with her debut album. It featured smash hits like “I”m Like a Bird“, “Turn Off the Light” and my personal favourite, “On the Radio“.

Her career took a turn to more hip-hop feel when she began to collaborate with famous music producer Timberland in 2006. With Timberland by her side, she created chart-topping singles like “Promiscuous“, “Maneater” and “Say It Right“.

Timberland produced her 2006 album Loose and merged Furtado’s voice and writing with 1980’s hip hop and R&B music to create something special. Her song “Say It Right” ended up becoming her most successful worldwide song with massive plays throughout Europe and the United States.

During her 2007 World Tour, she returned to her hometown of Victoria to perform at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Arena. In honour of her visit, local leaders proclaimed the 21st of March 2007, the first day of spring, as Nelly Furtado Day.

Lots of her tracks take you back to early 2000s vibes and for a lot of us, those were the glory days. It’s hard to beat a drive with the windows down and Furtado’s self-proclaimed “Punk-Hop” music blasting through the speakers.

It may be almost 20 years since Furtado came into the music industry’s spotlight but her music stays evergreen and represents the laid-back British Columbia vibes that we all enjoy.

He Slayed the Dragon, 10 Years Later

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It has been 10 years since Alex Burrows scored an overtime goal in game seven against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Many believe that this was the biggest goal in Vancouver Canucks history. I tend to agree with the masses on this one as it was the most magical night of my life.

I was 17-years-old and received tickets to the game as an early birthday present. The arena was electric, it was a perfect example of why we love sports. The Canucks were in tough against the Blackhawks. They had been knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by the Blackhawks in each of the previous two playoffs and on April 26th, 2011, they finally got the monkey off their back.

The streets were like something I had never seen before.

The pre-game saw crowds of fans gather around the arena for the massive game to cheer on the home team and hope that this was the year that the Canucks could finally clobber the Hawks and move on with their much-deserved Stanley Cup run.

Alex Burrows will go down in history as one of the best Canucks stories in their existence. He was a world-class floor hockey player who worked his way into the NHL in one of the hardest ways imaginable. His work ethic and drive to compete were immediately loved by Canucks fans and the big goals that he scored throughout his Canucks career will live on forever in the team’s lore.

No goal of his was bigger than the “Slay the Dragon” goal. We all loved Burrows and continue to love him as he is not an associate coach with the Montreal Canadiens.

There have been big goals since that one, like the game eight slapper or the Sedin magic in their final home game but no goal meant as much to the fans as Burrows’ goal in 2011 did.

Do you remember where you were when Burr slayed the dragon?

Featured image from canucks17canucks on Flickr