Citations:Lotusland

English citations of Lotusland

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• 1976 — "B.C. problem: Just not the centre of things", Canadian Library Journal, Volume 33:

  After all Vancouver is "Lotusland" and rushing isn't part of the lifestyle.

• 1979 — Jonathan Evan Maslow, "A visit to Canada's 'sunbelt': Vancouver, B.C.", Blair & Ketchum's Country Journal, August 1979:

  Or so it all seems, for Lotusland is not high on recalling the past. What Vancouver is keen on is its role as the post-industrial breeding grounds of Canadian civilization.

• 1983 — Larry Wood, "Vancouver's Cup runneth over with rain", The Calgary Herald, 27 November 1983:

  Out here in Lotusland, at this time of year, it rains on everything. And rains. And rains.

• 1993 —"Vancouver basks in world spotlight", Waterloo-Kitchener Record, 2 April 1993:

  For Lotusland, this is dream PR: Color pictures of Clinton jogging along the seawall in Stanley Park; Yeltsin on the beautiful grounds of the University of British Columbia; an estimated 4,000 journalists filing from Vancouver and pumping perhaps millions of dollars into the economy.

• 1998 —Michael Slade, Primal Scream, Signet (1998), →ISBN, page 226:

  Not for nothing did they call it Lotusland. You'd think, to hear Vancouverites, that they were the chosen people, blessed with the best climate on Earth, not too hot in the summer, thanks to the cooling sea, not too cold in the winter, thanks to tropical currents, so eat your hearts out, Easterners, and smog-shrouded Death Valley southern neighbors.

• 1999 —Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada (1999), →ISBN, page 10:

  "Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.

• 2005 — Steve Newton, "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", The Georgia Straight, 15 September 2005:

  The main giveaways that it was a Lotusland production are the cameos, as TV reporters, by broadcasters Joanna Piros, Darrin Maharaj, and Clay St. Thomas.

• 2006 — "We all scream for grittier fall flicks", The Province, 13 September 2006:

  This Douglas Coupland-penned satire on life in Lotusland is a bit of hometown flavour on the big screen.

• 2010 — Rosie Dimanno, "Chan greeted by 'surreal' Games welcome", Toronto Star, 9 February 2010:

  "Because he's such a hero in Canada and I just want to know how he deals with these situations," Chan told reporters before leaving for Lotusland.

• 2010 — Dave Fuller, "Kaberle's dad predicts a trade", Toronto Sun, 19 August 2010:

  Former Leafs enigma Kyle Wellwood is still looking for work after the Vancouver Canucks signed Manny Maholtra as their third-line centre, ending his two-year run in Lotusland.

• 2010 — Gary Mason, "Rob Ford tapped into a zeitgeist that goes beyond Toronto", The Globe and Mail, 28 October 2010:

  Vancouver is awash in transplanted Torontonians who couldn’t get enough of the fight for city hall. Rob Ford is a compelling, controversial figure even in Lotusland, and now that he’s mayor of the centre of the universe, people can’t stop smiling.

• 2011 — Jason Kirby, "The real problem with Vancouver's outrageous house prices", Macleans, 1 June 2011:

  The real threat to Vancouver isn’t that the housing market might crash. That’s happened here before. It undoubtedly will happen again. Such is the boom & bust nature of real estate in Lotusland.

• 2011 — Alex Hudson, "Marilyn's soundtrack taps gritty local musicians", The Georgia Straight, 24 November 2011:

  Petry’s film-school buddy Devon Cody served as music supervisor, and along with music coordinator Jason Solyom, he recruited some of Lotusland’s best bands to contribute songs to the project.

• 2012 — Stephen Legault, The Vanishing Track, TouchWood Editions (2012), →ISBN, page 17:

  She had chosen Vancouver, she said, because it was a bigger market, and because it wasn't Edmonton, with its biting winters complete with freezing rain and ice fog. And though she hadn't said so, she had been none too subtle in letting it be known that her choice of Lotusland had more than a little to do with one Cole Blackwater.