The Georgia Straight is a free Canadian weekly news and entertainmentnewspaper published in Vancouver, British Columbia. NeWS, for Network extensible Window System, was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s. ... Entertainment is an amusement or diversion intended to hold the attention of an audience or its participants. ... This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ...
The name is a pun, as Vancouver is situated just next to the Strait of Georgia. As surveyed by Ipsos-Reid its per-issue circulation average is 117,000, and its average weekly readership is 534,000. A pun (also known as paronomasia) is a deliberate confusion of similar-sounding words or phrases for comic or serious effect. ... The Strait of Georgia (also known as Georgia Strait and the Gulf of Georgia) is a 240 km (150 mi)-long strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby Gulf Islands) and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada. ... Ipsos-Reid is a research company founded in 1975 by Didier Truchot, a Paris-based communications specialist. ...
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The Georgia Straight website (http://www.straight.com/)
Strait of Georgia from Burnaby Mountain, with Galiano Island and Vancouver Island in the distance
The Strait of Georgia (also known as Georgia Strait and the Gulf of Georgia) is a 240 km (150 mi)-long strait between Vancouver Island (as well as its nearby Gulf Islands) and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Other potential problems are the width and depth of the strait and the soft consistency of the strait floor, as well as high seismic activity in the Vancouver Island region, and that the Strait is a heavily-used navigation channel.
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