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At the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver. Summer of 2018.

The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is a nonprofit organization that operates an annual 15-day summer fair, a seasonal amusement park, and indoor arenas in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The PNE fair is held at Hastings Park, beginning in mid-to-late August and ending in early September, usually Labour Day.

The organization was established in 1907 as the Vancouver Exhibition Association, and organized its first fair at Hastings Park in 1910. The organization was renamed to the Pacific National Exhibition in 1946. During the mid-20th century, a number of facilities were built on the PNE grounds, including Pacific Coliseum and the PNE Agrodome. In 1993, the amusement park adjacent to the PNE, Playland, became a division of the PNE.

The Vancouver Exhibition Association (VEA), the predecessor to the Pacific National Exhibition organization was first formed in 1907; although the association was not incorporated until 18 June 1908. The VEA had petitioned Vancouver City Council to host a fair at Hastings Park; although faced early opposition from the city council and the local jockey club that used the park for horse races. However, the city council eventually conceded to the VEA's request and granted the association a 5-year lease to host a fair at Hastings Park in 1909.

The VEA held its first fair at Hastings Park in August 1910. It was opened by then Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier as the Vancouver Exhibition. The biggest attractions of the two-week fair are its numerous shops, stalls, performances, a nightly fireworks show, and the exhibition's Prize Home. From its beginnings, the exhibition was used as a showcase for the region's agriculture and economy.

In the initial years of the Second World War, the fairgrounds saw an increased military presence. However, the exhibition itself was not cancelled until 1942, after the Canadian declaration of war against Japan was issued. From 1942 to 1946 the exhibition and fair was closed, and like the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, served as a military training facility for the duration of World War II. During this time, the exhibition barns that were used to house livestock, were used as processing centres for interned Japanese Canadians from all over British Columbia. The interned Japanese Canadians were later shipped away to other internment camps throughout British Columbia, and Alberta. The Momiji (Japanese word for Maple) Gardens on the PNE's grounds serves as a memorial for the event. The barns used for the internment of Japanese Canadians are still used to house livestock during the annual fair, and serve as storage area to house some of the PNE's property the rest of the year.

On 7 February 1946, the Vancouver Exhibition Association changed its name to its current moniker, the Pacific National Exhibition; and later reopened the fair to the public under that name in 1947. The organization was formally reincorporated as the Pacific National Exhibition in 1955.

The highest attendance at the fair was recorded in 1986, with 1.1 million guests visiting the PNE, most likely due to Expo 86 that was occurring at the time. In 1993, the amusement park adjacent to the PNE, Playland, became a division of the PNE organization.

During 1997-1998, the PNE grounds was transformed with the demolition of a number of buildings including the Food Building, Showmart and the Poultry Building. This gave way to the Sanctuary, a parkland setting with a pond. The pond restored part of a stream that once flowed in the park out to the Burrard Inlet. The city restored a large portion of the park. Many old fair buildings have been demolished and replaced by a more natural character. Although land was purchased in Surrey that was to become the fair's new home, the PNE has since transferred ownership from the province to the City of Vancouver and will remain at Hastings Park. The PNE is a registered charity.

Two attractions at the PNE were named as heritage sites by the City of Vancouver in August 2013. The Pacific Coliseum and the Wooden Roller Coaster were added to the list.

In 2020, the fair went on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside other agricultural and county fairs across Canada, including the Calgary Stampede, the Canadian National Exhibition, and K-Days.

In the early hours of February 20, 2022, a major fire broke out on PNE grounds, where multiple vehicles, tools and equipment, and buildings were destroyed as a result.

The PNE grounds contains several buildings and exhibition halls. The PNE Forum is a 4,200 square metres (45,000 sq ft) exhibition facility that is used for large displays and trade shows. Rollerland is a 1,840 square metres (19,800 sq ft) exhibition, banquet hall and venue for the Terminal City Roller Derby.

Two buildings on the PNE grounds are indoor arenas. The Pacific Coliseum is multi-purpose arena that holds 15,713 permanent seats, with provisions for 2,000 temporary seats for concerts and certain sports. The PNE Agrodome is a smaller indoor arena with 3,000 permanent seats, with provisions to expand up to 5,000 seats. Entertainment facilities includes the Garden Auditorium, a building that features a built-in stage and dance hall. The PNE grounds also feature amphitheatre with bench-style seating for 4,500 visitors.

Other buildings on the PNE grounds includes the Livestock Barns, a large multi-use facility, and the organization's administrative offices.

 

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Speculating About the Weather: The Unusual Dry Fog of 1783

https://niche-canada.org/2017/10/02/speculating-about-the-weather-the-unusual-dry-fog-of-1783/

Let’s talk about the weather! In the summer of 1783 individuals in many parts of the northern hemisphere witnessed blood red sunsets and a peculiar, long-lasting dry fog. Speculation in the press was rife as to the cause. Many theories were put forward at the time but it was a century before the fog of ignorance was lifted. But what had caused this unusual weather?

“The summer of the year 1783 was an amazing and portentous one, and full of horrible phænomena; for besides the alarming meteors and tremendous thunder-storms that affrightened and distressed the different countries of this kingdom, the peculiar haze, or smokey fog, that prevailed for many weeks in this island, and in every part of Europe, and even beyond its limits, was a most extraordinary appearance, unlike anything known within the memory of man.”—Gilbert White

As illustrated by Gilbert White in his Natural History of Selborne, in the summer of 1783, Europeans had more than enough reasons to be concerned with the weather. A peculiar dry fog with an odd sulfuric smell cloaked Europe and remained for months, with neither wind nor rain managing to disperse it. The fog was not the only oddity these individuals were facing that summer: The sun had a blood red color when it set and rose; an unusual number of thunderstorms seemed to pass through; meteors were visible over western Europe, earthquakes occurred in Italy, and a new island emerged from the sea off the coast of Iceland. Speculation was rife as to the cause of all this.

Hekla, an Icelandic volcano, known in Europe since medieval times as the gate to hell, was thought to be a potential culprit. When referring to historical maps of Iceland, Hekla is usually pictured as erupting. Famously, Benjamin Franklin suggested that Hekla or Nyey, the newly emerging island, might have caused the dry fog. However, what is often forgotten in this context is that in the same paragraph, Franklin suggested “great burning balls” (meteors) might alternatively have caused it.

At the time a very fashionable explanation was electricity: Lightning was believed to fertilize the soil when it hit the ground. The numerous thunderstorms of the summer quickened the spread of the lightning rod, which had not yet had its breakthrough. The lightning rod was believed to withdraw the beneficial electricity from the atmosphere, which—so the theory went—caused the dry fog, as sulfuric odor had previously been consumed by the “electrical fire.”

There was yet another story making its rounds in the newspapers in July 1783: Not just one but two volcanic eruptions were described within the German territories. The Cottaberg near Dresden as well as the Gleichberg mountains near Hildburghausen were said to have roared to life and to be spitting fire. Both mountains are actually of volcanic origin—however, their last eruptions occurred 25 and 15 million years ago, respectively. The reports were retracted a few weeks later.

The most popular theory of the time suggested that earthquakes in Italy and this dry fog were directly related: people believed the earthquakes had opened a crack in the Earth, which released sulfuric odor from the Earth’s interior into the air. The concept of a subterraneous revolution plausibly explained the sulfuric smell, the fog, the earthquakes, and the newly emerging island.

Many more theories were put forward at the time. The natural sciences were not yet able to reliably identify the cause of the dry fog and the unusual weather of the summer. So, what had actually caused this lingering gas behemoth?

The Laki fissure (Lakagígar), a 27 kilometer long row of approximately 140 craters and vents, located in Iceland’s remote highlands, erupted over the course of eight months from June 1783 to February 1784 and released the largest volume of lava of any eruption in the last millennium. The gases produced by the eruption were transported from Iceland via the jet stream and dispersed over the northern hemisphere, where the gases became visible (as well as smellable) as a dry and sulfuric haze. At the time it took three months for the news about an Icelandic volcanic eruption to reach mainland Europe, during the summer of 1783, and Europeans were left alone to find an explanation.

It took another decade before the Icelandic naturalist and physicist Sveinn Pálsson discovered the Laki fissure in 1794, but his manuscript was not published in its entirety until 1945. The discovery of the volcano did not immediately lead to connecting the dots between the eruption and the dry fog. In 1883, one hundred years after the Laki fissure eruption, Krakatau in Indonesia roared to life. This colossal eruption and the invention of telegraphy made it possible to know about the eruption and simultaneously observe blood red sunsets and sunrises in the western world. It was only in retrospect that the dry fog and the other extraordinary phenomena such as the red skies of 1783 were connected to the Laki fissure eruption.

Many scholars are aware that tropical eruptions, such as the infamous 1815 Tambora eruption, can have far-reaching effects on the globe. High-latitude eruptions, however, can also affect the atmosphere and the weather in different parts of the northern hemisphere. In 2010 an Icelandic volcanic eruption brought international air traffic to its knees and the world (and the humanities) became aware that Iceland is volcanically active. Learning about the not always obvious effects of an Icelandic volcanic eruption can prove useful for European and North American environmental historians to be able to spot similar events in their sources from one of Iceland’s frequent (past or future) volcanic eruptions, or from eruptions originating in Alaska or the Cascades.

Grover Furr on the conspiracies against Joseph Stalin

American professor Grover Furr talks about his book Leon Trotsky’s Collaboration with Germany and Japan.

Grover Carr Furr III (born April 3, 1944) is an American professor of Medieval English literature at Montclair State University, best known for his books on Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union. He has published many books on this subject.

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Yu Xin, a famous poet of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, was in an important position, but he shouted sorrow and bitterness, what is the explanation?

https://www.laitimes.com/en/article/o70e_oo67.html

The frustrated Liu Changqing, who passed through the former residence of Jiayi in Changsha, could not help but sigh that "where the lonely rivers and mountains are shaken, what is the matter of pity to the king to the end of the world", with the help of the common experience of the fallen people in the void of time and space, he placed his inner sorrow and sorrow in the depths of the text; while Zhang Shu (a politician and writer of the Tang Dynasty) visited Yuxin's former residence, he wrote sentences such as "Lan Cheng chased Song Yu, the old house puppet word person", which was a sentence that longed for the former sages and thought about the flow of the wind.

"Lan cheng" is not the modern writer Hu Lancheng, but the small characters of the poet Yu Xin at the end of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but the name Yu Xin is mentioned, or everyone is relatively unfamiliar. According to the Book of Zhou and the History of the North, Yu Xin was a native of Xinye, Nanyang (present-day Xinye, Henan), born in the prosperous Liang Dynasty under Emperor Taiping of Liangwu, and grew up in the Liang Dynasty. However, when the Hou Jing Rebellion broke out in 548, Yu Xin spent five bloody months in the besieged city with Emperor Wu of Liang, the crown prince, and numerous Liang dynasty clans and subjects, witnessing all kinds of heroic and cowardly acts, violence, famine, plague, and death. The Liang Dynasty quickly disintegrated after decades of ignorance and defenselessness, and Yu Xin personally experienced the fall of the Liang Dynasty, lost his two sons and daughters in the war, and was eventually detained in the north as an envoy of the Southern Dynasty until his death.

After being forced to stay in the north, the helpless Yu Xin became a great general of the enemy country's humble people, kaifu Yi tongsan division, known as "Yu Kaifu"... Yu Xin not only bid farewell to Jiangnan forever, but also, qu Shi's second surname, became a "disjointed" courtier, and his inner pain can be imagined. Sad and indignant poet, his poems are sad and desolate, fresh and timeless, "Wai Nan Fu", "Xiaoyuan Fu", "Dead Tree Fu", etc. occupy an important position in the history of literature, representing the highest achievement of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and he has also become a titan in the literary circles of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Later generations commented that he "set the great achievements of the Six Dynasties and led the first river of the Early Tang Dynasty". Wang Bo, one of the four masters of the early Tang Dynasty, recited the ancient song "Falling Xia and Lone Bird Fly Together, Autumn Water Is Long and One Color", which is derived from Yu Xin's "Horse Shooting Endowment" "Falling flowers fly with Zhi Gai, and Yang Liu Gong Chun Qi is one color".

Generally speaking, Yu Xin's literary creation, bounded by his mission to Western Wei at the age of forty-two, can be divided into two periods. In the early liang, most of the works were of a palace nature, light and flowing, full of rhetorical beauty. After being detained in the Northern Dynasty, the poems expressed a lot of their nostalgia for the homeland of their homeland, as well as their sentimentality for their lives, and their style also changed to vigor and sadness. His main achievements are concentrated in the later period when he was imprisoned in the Northern Dynasty, in addition to the characteristics of the rural guanzhi in content, it is artistically expressed as original. It is the background of the Northern Dynasty, the techniques of the Southern Dynasty (the rhetorical techniques of literature, especially the sound rhythm, the use of canons, puppets and other means), the aesthetic taste of "lingering and mourning" in the early period of self- and the new life experience in the later period, sincere and deep emotions, Yu Xin was able to create a fresher and older poetic style in addition to Yu Qiyan, and the literature of the North and the South really entered the fusion stage, and he thus became the master of the literature of the North and South Dynasties.

Yu Xin has more than 250 poems, most of which are late works, including the "Yuzishan Collection". The twenty-seven poems of "Imitation Of Songs" are his masterpieces. The twenty-seven poems of the "Proposed Yong Huai" were composed within three to four years of Northern Zhou Baoding after Liang's death, and Yu Xin was then serving as the sheriff of Hongnong County, and had been detained in the Northern Dynasty for more than ten years. The most prominent manifestation of the twenty-seven poems of "Imitation Yong Huai" is the "melancholy" of nostalgia for the homeland and the "melancholy" of the northern part of the detention brigade, as Mr. Zhang Xigui mentioned in the article "Traumatic Memory and the Creation of Yu Xin in the Later Period" that "Gengxin in the Northern Dynasty, for 28 years, did not stop the hope of returning to his hometown, the death of the country and the death of his own detention, and the attachment to the Liang royal family constituted the central theme of his creation."

For example, "Xiang Yong Huai Qi Eighteen": "Thinking of the Marquis of Ten Thousand Households, suddenly sorrow in the middle of the night." The sound of the piano filled the room, and the books filled the bedside. Although the dream butterfly is set from non-Zhuang Zhou. The remnant moon is like the first moon, and the new autumn is like the old autumn. Under the dew and weeping, the fireflies shattered the fire. Lotte is the one who knows his destiny, when will he not be worried. ”

Gengxin said that he was already in the position of manifestation, but in the middle of the night he was suddenly full of sorrow. The sound of the piano echoed in the room, and the accumulated books covered the bedside. Although he wanted to fly away as a butterfly in his dream, he could not be as dashing and uninhibited as Zhuang Zhou. Today, the remnant moon is the same shape as the original crescent moon, and this autumn is also like the autumn in the old capital. Tears flowed down like beads, and fluttering fireflies flew like broken Sparks. Although Lotte can forget his worries when he knows his destiny, when will I be able to stop worrying?

The poem expresses the author's irrevocable depression and homesickness after being forced to remain in the enemy country for many years.

The first and second sentences are "Thinking of ten thousand households." Suddenly sad in the middle of the night. "Writers who are in important positions and who are well clothed often wake up in the middle of the night because of depression.

Verses three and four" "The sound of the piano is all over the house." Books filled the bedside. "Write about the author who can't sleep in the middle of the night, just get up and play the piano and read books to pass the long night without heart sleep."

Verses 5 and 6 "Although the dream is a butterfly." Set from non-Zhuang Zhou. "The writer wants to learn from Zhuangzi's dream butterfly, floating in the world, but he can't learn Zhuangzi's openness and freedom, and he is still full of sorrow."

The seventh and eighth sentences, "The broken moon is like the first moon, and the new autumn is like the old autumn", which is the most wonderful couplet in the whole poem, writing out the boredom and despair in the poet's heart that is powerless to change reality day after day, alluding to the plain words, and also alleges to thousands of pains in a few crosses.

Sentences 9 and 10 "Dew weeps under the beads." Fireflies shatter the stream of fire. The author uses two metaphors to lament that his life is drifting, but he is powerless to change his fate and is sad and weeps.

The last two sentences are "Lotte is the destiny." When can you not worry. Although the writer constantly exhorted himself to know his destiny, he still could not dispel the lonely and sad state of mind, and at this moment, the poet was full of sorrow and indignation.

This set of poems represented by "Imitation Yong Huai Qi Eighteen" truly describes the living environment after Yu Xinshibei. In that turbulent era, the extraordinary life experience made great changes in Yuxin's psychology, thoughts, and creations, prompting Yuxin to become a peak in the literary history of the Southern and Northern Dynasties. Therefore, Du Fu praised him, "Yu Xin's articles are old and more successful, and Ling Yunjian's pen is longitudinal"; "Yu Xin's life is the most depressed, and the poetry of the twilight years is endowed with Jiang Guan". Yang Shen praised his poems in "Poetry of Sheng'an": "The poetry of YuXin is the crown of Liang and the first whip of the Tang Dynasty." Liu Xizai also praised Yu Xin in his "Outline of Art and Poetry": "Yu Zishan's "Yan Ge Xing" opened the seven ancient tang dynasties in the early tang dynasty, and "Wu Ye Cry" opened the seven laws of the Tang Dynasty, and the other bodies are the five absolute and five rows of the Tang Dynasty, which are particularly invincible." It can be seen that Yu xin's status in the history of literature is high, and it is admired by future generations.

Joan Of Arc (1879) by Jules Bastien-Lepage.

Why Suicide is a Major Concern for People with Schizophrenia

People living with a schizophrenia spectrum illness are around 10x more likely to die by suicide than the general population. This video explores why that could be, and my own experience with it.

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In David Lam Park in Yaletown. Autumn of 2018.

JFK assassination film hoax

https://johncostella.com/jfk/intro/

On November 22, 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed while traveling down Elm Street in Dallas, Texas, in an open car in a motorcade. Everyone agrees about that.

Many people think that agencies of the U.S. Government have lied about or covered up details of the assassination.

For two decades, people thought the best proof of foul play was a 27-second home movie of the assassination taken by a Dallas dressmaker, Abraham Zapruder:

This film caused excitement when it was first shown on TV in March 1975, as it shows JFK’s head being blasted back and to his left:

This seems to tell us that the shooter was in front of the car on the right side, on the “grassy knoll” (small hill) next to Elm Street. But the U.S. Government insisted that JFK was shot by just one man hiding in a building far behind the limousine.

Things get even more complicated when we look at the film frame by frame. As the bullet hits, JFK’s head first moves forwards:

This makes things confusing. There seemed to be three possible explanations:

1. He was hit by two bullets at almost the same time (one from behind and then one from the front).
2. He was hit from behind, but a jet of brain matter exploding from the front of his head caused it to instantly recoil backwards.
3. He was hit from behind and some sort of muscle reaction caused his head to instantly fly backwards.

People tried to figure this out for two decades. Instead of clearing up the mystery, Zapruder’s film just made things more confusing.

In the 1990s, researchers started to realize that there was a fourth possible explanation: Zapruder’s film might also be a part of the lies and cover-up that agencies of the U.S. Government had weaved around the JFK assassination!

The Zapruder film was scientifically examined. It was found that, while most of it looks completely genuine, some of the images are impossible. They violate the laws of physics. They could not have come from Zapruder’s home movie camera.

Zapruder’s film is a very good forgery. It is almost perfect. Some mistakes took almost 40 years to find.

It was also scientifically proven that Zapruder’s film could not be just changed a little bit. For any of it to be altered in this way, a whole new film had to be created. The whole film is a fake!

A movie film is just a strip of little photos (“frames”). The fake film was made by using advanced cameras to cut and paste real photos and film frames together to make new frames.

Because the Zapruder film is only 27 seconds long, less than 500 photos needed to be made. The forgers had at least several months to create them. Most were not published until a year after the assassination. This was sophisticated work, but more than possible in 1963 and 1964. People had been creating high quality fake photos since the 1850s!

But what about the people who watched Zapruder’s film in the days after the assassination?

Film experts believe that a real film of the assassination was quickly altered on the evening of the assassination, using machines that could create Hollywood-style special effects (like Mary Poppins, created in 1964). Since the film was not shown on television, no one knows exactly what these people saw. But we do know that they described a film that is different from the film frames published by the U.S. Government in November 1964 as the “Zapruder film”!

In May 2003, scientists and researchers presented their latest findings at a conference in Duluth, Minnesota. This work was published in September 2003 in a book, The Great Zapruder Film Hoax. The entire conference can also be viewed on YouTube.

The pages below describe the best proofs that the Zapruder film is a fake. They describe some of the mistakes that the forgers made.

In the end, you have to decide for yourself what to believe. But don’t just believe what the U.S. Government tells you!

Gaming is Dying, and "GAMERS" are Killing it

So, my last Gaming is Dying Video blew up, I guess the algorithm decided it was time to recommend it. Well, apparently it was recommended to some of the worst "gamers" that plague our hobby. So, enjoy this comment response rant with a continuation of the first video in the second half.

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At the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver. Summer of 2018.

The Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) is a nonprofit organization that operates an annual 15-day summer fair, a seasonal amusement park, and indoor arenas in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The PNE fair is held at Hastings Park, beginning in mid-to-late August and ending in early September, usually Labour Day.

The organization was established in 1907 as the Vancouver Exhibition Association, and organized its first fair at Hastings Park in 1910. The organization was renamed to the Pacific National Exhibition in 1946. During the mid-20th century, a number of facilities were built on the PNE grounds, including Pacific Coliseum and the PNE Agrodome. In 1993, the amusement park adjacent to the PNE, Playland, became a division of the PNE.

The Vancouver Exhibition Association (VEA), the predecessor to the Pacific National Exhibition organization was first formed in 1907; although the association was not incorporated until 18 June 1908. The VEA had petitioned Vancouver City Council to host a fair at Hastings Park; although faced early opposition from the city council and the local jockey club that used the park for horse races. However, the city council eventually conceded to the VEA's request and granted the association a 5-year lease to host a fair at Hastings Park in 1909.

The VEA held its first fair at Hastings Park in August 1910. It was opened by then Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier as the Vancouver Exhibition. The biggest attractions of the two-week fair are its numerous shops, stalls, performances, a nightly fireworks show, and the exhibition's Prize Home. From its beginnings, the exhibition was used as a showcase for the region's agriculture and economy.

In the initial years of the Second World War, the fairgrounds saw an increased military presence. However, the exhibition itself was not cancelled until 1942, after the Canadian declaration of war against Japan was issued. From 1942 to 1946 the exhibition and fair was closed, and like the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto, served as a military training facility for the duration of World War II. During this time, the exhibition barns that were used to house livestock, were used as processing centres for interned Japanese Canadians from all over British Columbia. The interned Japanese Canadians were later shipped away to other internment camps throughout British Columbia, and Alberta. The Momiji (Japanese word for Maple) Gardens on the PNE's grounds serves as a memorial for the event. The barns used for the internment of Japanese Canadians are still used to house livestock during the annual fair, and serve as storage area to house some of the PNE's property the rest of the year.

On 7 February 1946, the Vancouver Exhibition Association changed its name to its current moniker, the Pacific National Exhibition; and later reopened the fair to the public under that name in 1947. The organization was formally reincorporated as the Pacific National Exhibition in 1955.

The highest attendance at the fair was recorded in 1986, with 1.1 million guests visiting the PNE, most likely due to Expo 86 that was occurring at the time. In 1993, the amusement park adjacent to the PNE, Playland, became a division of the PNE organization.

During 1997-1998, the PNE grounds was transformed with the demolition of a number of buildings including the Food Building, Showmart and the Poultry Building. This gave way to the Sanctuary, a parkland setting with a pond. The pond restored part of a stream that once flowed in the park out to the Burrard Inlet. The city restored a large portion of the park. Many old fair buildings have been demolished and replaced by a more natural character. Although land was purchased in Surrey that was to become the fair's new home, the PNE has since transferred ownership from the province to the City of Vancouver and will remain at Hastings Park. The PNE is a registered charity.

Two attractions at the PNE were named as heritage sites by the City of Vancouver in August 2013. The Pacific Coliseum and the Wooden Roller Coaster were added to the list.

In 2020, the fair went on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, alongside other agricultural and county fairs across Canada, including the Calgary Stampede, the Canadian National Exhibition, and K-Days.

In the early hours of February 20, 2022, a major fire broke out on PNE grounds, where multiple vehicles, tools and equipment, and buildings were destroyed as a result.

The PNE grounds contains several buildings and exhibition halls. The PNE Forum is a 4,200 square metres (45,000 sq ft) exhibition facility that is used for large displays and trade shows. Rollerland is a 1,840 square metres (19,800 sq ft) exhibition, banquet hall and venue for the Terminal City Roller Derby.

Two buildings on the PNE grounds are indoor arenas. The Pacific Coliseum is multi-purpose arena that holds 15,713 permanent seats, with provisions for 2,000 temporary seats for concerts and certain sports. The PNE Agrodome is a smaller indoor arena with 3,000 permanent seats, with provisions to expand up to 5,000 seats. Entertainment facilities includes the Garden Auditorium, a building that features a built-in stage and dance hall. The PNE grounds also feature amphitheatre with bench-style seating for 4,500 visitors.

Other buildings on the PNE grounds includes the Livestock Barns, a large multi-use facility, and the organization's administrative offices.

 

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