Issues & Ideas

Canada’s electoral boundaries are set to change

Vancouver's existing electoral boundaries.

Canada’s electoral map is going to change. [Read more...]

Christy Clark:
Mining for Political Survival

Christy Clark

With flagging poll numbers and rumbling within her own party, Premier Christy Clark risks losing her job in an election expected to happen in May 2013. And the BC Liberal Party faces an existential crisis which could see the ascendance of a new right-wing party. [Read more...]

A Call to Action: smile Vancouver and don’t go to pot

Pot

Vancouver often feels like a completely different planet to me, and I don’t just say that because I’m one of about 10 black people in the whole city. For example, I find it weird how you never meet anyone actually from Vancouver. [Read more...]

Notes from the other side of multiculturalism

Anti-Muslim protesters at 9-11 rally

They herded us like cattle. We walked, single file, through a maze of metal barricades. The dour, blue-clad sentinels that lined both sides of the street observed our every move as we shuffled towards the enclosure. [Read more]

Helping the Lost Find Their Way Home

Ramona Lisa Wilson would have celebrated her 16th birthday in 1995. Instead her remains were found by local authorities near the Smithers airport in British Columbia after Wilson disappeared while hitchhiking. In 1994, 15 year-old Roxanne Thiara, a sex trade worker, vanished on the July long weekend and was never heard from again. Her body [...]