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Bhangra, a Punjabi genre of music and dance will be showcased at the 8th Annual HSBC City of Bhangra Festival. The festival will also include an array of world music, hip-hop, rock, flamenco, and percussion instruments. [Read more…]
Issue 30
May 22 - June 5, 2012
A Portrait of Urban Farming
Something is growing anew on the former Expo lands besides condo towers. Vancouver’s largest urban farm is the brainchild of Michael Ableman and Seann Dorry, co-directors of Solefood Farm. [Read more…]
Britannnia Community Services Centre: promoting diversity in East Vancouver
Soccer is my love, it’s my life,” says Christopher, one of several youth gathered in the shadow of Britannia secondary school for a weekly drop-in soccer game. [Read more…]
Brits flood B.C. in search of new beginnings
If you talk to most Brits in Vancouver they’ll tell you of a general malcontent that pervades British life. Even though most live ostensibly privileged lives, they fail to wake up feeling healthy or happy, and this means that something is missing. [Read more…]
Lessons to B.C. from the Quebec protest
Quebec’s students are teaching, or re-teaching, an important lesson to all of us. In Canada, and here in British Columbia, decades of neo-liberalism have rolled back our public services. Even more damaging, perhaps, has been the way these years have rolled back our public imagination. [Read more…]
The tricky art of being Canadian
As someone who was born in Vancouver, I’m rarely identified as so. Upon first meeting people, they often stare quizzically at me when I say I’m Canadian. “Can’t be so,” they say, “you look too ethnic!” [Read more…]
Gone are the good old budget laws
Majority governments are able to propose any number of bills before Parliament and have them adopted – thanks to their majority, of course. This in itself isn’t alarming. [Read more…]
