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Who knew that a choice made at the age of 11 would impact my personal and professional life for many long years? French is my mother tongue, so what would I choose to study as a second language? I …
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January 11 2016 Columns 2016: Will developer profits keep trumping our right to affordable housing?
After four moves in the last four years, my family begins 2016 confident we’ve finally found a place to call home in Vancouver. It’s been a constant search to find decent sized and relatively …
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January 11 2016 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier Gold Digging
This massive construction site along Howe St. and Pacific St. is not unfamiliar in Vancouver but it typifies the expensive building projects in the city. Luxury condos are enriching developers, …
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December 7 2015 Columns Musings from overseas
Photo courtesy of Brenna TempleLast October in Australia I fumbled over a ballot I ordered from overseas. Feeling …
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December 7 2015 Columns Spinning and fiddling as the world burns
Christy Clark shares the stage in Paris with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Canadian Premiers. | Photo courtesy of the …
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December 7 2015 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier Bridging Vancouver’s Development
December 9, 2015 marks the 30th anniversary of the opening of the current Cambie Bridge, built just before Expo ’86. This photo was taken in 1984 by our photographer Denis Bouvier. It depicts the …
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November 23 2015 Columns Belonging to a greater community
When we think about Vancouver as one of the most multicultural and diverse cities in the country it’s important to consider how this diversity is represented in the social and geographical makeup …
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November 23 2015 Columns PowerBC: NDP plan calls for more clean energy, green jobs
Despite all the excitement about the defeat of the Harper government, in B.C. the political status quo still seems unmovable. Riddled with scandals, and having weathered many dips in popularity over …
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November 23 2015 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier Human Structures will prevail
Human Structures, a sculpture by Jonathan Borofsky, is depicted here in False Creek’s Hinge Park facing Habitat Island, an urban sanctuary for local flora and fauna. B.C. Place is in the background…
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November 2 2015 Columns The #49 bus route and Vancouverites
Bus #49 at UBC loop | Photo by Stephen Rees (via flickr)The most revealing experience of Vancouver’s cultural plurality …