Living the multicultural life
Living the full duration of my 17 years in metro Vancouver, I have always been immersed in the cultural diversity this city embodies. My first day of kindergarten at Sir William Osler Elementary, I …
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September 21 2015 Columns Promises, promises...
Photo by Sophia PhotographyDuring an election campaign promises rain down. They come in waves, always with the purpose of …
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September 21 2015 Columns Is Vancouver Community College facing death by a thousand cuts?
As school resumed this month across British Columbia, many commentators made note of the one-year anniversary of the B.C. government’s dispute with teachers. The situation isn’t as hot as last …
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September 21 2015 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier A shucking good time!
A trip to Gibsons, BC on Saturday, September 12, provided the opportunity to discover Shuckfest 2015, the 4th annual outdoor festival celebrating food, drink and music. Presented by Smitty’s Oyster…
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http://www.crossed-flag-pins.comSeptember 7 2015 Verbatim A Belgian traveller’s tale
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September 7 2015 Left Bank Time for Vancouver and B.C. to say ‘refugees welcome here’
Alan Kurdi – shattered hopes.It’s a global story with a very local connection for those of us here in British Columbia.…
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September 7 2015 selected As Above, So Below
Here we view the reconstruction of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s (VAG’s) membrane on Georgia St. It is part of the on-going maintenance we have seen around other parts of the gallery, as well as …
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August 24 2015 Columns “Multiculturalism is new to me”
Born in Zimbabwe to a white family in the 1980s, I was kept mostly separate from native, black Zimbabweans – albeit less so than a generation before. As I grew up and attended a racially integrated…
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August 24 2015 Columns Explore Trois-Rivières
From June 28 to July 31, I participated in the Explore program at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. I studied French in an immersion environment with a no-English rule, where you risk …
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August 24 2015 Columns Earthquake shakes up debate on fracking in B.C.
Last week a 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C., just a few kilometres from a fracking site operated by Progress Energy. The company was forced to halt operations …