Shore to Shore
Shore to Shore is an amazing sculpture with an equally amazing history. The official unveiling was in Brockton Point, Stanley Park on April 25, 2015. The artist is Ts’uts’umutl Luke Marston, an …
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May 11 2015 Columns Alberta election shocker should have Christy Clark worried
Last week, I gathered with some friends in East Vancouver to watch the Alberta election results come in. The surprising surge in the polls by the NDP had raised expectations for progressives. …
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April 27 2015 Columns When many cultures become one
Lately I’ve returned to studying French in my spare time. One of my workbooks contains a chapter entitled “French Culture,” which outlines such topics as French history, literature, art, music …
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April 27 2015 Columns What can B.C. learn from the sudden rise of the Alberta NDP?
On Saturday night, the Calgary Flames eliminated the Vancouver Canucks from the Stanley Cup playoffs. Nobody expected much out of the Canucks this year, but the Flames’ ascendance is even more …
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April 27 2015 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier Fisherman's Wharf, Victoria
Vibrant, colourful, filled with restaurants, fishing boats, pleasure boats and floating homes. Rent kayaks, go whale watching, feed harbour seals. All this and more is Victoria’s Fisherman’s …
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April 13 2015 Columns How to properly blow your nose
Sneezing’s cultural pitfalls. | Photo by John WertschekI had only lived in Vancouver for three months and yet, when I …
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April 13 2015 Columns Why Christy Clark should go back to school – and not prevent others from doing so
Statutory holidays require banal social media posts from politicians. But I was startled by the tweet sent out by B.C. Premier Christy Clark on Friday, April 3: “Good Friday reminds us that hard …
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April 13 2015 Street Photography by Denis Bouvier High Five !
Trans Am Totem is the latest installation of the Vancouver Biennale, part of the 2014–2016 Vancouver Biennale Open Air Museum supporting public art. It consists of five partially restored car …
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March 23 2015 Verbatim YVR: A cultural paradox
Spotting the socioeconomic divide in Vancouver. | Photo by Adam Jones.Over the short six months I’ve been living in …
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March 23 2015 Left Bank B.C.’s Steve Nash calls it quits after an improbable Hall of Fame NBA career
This column could have been about the B.C. government’s feeble 20 cent raise to the minimum wage, or it could have been another lament about the state of the debate around the ongoing transit …