Strong, fast-growing and widely distributed, bamboo is an attractive, yet underdeveloped material that could prove valuable to the construction industry, according to UBC researcher Felix Böck. …
In the 2008 municipal election, Gregor Robertson swept into the Mayor’s office on a promise to eliminate homelessness in Vancouver.
The issue was the centrepiece of his campaign, even though …
On Sept. 27, the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre will bring together artists and cultural figures to honour and explore Nikkei identity during a time of immense change.
“What are we?”…
Picture a world where the world is luscious and green, a place where our ecosystem thrived and our wildlife existed harmoniously and wandered freely. Using art as a tool, this is the world that the …
Wade Davis trades his explore’s hat for a professor’s tweed jacket at UBC | Photo by Martin Dee
Former National Geographic …
Instead of going to back-to-school this month, BC students and parents are getting a lesson in class struggle. They are the collateral damage of Premier Christy Clark’s BC Liberal government and …
Receiving individual course credits or a certificate from Yale, Cambridge or Harvard for free and without even leaving home is now possible. The growing trend of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) …
Two worlds are meeting here: one from BC and one from Brazil. Both represent transformations; both are totems of a kind.
On the left is the work of Clarence Mills, an accomplished artist from Haida …
2014 Order of British Columbia recipient Tung Chan hopes newcomers will havea greater say in helping form public policies in leadership …
It was July 19, 1999, four months after Nunavut was declared Canada’s newest territory, and Jean Chrétien was prime minister. A boat arrived on the coast of B.C. from Fujian, China, the first of …