Explorer Wade Davis starts UBC stint with talk on world cultures
Wade Davis trades his explore’s hat for a professor’s tweed jacket at UBC | Photo by Martin Dee
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September 8 2014 Columns Why has Vancouver’s ‘progressive’ Mayor been so quiet about the BC teachers’ strike?
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 …
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September 8 2014 Community A new era of open education
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) …
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September 8 2014 selected Transformational encounter
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 …
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August 25 2014 Featured Article Order of BC recipient encourages immigrant youth to pursue leadership roles
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August 25 2014 Featured Article 15 years after B.C.’s “summer of the migrants”
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August 25 2014 Community SDC Blue Ribbon Foundation: Spreading compassion for disabled youth
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August 25 2014 Art The private lives behind public art: exploring public space with Metz&Chew
Public artists Jaqueline Metz and Nancy Chew | Photo courtesy of Metz & Chew
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July 7 2014 Community Women find guiding light in Shashi Assanand
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July 7 2014 Columns With Trudeau riding high, it’s time for soul searching on Canada’s left
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