The once and future past of the West End
In 1900, when the two houses at Davie & Jervis Streets (on the right side of this picture) were built, the West End was sparsely populated. It was a gentler place of rolling hills and scrub …
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February 22 2016 Community Immersion programs revitalize First Nation languages
With only seven fluent speakers left in the Squamish Nation, Khelsilem is in a hurry to prevent his language from becoming extinct.
Khelsilem is the program director and founder of Kwi Awt Stelmexw,…
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February 22 2016 Community Resilience: Arts in action
Members of the Punjabi community of British Columbia during an art-based dialogue for the Enacting Resilience project | Photo courtesy …
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February 22 2016 Culture Festival du Bois features local talent Alouest
Alouest: a newer take on traditional music. | Photo courtesy of AlouestThe 27th annual Festival du Bois will be hosted by …
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February 22 2016 Culture Crossing the bridge without fear: Taking a step to new places, new faces, new ideas
Itai Erdal, playwright and actor | Photo by Emily CooperItai Erdal’s play, A Very Narrow Bridge, explores the immigrant …
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February 8 2016 Community Race Literacies: Giving the spotlight to Canadian black scholars
Painting by Zeal HarrisAlthough Canada has a multicultural policy, not all perspectives are represented equally in …
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February 8 2016 Immigration Making sense of migration’s forces
The mass migration of Syrians fleeing their war-torn country has forced the international community to act urgently in response to the crisis. A panel of five Vancouver scholars and writers will …
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February 8 2016 Art Stories told through a multitude of mediums
School children at the Vancouver Japanese Language School at work on their Things (November, 2015). | Photo by Sara Sampson…
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February 8 2016 Culture Valentine’s Day Bhangra-style
Sahota’s debut at Dances for a Small Stage. | Photo by Derek StevensHardeep Singh Sahota, a seasoned bhangra dancer, is …
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January 25 2016 Community Global effect of big data
“It’s starting to show us a lot of things but it’s also starting to not show us a lot of things in terms of these types of algorithms, so it’s a new thing and what it’s going to turn into …