Shavuot celebration embracing online format for 2020
Although social distancing measures are beginning to ease, too many restrictions are still in place to allow celebrations for Shavuot to take place at syniguages (synagogues).
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May 25 2020 Local Design and technology unite for a good cause
A charity for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and a 3D Printing company seem like an unexpected partnership, but during this pandemic they have come together to tackle community-based issues.
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May 25 2020 Community Heritage Buildings - Vancouver Japanese Language School and Japanese Hall
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May 4 2020 Community Armenians celebrate their freedom
Serge Maranjyan, owner of Lamajoun, an Armenian bakery/cafe in Richmond which is usually busy on Victory and Peace Day. | Photo by …
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May 4 2020 Local Connecting people through languages
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April 20 2020 Community Om from home
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When Vancouver’s Mayor Gregor Robertson and the city council headed off to Chinatown on April 22, 2018 to deliver a formal apology to the Chinese Canadian community for Vancouver’s history of …