Dreams, resilience, support: a mix for success
For refugees dealing with a new land and memories of past ordeals, learning English is notoriously difficult. Thankfully, there are those who want to help and none are more strong willed than the …
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September 7 2015 Community Multifaceted Brazil, multicultural Vancouver
The Afro-Brazilian Carnaval was held this year on Granville St. | Photo by CBR PhotographyEver since the second half of the…
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September 7 2015 Community A pre-war Japanese Canadian community – touring Kitsilano’s past
Kitsilano Japanese community at Buddhist Church on First Avenue.ca 1930.| Photo by NNM Maeda Family Collection.Remaining …
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September 7 2015 Community All Mixed Up: examining mixed children and unions
Sharon Chang, author of Raising Mixed Race, with her son.| Photo courtesy of Sharon Chang.Sharon Chang says she embodies …
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September 7 2015 Local Science meets couture to foster laughter
Detail of dress.| Photo courtesy of SFU SIAT MovingStories – Soma Embodied Wearable Group 2015A group of three graduate …
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August 24 2015 Community Enthusiastic youth take on Tagalog language initiative
James Infante, a fourth-year political science student at the University of British Columbia, recently organized a rally at the celebration of Philippine Independence Day at Slocan Park to campaign …
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August 24 2015 selected Team revives the spirit and sportsmanship of the Asahi
The Shin Asahi warm up during their training clinics. | Photo by Simon YeeFrom 1914 to 1941, the Vancouver Asahi, a …
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August 24 2015 Local Simon Fraser University students make strides in personal computing
Engineering science students, clockwise from top left: Herman Mak, Mike Ng, Gary Yu, Carmen Tang and their screenless computer the …
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August 24 2015 Community Guangzhou and Vancouver celebrate 30 years of sharing knowledge
From left to right: Guangzhou Mayor Chen Jianhua, Vancouver Deputy Mayor Andrea Reimer and Vancouver Public Library chief librarian …
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July 6 2015 Community Ramadan A celebration of devotion from dawn to dusk
Alnoor Gova of the UBC Faculty of Education is an expert on the celebration of Ramadan, the Muslim celebration of the ninth month of the Islamic calendar where in which the Quran was revealed. One of…