A love affair with Barcelona
I’m in love! But not with a person, with a country. Over the last few years I have slowly been falling in love with the Spanish language and culture. It started with a flirtation, taking Spanish as…
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February 17 2020 Columns My experience with integration in Vancouver
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February 3 2020 Columns Caring, loneliness and transformation are the three words that sum up my experience so far
I arrived in British Columbia over a year ago, and I’ve been in Vancouver for nine months. Time flies. I had no particular expectations when I left Paris other than to improve my English, practice…
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January 20 2020 Columns Diversity in Metro Vancouver
I came to this city as an international student from Kenya. Living on campus and going to a university outside the country I grew up in opened my eyes up to a variety of people from an array of …
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January 20 2020 Columns The first wave of New Year in Hanoi
The first of January marks the start of a new year, but for many people it is also a prompt for celebration. For Vietnamese people, New Year’s Eve is a rather new concept from the 2000s decade. …
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January 20 2020 Columns Legal industry needs to understand truth of Canada’s indigenous history if we truly want to move forward
Senator Murray Sinclair. | Photo by Archkris, Wikimedia Commons
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January 20 2020 Columns Chinese New Year sticky cake
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January 6 2020 Columns All the colours of Vancouver
I have known many geographic latitudes and multicultural societies, starting with my island of origin. I come from a land of mixed races and cultures, Reunion Island. For me, diversity is natural. I …
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January 6 2020 Columns Planting the seed about the importance of soil health
What’s the big deal about soil? It’s all over the place. And, anyway, it only affects farmers, right?
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December 9 2019 Columns Where I come from
I think that for travelers, whether over the short or long term, the search for meaning and identity follows them everywhere. Having arrived in Vancouver on October 22nd 2019, I would never have …