A Green Plume in Seattle’s Cap
Located at 1501 East Madison St. in Seattle, Washington where Capitol Hill and the Central District intersect is the greenest office building in the world.
Centre A launches video installation by local Asian artist
Watching artist Khan Lee’s video installation, Hearts and Arrows, the colourful sky of dawn at the Stanley Park seawall, greets your eyes.
Close encounters in unexpected places
When I look closely, I see a variety of people and cultures in many places – on university campuses, while travelling and in social settings.
Spencie’s View
Political pulse hard to predict in modern times
Skeptics will be confounded.
BC Election
“I am hurt, but I am not slain.
A New Face for an Old Icon
Facelifts typically don’t restore our former glory, especially after 60 years of hard living, and this is the case for the iconic Dal Grauer Substation.
Two is more than just 1+1
At my high school, curious teachers and classmates sometimes ask me, “What language do you speak at home? English or Mandarin?”
I tell them I speak both.
Mid-mandate, Stephen Harper’s agenda is about to take a different turn
last week, the government of Stephen Harper celebrated the second year of its majority mandate.
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Enough is enough: 10 reasons why Christy Clark and the B.C. Liberals are unfit for office
In May 1989, the student newspaper at Simon Fraser University ran a story about embattled student union president-elect Christy Clark under the headline ‘Unfit for office?’ Clark was late paying a fine for violating election rules, and so she was removed from office.
Calm
Photographed from the third floor of the Shangri-La Hotel, we are looking down upon the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Art Gallery Offsite’s latest exhibition, “Calm.” Situated to the left of the attendees, we see what appears to be a common enough site in Vancouver – a pile of rubble at a construction site before…
Teaching according to the country
We had always wanted to try leaving our European home behind. The only thing yet to be determined was the destination. We dreamed of China until my husband took the train to the Destination Canada forum, which takes place every year in Paris. As we listened to meetings and speeches, professional and personal desires began…