Room at the Roxy

This shot was taken from a shop facing Hamilton St. in the atrium of the Vancouver Public Library. The colour of actual trees contrasts with the black and white image adding to the mystery of the photo’s subject matter.

It’s the current exhibit on The Wall, a public art initiative reflecting the city’s “built environment” or manmade space in which people live, work and recreate. It’s a collaboration between CBC, its neighbour JJ bean and the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. The space is 38 by 29 feet of CBC wall at the CBC Plaza on Hamilton St. The exhibit is an enlarged 4 by 5 inch photographic negative of a production still from the 1957 CBC television drama Room at the Roxy. It depicts a mother about to enter a run-down hotel in search of her drug-addicted son, as relevant today as in 1957.

French… and Canadian

Oh Canada! It’s while singing the Canadian national anthem on July 11, 2012 in the offices of Citizenship and Immigration Canada, that I was finally able to relish my Canadian citizenship in French and in English. A day to be crowned by a badge of merit since I had to wait about ten months to attend the citizenship ceremony after writing and passing the required exam to claim the citizenship “title”.

Serge Corbeil - My Turn

The federal Liberals now have a deadline

The Liberal Party of Canada recently announced that the name of its next leader will be announced on April 14. It is nearly two years since the departure of their last leader, Michael Ignatieff. They have finally set the destination of the long road to a permanent leadership.

A Mecca of Diversity

Kadri Brattvet is trying to capture what has drawn countless artists to the Cape Cod area, and particularly Provincetown, Massachusetts. It’s the special quality of the light which has been likened to that of the Mediterranean that reflects off the sea and sand dunes, creating a tranquil beauty. Kadri is at the Viewing Tower at the Province Lands Visiting Center, part of the northern end of the Cape Cod National Seashore, approximately one mile from Provincetown, MA. where we visited this September.

Photo Mosaic

South America

From Peru, Jan Hilario sent the Source Newspaper a visual update of her travels. Hilario left Vancouver on April 2. She doesn’t plan to return until hitting the majority of our globe and has seven months left on this self-imposed one-year-tour.

Everyone is polite, but also politely distant

Moving to Vancouver was surreal. It was also not an easy decision to make.
You see, I was born and raised in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) – my family still lives there. I came to Vancouver to be with my husband, whose job and life are now here, and whose roots are in British Columbia. I’ve now been here now for almost five years, and each year it feels more like home.

Quebec voters choose constitutional peace

Because of the political circumstances in Quebec, I thought it would be a good idea to do a column on the subject. This will likely be my last comment on Quebec politics for some time unless, of course, there is a referendum on Quebec sovereignty.