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Spencie’s View
Something is growing anew on the former Expo lands besides condo towers. Vancouver’s largest urban farm is the brainchild of Michael Ableman and Seann Dorry, co-directors of Solefood Farm.
Quebec’s students are teaching, or re-teaching, an important lesson to all of us. In Canada, and here in British Columbia, decades of neo-liberalism have rolled back our public services. Even more damaging, perhaps, has been the way these years have rolled back our public imagination.
As someone who was born in Vancouver, I’m rarely identified as so. Upon first meeting people, they often stare quizzically at me when I say I’m Canadian. “Can’t be so,” they say, “you look too ethnic!”
Majority governments are able to propose any number of bills before Parliament and have them adopted – thanks to their majority, of course. This in itself isn’t alarming.
Looking at the publications available for the Asian community, one notices a disconnect between them.
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