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The next time you’re at the Richmond Library, pause for a moment and enjoy yourself on the rooftop garden. Now in its fourth year, the rooftop garden at the Richmond Library/Cultural Centre is primed to be a vibrant community space. According to Judy Lo, cultural centre supervisor, volunteers at the Richmond Garden Club look after…
Every weekend, from early April until September, groups dressed in white and wide-brimmed sunhats make their way to local grounds to test their mettle against an opposing 11: Vancouver’s cricketing contingent. The fastest growth is in the junior ranks, ranging from 5 to 19 years old, where the excitement to represent Canada is feverish. “Cricket…
Judy Venable, a Seattle-born ESL teacher, is delivering a free cooking program called ESL Cooking for Moms for immigrant mothers seeking to improve their cooking skills and conversational English. Participants of the class have the opportunity to practice their English, cook delicious and nutritional meals, learn about community resources and make friends – all while…
Solving the confusion around community representation was part of the agenda at the recent BC Metis Federation (BCMF) gathering held at the Pinnacle Hotel April 25. It was a chance for Vancouver members to address their issues and concerns, as well as to propose new initiatives and celebrate Metis culture. A larger project is The…
The suffering caused by feeling like an outcast drives media artist Sammy Chien. To minimize this feeling for future generations, he keeps his fingers in many collaborative pots. Chien deals with the context of migration in social, historical, political and cultural perspectives. His goal is to inspire the kids/youth/younger generations who are growing and developing…
During the annual Leadership Recognition Awards held on April 9th at the Terminal City Club in Vancouver, the Immigrant Employment Council of British Columbia (IEC-BC) gave the Immigrant Serving Organization Leadership Recognition Award to the Multilingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities (MOSAIC) for participating in its MentorConnect program. Eyob Naizghi, the executive director of…
What do smoothies, lasagna and egg muffins have to do with personal finance? Quite a lot, as Hunger Actions, a SFU student group, demonstrates through month-long workshops on financial literacy and healthy cooking for low-income women in Metro Vancouver. In March 2015, Hunger Actions became one of three winners in Enactus Canada’s Financial Education Challenge…
Most people in Vancouver have family immigrant stories. That cultural mosaic is a topic that fascinates the researcher Eva Sajoo. “It’s something that makes us both similar, and distinctive at the same time,” says Sajoo. In a new study published last March for Simon Fraser University and Il Centro, the Italian Cultural Centre of Vancouver,…
Vancity Buzz started as an idea conjured up between two friends over video games – it’s now become one of the largest digital publications in western Canada and landed co-founder Manny Bahia on BCBusiness’ Top 30 Under 30 list, which celebrates some of the province’s most outstanding young business moguls. The website is a place…
Larissa Franco, a one-quarter Portuguese and three-quarters Chinese grade 11 student at Richmond’s R.A. McMath Secondary School, helped create the Steveston Community Interact Club. Founded in the fall of 2014 because of the late start to the school year caused by the B.C. teachers strike, Franco’s club aims to make a difference both locally and…
As times change, so does the experience of newcomers integrating into Canadian life. Farid Rohani, chair of the Laurier Institution, a foundation dedicated to understanding Canadian diversity, shares his point of view. “We were very much welcomed by those that appear to not be welcoming,” says Rohani about his neighbours in an upper-middle class area…
Have you ever thought that world crises could be more easily solved if business, government and nonprofit sectors worked more closely together? That’s the idea that was developed during the Global Crisis Simulation, founded in 2013 by a group of students from the University of British Columbia (UBC). They saw a need for a truly…
Empowering stories of South Asian pioneers who helped build Canada over the last century encouraged one publishing family to urge South Asian students to pursue journalism. With hopes for Canadian journalism as a whole to better reflect Canadian society, the Vig family created the Mehfil Magazine Journalism Award. Their endowment gift this year is a…
