Snowshoeing for a cause
The 9th annual Snowshoe race is back. This year, the organizers are partnering with Jack.org, a mental health charity empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health.
Hundreds of people, from…
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February 18 2019 Local Martin Luther King’s teachings about civil disobedience
“Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one’s whole being into the being of another,”…
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February 18 2019 Community Roof to garage – the building of community
Photo courtesy of Hive & House
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February 4 2019 Community Chinese bowls of balance
People need to adjust to each season, from autumn right through to winter and spring, says Marilynne Jackson. The Chinese culture has soup to help people do just that.
“Soups are made to help …
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February 4 2019 Local Studying love bigger than race
Jennifer Adkins is a public scholar at UBC engaged in researching interracial relationships and social ideas about race.
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February 4 2019 Community Slavery and slave trade: A forgotten dark history
In addition to the three historic locations, seen in the previous edition of The Source Newspaper, the slaves’ auction place, the slaves’ chamber, and the slaves’ lashing ceremony, Zanzibar has…
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February 4 2019 Community Basket motifs illustrate mathematical concepts
Jenifer Pham, Laura Gutierrez Funderburk and Howell Tan | Photo by Dale Northey, Creative Studio
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January 21 2019 Community Lunar New Year - Year of the Pig and the Pig Heroes
“A lot of people take art too seriously, they think that it belongs to people with certain skills or status, but art is just about life,” says Taiwanese artist, Yen-Chun Lu, with the help of …
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January 21 2019 Local Pesky fruit flies save lives
The fruit fly, those tiny winged insects that cluster and circulate over fruit bowls with ripening fruit, deserve a lot more respect. Local genetics researchers are using fruit flies to understand …
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January 21 2019 Community A special contribution to The Source, ahead of Black History month, Part 1 - Slavery and slave trade: A forgotten dark history
The more one travels, the more one learns. Museums all over the world like Paris, London, New York, Montreal and Victoria inform of previous humans’ histories. The story is quite different this …