How children can make silenced voices heard
UBC Public Scholars Award recipient Claudia Diaz worked as a manager of social education programs in Chilean inner city schools before moving to Canada for graduate school, including a PhD in …
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October 8 2018 Community The humour revolution
“A dad asks his son: ‘Son, when you grow up who do you think you want to marry?’ The boy goes, ‘I want to marry Granny, she loves me the most!’ The dad says, ‘you can’t marry Granny, …
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October 8 2018 Local In/Flux: Art of Korean Diaspora
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The Museum of Vancouver and the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Vancouver have joined … -
September 24 2018 Community A look at the Slovak community
The Slovak community in Vancouver is small and close-knit. “When we quizzed people about the estimated size of this community in the lower Mainland, we got numbers ranging from 2,000–20,000,” …
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September 24 2018 Local Satellite kids: negotiating two worlds
Mainland Chinese people have been emigrating from China for years, and yet, the recent experiences of mainland Chinese immigrant families have been largely ignored, says Henry Li.
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September 24 2018 Community “Digital natives” don’t all speak the same language
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September 24 2018 Local Cultural intelligence builds empathy
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September 10 2018 Community A sweet and Jewish September
High Holiday meeting of the Drora Executive, B’nai B’rith Girls, Vancouver, BC, circa 1966. Cindy Wine in foreground, blowing the…
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September 10 2018 Local Exploring Muslim youth identities and their sense of belonging in Canada
With the growing number of Muslims in Canadian schools, Neila Miled, a PhD Candidate of the Faculty of Education at UBC, explores how Muslim youth negotiate their identities as Muslims and …
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September 10 2018 Local Promoting social change through the media
Joanna Chiu is a journalist who serves as the editor and founder of WAM! Vancouver (Women Action and the Media), a non-profit dedicated to creating gender justice in the media, and NüVoices, an …