Program helps immigrant and refugee youth adjust to life in Canada
The Immigrant Youth Outreach Program (IYOP) supports immigrant and refugee youth aged 15 to 25 living in Surrey, North Delta and Langley. [Read More…]
Local environmentalists swing around with orangutans
Biruté Mary Galdikas is a professor at Simon Fraser University and the principal investigator of the world’s longest continuous study of a wild mammal. [Read more…]
Soul Reflection
Some people – like myself – have a tendency to think of many new glass towers around our city as structures devoid of the soul, mystique or spirit that a historic building or an old house might embody. [Read more…]
Vancouver author and journalist believes in the importance of accurate reporting
Aside from personifying the syndrome of the vertically challenged male, the Napoleon complex, Napoleon Bonaparte is believed to have also brought us the saying “four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.” [Read more…]
Winter Harp festival set to celebrate the Christmas season with music and instruments
The Christmas season can often be long and tiring, especially with stores showing off their festive wares immediately after Thanksgiving. One way to get back in touch with the spirit of Christmas is to attend a world-class Christmas festival such as Winter Harp. [Read more…]
Places of worship provide free meals to all,
regardless of caste or religion
Walking along an unassuming street in Mount Pleasant, you might find yourself wondering why people are lining up outside a Hindu temple on a Sunday afternoon. [Read more…]
International greetings to be received with open arms
Your friend introduces you to someone. Automatically, your right hand reaches out for an enthusiastic handshake. The other person leans in for a beso beso – a kiss on each cheek. Next thing you know, you’re pumping a fist full of oxygen, and they’re exchanging dainty kisses with thin air. Awkward. [Read more…]
The Vancouver kiss
In the middle of June, a time when the weather was hot, I was listening to Amy Winehouse at the corner of two Parisian avenues. I stopped in a kiosk, because in Paris, newspapers are sold in kiosks and not in big green or grey boxes. It is not often, frankly, that the French press cares about Vancouver. Since the Olympics, we had no news. But then, several weekly and daily newspapers were going over the same picture in their ‘picture of the week’ or ‘story of the week’ section: le baiser de Vancouver (the Vancouver kiss). [Read more…]
Barack Obama – there is still hope
In a year’s time, the American electorate will go to the polls and vote for their next president. If nothing changes by then, they will be facing their future with a dose of pessimism they’ve hardly ever experienced. [Read more…]
Spencie’s View
Maple Ridge: a little known land of diverse opportunities
“They think we live in the boonies and have nothing to do,” says Stevie Shayler, 25, who has lived in Maple Ridge B.C. all her life. “People honestly think we tip cows and hunt game for fun.” If you don’t know what “tipping cows” means, you’re excused, as it doesn’t sound very nice to those poor cows, anyway. [Read more…]
Trees: preserving ancient knowledge for a better future
Trees are as diverse, indicative and as full of meaning as the region they come from and the people that cherish them. It’s no wonder then that arbor days are observed in many countries including Canada. [Read more…]
Rebellious love in the time of communist rule
The story of Dr. Yao Lan Chen is one of strength, perseverance, love and an interracial relationship, set not in one, but two of the world’s worst dictatorial regimes. [Read more…]