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Almond orange bizcocho with honey lavender yoghurt
September 7 2015 Recipe by Selma Van HalderSpain is one of those countries I wish were closer to Canada, now that I’ve made the big move across the pond. For a young Dutch girl, travelling to the south of Spain is a complete culture shock …
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Embracing cultural diversity with Vancouver’s international students
August 24 2015 Cover StoryFrom left to right: Daniel Mundeva, SFU Masters student; Felix Böck, PhD candidate at UBC; Yimei Li, Masters student at UBC. | Photo …
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“Multiculturalism is new to me”
August 24 2015 ColumnsBorn in Zimbabwe to a white family in the 1980s, I was kept mostly separate from native, black Zimbabweans – albeit less so than a generation before. As I grew up and attended a racially integrated…
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Immigration and integration at heart of the Polish Cultural Festival
August 24 2015 CulturePhoto by Malgorzata KowalczukMetro Vancouver’s Polish community will be holding its third annual Polish Cultural Festival…
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Explore Trois-Rivières
August 24 2015 ColumnsFrom June 28 to July 31, I participated in the Explore program at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières. I studied French in an immersion environment with a no-English rule, where you risk …
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Enthusiastic youth take on Tagalog language initiative
August 24 2015 CommunityJames Infante, a fourth-year political science student at the University of British Columbia, recently organized a rally at the celebration of Philippine Independence Day at Slocan Park to campaign …
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Earthquake shakes up debate on fracking in B.C.
August 24 2015 ColumnsLast week a 4.6 magnitude earthquake struck near Fort St. John in northeastern B.C., just a few kilometres from a fracking site operated by Progress Energy. The company was forced to halt operations …
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Team revives the spirit and sportsmanship of the Asahi
August 24 2015 selectedThe Shin Asahi warm up during their training clinics. | Photo by Simon YeeFrom 1914 to 1941, the Vancouver Asahi, a …
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Chat goes into the Dutch-Taiwanese connection
August 24 2015 CultureCheryl Robbins, an expert on Taiwanese indigenous tourism and the Dutch-Taiwanese connection, will speak to an outdoor audience on Granville Street for Vancouver’s 26th annual TAIWANfest. A …
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Simon Fraser University students make strides in personal computing
August 24 2015 LocalEngineering science students, clockwise from top left: Herman Mak, Mike Ng, Gary Yu, Carmen Tang and their screenless computer the …