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Newcomers break bad recycling habits
August 27 2012 LocalTakako Kobayashi, is a Japanese international student, who moved to Vancouver six months ago to learn English. She believes that Japan has a better recycling system than Vancouver, and that Vancouver…
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Living through a revolutionary movement against Big Oil
August 27 2012 ColumnsBig Oil executives are not used to not getting their way. How else can we explain the recent bizarre, whining outburst from Enbridge’s CEO Patrick Daniel? Lamenting his company’s spate of …
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Mothers help Ukrainian girl battle leukemia
August 27 2012 LocalThe son of one of the members of a local group helps raise money for a 2-year-old Ukrainian cancer sufferer. Photo by Tomomi …
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Filmmakers expose Latin American realities
August 27 2012 CultureJuan Manuel Sepúlveda filming. Photo courtesy Juan Manuel SepúlvedaMexican-born filmmaker Juan Manuel Sepúlveda is …
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Artist travels to an ancestral past
August 27 2012 ArtAs a child, photographer Marion Penner Bancroft never thought she would have the chance to visit the homelands of her ancestors.
Back then, Ukraine and Scotland were places that were distant and …
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Cultural Calendar
August 27 2012 EventsMake the most out of the last remaining days of summer with a few outdoor festivals, such as: TELUS Taiwan Fest and the West End Festival. Enrich your mind along with the young’uns at the start of …
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Transformation Plant
August 27 2012 ColumnsPhoto by Denis Bouvier
nac̓ θətəɬp or Transformation Plant is one of several installations of Earth Art currently at … -
Interpreter communicates importance of her job
August 7 2012 Cover StoryFenella Sung has been a certified interpreter and translator in Metro Vancouver for over twenty years. Photo by Samuel Ramos…
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The Wilderness
August 7 2012 ColumnsThe library in Pemberton, B.C. looks small where it sits, in the middle of a nearly empty road across from a makeshift park and a dirt pond. It consists of two sections that were haphazardly stitched…
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An orgy of electoral expenditures to make Americans forget the economy
August 7 2012 ColumnsWith summer still in full swing, no one is thinking about going back to the routine. And that is how it should be – for now. Yet, we’re almost there. Back to school, of course but also back to …