City

Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games »

Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games

One person’s street art is another’s nuisance. Katie Dangerfield, Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson look at how new limits on the amount and type...

Feb 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Trendy Vancouver neighbourhood gets its first homeless shelter »

Trendy Vancouver neighbourhood gets its first homeless shelter

Rod Gash is a resident of Kitsilano’s first homeless shelter. A recovering addict, Gash lived in area carports before the shelter opened Jan. 15...

Feb 4 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Union rules could hit drug addicts’ job chances »

Union rules could hit drug addicts’ job chances

Up to 35 positions are scheduled to be eliminated from the City of Vancouver Department of Engineering, but so far, one group appears to...

Dec 23 2009 / No comment / Read More »

Hundreds of unnamed cameras watching Vancouver »

Hundreds of unnamed cameras watching Vancouver

Nearly 500 surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver do not post information about who owns them, making it impossible for people to find out who...

Dec 10 2009 / 6 comments / Read More »
Olympics

Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games »

Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games

One person’s street art is another’s nuisance. Katie Dangerfield, Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson look at how new limits on the amount and type of street art allowed during the 2010 Winter Olympics are making it difficult for artists. ...

Feb 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair »

Flagging demand drives YVR cabbies to despair

When Anoop Singh, 36, entered the taxi business seven years ago, he was making 15 trips to and from Vancouver’s YVR airport per day. Now, he works double shifts and is lucky to make eight. “This was a sanctuary at one time,” said Singh. “You could...

Dec 2 2009 / 4 comments / Read More »

Southeast Vancouver skaters short on ice in 2010 »

Southeast Vancouver skaters short on ice in 2010

Hockey enthusiasts in southeast Vancouver are facing a shortage of ice despite the construction of two new rink facilities in preparation of the 2010 Olympic Games. From January 15, the newly built rink at Killarney will be used solely for the Olympics. It will host short...

Dec 2 2009 / No comment / Read More »
Culture

Knife juggling, fire eating are all in a day’s work »

Knife juggling, fire eating are all in a day’s workBy Jes Abeita and Sarah Buell Piper McKenzie is a full-time street performer whose stunts often have him balanced precariously on a ladder or juggling lighted...

Feb 15 2010 / No comment / Read More »

At Granville Island, making art out of glass »

At Granville Island, making art out of glassBy Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson Larissa Blockhuis uses her Saturday glass flower-making classes at New-Small & Sterling Studio Glass to introduce people to the art...

Feb 15 2010 / 1 comment / Read More »

Thunderbird photos

Change, not beer.Wrecked BeachmarimbasSomething Different
Life Kitsilano pet owners disgruntled over lone dog park

Kitsilano pet owners disgruntled over lone dog park

Take a stroll in Kitsilano and you will meet your fair share of dogs. Water dishes line the entrances to shops in this part of Vancouver, and it is common to find treats...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »
Culture Knife juggling, fire eating are all in a day’s work

Knife juggling, fire eating are all in a day’s work

By Jes Abeita and Sarah Buell Piper McKenzie is a full-time street performer whose stunts often have him balanced precariously on a ladder or juggling lighted torches in the name of entertainment. The occasional...

Feb 15, 2010 / More »
Health Lack of uniform hiring rules in BC pain Filipino nurses

Lack of uniform hiring rules in BC pain Filipino nurses

Ana Cagas Tabella knows first-hand being accredited as a nurse with international credentials in Canada can be a lottery for new immigrants. Cagas, a former nurse in Philippines, came to Canada as a member...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »
Environment Norway taps salt water as green energy source

Norway taps salt water as green energy source

In 1974 a researcher at the University of Connecticut submitted a paper to the journal Science. He claimed that large amounts of energy could be extracted from the natural mixing of fresh water...

Jan 19, 2010 / More »
Business Anxious times for rising numbers of BC temporary workers

Anxious times for rising numbers of BC temporary workers

For the past six months, Mehernosh Panthaki has been earning 40 per cent less than his fellow construction workers at Woodward’s, a marquee housing and commercial project in downtown Vancouver.  When the project...

Dec 10, 2009 / More »
Olympics Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games

Vancouver tackles graffiti for 2010 Games

One person’s street art is another’s nuisance. Katie Dangerfield, Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson look at how new limits on the amount and type of street art allowed during the 2010 Winter Olympics...

Feb 15, 2010 / More »
Immigration Well educated immigrants struggle to find good jobs

Well educated immigrants struggle to find good jobs

Tim Horton’s is an odd place for an anthropologist to find a job. But when Veronica Grigio arrived in Vancouver just over a month ago, that was her best hope. Grigio interviewed at clothing...

Oct 29, 2009 / More »
Sport Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts

Winter Olympics ground model plane enthusiasts

Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined...

Dec 2, 2009 / More »

Recent Comments

Search Archive

Search by Date
Search by Category
Search with Google

Featured Links

Log in / Copyright 2010: UBC Graduate School of Journalism / Advanced NewsPaper by Gabfire Themes