Paul Gauthier has a big idea for Vancouver. He wants to create centres for the disabled where they can get specific services and programs tailored to their individual needs.
Gauthier is a paraplegic and he is frustrated with what he sees as Vancouver’s current, one-system-fits-all approach to helping the disabled.
British Columbia is home to 11,400 people [...]
The Vancouver International Airport, home to some of Canada’s greatest aboriginal art and a multi-million-dollar First Nations art collection, says it wants more controversial artists. It just doesn’t want their controversial work.
This is the view of Rita Beiks, the curator of the renowned collection and the person charged with selecting artists whose work will be [...]
Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun is critical of aboriginal leaders like those of the Four Host First Nation who partner with provincial and federal government to make BC First Nations an integral part of the 2010 Olympics.
He is a strong advocate for aboriginal self-governance and favours a Canadian republic over the monarchical confederation.
His giant canvases of neon [...]
Small community programs in Vancouver have been told that their funding is safe for now, even though the foundation that supports them has less money because of recent stock market turmoil.
The Vancouver Foundation, which funds community charities throughout British Columbia, recently warned its partners that the “perfect financial storm” of the past few months may [...]
Six years ago Stetson was a high functioning Vancouver businessman and father with a daily cocaine habit, regularly scoring on Vancouver’s skid row in the Downtown Eastside.
“Many professionals get an easy hit, blocks from their downtown offices, while funnelling thousands of dollars into Main and Hastings and fuelling the drug economy,” he says.
The area is [...]
For four weeks in October, neighbourhood children and teenagers gathered in the studio at the back of Heaventree Gallery on Vancouver’s 15th Avenue for a different type of history class.
The young artists were all taking part in a project called “Neighbourhood History in Clay Tiles”. Using historical photographs of their community as inspiration, they sculpted [...]
Condo development in the DTES is a hot topic.
A survey carried out by the Low Income Land Use Housing Coalition (LILAHC) in July found many residents wanted a mix of people living in the neighbourhood.
The survey asked 655 local residents who they would like to see living on the DTES.
43% said they wanted the [...]
In a city with the most visible East Asian population in Canada, there is one type of Asian who remains almost invisible in Vancouver: the drug addicts.
Health workers and drug counselors say there is a hidden group of mostly Chinese and Vietnamese drug users who receive no treatment because they are flying under every official [...]
Residents are lobbying the city of Coquitlam to increase the number of off-leash parks for dogs.
Citizens are petitioning the city, arguing that it has not kept pace with the expanding dog population. Coquitlam currently has four off-leash dog parks compared to 31 similar parks in Vancouver.
“The dog population is growing and the tiny square footage [...]
Vancouver’s gay community is disappointed that it may not get city funds for its international sporting event at a time when the city is spending millions on the Olympic games. At a debate held on November 5, neither mayoral candidate would commit funding to the North America Outgames which that will bring lesbian, gay, bisexual, [...]
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