A towering structure of steel and glass reaches skyward, dwarfing the surrounding low-rise apartments, single-family homes and duplexes. Like a leaning stack of giant lego blocks, it cantilevers out over the surrounding Vancouver community. Its terraced facade resembles a great stairway rising out of nothing, and reaching nowhere. Nearby, a shorter, stockier building mimics the [...]
A 25-metre-long skeleton of a blue whale stunned hundreds of visitors at UBC’s new museum last month. Large skulls, piles of bones, stuffed birds or meticulously assembled rodents intrigued people wandering through the maze of black cabinets. Dimly lit windows offered peaks at jars filled with pickled snakes, lizards or fish that glowed yellow or [...]
Bill Zylmans abandoned three-quarters of a million dollars worth of his crops, now rotting in the ground. His barns, overflowing with potatoes last year, are almost empty. “You just walk in and out of your barns and you go, ‘These aren’t going to get filled. These aren’t going to get filled this year,’” he said. [...]
All Sarah Meli wants is a hug. The kind, she says, most Canadians fail to provide. Like many international students at the University of British Columbia, Meli finds difficulty in adapting to differences in what is acceptable in terms of physical contact. Although the university provides various support services for international students, they do not [...]
A female sex worker could be made safer on the streets of Vancouver for $20 a year. That is the average cost of each woman helped by the van, driven by former sex-trade workers, which travels the streets of Vancouver. The van, known as the Mobile Access Project (MAP), aims to provide services, supplies and [...]
Flickering movies played on film are dying in the age of the digital picture. And some theatres aren’t sure that’s a good thing. “You’re not going to be able to replicate film, no matter what,” said Chris Unwin, a projectionist at Kitsilano’s Hollywood Theatre. The cinema is the oldest independent, family-run theatre in Canada and [...]
A cyclist sailed down Hornby Street in downtown Vancouver on a recent afternoon, weaving in and out of idling cars spewing thick clouds of exhaust. A road worker thrust her stop sign in the air and pointed to the red light overhead. It didn’t matter: traffic was stalled in all directions. Construction of a separated [...]
The label above the cheese shelves at Nesters Grocery contains a simple instruction: “Grab and Go.” Recently, some consumers have been taking this suggestion a little too literally. Cheese is a major contender this year for the title of most frequently stolen item in Vancouver grocery outlets, though razor blades and deli meats remain high [...]
Supporters of social housing have a month to find the money to include low-cost homes in a proposed new library in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The Strathcona Library, on Hastings Street, is expected to only house books unless the city can find funding for a dedicated second storey for social housing, and a contractor to complete within [...]
Hastings Park may be one of the noisiest, most dilapidated pieces of parkland in Vancouver, and a city plan to develop and beautify the area isn’t passing the smell test from local residents either. It is “all about commercialization,” said local resident and Hastings Park Conservancy member, Pat Miller. The park boasts less than 20 [...]
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