A spark lit on Facebook has helped bring the Parade of Lost Souls in Vancouver back from the dead. Organizers cancelled the popular event last year due to funding cuts. But community members came together by social networking to plan an unofficial gathering in Grandview Park in the east of the city. The renegade Parade [...]
One of the Vancouver’s most vibrant and colourful shopping areas, the Punjabi Market in south Vancouver, is struggling as businesses and customers move to Surrey. High rents, a shortage of parking and shoppers switching their allegiance to outlets in Surrey have combined to put a strain on the ethnic businesses in the area. The Punjabi [...]
Everyday in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, giant cranes move thousands of containers on and off cargo ships. The rotten-egg stench from yellow sulfur piles fills the air. And tankers full of Alberta crude wind through the narrows. There are also harbour seals bobbing up and down checking-out boats and hunting for fish. Hundreds of commuters fill [...]
Charlotte Anderson, 22, chose an unlikely spot for her birthday party. Instead of going to a nightclub in Vancouver’s downtown entertainment district, her friends gathered at a private military club on the east side of the city. The club is one of several veterans’ outfits in Vancouver that has opened its doors to a wider [...]
Marpole residents want to take part in planning any future developments in South Vancouver. They formed a new residents group in June and they want to be included in decision-making about Marpole. “Our number one goal is to seek and secure community-wide planning for Marpole,” said Jo-Anne Pringle, co-founder and lead co-ordinator of Marpole Area [...]
An ambitious multi-million dollar plan to renovate the aging St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver’s West End has yet to secure the funds to pay for the project. Getting a commitment from the province on funding the 115-year-old building’s reconstruction is “like nailing Jell-O to a wall,” said the Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer Chandra-Herbert. He was [...]
The spark of candles cast a hazy purple blur over a downtown Vancouver park as waves of mourners arrived to commemorate the rash of North American suicides of gay youth from homophobic bullying. Ryan Clayton, 23, climbed a large rock draped with a rainbow flag and rallied the crowd of more than 500 at Emery [...]
Emily Carr might have had to turn to her animals for conversation, but the editors of Woo Magazine hope it won’t take a monkey to get students talking. The latest edition of Emily Carr University of Art and Design‘s student publication – named after Carr’s pet monkey, Woo – launched a more colourful, broadsheet redesign [...]
Victoria Park is the new “go to” place for Grandview-Woodland residents. Grandview Park closed for renovation in August, When the Vancouver Parks board announced the temporary closure many residents worried. Grandview Park at Commerical and Charles was considered the key gathering place for events and people in the neighbourhood. At public meetings residents made presentations [...]
Five-hundred to 1,000 Vancouver youth sleep in the streets every night. Misha used to be one of them. Tonight the 16-year-old shares a muffin and cigarettes with her friends on a downtown sidewalk. They roll a joint as Misha tells her story. “My father has been using crack for forty years,” said Misha, “my mother [...]
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