It’s a drizzling Wednesday night on Commercial and East Broadway Street in East Vancouver. The glaring yellow streetlight illuminates about forty people clustered in loose groups at the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station entrance. Seven native teenagers stand at a bus shelter bench tossing jokes back and forth and chatting. Some of them smoke; others pace back [...]
How many 93-year-old men do you know who can jog a mile, swim 20 laps, do squats and lead a 16-piece band in a sold-out auditorium? Meet Dal Richards, Vancouver’s Dr. Swing. Timeless classics in a brand new setting – that’s how Richards describes his latest album, “Dal Richards, Musically Yours.” It will be a vocalist’s [...]
As people learn to live longer, we’re helping our pets to do the same. Some of the medical treatments for older dogs look awfully similar to procedures people would seek for themselves. But you may be surprised to find out that some treatments for aging dogs are technologically more advanced than for humans. Video produced by [...]
A decrepit, unsafe dam and hydroelectric facility is in line to receive more than $800 million in upgrades, but the plan to shore up the facility doesn’t sit well with residents downstream. The 80 year-old Ruskin dam and powerhouse in Mission, B.C., requires a laundry list of renovations just to keep it running. Residents living [...]
Satish Patel and his family are selling their home and leaving everything behind to return to India. He waited five years for his parents to join him in Canada and he’s giving up. “I am the only son and I believe we have waited for much longer than normal,” Patel said. “I should have considered [...]
Christie Lee Charles sings her baby girl to sleep every night. Unlike the usual mom, she does it in a language only a handful of people in the world know. Charles, 27, speaks the Musqueam dialect of the Coast Salish First Nations language family. She learned the language at the feet of her great-uncle and [...]
George Patrikeeff collects antique books, whispers Orthodox prayers, paints portraits of poets and drinks tea from a samovar on a glass veranda. Every half hour a mantlepiece clock chimes a melody reminiscent of the Russian “God Save the King” to help him keep track of the time. “My own home, my own country inside,” said [...]
By Laura Kane and Mohamed Algarf On a typical Saturday, French, Italian, Arabic and Mandarin echo through the classrooms at the University of British Columbia. These are not only the usual twenty-something students, but boisterous mature learners. “When they see all the white-haired people in the class, they go, oh dear, do I have to [...]
Rock and roll used to be a symbol of everything parents thought was wrong about teenagers. But for Keri Davidson, 17, a common interest in 80s rock music brings her and her mom closer together. “It’s pretty much the only thing we have in common.” Keri and her mom Kathy Davidson, 40, both love Bon [...]
By Kate Adach Dorothy Moore may have tapped into a key ingredient to longevity, she just doesn’t know it. “I couldn’t tell you what happened!” the 104-year-old said, laughing as she considered how to explain her age. “I’ve had a really good life in every way.” Dot, as she prefers to be called, chooses to [...]
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