Vancouver’s neighbourhood-based citizen’s groups, using blogs and other social media tools, are busy rallying locals to attend several city council candidate’s forums scheduled ahead of the Nov. 19 municipal vote. The Residents Association Mount Pleasant (RAMP) called one of the first meetings for Oct. 26th at south Main Street’s Heritage Hall. The group’s goal is [...]
Members of Kitsilano’s West 4th Avenue Business Improvement Association (BIA) will convene for their annual general meeting on Nov. 1st, when they will finalize a proposed budget for the 2012-13 year and fill three positions on the board of directors. Russ Davies, the BIA’s executive director, said this is an important year for owners of [...]
It’s a business experiment in real people power. Vancouver residents are on their second round of voting to decide what kind of service will go into a downtown social housing building. More than 400 people voted in the first round and decided that the community around 243 Union St. needed a local service over a [...]
An owner with one of Vancouver’s premier seafood restaurants, Sun Sui Wah, says it is time to stop selling shark fin soup. “I’d like to have the whole of Canada [ban shark fin], not just a province or Toronto or Vancouver,” said Simon Chan. Chan made the comments following the Oct. 13 “Sans Fin Soup” [...]
Erika Thorkelson, a 31-year-old ESL teacher living in Vancouver, was one of the 4,000 people who gathered in the city earlier this month to lend their voices to the Occupy movement. A Facebook conversation with a friend in Ireland encouraged her to show up to join the people gathered around the Vancouver Art Gallery on [...]
The Vancouver Eclipse visually impaired hockey team has a new home at Hillcrest Community Centre. The building that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic curling competitions now houses Vancouver’s only visually impaired hockey team. “We like the size of it now,” said Graham Foxcroft, a visually impaired player. “It’s an actual hockey-size rink and [...]
For Trisha Baptie, the decision not to fund women’s and Aboriginal groups as part of BC’s missing women’s inquiry is part of an all too familiar pattern. It is part of a larger history of systematic racism and sexism that has been working to silence the voices of marginalized women for decades. “I think it’s [...]
A centre that provides job advice and counselling for people in Canada’s poorest postal code is appealing for hundreds of thousands of dollars to stay open. Pathways Information Centre, which provides employment and information assistance to residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, has embarked on a campaign to raise the $400,000 it needs to keep its doors [...]
A Vancouver community centre is aiming to broaden its multicultural appeal, starting out with an event marking the South Asian festival of Diwali. Staff at the False Creek community centre were pleased with the modest turnout of their first ever Diwali celebration, but acknowledged that there have been challenges in measuring the demand for culturally diverse [...]
A religious group that was publicly ousted six years ago by the BC Muslim Association has finally ended their search for a suitable meeting place. Led by the controversial Imam Fode Drame, the Zawiyah Foundation has recently moved into a commercial property off Southeast Marine Drive in Vancouver. In 2005, The BC Muslim Association fired [...]
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