How to make organic bannock bread

This recipe is a supplement to the story ‘Healing Garden’ nourishes Aboriginal Vancouverites.

Bannock is a quick bread that doesn’t require yeast. It is a post-contact food (similar to Irish Soda Bread) that that was picked up and embraced by Aboriginal cultures across Canada as European settlers came in to first peoples’ respective territories and [...]

‘Healing garden’ nourishes Aboriginal Vancouverites

By Fabiola Carletti and Lewis Kelly
Growing a cauliflower can bring childlike joy to a grown man’s face. At least, it did for John Skulsh, who still talks about the first vegetable he’d ever grown.
“I lifted it up,” said Skulsh, who hails from the Gitxsan Nation. “What a feeling that was! You know, the only time [...]

A Cup of Kava: UBC student gains insight on Fijian culture

Wanying Zhao’s lips were itchy, and her tongue felt slightly numb.
In a roomful of Fijians, the young researcher was drinking Kava, a mildly intoxicating beverage that comes from a plant of the same name. Kava, she explained, is the foundation of social activity in the village of Teci, Fiji, where she lived as a cultural [...]

The Deepest Wilderness: UBC student was a ‘missing person’

There’s something wrong with Glastenbury Mountain, at least according to local lore in Bennington, Vermont.
Many people, especially watchers of the paranormal, have ominous theories about that stretch of the Appalachian Trail. A number of people are said to have gone missing there.
But none of this fazed Robert Singley, a PhD candidate at UBC, who used [...]

Diving among dugongs: UBC student helps protect threatened species in Palau

Sarah Klain had been out swimming when she saw a massive gray shape in the corner of her eye. She almost gagged on her snorkel when she realized what it was.
“It was a dugong. It swam toward me and looked me right in the eye,” said Klain, joking that the large marine mammal had resembled [...]

Elephant scales Wall: UBC student struggles to keep up with a giant

Jake Wall jolted awake, struggling to free himself from a nonexistent mosquito net. It was the latest in a series of bizarre dreams, but his reality was no less surreal. He was, after all, in the middle of the Kaisut Desert in Kenya, resting alongside a quintet of stubborn camels.
Back in Vancouver, nearly two years [...]

UBC students disengaged from rezoning row

Allie Slemon, a fifth year English student at the University of British Columbia, was surprised to find a strongly worded email from President Stephen Toope in her inbox.
Toope warned of Metro Vancouver’s proposal to regulate academic lands on the Vancouver campus. He said this would be “devastating” to academic freedom and could put a “choke [...]

UBC seeks to tap rain as renewable resource

Curtis Ballard rushed to fasten plywood between parking curbs as rain cascaded down Wesbrook Mall. The water runoff streamed toward TRIUMF, the laboratory for particle and nuclear physics at UBC.
“The water outside eventually rose to our knees,” said Ballard, TRIUMF’s operations manager, who worked with personnel from the lab and the physical plant to clear [...]