Over 2,000 students from all over the world recently gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre for the 21st World Model United Nations Conference. Also known as WorldMUN 2012, it is an annual student simulation of the UN. The local and international students attending the mini-UN came to debate, negotiate and solve challenging global issues, such [...]
Occupy Vancouver in front of the Art Gallery. Occupy Vancouver has ended up being one of the most important issues in the run-up to the municipal elections, ranking right up there with housing in terms of what concerns the city’s voters the most. Its organizers view housing as one of the local arm of the [...]
A group of researchers at the University of British Columbia is readying the launch of a new educational website that aims to offer an interactive history of Chinese Canadians. More than two years in the making, the site, Chinese Canadian Stories is due to be unveiled in January. Henry Yu, who heads up the project, said [...]
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