Chris Thoreau would rather spend time growing pea shoots than convincing city hall to make the practice legal. Thoreau owns a small agricultural business called My Urban Farm from his home in East Vancouver, where he grows sunflowers, buckwheat, and pea shoots year-round. He also runs Your Local Food Peddlers, a company that connects customers [...]
The record-breaking Japanese earthquake and subsequent devastating tsunami of March 11, 2011, sent a shockwave of sorrow around the world. But along the west coast of North America, geologists and disaster planning professionals watched with foreboding. They knew that similar scenes could one day play out in their own backyard. “An earthquake in Japan is [...]
Earthquakes are a nearly constant feature of British Columbia Each point on the above map marks a significant earthquake magnitude felt in the province since the year 1700. The data are much more precise after 1985 and therefore the total number of quakes for the past 300 years is likely much greater. Each [...]
Sara Moghadamjoo is a young well-educated Iranian-Canadian, who recently graduated with two masters degree from Simon Fraser University and is only a year away from getting her PhD from the University of British Columbia. She decided to stand in the upcoming municipal elections for the district of West Vancouver as she wanted to represent the [...]
A controversial program aimed at alleviating Vancouver’s housing shortage may soon get a new lease on life. The Short Term Incentives for Rental Housing (STIR) program offers incentives to housing developers in order to encourage the construction of market rental housing. But it has met with particularly strong opposition from residents of the West End, who [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
On a recent sunny Saturday morning, some 35 West End residents in Vancouver donned yellow vests and blue rubber gloves and proceeded to scour their neighbourhood’s streets in search of cigarette butts. They were there at the behest of John Merzetti, who started getting locals to pick up trash as part of his “West End Cleanup” [...]
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