Former lieutenant-governor Steven Point isn’t sure most British Columbians will remember his pal Alfred Scow. He doubts if many people even realize that Scow was the province’s first — and, for a long time, only — aboriginal judge. Scow died in February at 86. He represented a beacon for many indigenous people hoping to enter the [...]
Glen Morrow is 70 and happy to be single-handedly running his own auto shop in the Fleetwood neighbourhood of Surrey. He has been working for 57 years but still has no plans to retire. “I’ve got some place to play,” he says as he talks at length about the various projects he’s working on. “It’s [...]
Getting a university education is usually associated only with positives. But a recent study found that university-educated people with children in dual-earning homes are significantly less likely to be satisfied with their work-family balance than those without. On Wednesday, March 27, at 10 a.m. PST, Karen Duncan, who co-authored the study, will join us for a live [...]
Michelle Robindell gave birth the same way she does business. She didn’t waste time. Her last day of work was a Friday, her water broke on Saturday, and her son Oscar arrived on Sunday. Robindell, 36, has her BA in psychology, works full-time as a manager at BC Hydro and is in the process of [...]
Meregon Kiddo was suspended 12 feet in the air and rapidly dropping headfirst towards the ground when she realized something had gone wrong. “I didn’t wrap my binding correctly,” she said. “And normally when you do something correctly after a drop there’s something to catch you…but I didn’t do it properly. So I just locked [...]
West End seniors are praising Vancouver city council’s decision to reopen a key part of Robson Street to cars and buses after three months of consultations this fall about whether to turn it into a permanent public plaza. “This proves you can fight city hall,” said Peggy Casey of the West End Seniors’ Network, adding [...]
As he does almost every day of the fall and winter, Ron Gruber heads from his house near UBC down to Spanish Bank Creek yet again this cold sunny Friday. He grabs his binoculars and he makes sure to be there just before the morning’s high tide. Once he is down at the beach, the [...]
A shuttle bus for North Delta seniors could begin service next year — a move that will provide a much-needed alternative in the transit-starved suburb. Delta council has applied for a special grant to pay for a new service that would shuttle seniors from the Kennedy Seniors Recreation Centre to anywhere they need to go: [...]
When Donna Miazga showed up for work at her east Vancouver community centre early one rainy Saturday morning, just as she did every week, she was startled by an unusual noise: clucking. Running towards her was none other than a drenched chicken. “I was quite shocked.” Miazga found some crackers, crushed them up, fed the [...]
The potential overhaul of Vancouver’s housing rules has met with guarded optimism in one east Vancouver neighbourhood. The dust is settling following city council’s decision in early October to open Vancouver up to denser forms of housing in streets on either side of the city’s arterials. While people in west-side Vancouver were vociferously opposed, some residents in Mount [...]
