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 [...]
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” [...]
Balancing rocks on one another to create a work of art might seem impossible but that is exactly what John Shaver does in and around Vancouver. Shaver is an independent artist who creates rock sculptures. He has been working on Ambleside shore in West Vancouver over the past year. Public art is a priority in Vancouver, [...]
Taralee Guild is a local painter who gets by “pinching pennies.” The recent Emily Carr University of Art and Design graduate commutes to her studio by bike and works 60 hours a week painting to save enough to buy new equipment and rent a room in a house by Trout Lake, a 20-minute bike-ride from [...]
Christie Lee Charles sings her baby girl to sleep every night. Unlike the usual mom, she does it in a language only a handful of people in the world know. Charles, 27, speaks the Musqueam dialect of the Coast Salish First Nations language family. She learned the language at the feet of her great-uncle and [...]
Hana Galal is on a mission. The 22-year-old university student raised more than $1,200 for charity in one night. She grew up guided by the Islamic pillar of charity and has spent her life donating from her allowance. That is a challenge on her student budget at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. She [...]
Flickering movies played on film are dying in the age of the digital picture. And some theatres aren’t sure that’s a good thing. “You’re not going to be able to replicate film, no matter what,” said Chris Unwin, a projectionist at Kitsilano’s Hollywood Theatre. The cinema is the oldest independent, family-run theatre in Canada and [...]
Hastings Park may be one of the noisiest, most dilapidated pieces of parkland in Vancouver, and a city plan to develop and beautify the area isn’t passing the smell test from local residents either. It is “all about commercialization,” said local resident and Hastings Park Conservancy member, Pat Miller. The park boasts less than 20 [...]
An interesting debate is swirling around the future of the – one in which everyone, it seems, has something something to say, including The discussion is broadly centered around whether to move the VAG to a new site or refurbish – where only three per cent of its permanent collection can be exhibited at any [...]
Wanying Zhao’s lips were itchy, and her tongue felt slightly numb. In a roomful of Fijians, the young researcher was , 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 , where she lived as a cultural researcher [...]
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