Asat Bidu stood in line at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) one afternoon in late March, waiting to check in to her flight to India. She makes the trip with her husband and son every couple of years, transferring through cities like Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Manila along the way. Bidu and her family are [...]
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Alaska, resulting in the one of the worst ecological disasters in history. The 23rd anniversary of the spill was marked by the gathering of hundreds of people at the Vancouver Art Gallery who, at the same time, voiced their opposition [...]
On a stormy day, angry surf crashes against the Iona Island jetty with enough force to shake its foundations. The jetty is a 4-kilometre needle of land that sticks out into the Strait of Georgia, exposure that ensures it’s in need of constant repair. It costs the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) up to $2.5 [...]
Long before it became the ‘condo city,’ the prized waterfront real estate of Vancouver was home to towering kelp forests, roaming herds of sea urchins and beaches blanketed with shellfish. The creatures that depend on those staples as food — like salmon, sea otters, seals and even whales — were abundant in Vancouver’s waters. Many species have [...]
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, [...]
Some East Vancouver residents have turned up their noses at a local animal rendering plant that they say produces odours that are far too foul. “It in part smells like burning flesh… It smells like rotten fish sometimes. It smells like pet food. But all these descriptors don’t do justice to it,” said Don Dickson, [...]
Students swarm into Sprouts, UBC’s student volunteer cafe, every Friday. They come carrying plates, bowls, forks and knives, and they come with an appetite. It’s an appetite for more than a well-balanced, vegan meal. These students want to take a bite out of the huge amount of wasted food tossed into the garbage every week. [...]
Northern Alberta is home to some of the fastest-growing bodies of water in the world. Every day roughly two billion litres of water – enough to fill 800 Olympic swimming pools – are added to these lakes, which are already over 11.5 trillion litres in volume. The largest one, located near Mildred Lake just north [...]
Coquitlam residents are petitioning the City Council for additional off-leash park spaces to let their dogs run free. Currently there are only four parks in Coquitlam with off-leash areas compared to Vancouver which has 31 parks. Letting the pets run free comes with a set of responsibilites that should be followed. Here are some tips [...]
Campaigning for the environment just got a lot harder for federal candidates in BC’s greenest riding of Vancouver Centre. The Dow Jones plunged more than 360 points on October 6, reinforcing fears that the U.S. credit crisis could damage the Canadian economy. Before the latest falls, the environment had already slipped to a distant third [...]
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