Sheereen Aminuddin has five brothers, all of whom play soccer. For years, she sat on the sidelines and watched their games. Last year, Sheereen decided she wanted in on the action. But she was worried because, like many Muslim girls, Sheereen wears a hijab. So the 14-year-old Maple Ridge Secondary student signed up for the [...]
The Vancouver Eclipse visually impaired hockey team has a new home at Hillcrest Community Centre. The building that hosted the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic curling competitions now houses Vancouver’s only visually impaired hockey team. “We like the size of it now,” said Graham Foxcroft, a visually impaired player. “It’s an actual hockey-size rink and [...]
The, as many know, won gold last February for the third time in a row against the United States. The on-ice celebration after the Gold Medal Ceremony made bigger headlines than the team’s 2-0 win. The pictures of Canada’s women smoking cigars, drinking champagne, wine and Canadian beer flooded the Internet. The IOC launched an [...]
The came to a close on Sunday evening when Mayor Gregor Robertson passed the flag on to Sochi. The Games saw enormous successes and triumphs for Canadian Paralympians. Topping the list, North Vancouver’s Lauren Woolstencroft won a record five gold medals. Despite the achievements of Paralympians from Canada and around the world, enthusiasm in Vancouver [...]
Finance Minister Colin Hansen called for the City of Vancouver and the province to “build on the Olympic momentum” during his budget speech in early March. Whether the provincial budget will help to maintain successful Olympic-related projects (like better public transit, for example) remains to be seen – it has only been a few weeks [...]
It’s been a banner month for the Vancouver Art Gallery. Media outlets reported this week that the combination of crowd-pleasing exhibitions with free admission during the Olympics was a success, pulling in an estimated 100,000 visitors and setting a new attendance record. Gallery-goers hoping to see radically different works won’t necessarily be satisfied here, but [...]
When the City of Vancouver announced in 2009 its intent to reduce vehicle traffic in the downtown area by 30 percent during the Olympic Games, skepticism amongst local Vancouverites abounded. The week before the Opening Ceremonies, the city experienced only a 4 percent decrease in traffic. It seemed that few people were willing to take [...]
When Arthur Erickson died last May, the beloved Vancouver architect’s landmark public plaza was under scaffolding, as it had been for years. Like much of the city, Robson Square was getting its Olympics facelift. And what a facelift it was. People came in droves for the music and the fireworks, or a turn around the [...]
Nearly 500 surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver do not post information about who owns them, making it impossible for people to find out who is watching them and why. The cameras, 200 of which are in alleyways, skirt privacy laws and breach official guidelines for overt video surveillance by private companies. These guidelines require notification [...]
Dennis Rose and Chris Turo sit on foldable chairs outside Robson Street’s designer shops in downtown Vancouver nearly every day, selling their art on the sidewalk. They carve wooden feathers and watch shoppers stroll by, arms draped with shopping bags that hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree. Wood chippings typically collect at their feet. [...]
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