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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In elementary school, my classmates and I played glove baseball. Since we (sensibly) weren’t allowed to bring bats to school, we created a with what we had available: gloves. Lots of gloves. Home plate was a glove. The bases were gloves. Most importantly, our bats were gloves. We swung them just like they were bats. [...]
There’s something wrong with Glastenbury Mountain, at least according to local lore in Bennington, Vermont. Many people, especially watchers of the paranormal, have about that stretch of the Appalachian Trail. A number of people are said to have there. But none of this fazed Robert Singley, a PhD candidate at UBC, who used to hike [...]
Allie Slemon, a fifth year English student at the University of British Columbia, was surprised to find a strongly worded email from President Stephen Toope in her inbox. Toope warned of Metro Vancouver’s proposal to regulate academic lands on the Vancouver campus. He said this would be “devastating” to academic freedom and could put a [...]
Curtis Ballard rushed to fasten plywood between parking curbs as rain cascaded down Wesbrook Mall. The water runoff streamed toward TRIUMF, the laboratory for particle and nuclear physics at UBC. “The water outside eventually rose to our knees,” said Ballard, TRIUMF’s operations manager, who worked with personnel from the lab and the physical plant to [...]
I consider myself a people person – unless I’m on the bus. The anonymity of the bus fosters poor behaviour. People who are normally reasonable and considerate on ‘the outside’ can become irrational and incapable of practicing simple etiquette. And I’m not talking about which fork to use for your salad. Last Wednesday I learned [...]
Recent Comments