Pages tagged "vancouver"

Jackie Wong by
August 13, 2015

Camera ready

Vancouver Queer Film Festival celebrates personal revolution
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Michael Stewart by
July 20, 2015

Don't look back

Priced out of Vancouver, we moved to Victoria. Notes from our first year in the capital city.
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Clara Kumagai by
July 20, 2015

In my defense

Violence in Vancouver is real. Here's what I learned about self-defense.
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Katie Hyslop by
December 22, 2014

With no poverty reduction plan, B.C.'s the odd one out

It’s a much-talked-about fact that B.C.’s poverty rates have been among the highest in Canada for over a decade. But inequality in this province is making headlines again as B.C. has become the only Canadian province without a poverty reduction plan.
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Katie Hyslop by
December 03, 2014

Gardens grow another day on the Arbutus Corridor

Canadian Pacific Railway has agreed to let remaining gardens in Vancouver’s Arbutus Corridor grow another day, at least until Dec. 9.
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by , 350 Keefer St
November 20, 2014

Where You'll Find Me - for Dan Decoste, a Hot Dog Church on East Hastings

“There’s a church on East Hastings that street people call the hot dog church. I used to work there years ago—in those days, we were serving 200, 300 hot dogs a night.
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Carlos Tello by
November 10, 2014

Rolling like thunder - meet Harrison Lee, yo-yo wizard

I have always believed that what makes a performer great is not just talent, an almost obsessive attention to detail and a flawless execution. To me, the best performers are the ones who can convince audiences that there’s no effort involved in what they’re doing—that they, too, could be charming...
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Katie Hyslop by
November 07, 2014

Could permanent tent cities be a better solution than shelters?

Over 200 campers were evicted from 
a tent city in Vancouver’s Oppenheimer Park last month, four months after the first tents were pitched. Another, smaller group of campers remains in Abbotsford’s Jubilee Park while they fight for their right to camp in BC Supreme Court.
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Sean Condon by
November 06, 2014

Dying on the Streets: Homeless deaths in British Columbia

Homelessness can be fatal, yet deaths associated with being homeless are largely preventable, according to the first ever report examining homeless deaths in British Columbia.
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Michael Christie by
October 03, 2014

Finding Our Voices, Finding Home

In 2011, I published a collection of linked short stories called The Beggar’s Garden, a book set in contemporary Vancouver and loosely based on my experiences working for many years in a Downtown Eastside homeless shelter.  
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