UBC Journalism 'On The Beat'
Fourteen women were murdered and ten were injured at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal in Montreal. Marc Lépine walked into an engineering class, asked the men to leave, and opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at the women remaining. Then he shot himself. This happened on the 6th of December, 1989. Twenty-one years later, in 2010, […]
Port Metro Vancouver is on a mission to make Vancouver’s port more sustainable. They have made the cruise industry one of their focal points, but visitors are hard pressed to see a lot of sustainable practices. On the last weekend of the summer, the busiest cruise day of the season, visitors and locals flooded the […]
Hassan Arshad sat on a chair in front of the UBC MRI Research Center on Saturday and read a consent form given to him by Matt Dixon. Arshad took off his black sunglasses, crossed his legs and swayed his right foot lightly as he read the form. Arshad is subject number 14 of 15 participants […]
A small crowd huddled under the overhang of a pizza shop. Men puffing on cigarettes. Cars swishing by. An empty bike lane. A sign hanging from the side of the brick building reads “Railway Club.” Behind the discreet wooden doors is a staircase plastered with show posters. Flash a festival wristband for free entry or […]
The Wild Bird Trust at Maplewood Flat provides an important wildlife refuge. The 40 hectares of trees, fields, ponds and marshes stand in juxtaposition to the concrete and steal which dominate most of the port of Vancouver. The Maplewood Conservation Area in North Vancouver is the last undeveloped waterfront wetland on the north shore of […]
Most people don’t think about how their car gets from an overseas manufacturing plant to their local dealership. In the case of asian import cars shipped to Canada they all come through two terminals on the Fraser River. One of those, Fraser Wharves, is the port of entry for every Toyota, Mazda and Suzuki built […]
Outside the Ukrainian Hall in Strathcona, a young woman stood on the sidewalk, quietly playing a vaguely Eastern European-sounding tune. But this was no traditional squeezebox concert geared for a polka-loving crowd. Inside the hall, devotees of the accordion gathered on wooden chairs. Dreadlocked punks with painted faces sat next to young hipsters and middle-aged […]
In an increasingly digital world, where one can download and read a book on a computer screen without ever setting foot in a library or bookstore, Word on the Street provides the perfect excuse for book lovers to come together. The annual festival for readers and writers drew thousands to the Vancouver Public Library on […]
On Thursday, a small group of parents, educators and community leaders gathered in Strathcona community centre for a meeting about school closures in East Vancouver. The driving rain likely kept many at home, but those that did show up to the small room on the community centre’s ground floor spoke passionately about keeping schools like […]
Steel fences and barbed wire surround the squat warehouses and buildings on Industrial avenue. Distant sounds of metal clanging, loads dropping and radios droning filled the air. At the CN railway yard, a single truck was fork-lifting rusty containers from one spot to another. Eric Jorgens, a visiting manager at the yard pointed to six […]
