UBC Journalism 'On The Beat'
Last Saturday evening, while students were at the bars or in the books, a lecture hall at UBC was packed with grey and white haired citizens to hear Gwynne Dyer speak about climate change. The talk entitled, “Geopolitics in a Hotter World,” was the fall kickoff to a series of free public lectures hosted by […]
The wooden double doors were closed Wednesday afternoon at St. Mark’s College Chapel. Father John McCarthy preached inside the concrete walls to his student congregation attending the weekly 12:10 p.m. mass. Plato’s Cave, the student run café to the right, had its single wooden door propped open. The laughter and chatter of the volunteers inside […]
The marketing relaunch of Olympic Village scheduled for Sept. 25 has been delayed until sometime next month, highlighting the rental and occupation problems that continue to plague the city’s former haven of international activity. “If you’re looking for the lineup, it’s going to be a few months,” said Joseph Ciborowski, one of several painters wielding […]
The demolition of a Shell Gas Station at the corner of Burrard and Davie was of no surprise to West End residents, nearly two years ago. If any new word has been added to their vocabulary it is urban renewal. What was peculiar, however, was that in a period of developing the West End by […]
It was raining on Thursday at 8:15 p.m. when a man walked into the Happy Bloom Restaurant on Kingsway, shot one man in front of witnesses, and then left, according to reporters already at the scene. An hour and a half after the shooting the Chinese restaurant was still cordoned off by crime scene investigators. […]
An eye looked up from a large orange bin of slimy crushed ice— the eye of a sockeye salmon. Stephanie Arnold, who works for Organic Ocean Seafood, stood under a blue canopy Sunday afternoon selling sockeye on the False Creek Harbour Authority fish sales dock. The long and silver fish sold for $20 each or […]
Six giant dumpsters were slumped against the wall, just barely concealing the heaps of garbage that festered beneath them. A broken television was stacked atop some damp furniture and had empty coffee containers perched delicately on top of it. The alleyway was fraught with bits of paper, plastic, and cigarette butts, and reeked of mould […]
It’s not every day that you come across a 22-year-old young man with a pet duck named Charlie stuffed tenderly under his sweatshirt. Then again, it’s not every day that you come across a young man like Jordan Maynard and a local farm like Southlands Heritage Farm. General Manager and co-founder of the “magical oasis” […]
Concerned parents and citizens plotted with community leaders and politicians in East Vancouver Thursday on actions to prevent the possible closure of two local schools. The schools are just two of nine in East Vancouver identified by the Vancouver School Board as likely to be shuttered in 2011 to offset an $18 million budget shortfall. […]
A steep road introduced a landscape of lavish cars around the bright green grass of the Marine Drive Golf Club. An air of power and wealth surrounded this plot. While people around the world still face a strong recession, this club contrasted the reality of many. Nevertheless, all the luxury at display could not disguise […]
