UBC Journalism 'On The Beat'
The Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park was unanimously saved Monday evening from the Vancouver Park Board budget chopping-block, following months of public outcry. Park Board members voted to accept a proposal that will integrate the operation and management of the Conservatory with the VanDusen Botanical Garden. The two facilities will work collaboratively with the […]
Residents of Marpole expressed strong opposition against the Marpole Safeway redevelopment plans presented by the City of Vancouver Planning Department at a meeting on Monday. Not one resident out of an estimated 200 attendees stood up to voice their approval of the rezoning application during the question and answer period. During the question and answer […]
The Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling blasted Tuesday evening from the speakers in the Walter Gage Towers lounge. Volunteers staffed information tables by the doors and distributed pamphlets about sexual assault. Twenty-eight women and eight men sat in the room and bopped their heads to the music’s rhythm. Meghan Gardiner stood beside a velvet […]
On Friday afternoon the main room of UBC’s Asian Centre was full of economists eager to discuss fixing, of all things, the environment. Welcome to the 21st century. Environmental economist Lawrence H. Goulder gave the keynote speech in a weekend long conference entitled, “UBC 2010 Workshop on Environmental Economics and Climate Change.” His talk outlined […]
Most people came to the President’s Campus Town Hall carrying umbrellas on the rainy Monday morning. Arrivals shed their wet raingear in the Chan Centre of Performing Arts and a homogenous business casual crowd emerged. Platters of bite size sandwiches, colourful vegetables and chocolate covered deserts spread across three tables in the lobby and invited […]
When Pastor Joe Russell from the New Beginnings Baptist Church found out that Woodland Park was already booked for Saturday Sept. 19, he saw an opportunity. The park had been booked by the Grandview-Woodland Community Policing Centre for their annual event, Cops, Kids and Commercial Drive. By hosting the church’s community day in the same […]
The crowd chuckled as Hannah Carpendale delicately held up a drone between her fingertips and continued to explain the social organization of a beehive. Carpendale, 22, was one of the eight youth who, as part of an apprenticeship program with the Environmental Youth Alliance, were taking care of two hives at the Means of Production […]
Blue and red flashing lights, uniformed officers and an explosives detection dog are usually signs that a major incident is happening in East Vancouver. But on Sunday, these were part of the draw to Cops, Kids & Woodland Park, a family-friendly event put on by the Grandview-Woodlands Community Policing Centre. Some East Vancouver communities have […]
In spite of the fact that Canada narrowly escaped the effects of the global recession, many in Vancouver still cannot afford current housing prices. However, an elite group of citizens in the South West Marine Drive have enjoyed mansions with imposing front yards and doorways. As attractive as these houses were, a lasting impression of […]
A plethora of ethnic restaurants thrive on the far-stretching Kingsway Road, mostly Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian — but the lack of Filipino businesses speaks for the community’s economic marginalization. There is only one Filipino dentist that services the community, on Kingsway and Broadway. Of course, Filipino Canadians need not to be served only by a […]
