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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Pphhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeoooooo…” men and women gathered at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House collectively released their lower lips and their inhibitions as they dropped their limp torsos over their feet. Anna Baignoche, the ring leader made small humming sounds and instructed them to slowly lift themselves into a standing position. “Aaaaaooooaaaaaaaooooooaaaaaooommmm…” the room resounded with the sound of […]
