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, […]
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 small strip of Broadway, from Main to 12th Street, was blocked on Saturday to celebrate the community’s sense of social responsibility by showcasing sustainable methods and by opening a street market for local small businesses. The Autumn Shift Festival was organized by the Mount Pleasant Business Improvement Area, to “create an endless summer party”, […]
The 65th B.C. Oaks and Derby opened Saturday at the Hastings Racecourse to a bright blue sky and nine rounds of horseracing. In the first day of action, attendees were spoiled with five maiden and claiming races as well as four stakes races that amounted to a combined purse of $175,000. Regular track days at […]
Rhizome Café filled all its seats, while others sat on the floor in celebration of the café’s fourth year of uniting practically all of Vancouver’s progressive organizations, ranging from social injustice, migrant workers, colored youth and queer community groups. Doors opened at 7, but there was already a line up of around twenty people in […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Crystal Mall, despite competition from a towering mall just across the street, Metropolis at Metrotown, survives going out of business, as locals easily spend $200 on a single shirt. A Chinese sales associate, Suzie Xiao, explains that the culture clash in Asia actually proved conducive to business. Most of her clients where she works, Sophia’s […]
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 […]
