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"Glee" star Cory Monteith's body was cremated days after his death, following a private viewing of his body by members of his immediate family and girlfriend Lea Michelle. Monteith is one of a growing ...

Xenophobia and racism are flourishing in Canada, under the influence of Stephen Harper’s rigid stance on Muslim women's headscarves. Stephen Harper has told us that wearing the niqab, a scarf that ...

Despite being born in the 1970s, in a postwar, economically devastated North Korea with then idolized ruler Kim ll-Sung in power, Lucia Jang thought her life was going quite well until she was ...

A group of residents of Texada Island, BC, are alarmed by news that the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines quietly approved permit amendment that allows the Lafarge Canada coal plant on Texada Island to ...

Her ‘crime’ was different, having a relationship with and then marrying a Chinese man, but the result the same. Thrown in jail, stripped of citizenship and child, and forced abroad, Demerson offers a ...

We crowded into SFU Woodwards past hipsters in skinny jeans and vagrants with skinny legs. We came to see Vancouver artist and historian Michael Kluckner deliver a lecture titled "A brief history of ...

When George Papazian began teaching at Emily Carr University of Art + Design a few years ago, the term UX designer was still relatively new. Now, he is the lead instructor for the interaction design ...

When blinding sun strikes alpine snow in British Columbia backcountry, the enthusiasts strapping on high-end ski goggles will describe the mood as transcendent. Until, of course, they chopper up to ...

Amnesty International is calling for a stop work order on British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam, saying the mega project on the Peace River threatens the human rights of indigenous ...

After winning an unprecedented injunction against the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans late last month, the Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations and other nations along the coast of BC say they're ...

Labeled as an "embarrassment" to the country and a "rinky-dink" effort by the 2010 host country, many are voicing sheer outrage and disappointment on the $10 million pavilion. However, Heritage ...