Burnaby’s mayor says a Kinder Morgan pipeline incident that drew citizen concern over the weekend highlights the dangers of operating high pressure oil pipelines in urban areas. “These... Kinder ...
As the City of Vancouver and the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Coldwater First Nations prepare to take legal opposition to the project, members of The Public Health Association of BC (PHABC) are ...
Another gun-related death in Vancouver: this time, a brazen shooting in Vancouver's upscale Sheraton's Bar One restaurant. This is the city's first murder of 2012.
In collaboration with Science World, the BC Centre for Disease Control's Foundation for Public Health hosted an evening panel focused on addressing the opioid overdose crisis: a public health disaster ...
Here’s an early heads up on the annual Women in Film Festival. It starts Wednesday (on International Women’s Day) at the VanCity Theatre and presents five days of films by and about women, exploring ...
“The Playhouse just fell by wayside,” he says, sadly. “In our city, art's not celebrated. But we can't just sit and complain anymore. We need to look for solutions.” Rennie – who sits on the North ...
One of Vancouver's most creative and unique spaces is so obscure it takes a Youtube video to find it: through an alley, behind the blackbird-painted door across from some dumpsters, and up a creaky ...
When the Broadbent Institute, a think tank with close ties to the NDP, opened its doors in September 2011, political commentators speculated that it would serve as a progressive equivalent to the ...
Premier Clark’s sense of urgency at the BC Province's LNG conference was similar to that of climate stability advocates – except that hers is for rapid deployment of the LNG industry. This is a new ...
There are more than fifty ways to please an audience. Sting and Paul Simon took the stage together last Thursday, February 20, 2014 to a sold out Rogers Arena. The two musical legends will be touring ...
A new day, a new challenge! For Vancouver chefs that is... Vancouver Foodster launched yet another culinary competition, and this time the focus is, our "national food", the poutine. The competition ...
A cornucopia of contemporary Vancouver dance with mixed and free programming. Photo credit: Plastic Orchid Factory, Bevin Poole by David Cooper ...