Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson’s website recently announced that his Engaged City Task Force is launching some “steps to modernize civic engagement” and some new online tools to achieve that goal. Noting how ironic it is that unprecedented access to communication technologies “should… Read more →
This weekend Vancouver celebrates Stanley Park’s 125th birthday. Five ‘festival zones’ around the park will host a wide variety of activities, from concerts, historical tours and cricket games to Coast Salish cultural displays and nature walks. It looks like a… Read more →
Footprints in the Sand (“I love you and will never leave you . . . When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.”) will be 50 years old next fall, and HarperCollinsCanada is on… Read more →
It doesn’t get any better than this for those who like their music chanted – or at least early. The first week of August will see Gregorian Chant enthusiasts gathering out at UBC, while Early Music Vancouver will be putting… Read more →
It seems to be a trend – and a welcome one. Three Chinese churches – that I’m aware of, there may well have been more – turned their parking lots over to block parties last weekend. Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church… Read more →
And I thought you couldn’t get Krispy Kreme donuts in Vancouver any more. Well, you can – or at least you could Sunday evening in front of Superstore at Grandview and Rupert. Pastor Jonathan Jeong and several other members… Read more →
On any given evening throughout the spring and early summer there have been soccer teams battling for supremacy in the BC Christian Soccer League. The regular season has just ended, and the playoffs are taking place in early July. … Read more →
The Argentine Revival influenced many Vancouverites during the last couple of decades of the 20th century. Many visited and even more attended local events featuring their evangelists. Among the leading figures was Hector Gimenez, pastor at that time of one… Read more →
The folks who put out We Make Stuff Volume 01 – featuring 100 local artists – late last year are still alive and kicking and hosting artistic events. ‘Loudmouths, Mavericks & Misfits’ will feature “Ten artists, ten minutes, ten bucks”… Read more →
