Some people find the hustle and bustle of Missions Fest a little overwhelming. Here’s a perfect solution – the Prayer Room is open throughout the conference weekend, which runs from Friday noon to Sunday, 5 pm (January 29 – 31),…
Housing affordability, urban density, mobility and public spaces – these are among the most pressing issues facing the citizens of Vancouver right now. And they are the subject of Your Future Home: Creating the New Vancouver, an exhibition being hosted…
Cancer has touched us all in some way. Research figures say 50 percent of us will wrestle with some form of cancer in our lifetimes. The other 50 percent may know cancer in a different way – through the struggle…
José Figueroa is a free man, just in time for Christmas. Matthew Claxton of Langley Advance was on the scene when it happened December 23. He wrote: José Figueroa broke down in tears as he took his first steps outside of a…
Merry Christmas to everyone reading this blog. Thank you for checking in, but hopefully you won’t mind if I take next week off. Enjoy your holiday break; I will send out my next weekly update January 6. In the meantime,…
Like many Vancouverites, Amy Dauer has felt helpless watching the plight of Syrian refugees on the news. But the 24 year old theatre graduate was struck with an idea recently: She could use her gifts for acting and playwriting to…
City in Focus will give out over $40,000 to four individuals in honour of their exceptional work in Vancouver’s urban communities, next Monday (November 30) during an awards ceremony at the Vancouver Club. “Part of caring for the soul of…
An intrepid contingent of carollers braved the rain to serenade passers-by at the Vancouver Art Gallery on Wednesday evening (December 23). Most were members of St. Peter’s Fireside, which meets right next to the Art Gallery at UBC Robson Square.…
“This place saved my life, literally,” says Jeff Parsons. “I look back sometimes and wonder, ‘Where would I be today?’ Possibly dead . . . Union Gospel Mission (UGM) gave me an opportunity to look at life differently. It gave…
When Grayson Bain spoke recently at the Vancouver Tea Festival, he described how he and the JusTea team in Vancouver are creating partnerships with Kenyan tea farmers which will allow those farmers and their families to retain the value of…