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 →
Justice, News
Proposed Trinity Western law school will highlight mediation and reconciliaton
by Lloyd Mackey • • 0 Comments
Deans of several law schools across Canada have maintained that Trinity Western University’s faith-based community covenant asking students to commit themselves to certain behavioural standards is discriminatory, particularly toward LGBT people. Janet Epp Buckingham, a lawyer and director of Trinity’s… Read more →
Books, City, Culture
Telling the story of the Church in Abbotsford
by Jim Coggins • • 1 Comment
Abbotsford has often been described as the Bible Belt. Novelist Caroline Adderson said in Sitting Practice that there are “more churches per capita” and more people who use the Bible as a weapon to “slam down hard across a child’s knuckles… Read more →
Books, Culture, News
HarperCollins would like your personal Footprints stories
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
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 →
Culture, News
Heavenly days for early music enthusiasts
by Flyn Ritchie • • 0 Comments
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 →