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…
Encompassing the historic neighbourhoods of Gastown, Victory Square, Chinatown, Oppenheimer and Strathcona – as well as the Downtown Eastside (DTES) and the emerging pocket district of Railtown – the Hastings area is by far the most richly layered and contested…
“Today after a long journey we finally welcomed our new Syrian neighbours to Canada! It was an honour to help reunite one of our neighbours with his family.” That post on the Canyon Heights Church Facebook page referred to the…
Victoria-Fraserview is an apt name for the neighbourhood which runs south down the hill on either side of Victoria Drive, from 41st Avenue to the Fraser River, between Knight Street on the west and Elliott and Vivian Streets on the…
Dr. Susanna Kokkonen, director of Christian Friends of Yad Vashem (the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem), spoke at Westwood Community Church in Coquitlam in November. Kokonnen received her PhD in Holocaust studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and now travels…
Grandview-Woodland is in the mid-northeast of Vancouver, extending from Clark Drive in the west to Nanaimo Street in the east, from Broadway in the south to Burrard Inlet in the north. Running through the centre of it is Commercial Drive,…
Arbutus Ridge is a comfortable area on the west side of Vancouver. It is bounded by Mackenzie Street on the west, Arbutus Street and Maple Crescent on the east, 16th Avenue on the north and 41st Avenue on the south.…
Oakridge is a comfortable neighbourhood in south central Vancouver best known for its pleasant single-family housing and Vancouver’s first mall, the Oakridge Shopping Centre. It is also home to the main campus of Langara College. Oakridge runs between Granville Street on the…
High-profile ethicist Dr. Margaret Somerville will be the guest speaker at the Christian Advocacy Society’s 25th annual Celebration Dinner at Bethany Baptist Church this Saturday (November 21). Karen Stiller of Faith Today magazine interviewed her earlier this year. Following is…
Renfrew-Collingwood is on the eastern border of Vancouver. Three major thoroughfares bring the bulk of the traffic into town from points east: the Lougheed Highway feeds into Broadway, the Trans-Canada Highway becomes Grandview Highway and Kingsway runs through the southern…