The BC Leadership Prayer Breakfast is always a stirring event, but there was something special in the air this year. Around a thousand people assembled at the Hyatt Regency June 9 for the 56th annual prayer breakfast, There were, as…
Four years ago Jonathan Bird and I posted a series on the neighbourhoods of Vancouver. We are offering them again, with demographics from the latest national census and some other updates. Kitsilano is a lively and storied neighbourhood, stretching along…
Kitsilano is a lively and storied neighbourhood, stretching along the flat lowlands of English Bay and straddling the hill sloping down to Kits Beach – which was already a major summer camping destination for West End residents by the beginning…
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…