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Around Town: Waiting for Pope Francis, UBC’s Papal Bull, Neighbourhood Grants

by Flyn Ritchie • March 19, 2015 • 0 Comments

A group of local citizens has invited Pope Francis to visit Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside; now it’s just a matter of waiting to see whether he will come. The interfaith group which sent the pope a letter includes Roman Catholic, United,…

Vancouver authors: A final look at books for Christmas

by Flyn Ritchie • December 18, 2013 • 2 Comments

Originally I’d intended to devote a couple of short articles to locally-written books, in the hopes that a few of those books would find their way under Vancouver Christmas trees (here are parts one and two). But as I started…