Next Tuesday (April 4), Metro Vancouver Alliance (MVA) will host a Provincial Election Accountability Assembly at the Italian Cultural Centre. The MVA has invited the three provincial party leaders to address its delegates. Thus far, John Horgan, NDP, and Andrew Weaver,…
Rev. Vivian Lam and many of her parishioners from St. Matthias and St. Luke Anglican Church in Oakridge attended the Vancouver Whitecaps Faith and Family Night at BC Place July 9. According to a report on the Diocese of New…
Several former members of the Trinity Western University (TWU) Spartans volleyball team look set to participate in Rio 2016 Olympic Games later this summer. Alumni Steven Marshall, Dan Jansen Van Doorn and Rudy Verhoeff are all members of the Canadian…
Last Thursday (June 30) Grandview Calvary Baptist Church hosted a ground-breaking event for the Co:Here Housing Community project – a four-storey, affordable housing complex with 26 self-contained units. Following several short talks, participants walked one block east along 1st Avenue…
The Colour Collective is a group of artists overcoming disabilities through their artwork. In The View from Here, at Lookout Gallery, the artists “use landscape paintings to define and understand their world.” Painting instructor for the Colour Collective Deidre Blackmore…
A couple of years ago, neighbours reacted vigorously against the city’s Grandview-Woodland Community Plan which, in their view, involved too little consultation and proposed too much density and too many high buildings, especially near the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain Station. After extensive…
The Welcome Centre is open, and it in turn has been welcomed by its closest neighbour, First Christian Reformed Church of Vancouver, on Victoria Drive at 10th Avenue, near the Commercial-Broadway SkyTrain station. Operated by Immigrant Services Society of BC…
A part-time anthropology instructor at Trinity Western University, Claudia Launhardt has thought a great deal about her purpose as a professor, and it’s not just to impart knowledge. “My mandate is to equip students for the world,” she says. Anthropology…
With the redevelopment of the Central Presbyterian Church site at Thurlow and Pendrell streets in the West End finally underway, Rev. Jim Smith – who’s been shepherding this project since its inception six years ago – can finally breathe a…
Shaughnessy is a very expensive residential neighbourhood in the west-central part of the city. It is bordered by 16th Avenue to the north, 41st Avenue to the south, Arbutus Street / West Boulevard to the west and Oak Street to…