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For those Vancouverites still waiting for the cows to come home, today they did. Right into downtown Vancouver. About 50 farmers - and two penned calves - from the Fraser Valley brought their concerns ...
She promoted the bikini and blue jeans, 60s pop music and style. Diana Vreeland is fêted in a lively new documentary.
The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a film about a young girl who discovers she was adopted and fantasizes that Dolly Parton is her mother. The film is based in the mid seventies. Director Tara Johns ...
Despite the fact that London, UK-based indie rock/pop group Bastille debuted their first album less than a year ago, devoted local fans gave the band an intense welcome at the Commodore Ballroom last ...
Last year, Canada was ranked the word's best G20 country for women (India placed last) supposedly for its fair treatment of women. But the recent suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons, a Nova Scotia teen rape ...
On Wednesday, Conservative Minister of Finance Joe Oliver said the 2015 Federal budget will be balanced or he and the rest of the cabinet will take a five-percent pay cut. With budget day less than ...
The last time composer Philip Glass played the Chan Centre for Performing Arts at UBC was in 2004. Glass, still composing and performing at age 73, says: "Why stop now?" Glass began his April 5th, ...
A few years ago, Johan Fast, a Manitoba-based trucker, heard through word of mouth to his mother that if he wanted to retain his citizenship, he would have to send in a long list of documents to the ...
After launching more than 30 online communities through the Social Signal Company with her partner, stand-up comic and cartoonist Rob Cottingham, Alexandra Samuel recently became the director of Emily ...
The proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (also known as the Kinder Morgan pipeline) is a controversial issue in British Columbia. This information page provides a brief background and ...
“You’d be hard-pressed to find an Indigenous person who hasn’t experienced that kind of loss and that kind of grief. We all know someone who has been murdered. We all know someone who has been removed ...
After years of relentless reporting by the Vancouver Observer, it looks like the Canadian Citizenship Act is finally going to change. Jackie Scott's court case could become as definitive to Canadian ...