Angela Failler is an expert in the stories we don’t tell. For well over a decade the Canada Research Chair in culture and public memory and director of the centre for research in cultural studies (CRiCS) at the University of Winnipeg has focused her…

Simply called Frog, the statue was originally built in 1971 by a professor and a group of his students.

During her final year of graduate studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Olga Belokon faced a terrible choice: pay tuition or eat. An international student from Russia, she’d been surprised by the high cost of living in Vancouver when…

The first time I remember seeing a mansion, I was headed to the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg with a friend assigned to me by a charity that paired adults with poor kids whose parents needed a break. I turned to this nice middle-class woman, who…

The historic neighbourhood of Yaletown, with its rows of warehouses converted into swanky boutiques and high-end restaurants, might be synonymous with luxury in the minds of Vancouverites, but there’s a surprising amount of variety within a short…

Vancouver has changed a lot over the past decade. Nowhere is this more visible than in the former warehousing district that is now Olympic Village, where a new tower seems to appear every day. Built in 2018, Allied’s 2233 Columbia Street may be part…

News The program hopes to create an environment that is safe and effective for the use of psychedelics. Post a comment In these times of widespread anxiety and depression, the traditional therapeutic toolbox can sometimes seem frustratingly limited.…

News The Earthquake Engineering Research Facility is studying the dangers of seismic instability. Post a comment In a time when disasters seem to be a daily occurrence, it can be hard to look beyond the challenges at hand. But in places that are…

Erika Thorkelson's "Me and Bridget Jones (20 Years Later)" is one of the essays in Midlife, which is a giveaway right now! Written and published during COVID quarantine, Midlife features the collected works of former members of the Gateway, the…

In the days following the shutdown, muscular bodies filled my neighbourhood park. People crab-walked across the cricket pitch, lifted enormous kettlebell weights in the grass, and turned the cages of the small baseball diamonds into chin-up bars.…

Every tuesday night at a Vancouver restaurant called The Kino, comedians take the stage to work on their routines, to practise before bringing an act somewhere bigger. For a while, The Kino’s biggest claim to fame was that, one evening a few years…

On a November evening in 2018, writers, scholars and readers pack a room in Simon Fraser University’s downtown Vancouver campus for the launch of an anthology called Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. The collection marks a moment of turmoil in our national…

“Acknowledging that [Indigenous communities] have sovereignty over the material and that it is indeed not yours is one of the key things we’re trying to promote in the work that we’re doing with the archival community.” In 1971, when Algoma…

When I was nineteen, I worked full time as a front-desk clerk in a business hotel in downtown Edmonton. This was during a period between high school and university when I was broke and couch surfing. I had no money, no parental safety net, and no…

Entertainment The hit series is the latest example of powerful and highly binge-able TV created by and about women. Television has become a better place for women. Comedies like Broad City and Parks and Recreation have made space for representations…

In his 1919 “Bauhaus Manifesto,” German architect Walter Gropius laid out his plan for the revitalization of the visual arts. He believed that the salon system of art education had grown elitist and stagnant because it had lost touch with…

Just over a week before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the US Democratic party’s nomination for New York’s Fourteenth Congressional District on June 26, many people had one question for the twenty-eight-year-old political candidate—what was the…