Searching for sustainable solutions to food insecurity on campusDuring 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… Mar 01 23March 01, 2023Article at University Affairs
The Comedy Culture WarEvery 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… May 25 20May 25, 2020Article at The Walrus
Setting the CanLit canon on fireOn 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… Mar 06 20March 06, 2020Article at University Affairs
Archives are adapting to an era of digitization and decolonization“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… Sep 18 19September 18, 2019Article at University Affairs
The Language of ProfitPhotography by Naveen Naqvi Private language schools have always struggled to balance educational needs with profit. Erika Thorkelson investigates how these tensions boiled over at one Vancouver school, leaving students and teachers out on the… May 23 17May 23, 2017Article at Maisonneuve
