Vancouver
Metro Vancouver holds vigils for overdose awareness
September 8, 2017The Greater Vancouver region took part in International Overdose Awareness Day events honouring victims and fighting stigma along with other cities around the world on August 31. With an estimated minimum of 190,000 deaths due to opioid overdoses worldwide each year, the problem is demanding more immediate attention and action in many municipalities. In 2016, Vancouver saw a new level of overdoses recorded by emergency services, with nearly 6,800 overdoses that year in Vancouver alone. With fentanyl climbing the ladder of the deadliest drug, Greater Vancouver is expecting to see record-breaking numbers of fatal overdoses continuing in 2017. There were…
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Let your Fringe flag fly
September 4, 2017By: Tessa Perkins The Vancouver Fringe is an opportunity for independent theatre to shine in all its unique glory. It’s also the place to find the best one-person dramatic monologues. There are silly shows, funny shows, and serious shows. There…
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The Switch is a show that tells the stories of transgender people through humour
July 31, 2017Created by Amy Fox of Trembling Void Studios and Elizabeth Marston, The Switch is a show that seeks to represent transgender people in a way that isn’t shallow. Rather than appear as a convenient moral lesson in a show, as…
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SFU hockey players bound for the pros in China
July 24, 2017By: Aliocha Perriard-Abdoh A pair of Simon Fraser University hockey players are poised for the first puck drop of their professional hockey careers with the Kunlun Red Star team based in Beijing, China. The players Jordan Liem from Surrey and Jared…
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Professor’s work on housing crisis brings big recognition
July 10, 2017SFU professor and director of the City Program Andy Yan was recently honoured by the Planning Institute of British Columbia (PIBC) for a decade of work on housing affordability and urbanization in Vancouver. A leading expert on the province’s housing…
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Focus on ecosystems helps cities fight climate change, study finds
July 10, 2017A recent study from a Simon Fraser University think tank demonstrates that cities can achieve better value in restoring urban ecosystems over building additional infrastructure in the fight against climate change. The Adaptation to Climate Change Team, which is based…
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Food trucks, glorious food trucks!
July 4, 2017By: Anindita Gupta Summer in Vancouver could be defined as an extended stretch of time with little or no rain. And when it’s sunny, you can’t stay home! You could, but wouldn’t you rather be out, discovering the city you live…
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Policing our outdoor activities so isn’t chill, dude
June 19, 2017I never thought that something as simple as yoga would be banned from public parks. Let me first say that I love Vancouver. I love the blend of city and nature, and the amount of green space in this city…
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SFU students develop app to ease parking in cities
June 12, 2017Finding a parking space is a common challenge for drivers in urban centres such as Vancouver, where the cost of parking is high and sometimes unaffordable for students. That’s why SFU students, Baker Al-Nakib, Thamer Matar, and alumna Tiana He…
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We need safer homeless shelters, not just more of them
May 8, 2017Right now, there are cities springing up within cities. The walls in these spaces are made of nylon and canvas rather than anything like brick, but in some ways, they’re stronger shelters than anything their predecessors have given to their…
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Simon Fraser University’s independent student newspaper since 1965.
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