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Los Olvidados – The forgotten street children of Mexico City
Los OlvidadosThe forgotten street children of Mexico City The boys are watching soccer on their big-screen television It was a little late to be having second thoughts. At 31,000 feet. I would arrive in Mexico City in less than an hour and, what had seemed like a good idea a couple of months ago, suddenly […]
Magnificent Metamorphosis: Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly…
Magnificient Metamorphosis “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” – Chuang Tzu Stenberg’s Community Mental Health and Addictions Worker program was designed, in part, to accommodate students with “lived experience,” those who have experienced mental health and/or addiction issues in their own lives. The program not only offers support […]
Cinderella Redux
Cinderella Redux “I don’t tell this story out loud because it’s not much of a story. No plot. No neat ending. No clever turns of phrase. And because I always end up weeping. Not for … [others]. But for myself. And for the world I’ve helped to create. A world in which I allow my […]
The Village People: Staying Alive at the Commodore
The Village People: Staying Alive at the Commodore Contrary to popular misconception, Disco didn’t die. It just rid itself of some of its glittered excess (platform shoes, mirror balls, and Donna Summer), dimmed the lights and changed its name to “house music.” Which is why, I presume, CITR 101.9FM, UBC’s alternative radio station, co-sponsored The […]
BCIT Evicts WIldlife
BCIT Evicts Wildlife Is Guichon Creek Project really “upgrading”? “Whatever befalls the earth befalls the children of the earth. If human beings spit on the earth, they spit on themselves. This we know: the Earth does not belong to humankind. Humankind belongs to the Earth.” – Chief Seattle, Duamish Tribe (1851) They are paving paradise. […]
An Interview with The West End Girls
An Interview with The West End Girls A&M Records says: “they are talented, they are young and they are gorgeous—they are Camille [Henderson], Silvana [Petrozzi], and Aimee [Mackenzie]—they are the West End Girls. I would add that they are Canadian and they are genuine. We interviewed The Girls in May, 1991. Link: You’re used to being […]
BCIT’s Dress Code and Jack Smugler Exposed
BCIT’s Dress Code andJack Smugler Exposed 1972–Richard Nixon, Paul Henderson, and Jack Smugler. To some, it might seem absurd to lump Jack in with such company. (I suspect that Jack would bristle at the thought of being compared to Nixon). No, Jack didn’t win Presidential re-election by a landslide nor did he score a game-winning […]
Life in a Ghost Town: The Story of Sandon has been long, colourful and often stormy. But if the Sandon Historical Society has its way, the tale’s not over yet.
Life in a Ghost Town Photographs courtesy of Sandon Historical Society The Story of Sandon has been long, colourful and often stormy. But if the Sandon Historical Society has its way, the tale’s not over yet. To some, R.T. Lowery’s observation that “silver, lead and hell … [were] raised in the Slocan” would seem a […]
