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Studio notes: a painting dream

In the dream, I sit in front of a large painting of two irregular rectangular shapes.

The True Heroines: Naked launch at the Rio

Real Vancouver Housewives, eat your heart out.

When influenza takes over

Flu is the thing we hope to avoid each winter, and whose vaccine we either get or don’t depending upon our opinions.

The Egyptian revolution: Hisham El-Gamal on the challenges of maintaining hope

As we near the revolution’s second anniversary this Friday, El-Gamal says there is a “sense of gloom [in Cairo]."

The Egyptian revolution: activist Nadeem Abdel-Gawad reflects on Egypt today

Last year, Nadeem Abdel-Gawad was preparing to graduate from the American University in Cairo. He was also about to return to Tahrir Square for the first anniversary of Egypt’s revolution. “Either we...

Through the Portal: so this is 2013!

The end of the Mayan Calendar found me standing before a huge metal hoop strung with a rope border—a Dream Catcher with a big hole in it.

How to make the most of the end of the world or Christmas, whichever comes first

No matter where we find ourselves at the end of the Mayan Calendar, chances are we’ll be muddling through Christmas again this year.

St. Paul’s Anglican Church: prayer and advocacy in Vancouver’s West End

What impressed Markus Dünzkofer most about St. Paul’s when he first arrived was “the intentionality of ministry in this community."

Vancouver Writers Festival to honour poet Patrick Lane

“A poet’s job is always to pay attention,” says Lane, “close, careful attention, using words like objects, structures on a page that change us inside emotionally.”

Why we aren't happy

The less connected we feel to our neighbors, the less engaged we are in the life of our community, the Vancouver Foundation says.
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