Gender justice was a focus at the UN Summit on the progress of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) last week in New York. A promise was made to address the issue of female genital mutilation (FGM) ...

Naomi Klein's book This Changes Everything, synthesizes much that environmentalists have been warning about the social, environmental, political consequences of climate change. Her thesis ...

Spotify has given us the ultimate Valentine's Day playlists. The following musical collections contain soulful heavyweights, a few retro gems, and one or two sappy-sweet classics.

There was a sharp intake of breath across Vancouver when veteran journalist Laura Robinson's bombshell article about former VANOC CEO John Furlong hit the Georgia Straight last week. Robinson alleged ...

From the invention of the game of basketball in 1891 by James Naismith of Toronto to the first SCTV broadcast in Toronto in 1976, Canadians have been out and about, entertaining the world. Canadian ...

Also: stardom as David Crosby endured it, a dystopian tale and a wise dog yarn, both filmed in Vancouver, and two more that I haven’t seen ...

Being sued for defamation by the fish farm industry has not deterred one prominent environmental activist, who vows to continue his fight. Commission into Fraser River salmon collapse hears a variant ...

As Czech, French, and US planes flew into Japan today to evacuate nationals, Canada sent buses to take Canadians away from radiation-threatened areas in northeastern Japan. But Canada has stopped ...

Compared to overcoming his personal struggles, Michael Desrochers of PainPRO Therapeutics thinks building a million dollar health and wellness business is actually easy. How did serial entrepreneurs ...

As a host of a local music radio program and as the emcee of a music night at Trees Coffee House I hear from a lot of musicians who are frustrated with Vancouver's music scene. They cite many issues ...

An interview with Vancouver filmmaker Jordan Paterson is like a fast read of a complex and engaging history book that includes critical political asides and thoughtful analysis. Like most documentary ...

I have just returned to Vancouver Island from Greek refugee camps where I met a Yazidi man named Jason who told me about his escape from ISIS in Iraq. His story begins on a desert road where a ...