Icons: Sacred and Profane is the latest collection of mixed media artwork to fill the Amelia Douglas Gallery, arriving April 16. Mixing animals with cultural, religious, and biological imagery, artists Elizabeth Carefoot and Deborah Putman explore the connection that people have with animals in their works for the exhibit.
The Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) will be holding its first Daffodil Dash on April 26.
The city of Vancouver began its homelessness count for 2015 on March 26.
On March 25, Parliament passed the âRespect For Communities Act,â or Bill C-2. This amendment creates further regulations in allowing supervised drug consumption sites across the country.
Douglasâ User Network for Inset Biology in the Urban Garden (UNIBUG) will be hosting their fourth forum on April 11.
On March 31, aboriginal womenâs shelter Young Wolves Lodge closed its doors after 12 years due to lack of funding.
Last July, Amazon vice president of global public policy Paul Misener petitioned the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) of the US for an âexperimental airworthiness certificateâ for the purposes of testing Amazon Prime Air’s new automated delivery drones.
Itâs a tragic reality that discrimination still exists in our society. I donât think I really need evidence that people are treated differentlyâlooking around at the world would indicate thatâbut letâs make a short list anyways.
Our shiny rocks arenât like the other guysâ, because I said so, and I am a voice on the radio youâre constantly forced to listen to!
One day, I asked my father about the first job he ever had. The answer I got was pretty shocking. For eight hours a day, he stood sweating in front of an open furnace, shoveling piles of wastepaper into the flames. He got two 10-minute coffee breaks, and an unpaid half-hour lunch break per day.
