Coquitlam RCMP have still not located the gunman who shot a man near Coquitlam Centre on May 22. The crime took place just after 3 p.m. in the mall’s parking lot, where a Heart and Stroke fundraiser was taking place.
Mike McPhee, a member of the Geography department at Douglas College, is currently working with geography students to piece together information on the long-covered waterways that existed on the New Westminster hillside.
Metro Vancouver has launched a new food waste campaign called “Love Food, Hate Waste,” in response to large amounts of still edible food being deposited into food waste bins. The program began in the UK and cut down food waste 21 per cent over five years.
The proposed Site C Dam, which would be the third dam built on the Peace River in the Peace Valley region of BC, has been a matter of controversy for many years.
On April 21, students and faculty from 22 Canadian post-secondary institutions joined experts for the Inter-University Conversation on Sexual Assault Prevention at UBC’s Liu Institute.
New Westminster’s River Market has a new tenant: the Douglas College Maker Lab. Located on the second floor with a full view of the Vancouver Circus School, the lab, which is a makerspace, bridges the college with the community to share in curiosity and a love of technology.
The Canadian government has recently revealed its 2015 Federal Budget, which includes significant changes to the Canada Student Loan and Canada Student Grant programs for 2016–17. These changes will make it easier for both current and prospective students to attend post-secondary institutions.
The recently released Statistics Canada report on Canadian life satisfaction, “How’s Life in the City? Life Satisfaction across Census Metropolitan Areas and Economic Regions in Canada,” has found that Vancouverites have the lowest self-reported average life satisfaction
Starting this month, students at Douglas College will be replacing their paper U-Pass BC passes with Compass Cards as part of wave three of the Compass Card U-Pass rollout.
