How appropriate. Canada will be celebrating its 150 th birthday this year and the Cinematheque has a gift for you. They’ll let you see many of our country’s best films for free. Some 150 will be ...

Impending logging on BC’s pristine Cortes Island is becoming a hot topic this week, with increasing media attention around the issue and a petition to protect the forests now boasting over 4,700 ...

The Nutcracker is perhaps the most popular ballet in the world. Based upon the turnout and the crowd’s response of last night’s performance of Alberta Ballet’s The Nutcracker it’s not hard to see this ...

I met Ron McGrath at the A&W by Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver. It was still dark when we sat down to have breakfast. I couldn't tell right away that he was homeless. His many layers of clothing ...

Great work by Jeff Bridges and lesser efforts by Denzel Washington, Jackie Chan and Peter Jackson arrive in theatres today. (Read more) ...

Economists are panning the British Columbia government's recent pledge to help first-time homebuyers get into the housing market by pitching in for the down payment. Experts say the policy could end ...

The Head and the Heart currently on their Signs of Light World tour made a stop in Vancouver. The band hails from Seattle, Washington, a city known for its first-rate music scene and its abundance of ...

The National Energy Board issued a report recommending the approval of the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline today at a media lock-up event in Calgary. The pipeline was approved with ...

For three years running, Michele Morin, a teacher at Gleneagle Secondary in Coquitlam, has challenged her entrepreneurship class to raise money for the Passion Foundation. Her classes learn about the ...

Speaking with those in Paris during the attacks and a friend from the Middle East — give human context to a terrible event.

Environmental activist and author Tzeporah Berman told a group of citizen advocates on Burnaby Mountain on Tuesday that they were helping to make history by showing up to oppose the proposed Kinder ...

One evening in December, the phone rang. The night had consumed the last remnant of daylight. I had just emailed The Vancouver Observer's Black Rock Oceanfront Resort contest winner about the ...