Valeria Velazquez // Columnist My stomach has been aching for a couple of weeks now. It began the first week I was here, but two weeks after I arrived is…
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Maple Syrup Art: A Journey in Canadian Identity (Or lack thereof)
Jason Arkell-Boles // Columnist Trying to create art that helps support ‘Canadian Identity’ can feel at once impractical and impossible. We act as if we’re independent as a nation, but…
Coast to Coast: Grief along the St. Lawrence
Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor In July, I was living on a strawberry farm in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec, where I’d signed up for a French language program. Actually, I didn’t have…
Perspectives on the Post-Postmodern: What the F*** is a Sustainable Brand Supposed to be Anyway?
Tamia Thompson // Columnist Sustainability. You’ve probably seen or heard this term used somewhere recently before. It’s the buzzword that took every clothing label by storm the last couple years….
Maple Syrup Art: Nature as Inspiration
Jason Arkell-Boles // Columnist In the age of climate change, feeling terrified for the future is the new norm. Forests burning down, cities flooding, even the sudden mothpocalypse in Vancouver—hopelessness…
Coast to Coast: An Ontarian Introduction to Prayer
Alden Wallace Mackay // Contributor The land between the Rockies and Ontario is like one vast yellow sea, so flat on the horizon you can see the sky falling with…
Back Home: Here We Go Again
Valeria Velazquez // Columnist Twenty-four hours have passed since I got home. Twenty-four hours of being back in the place my heart was longing for so long. Saying goodbye to…
Maple Syrup Art: Please Don’t Leave—Love, Vancouver’s Art Community
Jason Arkell-Boles // Columnist If you participate in the Vancouver art scene, you’ve probably heard somebody mention that they’re “moving to Montreal.” Hey, even I’m guilty of saying it. Just…
Back Home: Reasons for Returning
Valeria Velazquez // Columnist When I first came to Vancouver I thought, “This is it. This is the place I want to live in for the rest of my life.”…