Editorial Archive

  • This month we say goodbye to Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2nd in Edmonton at the age of 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. I met Gordon only once, briefly. It was back in the late eighties, and I was travelling through Edmonton with Kokoro Dance, a dance company co-founded by Gordon’s son Jay.

    Lives not lost, but remembered

    Posted on January 13, 2012 | No Comments
    This month we say goodbye to Gordon Hirabayashi, who passed away on January 2nd in Edmonton at the age of 93 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s. I met Gordon only once, briefly. It was back in the late eighties, and I was travelling through Edmonton with Kokoro Dance, a dance company co-founded by Gordon’s son Jay.

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  • As the year of the dragon prepares to pounce on an unsuspecting world, we look back in this issue of The Bulletin—not over the past year, but over the past...

    Looking back / looking forward

    Posted on November 30, 2011 | No Comments
    As the year of the dragon prepares to pounce on an unsuspecting world, we look back in this issue of The Bulletin—not over the past year, but over the past...

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  • beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red poppies, laid gently to rest on...

    3 [ haiku to remember

    Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
    beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red poppies, laid gently to rest on...

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  • Kirsten McAllister, this month’s community profile subject, has spent much of her adult life exploring the landscape, or terrain, of memory. It’s not always a benign or easily navigable landscape,...

    Editorial

    Posted on October 3, 2011 | No Comments
    Kirsten McAllister, this month’s community profile subject, has spent much of her adult life exploring the landscape, or terrain, of memory. It’s not always a benign or easily navigable landscape,...

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  • Shorter days, longer nights The other day a brand new reusable lunch bag appeared on our kitchen counter. Despite the fact that it’s an attractive  piece of minimalist architecture, I...

    Editorial

    Posted on September 3, 2011 | No Comments
    Shorter days, longer nights The other day a brand new reusable lunch bag appeared on our kitchen counter. Despite the fact that it’s an attractive  piece of minimalist architecture, I...

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  • This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may not seem like such a great...

    Editorial

    Posted on August 1, 2011 | No Comments
    This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may not seem like such a great...

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  • I know people who have a strong emotional attachment to their childhood home. It was the place where they were born and raised; the place where they went to school,...

    Walking Powell Street

    Posted on July 28, 2011 | No Comments
    I know people who have a strong emotional attachment to their childhood home. It was the place where they were born and raised; the place where they went to school,...

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  • When our two girls were in elementary school, I walked them to school every day and felt pretty connected to the school culture. Even through middle school, I felt like...

    The inter-racial divide

    Posted on June 9, 2011 | No Comments
    When our two girls were in elementary school, I walked them to school every day and felt pretty connected to the school culture. Even through middle school, I felt like...

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  • In 1945 Hugh MacLennan wrote a novel, Two Solitudes, whose protagonist, a fictional character named Paul Tallard, struggles to reconcile the differences between his English and French Canadian identities. The...

    Forging new bonds

    Posted on May 17, 2011 | No Comments
    In 1945 Hugh MacLennan wrote a novel, Two Solitudes, whose protagonist, a fictional character named Paul Tallard, struggles to reconcile the differences between his English and French Canadian identities. The...

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  • When American poet Gil Scott-Heron wrote The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in 1970 the internet was barely past its theoretical phase and would not enter widespread use for another...

    Editorial: Living “Ganbare”

    Posted on April 13, 2011 | No Comments
    When American poet Gil Scott-Heron wrote The Revolution Will Not Be Televised in 1970 the internet was barely past its theoretical phase and would not enter widespread use for another...

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  • First, some statistics courtesy of the Canadian Cancer Society: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). In 2010: • An estimated 23,200 women...

    Editorial: The New Normal

    Posted on March 9, 2011 | No Comments
    First, some statistics courtesy of the Canadian Cancer Society: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Canadian women (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer). In 2010: • An estimated 23,200 women...

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  • Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese Proverb Ah, those ancient Chinese proverbs . . . As a parent of...

    Editorial

    Posted on February 18, 2011 | No Comments
    Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese Proverb Ah, those ancient Chinese proverbs . . . As a parent of...

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