Category: Editorial

I was interviewed the other day and among the questions were two that spoke to the issue of identity. The questions struck me as...

When I took over as English editor of The Bulletin almost 19 years ago in the fall of 1993 my mother Fumiko Greenaway was...

Regular (and discerning) Bulletin readers will notice an unusual heft to this issue. While some of this can be attributed to some weighty content,...

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.

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...

beneath bare branches bagpipe and bugle, forlorn bracket the silence half circle of faces hands in pockets, cenotaph stands at attention scattering of red...

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...

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...

This year the Powell Street Festival celebrates its 35th Anniversary. Given the fact that Vancouver is marking its 125th Anniversary this year, it may...

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

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

In 1945 Hugh MacLennan wrote a novel, Two Solitudes, whose protagonist, a fictional character named Paul Tallard, struggles to reconcile the differences between his...