Category Editorial

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 balked a bit at the $25 price tag still attached…

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 feat, but when you stop to think about it, and…

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, made friends, had their first kiss; often it’s the home…

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 I mostly knew what was going on. With both girls…

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 phrase “two solitudes” has come to define the French/English divide…

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 two decades. He surely could not have anticipated the changes…

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 will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,300 will die…