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Team Canada’s New Olympic Hockey Jerseys To Be Unveiled Today
The new Olympic jersey design for Canada's hockey teams will be unveiled at 1 PM PST at the UBC Thunderbird Arena today. Photos of the new jersey have emerged online, but it could not be verified if the source was trustable. It is expected that the new jersey will feature a...
North Vancouver city considers plan for farms on boulevards
"UBC lab is ‘trying to create something that doesn’t exist anywhere else’ From the Victory gardens of the last century’s two world wars to the community-garden movement started in the 1970s, urban... Canadian Students Buy Sensitive US Defense Info for $40 in Ghana
A group of Canadian journalism graduate students from the University of British Columbia (UBC) were able to buy sensitive US defense information for $40CAN from a company that deals in discarded North American... PBS documentary uses UBC students to expose US security risk
The UBC School of Journalism continues to break new ground. Tonight PBS will air a documentary that features the work of the students. Led by veteran newsman Peter Klein, the students unearthed shocking... RCMP Asked to Investigate Former NDP President & Current Funders
A former secretary to two CUPE Presidents has sent a letter to the RCMP requesting that they investigate tactics to which she was subjected after blowing the whistle about CUPE Local 116 executives staffing their... Community rallies to save UBC farm
Strong community support from neighbors has saved the UBC farm. "UBC President Stephen Toope unveiled a permanent sign at the entrance to UBC Farm on UBC Vancouver’s South Campus at an April 7 celebration... Serious motorcade at UBC
A motorcade with roughly 20 police officers just drove by Stadium and SW Marine Drive near UBC. Kitsilano Farmers Market to deliver by bike
I picked up this news from the Kitsilano twitter feed. Pretty cool."Our local farmers markets are supposed to bring out the green in Vancouver residents - but with shoppers come cars. Problem partially... Practicing for peak oil
We sometimes take for granted that we drive machines that have 100,200,300 or sometimes over 500 horsepower. It's always nice to remind ourselves what this metric means and how many horses we'd have without... Dunbar / UBC area under snow
The snow fell pretty consistently over the weekend and overnight on Sunday. Right now the skies are generally clear and it doesn't look like it will be coming down anytime soon. The snow on the ground... Changes for Ubc-Area Schools
Janet Steffenhagen reports that: "I received a tip this morning that the Vancouver board of education has developed another plan for UBC-area schools. The board's communications manager, David Weir, would not give me... Peter Ladner's 40 year grudge - and the truth behind it
Rod Mickleburgh at The Globe digs into the details of Peter Ladner's history at the UBC student newspaper and discovers some interesting tidbits."Man, Peter Ladner sure holds a grudge. In this case for nearly 40 years. His bitterness at being passed over for editorship of the... NDP candidate Byers speaks out on tar sands
The candidates competing to represent downtown Vancouver faced questions rom journalism students at the UBC School of Journalism.The debate ranged from the controversial safe injection site, Insite, in the...
created by Alfred Hermida | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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198 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
Last Missing Bill Reid Artworks Recovered
As NowPublic previously reported, several artworks produced by the late Haida carver Bill Reid were stolen from the UBC Museum of Anthropology in May. Thankfully, the last of the missing pieces has now been...
created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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378 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
