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News Features

UBC Faculty of Education nurtures cultural identity of Indigenous students seeking to become teachers

“There is research that suggests when Indigenous learners are taught by Indigenous educators, they’re more likely to engage more deeply in learning and experience better outcomes," says associate dean Jan Hare.

Visual Arts Reviews

Aboriginal Australian women express the infinite at Museum of Anthropology at UBC

Subtitled “Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia”, this glorious exhibition recently landed in Vancouver after travelling to five galleries in the United States.

Arts Features

With Threnody, Vancouver Cantata Singers give voice to lost Indigenous women

Kristi Lane Sinclair's song reminds us of killing that's happening right here at home.

Straight Talk

Vancouver park board chair apologizes to First Nations for remarks about Stanley Park

Park board chair Stuart Mackinnon had been commenting on his motion to recognize Indigenous names for local parks and beaches.

Arts Notes

The Museum of Anthropology's Great Hall readies for massive seismic upgrades

While hall is closed, Shake Up exhibit explores the process and totem poles see restoration.

Straight Talk

Missing persons update: 31-year-old Surrey woman located, but 31-year-old Yukon man found dead

Surrey RCMP have provided updates on two separate cases of missing people.

Arts Features

Dana Claxton celebrates major Vancouver Art Gallery survey Fringing the Cube

She reacts with delight at the sight of her recently uncrated works, shipped from public and private collections across the continent.

Arts Notes

B.C. artist Brian Jungen, filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal to discuss Anthropocene at Art Gallery of Ontario event

Anthropocene is the proposed name for the current geological era in which humans have significantly impacted the Earth.

Straight Talk

Missing person: RCMP seek to locate Surrey woman last seen one week ago

Shenya McNabb may be in the Surrey area but she is also known to frequent Vancouver.

Commentary

Vancouver park board election ensures reconciliation efforts will continue with local First Nations

It was a very good election for Green commissioner Stuart Mackinnon as he won more votes than any other candidate seeking to become a guardian of the city's green spaces.

Municipal Election

Independent Vancouver council candidate Wade Grant endorsed by Chief Robert Joseph

Grant is hoping to become the first Indigenous person ever elected to Vancouver city council.

Commentary

Troy Hunter: I'm a candidate for New Westminster city council; here is what diversity means to me

The independent candidate says it's time to open the arms of inclusion to people of colour, the blind or deaf, the disabled, immigrants, people of different faiths and beliefs, and Indigenous peoples.