Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn't exaggerating when he wrote a letter to Tarlochan (Tochi) Sandhu on July 27, congratulating the director of Commercial Business Development at Envision Financial, a division of First West Credit Union (250,000 mem...
New census results released by Statistics Canada this past September indicate that a majority of Canadians saw their incomes rise in the decade from 2005 to 2015. The median income of individuals rose 12.7 per cent to $34,204 in 2015, a...
Intubating a critically ill patient, setting up a search-and-rescue tent, applying a tourniquet — it’s all in a day’s work for Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service (STARS) Air Ambulance teams. Not so much for Myrna Wiebe, COO and senior vi...
She witnessed violence, drug and alcohol abuse in her community from a young age; she became a mother of four by the age of 21. Chantel Buffalo had to grow up fast. Buffalo spent years working in manufacturing and construction after dropp...
Arzeena Hamir chuckles wryly when asked if she romanticized farming life before she actually started living it. "Yes! And note that I gave a very evil laugh," says the owner of Vancouver Island's Amara Farm, who is one of British Columbia’s foremos...
There is a rule of thumb within the home rental sector: rent shouldn’t comprise more than 30 percent of an individual’s monthly income. In some metropolitan areas in Canada, such as Vancouver and Toronto, a number of factors have turned this stan...
There is a prophesy shared among many First Nations — the Anishinaabe call it the Eighth Fire — that foretells the dawning of a new day when all people come together in a relationship of mutual respect based on the ancient knowledge of how we are...
This past January, East Coast Credit Union (41,000 members, $677 million in assets) set the tone for 2017 and beyond by giving the green light to green power. In announcing a partnership with Bullfrog Power to buy green electricity for all of its 50 ...
Early this year, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released data indicating that 2016 was the warmest year recorded since record keeping began in 1880. The Earth is now one degree warmer than in pre-industrial times and edging ...
Vancouver’s Callister Brewing Company nurtures the next generation of craft breweries
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Shawkat Hasan was just seven years of age, living in a suburb of the ancient city of Ramla, when civil war broke out in 1947 between Jews and Arabs in British-ruled Palestine.