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Videographer and journalist from Vancouver, B.C.
In West Africa, hundreds of people with mental illness live in awful conditions. One organization is fighting for a new approach to treatment. This video was supported by The Global Reporting Centre.
According to the 2001 census, 50 percent of aboriginal respondents in Canada highly value both traditional Native spirituality and Christianity. Barnetson is one of them. She practices a style of Christianity known as contextualization, which attaches biblical meaning to traditional ceremonies and practices.
Roots & Ties is a monthly event on the Cheam First Nation in B.C where foster children return to the community for a visit with extended family and to take part in cultural events. Aboriginal children make up 52 percent of children in care, while representing just eight percent of children in B.C.
A new smartphone app for monitoring skin cancer made its debut at the World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver on Tuesday. Maryam Sadeghi, director of the Digital Health Hub, designed the MoleScope app and device during her PhD research at Simon Fraser University.
Judging aboriginal people by their skin colour - whether light or dark - is wrong, asserted an indigenous Australian broadcast journalist in a public talk last week at the University of British Columbia. "Australia has this obsession with colour and still does. It started quite early in colonization days," said Michelle AleksandrovicsLovegrove.
Vancouver for sale: an intersection of two hot button election issues.
Imagine if medical research and clinical drug tests could be done on artificially grown organs on microchips to save time, costs, and ease ethical concerns? That's the dream of James Feng, a professor in biological and chemical engineering at UBC. "The potential is tremendous," says Feng.
Jun 03, 2014: The new Radio 3 Musical City Guide series asks your favourite Canadian indie artists to reveal the hidden gems and beloved places …
More low-rent mansion collectives? Vancouver's got 'em.
A 19-year-old Vancouver artist is relieved and empowered after winning an international legal battle when one of her photos was adapted for use in an anti-Islam campaign by...