Tweet Vancouver has been selected to host a major international cycling conference. It’s only the second time the European Cycling Federation has selected a non-European city. “Our goal is to shine a spotlight on what our city is doing around cycling and best practices, and to also learn from many cities around the world,” says [...]

Tweet You might expect to see the words “based on a true story” on a poster for a new book, film or TV series. But an opera? That’s supposed to be where the Earth opens up to swallow Don Giovanni or Faust into Hell, or where pirates do pirouettes on the poop deck. Lillian Alling, [...]

Tweet With major apparel corporations such as Walmart and Target getting on the sustainability train, there is little doubt that the environmentally conscious fashion movement is on the cusp of becoming mainstream, Eco Fashion Week CEO Myriam Laroche says as she prepares to launch what she bills as Canada’s premier eco-fashion week. “It’s the new [...]

Tweet Frustrated hotel workers will try to turn guests away from the Hyatt Regency Vancouver on Tuesday. Hyatt workers plan to gather in front of the hotel at 655 Burrard Street at noon, calling for a boycott to pressure management over an ongoing contract dispute. According to boycott organizers, the labour action at the Hyatt [...]

Tweet Sailors from around the globe will be in Vancouver this week to participate in the 20th annual Mobility Cup, an international regatta for disabled sailors. The event was founded in Vancouver by Sam Sullivan after the Man in Motion World Tour’s Rick Hansen gave him an adaptive sailboat. Hansen had received the boat from [...]

Tweet They’ve been training hard, and now comes the test of whether it was worth it. Starting at 7 a.m. Saturday, more than 4,000 keen cyclists will ride from downtown Vancouver north through Squamish and on to Whistler. The inaugural RBC GranFondo course — Italian for “big ride” — is 120 kilometres of pure hell, [...]

Tweet The 2010 Vancouver International Fringe Festival kicks off Thursday afternoon and, for 11 days, fans will flock to Granville Island and its environs to plant their bums, briefly. Fringe shows never last for much more than an hour and venues vary wildly, so those in the know know it’s smart to carry something to [...]

Tweet Despite the launch of a street-food pilot project, Vancouver has a long way to go before soup stalls and roadside fried chicken venders are as common as they are in Taipei. “In Taiwan, street food is really street food,” says Ruby Chou, a UBC student who calls both Vancouver and Nantou City in central [...]

Tweet Justin Cronin, Karl Marlantes, Paul Harding, David Mitchell and Paolo Giordano are five stars who’ll appear at the Vancouver International Writers Festival this fall. Cronin wrote The Passage, a 784-page vampire thriller about which Victoria critic Robert J. Wiersema said: “I can’t think of a single person, or type of reader, who won’t like [...]

Tweet A lot can happen to a city in 100 years, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try to boil the very best of it down into one extravagant parade. At least that’s what the organizers of Friday night’s PNE 100th Anniversary Parade say they are attempting to do. With over 5,000 cast members, a [...]