The Intersection of Faith and Culture
By national law, each and every coin in Canada is inscribed with the cryptic cipher, “D.G. Regina.” Fully expanded, the phrase is Dei Gratia Regina, or, to translate from the original Latin, “By God’s Grace, the Queen.” It’s a centuries-old expression of monarchical justification that the state spouts to this day; the […]
I once had a classmate in one of my English Lit classes who claimed his favourite book was To Kill a Mockingbird. I know for a lot of people this novel was required reading in high school, but rarely do people say that this book is their definitive favourite. If […]
On Wednesday June 15, Vancouver experienced something that it had sadly experienced before: a large-scale riot following the defeat of the home-town hockey team. Many references were made to the 1994 riot which followed the Canucks loss to the New York Rangers. The 2011 riot showed us the worst possible […]
A run-down Catholic church with diminishing attendance may have been given new life by German graffiti artist Stefan Strumbel, who has given new life to the bleak interior; not without controversy, of-course.
Whether we like it or not, social media infiltrates a lot of what we do on a daily basis. Last night as we experienced the excruciating defeat of our Canucks social media sites like twitter and Facebook were ablaze. Mostly people were condemning the riot acts and were expressing their […]
Drunken Canuck fans left a black mark on Vancouver’s world-class cityscape last night after the Vancouver Canucks lost the final run for the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins. Devastated fans poured out in thousands from the downtown core to go soothe their shattered dreams while the rest, tens of thousands of […]
