Tag Archives: Vancouver

This will be worth an outing

Posted on March 18, 2026 by Robert Basil

I don’t want to miss this. Unsurprisingly, I could not find any list of distributors, tables, events, etc., anywhere. It will be a surprise! — Addendum:

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“Managing Access”

Posted on February 5, 2026 by Robert Basil

The ways Vancouver’s authorities typically address the city’s Downtown Eastside neighbourhood lie on the continuum connecting problematic to harmful. Jamming up the media is commonplace: An inquiry by B.C.’s Office of the Human Rights Commissioner has found that news media … Continue reading →

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Prime marketing space!

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Robert Basil

“The Inukshuk is my friend.” The Invictus Games are coming to Vancouver and Whistler in February. It will be the first time winter sports events will be featured “in addition to the core Invictus Games sports of indoor rowing, sitting … Continue reading →

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Election Day in B.C.

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Robert Basil

And it’s an “atmospheric river” event in Vancouver. Timing!

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Posted on September 20, 2023 by Robert Basil

Vancouver – straight up. Near W. Georgia and Seymour streets.

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Heroines Revisited

Posted on November 11, 2021 by Robert Basil

I saw the first photographs from Lincoln Clarkes’ monumental series “Heroines” the day after his initial exhibition closed. That was the day I met Lincoln as well. The curator at Vancouver’s Helen Pitt Gallery hadn’t taken the show down yet, … Continue reading →

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Continued enchantment

Posted on October 10, 2020 by Robert Basil

I’ve lived in Vancouver for almost 25 years and I’ve never, not for one moment, gotten over my luck. Recently, finally, I found an easy way to convey my continued enchantment to people:

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Vancouver histories

Posted on November 30, 2019 by Robert Basil

I am much enjoying rereading “Vancouver Special,” a funny but unsparing collection of essays written by local writer and comic Charles Demers and published by Arsenal Pulp Press (with photographs by Emmanuel Buenviaje). A note in his chapter on the … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 30, 2019 by Robert Basil
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The Cannabis Curriculum

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Robert Basil

From my visionary university.

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