The Burnaby Heights Merchants Association is known for its engagement with the community, especially with the annual Hats Off Day festival (which I have sponsored for the last few years). Now they’re hosting a contest called “Park It Where Your Heart Is” to highlight 20 free parking lots along the Heights and the 350 businesses […]

Canstruction Vancouver is on now in two locations in downtown Vancouver featuring 22 sculptures made entirely of canned food. Teams of designers, engineers, architects, students and businesses have put together these creations made of thousands of cans, packages, pouches, and bags that contain food that will be donated to the Vancouver Food Bank when the […]

Listed on Heritage Vancouver’s Top 10 List of Endangered Sites in 2012, the Main Post Office has definitely come into the spotlight over the last year. The massive building in downtown Vancouver, between Georgia and Dunsmuir, Homer and Hamilton was recently sold, moving Canada Post operations to a main processing plant in Richmond by 2014. […]

It’s a new tradition: The first day of spring in Vancouver means that you can take part in a public pogo bounce challenge in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery and raise funds for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society. The annual Boink Day – “Boinking For a Cause” campaign returns on Wednesday, March 20, […]

Surrey Librairies are ramping up programing for teens over Spring Break including a week of free movie screenings: City Centre Library – Photo credit: colink. on Flickr Captain America: The First Avenger Rated PG Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from 1:30pm to 3:30pm Newton Library, meeting room Rise of the Guardians Rated G Wednesday, March 20, […]