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Arts

At Vancouver Fashion Week, Ay Lelum marks 10 years as the runway embraces global and Indigenous design

Vancouver Fashion Week returns on April 8 with designers from 10 countries, reflecting the global diversity that founder Jamal Abdourahman says defines the city. This season also features a moving design and music retrospective from Coast Salish fashion house Ay Lelum, blending fashion, family and cultural resurgence.

Gastown

Oku Izakaya is Japanese food, and hospitality, at its finest

If you can't go to Japan, then Oku is the next best thing

Food Security

Food Stash Foundation rescues grocery store waste to feed Vancouver families

The organization is helping fill a need in the city as grocery prices skyrocket. But like many other charities, they're dealing with their own challenges

Grocery Store

"This keeps them alive": Locals fight to preserve Sunrise Market

Community members and customers from Sunrise Market joined a community meeting to speak out about the need for the local community grocer in the neighbourhood

Music

Take Your Time Back and the fight for Vancouver community music venues

Independent music vanues, once the lifeblood of Vancouver's music scene, are suffering, and there is no easy solution

Sandwich Safari

At Mimi’s Focaccia, bread brings people together

Focaccia serves as a blank canvas for founder Emily Jette's creativity, and as a way to build community

City Hall

Frances Bula on city-building, development and moving from journalism to civic politics

The popular civic journalist is making the jump from writing stories to being part of them as she seeks the nomination for city councillor with OneCity

City Hall

“I like being a politician of the people”: Pete Fry’s quest to become Vancouver’s next mayor

The Green Party councillor discusses his life, how he would approach being mayor of Vancouver and the potential for progressives to band together in the upcoming municipal election

Mount Pleasant

40 years later, the Mount Pleasant clock still marks a neighbourhood in flux

The corner of Kingsway and Main is under strain. How will it look in the coming years?