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By Kristen Holliday Metro Vancouverites — showing foresight and pluck — organized volunteer groups through WeChat to help their neighbours through a time of widespread self-isolation and anxiety, according to group members. …

By Lucas Jornitz B.C. students dependent on jobs to pay tuition and living expenses are now dealing with layoffs as the global COVID-19 pandemic has shut down large parts of the economy.  According to a 2017 report from Vancity, 64…

By Safoura Rigi-Ladiz The risk of COVID-19 spreading from post-secondary students returning from outside the country should be mitigated in Canada by self-isolation measures, according to an expert.  Tom Koch, adjunct professor for…

By Ryan Ng A tuition fee increase for international students at Langara College has alarmed students like Henrik Braga. Braga, a third-year business student, thinks the price hike is reasonable but is also worried because his parents,…

By Kristen Holliday and Kristian Trevena A Change.org petition has been started to request Langara College close its doors due to the spread of COVID-19.  According to Change.org, the petition was started on March 11 by a person with…

By Safoura Rigi-Ladiz The recent motion put forward by Vancouver City Council to have prescription contraceptives covered through MSP could impact young people and students by removing emotional and financial barriers. Mairi Mallett,…

By Lucas Jornitz The media and educational institutions need to do a better job of informing the public about the reasons why people are demonstrating in support of the Wet’suwet’en, said student organizer Tanis Wilson. Wilson was an…

By Ryan Ng Local writers are gathering each week at the Historic Joy Kogawa House in Marpole to write using a technique named after a plastic tomato timer. Invented in the 1980s by Francesco Cirillo while he was a university student,…

By Safoura Rigi-Ladiz and Lucas Jornitz For some, learning to write memoirs by interviewing Indigenous elders was in the hope of gaining a greater understanding of the darker parts of Canadian history. For some of the…

By Danauca Dory Langara Kendo Club members placed at the Steveston Taikai on Feb. 8. Steveston's Taikai is one of the largest Taikai in North America, bringing together teams from B.C. to Hawaii. Kendo is a traditional Japanese…