Police are looking for some young people after dozens of headstones and memorials were damaged at a cemetery in south Vancouver. A passerby called in the destruction shortly before 7 a.m. at the city's oldest cemetery, Mountain View. Officers arrived to find empty beer cans and bottles littered about the predominantly Jewish and Asian areas of the … [Read more...]
Census: BC has oldest population in Western Canada
May 29, 2012 by
As the average age in Canada gets older, the numbers for British Columbia show this province has more old people than anywhere else in Western Canada. Out of all of the provinces located west of Quebec, British Columbia had the highest share of seniors in 2011, ranking BC sixth in Canada." Andre Lebel with Statistics Canada says Metro Vancouver is … [Read more...]
Vancouver’s oldest cultural institutions honoured with free film screening
March 18, 2012 by
Vancouver’s most enduring cultural institutions are being honoured Sunday night with a free downtown screening of the classic Charlie Chaplin film “The Circus.” The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) decided to fête private purveyors of books, music, art, and movies that have been around for 25 years or more, just in time for a slough of … [Read more...]
