In the early 2000s, during her travels to Europe, Justina Kervel became inspired to open her own tattoo studio in Vancouver, BC. Upon her return and alongside her business partner Luvia Petersen, they embarked on […]
Laura Grizzlypaws is a proud St’at’imc mother from Xwisten, embracing her cultural heritage through the art of dance as a means of reclaiming sovereignty and resilience. From an early age, she felt drawn to the […]
Christiaan Westerveld is an actor and writer living in Vancouver. I first met Christiaan in the winter of 2012 when he auditioned for a play that I was producing. I’d never met him before or […]
Lynn Johnston (Born in 1947) is the Canadian creator of the comic strip, For Better or For Worse®. This family-based series has been syndicated since 1979 and was named Best Syndicated Comic Strip in 1992. […]
Gordon Gerrard is quick to laugh at a joke and too kind to make fun when they fall flat. He is conscientious in a way that allows you to be completely honest with him. If […]
There are one or two alarms before there’s coffee in her hand. It’s 6 am. Jackie Talmey-Lennon runs daily along the seawall from East Van to English Bay and back. Sometimes she hits the gym. […]
When Cheyenne Rouleau and I locked eyes across the dingy basement where we were pretending to be other people (Acting class), it was best friendship at first sight. Maybe it was the size of her […]
Until now, Lachlan Quarmby’s only allegiances were to Liverpool Football Club and board games, but here we are. The Aussie transplant in the land of maple syrup, traded kangaroos for Canucks in 2019. He tried […]
When Jenny Lee-Gilmore was 10, her school included her in a recruitment campaign that predicted the future trajectory of different children. The teachers decided Jenny looked like a future poet. This turned out to be […]
Heather Pawsey is one of Canada’s most widely acclaimed performers and presenters of Canadian contemporary classical music—one of her biggest passions in life and something she’s nurtured over the past two decades since winning the […]
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