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Reported by Jacob Hoheisel A shortage of parking spaces during peak hours means Langara students and staff can’t find parking, or must park off-campus, students say. Lauren Rathbone, a first-year biology student, alternates between…

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 Rui Yang Xu Wyn Daquigan is usually great at defending others from bullying but when a classmate made comments regarding her ethnicity in university, she didn’t know how to respond. A fourth-year criminology student at SFU,…

By Safoura Rigi-Ladiz Langara’s Salish weaving course gives students an opportunity to learn a once-lost tradition of B.C.’s Coast Salish people.  The history of the traditional weaving practice and its cultural applications are an…

By Ryan Ng Langara student Jian Cuizon doesn’t recommend dating apps to end loneliness because he’s tried it — and it ended up just being a temporary fix. Cuizon, a first-year criminology student, abandoned dating apps after trying…

Langara’s environmental studies program has seen a decline in first-year course enrollment. This is not consistent with student reports of increasing concern for the environment.

By Max Leckie Correction February 13, 2020: A previous version of this story stated that the COVID-19 death toll was 2016. The actual death toll as of publication is 1115, according to the World Health Organization. Cases of COVID-19,…

By Kristen Holliday A new scholarship fund has been opened in memory of Delaram Dadashnejad, the Langara food and nutrition student who died when UIA Flight 752 was shot down over Tehran. The disaster occurred on Jan. 8,…

By Steven Chang and Maxim Fossey Some students at Langara say that exams are a major point of stress in their lives and they said that coping with that stress can lead to negative behaviours. Students interviewed by The Voice said…

Mark Adams, director of ancillary services at Langara said the college is “investigating options to reduce single-use plastics.”