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Langara Voice Podcast Ep. 80 – Student Homelessness on the Rise

Sage Smith Mar 12, 2025 0

By SAGE SMITH and JUAN DIAZ LOPEZ The 2025 Homeless Count happened last night in Vancouver. The previous count showed a 16 per cent increase in homelessness between 2020 and 2023. Although this survey is widely known to be an undercount,…

Community

Opinion: Women in B.C. face barriers to equal healthcare as their pain is often dismissed

Hazel Love Feb 26, 2025 0

By HAZEL LOVE As I was wheeled into the operating room at Vancouver General Hospital to have my ruptured appendix removed, I agonized over why it had taken doctors 48 hours to act. Last May, I arrived at the VGH emergency room in…

Voice Radio

Ep. 72 – Langara students continue to be affected by the job restrictions implemented by the…

admin Nov 21, 2024

Limiting the hours students can work can be a problem considering how expensive it is to live in Vancouver

Arts & Life

China Creek Skatepark has been redesigned and is open to the public

admin Oct 30, 2024

By HILARY ANGUS The East Vancouver park, built in 1979, is Vancouver’s oldest skate park and one of the oldest skateparks in North America. Located near East Broadway and Clark Drive, the park reopened to the public on Oct. 11 after a…

Arts & Life

Photos: Canadian geese on Granville Island

admin Apr 6, 2023

By Cala Ali, Andrea Dante, and Hannah Mondiwa Seagulls have been one of the main nuisances at popular tourist spots like Granville Island for a long time. Now, a new pest has entered the scene: the Canada goose. The Vancouver Park Board…

Business

Vancouver tackles problems with food waste during inflation

admin Apr 5, 2022

By Michael Su As the City of Vancouver prepares an initiative to reduce food waste, a professor in UBC’s faculty of land and food systems says the city’s goal does not go far enough. The city is introducing a new system to help the…

Campus

Urban studies focuses on climate change concerns and housing security

admin Mar 9, 2022

By Lauren Accili This story has been updated to include comments from Christine Boyle and Nicholas Blomley Urban studies is a burgeoning field of studies, and Langara College along with other schools are developing courses to deal…

Arts & Life

Vancouver kombucha not symbiotic with new tax

admin Mar 4, 2020

Sales tax issues fermenting ahead of July 1, 2020 decision on sweetened carbonated beverages

At Large

South Vancouver residents seeking safer crosswalk

admin Feb 27, 2020

By Danauca Dory Residents living around Cambie Street and 39th Avenue say their complaints about a dangerous intersection have not been properly addressed by the city. Barry Jung, a resident in the area, said there have been several…

Campus

Langara zoning plan in motion

admin Nov 14, 2019

By Ray Chopping A rezoning application to increase Langara’s density is expected to be complete by Spring 2020, according to a senior facilities consultant at the college. The application is to allow increased density, setting the…

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