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While Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia are two of the city’s best-known schools, there’s a little-known place of learning that’s been attracting scholars, academics and people who are interested in challenging their minds. Every Monday since February, the Or Gallery has been host to The Free School, a free lecture and discussion series organized by two PhD students.
The Sacred Headwaters is the name given by the first nations to a rugged string of mountains in northern British Columbia. In this location, three of the province’s most important rivers – the Stikine, the Skeena and the Nass – are all born. Crucial to the salmon population, the rivers play a central role in first nations culture and history.
The area is currently being considered for development. The risks and potential consequences of that development are the subject of a new book by National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence Wade Davis.
Davis is speaking about the book, The Sacred Headwaters – and also presenting some stunning slides – this Tuesday, March 6, at SFU Woodwards. The presentation starts at 7 p.m.
An anthropologist by training, Davis hardly fits the bill of the stereotypical buttoned-down, tongue-tied scientist. In fact, his thrilling anecdotes and great storytelling are reason enough alone to see the presentation.
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Presentation by National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis, March 6
Disclosure: I love to eavesdrop. Especially on the bus. Especially when it involves food and Vancouver restaurants.
So today I was sitting on the 135 in front a trio of students who–in a refreshing change from the intellectual one-upmanship I usually endure on the SFU-bound bus–began one-upping each other on the topic of local restaurants.
Students are better than guidebooks for restaurant recommendations because they are chronically broke, chronically hungry and relentlessly cutting-edge.
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Where to eat in Vancouver? Just eavesdrop on the bus…
Richard Loat brings Five Hole for Food to Vancouver tomorrow night (Photo: Victor Lo)
And you thought it was too hot for hockey.
Tomorrow night at 5:30 pm, the puck–er, ball–will drop in the 800 block of Granville Street for the final game of the Five Hole for Food cross-Canada road hockey tour, a food-raiser for the nation’s food banks.
(And now that Granville Street is officially closed to traffic, there won’t be any cries of “Caaaaaaaaar!” to interrupt the excitement.)
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You shoot, the food bank scores: Five Hole for Food hits Granville St. July 9
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