Nice Wheels: Bike Sharing Comes to Vancouver

How many times have you dreamed of a bicycle on demand to speed up your walk to work or assist with a small trip home from the grocery store? In June of this year, Vancouver will launch a bike sharing program just in time for the city’s annual Bike to Work Month. Currently more than […]

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Plotting your own edible garden

The valued green space that Vancouverites dream of turning into private urban gardens is being reimagined by local company FarmCity. The gardening and construction group is enthusiastic about helping people transform their urban outdoor spaces into thriving abundant gardens. In addition to building and maintaining your private raised beds with proper soil selection and water […]

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The Egg Before The Chair

Arne Jacobsen created the Egg lounge chair in 1958 as part of his all-encompassing design for the iconic SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. The chair, and the hotel itself marked the advent of mid-century modernity and put Denmark at the centre of a worldwide design pantheon; an exalted position country still enjoys today. The Egg […]

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Cause To Celebrate: Savour Our Neighbourhood 2016

Starting a life in a new country, even one with the freedoms we enjoy in Canada can be a difficult transition. For many refugees entering Canada, their arrival in a safe country is just the beginning of new challenges of integration, language barriers, and job uncertainty. Grassroots efforts to help local families adjust in Vancouver have […]

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