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This research examines the City of Victoria’s heritage program, which comprises of civic plans, policies and associated agencies, to understand whether or not it can meet the Truth and Reconciliation…

Over the past decade, the Canadian mobile telecommunications service market has grown at an exceptional rate, ultimately overtaking landlines as the dominant form of telecommunication. Mobile…

Revealers is a collection of artworks that centres on photographic logic and the way that it shapes light into images of the world. Through diverse processes of seeing, making and exposing, the…

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a persistent and pervasive public health problem and requires a collaborative response, especially from the health system. Health-care professionals (HCPs) are uniquely…

This project presents statistical analyses of data from a population based opioid use disorder research program. The primary interest is in estimating the association of a range of demographic,…

An evening of reading and conversation with authors Esi Edugyan and Omar El Akkad. They discuss Esi Edugyan’s novel Washington Black.

Power utility companies rely on forecasting to anticipate future consumption needs, plan power production, and schedule the selling/purchasing of power. We present a novel method to forecast the…

Efficient cell-to-cell transfer of Listeria monocytogenes (L. monocytogenes) requires the proper formation of actin-rich membrane protrusions. To date, only the host proteins ezrin, the binding…

Welcome to the first episode of our Below the Radar conversations series. Our first guest speaker is Dr. Kelley Lee, Canada Research Chair in Global Health Governance at Simon Fraser University. In…

Storytelling is an important tool for sharing knowledge and language across generations. Stories teach us about our way of life and our perspectives on how to be as First Nations peoples. In this…

2019 Year-in-Review forum is the 5th annual event convened by the Vancouver City Planning Commission that brings together a panel of four, eminent urbanists to look back on urban planning in 2019.…

The recent social movement in Hong Kong is marked by its leaderless mode of mobilization and coordination, which would be impossible without innovative use of digital media. Why did such a mode of…

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium), enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) and enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) commandeer the actin cytoskeleton of their host cells as a…

Schools are the primary government institution that prepares youth for adulthood in BC. Whether youth move on to postsecondary education or employment after secondary school, it is expected that the…

What are the contours of "the country of gay"? How do these contours become known to us, particularly in places that are defined by conservatism? And how do they help us to define our sense…

In a time of ecological collapse, Edgelands (2019) considers the potentialities of making, speaking, mourning, caring, and growing with beings and forces that are other-than-human. Moving between…

Tseax volcano erupted ∼ 250 years ago in NW British Columbia, Canada producing tephra deposits and lava flows. Field mapping has defined the stratigraphy of Tseax and the lava flow…

There is no exchange value to something useless. It strives to impede, slow down, and malfunction. Uselessness is unabsorbable. It destabilizes the substrate into which it is brought and adds…

Over several decades, medium-sized industrial towns have suffered from a combination of economic and political processes: Deindustrialization, metropolization, and withdrawal of public services.…

Binning: a tough — often invisible — job that is doing a great service to our communities and the planet.Every year, throughout Vancouver, binners divert millions of bottles and cans from landfills.…