When my nana was first diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer, we knew keeping her at home would be difficult. But in the middle of a pandemic, we didn’t want to put her into a facility where visitation restrictions could stop us from seeing her if she took a turn for the worse.
my mother’s advice: / ‘there is no box’ / was meant to be kind
I hate to love Vancouver rain. / It makes everything smell like decay. / It rots dirt fissures into muddy pools, / But it’s consistent.
Humans seem to only ever think about ourselves. Why are we only ever thinking about ourselves?
It’s hard to notice when the things you love begin to hurt you, and harder still to leave them once you realize it. Prioritizing my sanity and wellbeing was scary, disheartening and took longer than it should have.
Breaking, or b-boying, has roots in martial arts and gymnastics. Originating in early 1970s New York, breaking is credited to DJ Kool Herc, the first to string together bass-heavy sections of songs and encourage dancers to come forward and express themselves to the beat.
“All art is expression in some way,” said Emerson Landwehr, a musician and student at UBC. “If you have multiple mediums of art, I think it’s easy to, once you get very invested in one of them ... also have that creatively influence other things, and it can create a sort of feedback loop.”
Food traditions connect people to their homes, their histories and to each other. But many students said their options for affordable culturally-specific food — from seasonings and good tortillas to certified kosher meals — are slim.
I was fascinated by the existence of this mysterious, acidic pool of decomposing trees, nestled somewhere within Pacific Spirit Park, and immediately suggested we head there.
Has the end of winter got you down? Does midterm season have you feeling disembodied, uninspired? Perhaps your heart longs to drop that pen, close those books and spend the evening watching people absolutely slam each other down onto a padded floor.
Construction sites, their towering cranes and the periodic clouds of dust that rise from them when the ground dries in the summer are a constant part of UBC Point Grey’s ever-shifting landscape.
The UBC Senate met Wednesday night to discuss enrolment and a framework to guide future academic planning.
Here’s what to expect at the February 21st, 2024 Senate meeting.
People like to joke that lesbians never let go of their exes.
UBC community members gathered in front of the UBC Musqueam post on February 15 to call on UBC to divest from companies complicit in violating the rights of Palestinians.