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Our local school - Laura Secord - is trying to win votes for a new playground. About 9,000 kids in the area would be served by the new playground, including an estimated 350 children with disabilities.

Hair salons all over North America are shipping their clippings to a U.S. charity that is using it to absorb oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Kokopelli Hair & Body Lounge on Commercial Drive is one of them. The salon started doing this a month ago after stylist Katrina Molson learned about Matter of...

Yesterday I received an invitation from Derek Weiss, senior public relations specialist for Union Gospel Mission. UGM is a Christian charity well-known in Vancouver for providing community meals, clothing, emergency shelter, faith-based services, and drug and alcohol recovery programs. Here’s Derek’s invite: Join Vancouver bloggers and UGM staff and volunteers as we chill together...

Concern Worldwide will receive more than $9,000 donated by the 250 people who attended Twestival in Vancouver last night, according to event organizer Miss604 Rebecca Bollwitt. Rob Cottingham is one funny guy. He took the stage and joked about not being at South by Southwest in Austin Texas last week, and how reading everyone’s...

Tonight is Twestival – here in Vancouver and in lots of other places too. “On Thursday 25 March 2010, people in hundreds of cities around the world will come together offline to rally around the important cause of Education by hosting local events to have fun and create awareness,” says the About page for...

Thanks to Vincent and his fellow vendors, people are getting an opportunity to learn about life in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside from folks who actually live there. All too often, especially during the Olympics, we hear stories from media outsiders who visit the neighbourhood for a short tour and then report all the bad things...

Update: Mar. 7, 2010 – Due to concerns re: permission to use Jeff’s image for this poster, Jesi asked me to remove the image. A redesign is in the works… Emily Carr design student Jesi Carson had a school project to create a poster commenting on an issue facing Vancouver. She emailed me last...

You’ve seen him, especially if you live near Commercial Drive and other parts of Vancouver’s east side. But you usually hear him first. His yelling breaks through the air and everyone he passes is silent. He might choose a target for his anger, and no one wants to be noticed. Hopefully he keeps going...

My friend Astarte Sands has a really cool job. She coordinates a program for MOSAIC called Workplace Connections - matching local mentors with immigrant professionals moving their careers to Canada.

A Vancouver family of four is committed to giving away 10% of their annual gross income – and they challenge us to do it too. Their blog Guerrilla Giving reads: “How much/what should you give? That’s entirely up to you. Give what you can/what you’d like… We give money, time, things. You may decide...