From the world’s largest vertical jail being built in New York, developers buying up the most historic block of Montreal’s Chinatown, to pressures of gentrification and displacement in Toronto and Vancouver, Big Fight in Little Chinatown captures paralleling crises against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and rise in anti-Asian racism.
On this particular day, the informal court — the small, unmarked stretch of concrete with by two hoops near the HEBB building — is relatively empty. From an urban planning perspective, spaces for informal sports are integral to a healthy community.
Ormond joined the Thunderbirds as head coach of the women’s basketball team in August of 2023, bringing a coaching philosophy that is context and person dependent.
Print media allowed 2SLGBTQIA+ people to communicate efficiently and anonymously, sometimes hiding in plain sight when it would have been dangerous — or illegal — to be out. UBC's Queer Collections Project aims to make this media accessible to students.
I learn to swear reading Catcher in the Rye / in Chinese, 10 years old and foreign / in a country called the Motherland.
It was a typical November night in Vancouver’s rainy season, which means that it was pouring and the rain was ice cold. Though you wouldn’t be able to tell from inside the Hollywood Theatre, where the crowd gathered was dressed in rainbow lingerie inspired outfits, fit for a summer Pride parade.
Beauty has always felt like this incomprehensible, elusive thing, forever outside of my reach. Running around with a tangled mane of hair and dirt on my face, what did beauty matter?
Hundreds in orange crowd the steps in front of UBC’s Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (IRSHDC) for the Intergenerational March to commemorate the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day.
A crowd of thousands marched through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to honour the lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on Tuesday, February 14.
Going abroad for university can be an exciting experience. It can also create a longing for the home left behind — especially if loved ones back home are experiencing hardship. Here are the stories of two UBC international students whose time in Canada has led them to reshape their definitions of home.
I have come a long way since entering university. But this is only because of my own stubbornness and the support from people who made a difference by their own volition.
As courses have moved online, the lack of accessible information on what financial resources UBC has available for students accompanies technology barriers to online education.
I know what it’s like to be homesick — or, at least, I think so. Problem is, I’m not homesick for any physical place I can remember.
Deodorant is a cheap way to ensure you smell fresh so people are willing to sit next to you on the bus.
Sure it’s breathtaking when the weather’s nice, but the rainy season also perfectly coincides with the winter term. So 90 per cent of the time, the city is actually a grey blur.