Emily Carr alumni are screening films at this year’s Vancouver Short Film Festival. Featured films include:
Oriana: a fairy-tale animation by Kara Miranda Lawrence (10), based on a Portuguese novel called A Fada Oriana. Playing in the Emerging Filmmakers Screening at 7:30pm on October 28.
Francis: Eron Carruth’s...
Emily Carr Alumni | Vancouver Short Film Festival
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JIBC Foundation establishes new Memorial Fund to pay tribute to paramedics Jo-Ann Fuller and Ivan Polivka
October 26, 2010
Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) alumni and BC Ambulance Service paramedics Jo-Ann Fuller and Ivan Polivka were tragically killed when their ambulance plunged into Kennedy Lake, near Tofino, on October 19, 2010. The JIBC Foundation has established an Emergency Medical Services Memorial Fund...
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Students + Alumni Win Top Two Prizes for Annual Association for Canadian Ergonomics Conference
Congratulations to Emily Carr Industrial Design students and their SFU collaborators for winning the top two prizes in Canada's national undergraduate ergonomics competition.
Two groups of students from last year’s DESN 323/423 class submitted papers to the Annual Association for Canadian Ergonomics conference in Kelowna.
Current...
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UFV once again scores top marks in Globe and Mail’s University Report
Oct 25, 2010
Media contact: Anne Russell
604-798-3709
anne.russell@ufv.ca
Once again, UFV has brought home top marks on its report card. The Globe and Mail newspaper released its annual University Report on Oct 25, and UFV scored A grades in many key categories.
UFV earned the most ‘A range’ grades for any...
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Take back your sidewalks: Creating pedestrian-friendly communities for seniors
A free forum on pedestrian-friendly communities for older persons in Qualicum Beach and Parksville will be held on Nov. 2nd from 10 am – 2 pm at the Qualicum Civic Centre for registered participants.
This first of its kind event will explore the issue of creating safer pedestrian environments for older adults by bringing...
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Code Zero and ICBC remind drivers to slow down in wet weather
ICBC and the JIBC Code Zero driving instructors demonstrated how various driving speeds affect the time it takes to stop on wet roads, as a reminder to drivers to slow down and adapt their driving speed to fall and winter road conditions. Read media release Watch news clip 10.26.10
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Japanese students learn about Canadian culture
A group of 47 Japanese students not only tasted Canadian style pizza at Vancouver Island University this week, they helped make it.
The students, visiting from Kokusai Gakuin High School in Japan, were excited as staff in VIU’s Professional Baking program showed them how to layer ingredients on mini pizzas and cook...
Student with disabilities enjoys independence
Patrick McLauchlan, like many twenty-somethings, holds down a part-time job, attends school, and lives with a roommate in an apartment.
He likes going to the movies and playing computer games, and is saving for a trip to Australia. He prefers eating out to preparing his own food.
Patrick has successfully moved from...
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Rembrandt authenticator Ernst van der Wetering visits UFV
October 22, 2010
Media contact: Patty Wellborn
Office: 604-795-2819
patty.wellborn@ufv.ca
World renowned scholar Ernst van de Wetering will speak about "Rembrandt's Thinking: His Ideas About Light and Shadow" at the University of the Fraser Valley on October 29.
Ernst Van de Wetering’s book Rembrandt: The Painter...
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Kwantlen’s sociology centre hosts its inaugural speaker series event featuring Lawrence Scanlan
October 20, 2010
(METRO VANCOUVER, B.C.) Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s CIR:CLE, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research: Community, Learning & Engagement, presents its inaugural speaker series event featuring one of Canada’s finest journalists, Lawrence Scanlan, who will discuss his observations on charity...
