Arts in the News
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A costly mistake – that keeps getting costlier
National Post Tue May 15 2012 Page: A12 By: Michael Byers and Stewart Webb Link to full text Michael Byers, who holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Politics and International Law at UBC, and Stewart Webb, a research associate of the Salt Spring Forum, write about the cost of the F-35 stealth fighter jets. [...]
B.C. First Nation emergency
CBC The National Mon May 14 2012 Link to full text A British Columbia First Nation has declared an emergency after a devastating number of suicides and attempted suicides in just four months. Cowichan leaders blame unemployment and say their health team is burnt out. The Cowichan want a staff psychiatrist but also more support [...]
Pick a card, any card
Vancouver Sun Fri May 11 2012 By: Gerry Bellett Link to full text A new study into the psychology of magic examines why card tricks work — the science behind magic. The results of this four-year study, co-authored by Jay Olson of SFU, Alym Amlani of Kwantlen Polytechnic and Ronald Rensink of UBC, were published [...]
Happy or miserable?
Business World By: Benjamin Diokno Wed May 9 2012 Link to full text UBC Prof. John Helliwell’s recent World Happiness Report is the subject of an op-ed by economist Benjamin Diokno in Business World, a leading South Asian newspaper. Co-authored by Richard Layard of the London School of Economics and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, [...]
Damming the Amazon
New York Times Sat May 5 2012 Link to full text Recently, eight students and three faculty members of UBC’s School of Journalism traveled to Brazil as part of the school’s international reporting program. Brazil is planning to build at least 20 hydroelectric dams in the Amazon region by 2020, but indigenous residents say they [...]
Captain Cook’s club, a gift of the Nuu-chah-nulth, comes closer to home
Macleans Magazine Wed May 9 2012 By: Alex Ballingall and Nancy Macdonald Link to full text Thanks to the goodwill of art collector Michael Audain, an important artifact has returned to B.C. after a 234-year absence. The prized object, a finely carved wooden club, was given to Captain James Cook by the chief of a [...]
Pells chronicles triumph over adversity while dealing with alcoholic mother
Canadian Press Tue May 8 2012 By: Monte Stewart Link to full text UBC Master of Psychology student and former Olympic middle-distance runner Leah Pells reveals details of her past in a new autobiography Not About the Medal. In the book she talks about how she dealt with the source of emotional turbulence – an [...]
Immigrant equations
Globe and Mail Tue May 8 2012 Page: A16 By: David Green Link to full text In a letter to the editor, David Green, a professor in the Department of Economics at UBC, writes about two recent Globe and Mail articles about labour issues and the Temporary Foreign Worker program. “Improving the lot of the [...]
The recovery squeezes the middle class
Bloomberg Businessweek, Thu May 3 2012 By: Mike Dorning Link to full text The U.S. presidential election is supposed to be all about reviving the economy and creating opportunities for the still-lagging middle class. Ninety-five percent of the net job losses during the recession were in middle-skill occupations such as office workers, bank tellers, and [...]
Answers blowing in A Gust of Wind
Vancouver Sun, Thu May 3 2012 By: Kevin Griffin Link to full text Legendary Chinese artist Zhang Peili works with video. His monumental five-channel installation, A Gust of Wind, is now at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery at UBC. A Gust of Wind is making its North American premiere at the Belkin Gallery. Five [...]
