21st Knee Knackering North Shore Trail Run
This challenging 30-mile foot race along the Baden-Powell Centennial Trail from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove provides runners with magnificent city, mountain, and ocean views. www.kneeknacker.comThis challenging 30-mile foot race along the Baden-Powell Centennial Trail from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove provides runners with magnificent city, mountain, and ocean views. www.kneeknacker.com
27th Annual North Shore Photographic Challenge
27th Annual North Shore Photographic Challenge
30th Annual Terry Fox Run
The Run is a non-competitive event where people get together as individuals, families and groups to raise money in Terry’s name. It is a day of celebrating Terry’s legacy and helping to keep his dream of a cure for cancer alive. This is the 30th year of the Run!...Please join us! For more information visit: www.terryfoxrun.orgThe Run is a non-competitive event where people get together as individuals, families and groups to raise money in Terry’s name. It is a day of celebrating Terry’s legacy and helping to keep his dream of a cure for cancer alive. This is the 30th year of the Run!…Please join us! For more information visit: [...]
30th Annual Vancouver International Film Festival
The 30th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), September 29 to October 14, 2011, is one of the largest film festivals in North America. Nearly 150,000 film fans enjoy a dynamic roster of more than 350 films from 80 countries. Considered one of the most accessible and friendly festivals, the 16-day annual celebration of film [...]
5th Annual Cancer Prevention & Healing Event
A Whole-Person Approach to Cancer with Teresa Clarke BSc, MD With integrative cancer care, patients improve their quality of life, decrease the risk of cancer recurrence and increase survival. Cancer Is a Messenger with Brad Noyes Learn a meditative technique called ThetaHealing to connect the conscious and subconscious minds and allow the body to heal. [...]
5th Annual Spring Living Fair
Ethical Choices Sustainability, carbon neutral, green, eco-friendly, local, fair trade, organic… What does it all mean? How does it all tie together? What difference can I make? Just ten years ago, most of us didn’t even consider such questions. Now, it seems to be the only thing we hear about. And for good reason. The [...]
7th Annual BC Women in Business Luncheon
Join the Women in Leadership Foundation (WIL) and keynote speaker Wendy Lisogar-Cocchia for the 7th Annual BC Women in Business Luncheon Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 at the Fairmont Pacific Rim. All proceeds support the WIL Mentorship Program.
8th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade
The 8th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade is the festival’s largest and most popular free event, drawing people from all cultures and all walks of life. This colourful (mostly green) spectacle of fabulous sight and sound takes to the street on Sunday March 18, at 11:00 AM. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade will follow the [...]
A Colourful Celebration of Floral Beauty
The Silk Purse Gallery presents “Blossoming: A Colourful Celebration of Floral Beauty,” a duo exhibition of Jennifer Lamb’s engaging photographic plant portraits and Maryam Vancouver’s passionate paintings on canvas. Join the artists for the free opening reception on Tuesday, April 19th from 6 to 8 p.m. or visit the free exhibition until May 1st. Jennifer [...]
A Conversation with Afghanistan’s Fawiza Koofi at the Kay Meek Centre
Every once in a while, a rare opportunity comes along to meet someone who is making history; defining the course of people's lives now and for many generations into the future. One of those people is Fawzia Koofi. While not a household name here in Canada, her actions and leadership are changing the lives of many in Afghanistan. If you believe in the ripple effect, she's changing lives here too. A well-known activist for democracy and human rights, she's one of the growing number of Afghan women who are standing up to fight for their future, in a society often warped by tradition and war. Condoleeza Rice with Fawzia Koofi She's Afghanistan's most popular female politician, and the first female Deputy Speaker of the Parliament in her country. She was chosen as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and will run for President of Afghanistan in 2014. That is, if she can survive the extremists that dominate politics in this region. She's challenged Hamid Karzai to take a stronger position on human rights before conceding to Taliban insurgents - resulting in the murder of one of her aides just months ago and numerous attempts on her own life. For more information or to register please visit www.leahcostello.blogspot.com 604-922-5324Every once in a while, a rare opportunity comes along to meet someone who is making history; defining the course of people’s lives now and for many generations into the future. One of those people is Fawzia Koofi. While not a household name here in Canada, her actions and leadership are changing the lives of [...]
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