Retro Tech Revival

The sales of vinyl records, cassette tapes, and classic video game consoles have surged in the past several years. Is it because of technophobia, nostalgic longing, hipster aesthetics, or all of the above? Walk into a modern music store, and you’ll likely find yourself standing amidst a culture clash between old and new; they vie…

It’s not just about sweatshops: Vancouver’s Sustainable Fashion Scene

Earlier this year Metro Vancouver launched a campaign to combat climate change. It wasn’t a typical ‘green’ campaign about the pipeline, or food waste reduction, or the elimination of single-use plastic. This new campaign is called “Clothes Aren’t Garbage” According to Metro Vancouver’s Waste Composition Study, textile waste amounts to about 40,000 metric tonnes of…

Once More With Feeling

  there’s something about being alone in a radio station there’s you and the music and your thoughts during the commercial breaks after the lights dim and the doors lock Do you know where your voice goes how you’re in one place and many at the same time you are someone’s daytime sky and night…

Can You Virtually Enhance Empathy?

The Friend 2 Friend Social Learning Society is using virtual reality technology (VR) to help enable people to empathize with children who have autism. As part of the Autism Demystification® program, the organization aims to foster peer social relationships One in 66 Canadian children have autism , or what is more appropriately termed autism spectrum…