words tanushree pillai illustrations brianne bruneau A few days ago, my 4-year-old son came home from school crying. Turns out, he’d wanted to hold this little girl’s hand and she wouldn’t let him. He was clearly upset and said he didn’t want to be friends with her anymore. I had to calm him down and…
Meet the models from the BCITMA’s Fashion Fundraiser.
On March 9th, the BCIT Marketing Association (BCITMA) held their annual fashion fundraiser, this year putting a spotlight on gender and diversity, by featuring drag models for a show you had to see to believe. Read all about the event, and hear from organizers Karl Chen and Jennifer Wu in the March edition of LINK…
On Friday March 9, the BCIT Student Association (BCITSA) welcomed Burnaby North MLA Janet Routledge and BCIT President Kathy Kinloch into the SA’s newly renovated Child Care Centre on the Burnaby Campus (SE41). In 2016, the previous provincial government announced an investment in child care, with a substantial portion going to upgrading BCIT’s current services and facilities. This…
Red Sparrow weaves the tale of a ballerina turned Russian spy (Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games) who falls in love in with an American agent (Joel Edgerton, Bright) and considers becoming a double agent. This film holds nothing back in showing how far Dominika, Lawrence’s character, will go to complete a mission as a Sparrow,…
words tanushree pillai images ryan judd Here I am standing before a bank of colour-coded waste bins at the BCIT campus, struggling to figure out which one should receive my coffee cup. And what about the lid? And the brown paper bag that my bagel came in? Just then, another student passes by and mindlessly…
illustrations eda aktas The #MeToo movement unofficially began in October 2017 when actor Alyssa Milano tweeted: “If all women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me Too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” Since then, we’ve seen an avalanche of sexual violence disclosures hit…
Last month, BCIT became the first polytechnic institute to host the Western Engineering Competition — an annual student-organized competition that tests young engineers in the fields of design, innovation and discourse. We sent writer Austin Czerwinski over to the Delta Hotel to drop-in on the competition and meet some of the teams visiting from across…