Silver Pen Award 2018

This year, LINK  honours Eda Aktas and Emily Vance with the 2017/18 Silver Pen Award. Both of these BCIT students showed tremendous dedication, growth, and community influence in the work that they contributed to LINK magazine this past year. Individually, they produced pieces on a variety of important issues, but perhaps their most important work came as a collaboration together alongside…

Community Profile: Heat LaLiberte

For our April issue, BCIT student Max Huang headed off campus and into the community, to meet up with an Indigenous business owner who inspires him. You can read Max’s full article about Heat LaLiberte and his company One Arrow Meats online here, then check out Max’s full interview with Heat below, chock-full of wisdom and…

PHOTO FEATURE: ASHLEY MOLIERE

Ashley Moliere (1st-Year Broadcast and Online Journalism) www.ashleymoliere.ca Instagram: @ashmo__photos Twitter: ashleymBCIT Why do you love photography?  Because it allows me to be creative and artistic. On both sides of my family I have very artistic relatives, whether it’s traditional art (i.e. painting or sketching) or music. So this is the way I like to…

BEYOND BCIT: Mantar Bhandal

Mantar Bhandal is one of the freshest faces in sports broadcasting. At just 21, Mantar has landed himself a dream job as play-by-play commentator and analyst for Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition. When he’s not calling games, Mantar keeps busy producing original music, co-hosting an indie podcast, and hitting the gym. Not long ago…