As the semester carries on and work keeps piling up, our beauty routines tend to fall by the wayside. Getting a manicure no longer takes precedence as that economics midterm looms ahead; plus, regular salon manicures get expensive for a student on a budget. Here are a few at-home tips for having beautiful nails. File…
Spencer West sits himself on a chair four feet off the ground in preparation for a press conference. This ordinary task is made remarkable by the fact that Spencer West has no legs. West swings himself onto chairs, and moves around using his only arms. West is a Me to We inspirational speaker, and a Free…
The first-ever Vancouver Tea Festival took place within the Olympic Village on November 2. The event was an overwhelming success: tickets sold out just an hour and a half after the doors opened. Del Tamborini, co-founder of the festival, says that the festival was the idea of several of his former colleagues from the Tea…
“Art washes away from the soul the dust of every day life,” Pablo Picasso once said. Residents of the Lower Mainland are surrounded by local art in their daily routines: on SkyTrain platforms, downtown street corners, and on the walls of numerous coffee shops. Burnaby Art Gallery found a new way to share art in…
Researchers from BCIT’s Group for Advanced Information Technology (GAIT) are working on a ‘micro’ project that could have major impacts on the way Canadians use power. The project is Canada’s first Smart Power Microgrid – a network of smart meters, renewable power sources, and monitoring software distributed around BCIT that have transformed the school from…
Comics by The Link’s very talented Carlo Puche.
With the recent string of sexual assaults at UBC, university and college campuses in the lower mainland have taken extra security measures to make sure their staff and students are safe at all times. The consensus among BCIT students is that they generally feel safe on campus. “I feel like the attacks that have happened…
Textbook fees are an unavoidable burden each semester. But the financial stress may become easier to bear, as the Ministry of Advanced Education has announced that online open textbooks for forty popular post-secondary courses will be available for free. According to the government of British Columbia Newsroom, open publication licences will permit students to view…
BCIT is approaching two big milestones next year: the institution is not only celebrating its 50th anniversary, it will also have its first-ever female president. Kathy Kinloch will be sworn in as president in January and says some big events are planned for the coming year. Kinloch is not new to BCIT. From 2007 to…
In the wake of their 25th anniversary, the Vancouver Writers Festival crushed their previous attendance records by hosting more events, selling more tickets, and filling more venues than ever before. Financially, these figures are a festival organizers’ dream. The ultimate goal, however, is a little more poignant. Hal Wake, artistic director of the festival, says…
The sixth We Day took the stage at Rogers Arena on October 18 and featured an all-star line up of speakers and live performances. Hosted by MTV’s Aliya-Jasmine Sovani and Scott Willats, big names in Canadian music included Avril Lavigne, Hedley, and Down With Webster. Roughly 20,000 students from as far away as the Yukon…