How much did you spend on textbooks this semester? You don’t have to answer that. We all know that feeling of disappointment that comes with shelling out more than $100 on a textbook you’ll probably never use again. For decades, academic publishers and university bookstores have charged students hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for textbooks, …
“You know, Mr. Bennett, I want to have something really outstanding in the way of architecture, and I’d like to have a competition for the design of the university.” Dr. Gordon Shrum, a 65-year old former physics professor and recently retired Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of British Columbia, was sitting down with …
“We were all friends from playing in other bands.” Mike Flintoff, thin, sanguine, and bespectacled, sits at a 90 degree angle from me in the noisy Mount Pleasant bar where I’m interviewing the Flintettes, one of Vancouver’s newest and most promising pop groups. It’s trivia night, so we’re all shouting over the din of a multiple …