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Vancouverites travel to Apex Mountain to move a puck on NHL-sized surface

“In those days, Hornby Street was the entertainment capital of British Columbia,” smiles Mel Warner who fondly thinks back to when Vancouver’s “Entertainment District” wasn’t corralled to the Granville strip.

READY, SET, EAT: Lower Mainland restaurants will once again tempt our palettes with delicious, three-course prix fix menus of $18, $28 and $38 for Dine Out Vancouver.

Acting manager Stephen Butt answers questions about this political and administrative anomaly

The University of British Columbia is considered one of the most attractive post-secondary schools to attend in the country.

Program offers a literary twist to academic writing

Photographer Dan Toulgoet documents how times have changed at the University of British Columbia, matching archived images of streets and buildings with their present day incarnations.

Property: Orchard Commons It’s probably safe to say that future residents of Orchard Commons won’t conform to the starving student stereotype of surviving on pizza, Kraft dinner and bad coffee. A 12-month stay at the planned $125.

2: UBC’s ranking in MacLean’s most recent annual evaluation of Canada’s major research universities. 54: In thousands, the approximate number of students currently studying at the Point Grey campus.

More than 50 per cent of food served at the University of B.C.’s cafeterias and outlets is either grown, raised or processed within 150 miles of the school or certified as organic.