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Vancouver NGO The Shanti Uganda Society has been chosen as one of four recipients to accept The Crystal of Hope award and share in the $150,000 donation sponsored by Swarovski. Sadie St.

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Indian cinema icon and humanitarian actress Shabana Azmi will speak about her life and work, focusing on the attitudes towards women on screen and in society June 11, as part of the SFU Vancouver Speaker Series.

1.5: In kilometres, the distance between Grandview Highway and Venables Street, the stretch widely considered as "The Drive" despite the street continuing for several more blocks in both direction.

Its officially known as Grandview-Woodland, but most Vancouverites refer to the neighbourhood that is bounded by Broadway to the south, Burrard Inlet to the north, Clark Drive to the west and to Nanaimo Street to the east as the Commercial Drive area

A centre built by Italian immigrants in the 1970s hopes to capture the imaginations of younger generations as the influx of new Italians wanes.

Grandview-Woodland is one of Vancouver's oldest neighbourhoods. The neighbourhood, which lies to the East of downtown along the Burrard Inlet, has fallen behind the city's image of high-rise condominiums and shiny glass buildings.

As part of the Courier's ongoing Vancouver Special neighbourhood series, we paid a visit to Grandview-Woodland and J, N & Z Deli.

Via Tevere Pizzeria Napoletana only opened its doors at 1190 Victoria Dr. in Grandview-Woodland in March 2012, but the building in which it's housed still harkens to times past thanks to an unexpected find on an exterior wall.

Rent jumped $2k a month at child-friendly eatery