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NPA mayoral candidate pledges to create ombudsperson’s office in Vancouver city hall

Attention all filmmakers: The Vancouver Short Film Festival is calling for submissions. All genres of film are accepted, from documentaries to animation and web series. This is the festival’s fifth year celebrating BC-made short films of all levels.

Best: The Weather. My god, when the sun comes out in this beautiful province of ours, in a setting as spectacular as the Squamish Valley, it almost makes you agree with those ridiculous licence plate slogans: This is truly the Best Place on Earth.

Tens of thousands of music fans flocked to Sea-to-Sky Country this past weekend for the fifth annual Squamish Valley Music Festival.

The Vancouver International Film Festival Society has undergone a leadership transition in its 33rd year, naming Jacqueline Dupuis as executive director.

So the big weekend’s finally arrived and everyone’s jonesin’ to check out the festival’s Big Three: Eminem, Arcade Fire, and Bruno Mars.

Magic in the Moonlight Starring Colin Firth, Emma Stone Directed by Woody Allen The perpetually prolific Woody Allen returns with his 47th feature film as a director and his eighth set in Europe in the past nine years.

Christopher Heyerdahl loves to play. This love was on display in the sci-fi series Sanctuary , where the Vancouver actor portrayed both a guilt-ridden Jack the Ripper and a domesticated Bigfoot with equal parts glee and gravity.

CALVARY Starring Brendan Gleeson, Chris O'Dowd, Aidan Gillen Directed by John Michael McDonagh You'd imagine that the stones in this tiny Irish town rest easy, content that none of the residents are sufficiently free of sin to toss them about.

The way it’s supposed to work is, all government spending gets approved by elected officials before the money goes out the door. They divvy the government’s budget into “votes,” with each vote representing a ministry’s budget.