For the Globe’s new One Big Idea this week, I photographed author Spider Robinson. Check out the discussion, which happens online today at 1pm, here: http://tgam.ca/BFG6
Author Spider Robinson’s One Big Idea to make Vancouver a better place is to make drugs available to anyone who wants them under controlled, safe conditions – and so clean up the city’s most troubled intersection, Main and Hastings.
A shot from a while ago which appeared in page A4 in today’s Globe & Mail. She was a very cool person to get a chance to meet and a true inspiration. The article is here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/skilled-interpreter-shortage-presents-hurdle-in-deaf-mds-quest-to-become-dermatologist/article1717651/
Jessica Dunkley is the first deaf, female Metis medical doctor in Canada. A skilled-interpreter shortage presents a hurdle in Dunkley’s quest to become dermatologist while doing her residency at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Brett Beadle for the Globe and Mail.
Took a trip to the Aquarium yesterday to photograph the whales and dolphins for the front of the Globe’s BC section. I am kind of stuck on the issue, I don’t think those tanks are any place for these amazing animals but I guess a lot of them have been born in captivity and couldn’t survive in the wild. Still, it’s kind of heartbreaking to see them in there. Coincidentally, I was just reading this article: http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/201007/killer-whale-behavior-trainer-death-seaworld.html in Outside magazine (I usually read it every month.) It’s worth a read, and outlines a lot of what has happened with killer whales in aquariums. Sad stuff.
July 19, 2010 - Vancouver, BC – Visitors watch as a Pacific white-sided dolphin swims at the Vancouver Aquarium on Monday. Vancouver’s park commissioners voted Monday night to reject a motion urging a non-binding plebiscite concerning the whale and dolphin exhibits at the city’s aquarium for next year’s civic election.
Veteran news anchor Tony Parsons was announced yesterday as the new anchor of CBC News Vancouver, co-hosting with Gloria Macarenko. Brett Beadle for the Globe and Mail