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1 week ago | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
It is sizzling animation on concert screens, that for the longest time, was trapped inside a highly creative mind. "I see a lot of stuff in my head, and I was never good at getting it out. I was never good at drawing or painting," Mike Voskakis told Global's This is BC.
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1 month ago | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
They’ve come from all over B.C.Eighty band members have assembled in the Netherlands for a tour in memory of the Canadians who played a major part in the liberation of the country and an end to the Second World War. “We have put our hearts and souls into what we’re doing,” said Jock MacDonald of the Kimberley Pipe Band.
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1 month ago | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
It took 28 gruelling days but Kevin Vallely and his teammate Ray Zahab managed to ski across Ellesmere Island in the Canadian High Arctic, through intolerable frigid conditions. “You’re going into windchill factors of -70, that kind of range,” Vallely told This is BC. “We’re talking frostbite not in minutes, we’re talking frostbite in seconds.
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1 month ago | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
From flamethrowers to full-body burns, for the past 20 years, Fire For Hire has been setting film and television scenes ablaze, pushing the limits with each new stunt they orchestrate. “Sometimes I scratch my head and say, what do you want me to do? This is the dumbest idea, but let’s try it,” said co-founder Colin Decker. Their fire gel, which allows safe naked burns, was a game-changer and has just earned them an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Achievement.
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1 month ago | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
There’s a star on the piano at the St. Vincent’s: Langara long-term care home. Once a week Eve Duke performs for her fellow residents at the Jazz Café. “It makes me feel good, because it means I’m actually doing something they like, and that’s good,” said Duke. Born in Washington, D.C., Eve was in her early 20s when she got her big break, discovered by famed jazz composer Duke Ellington who wanted her to sing in his orchestra.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
It was a build that took Ken Green eight-and-a-half years in his Burnaby garage. A David vs. Goliath story that put his 1931 Ford Highboy Roadster up against a winning professional team with very deep pockets. "It's known that he probably spent about $3 million to do his build," said Green. Green wants to keep his total cost private, but it was a drop in the bucket compared to that. His car finished runner-up to a 1936 Ford.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
They hated her in Japan when she went there to wrestle. Delta Dawn was loathed at the Tokyo Dome in the early 1990s, her wicked snakes despised by everyone in the building. "I was slapped with programs as I was coming out many times because people were just fearful of me getting so close to them with the snake," Dawn Murphy told This is BC. But playing the villain was always the role she relished in the ring. "I always wanted to be able to let out that energy, " said Murphy.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
There have been more than a few advancements in technology to enhance a show that Craig F. McCaw has been producing for well over four decades. "I'm 80 now, it's time for my nap. But apparently not," McCaw told This is BC. He's the man behind the laser light craze during the 1980s at the H.R. MacMillan Planetarium. "Every show would sell out. I think we sold out Dark Side of the Moon for an entire year," said McCaw.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
They may have just created their own genre of music altogether. "We do China trucker funk, and that's my thing right? It's a big rig rolling down a dusty highway carrying a cargo full of silk," said musician Shon Wong. With his band Son of James, Wong's Chinatown Nights series has been showcasing a mix of younger acts alongside Vancouver legends. "I want to bring a bit of history into it with Henry Young who was a staple here in Chinatown," said Wong.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
globalnews.ca | Jay Durant
It was an historic run in Tasmania at one of the toughest mountain bike races in the world. "My goal was to be the first woman to complete a Red Bull Hardline event," said Gracey Hemstreet. "I didn't think it would actually happen, but it ended up happening."The 20-year-old is a star on the World Cup circuit, and it all started in Sechelt at the Coast Gravity Park her dad built.
