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Jun 23, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | John Lee |Brett McCracken |Justin Taylor |Alan Noble
Most of the advice I’ve received as a single man has been about finding a spouse. Whether it’s exhortations to grow or encouragements to persevere, conversations are anchored to the anticipation of future marriage. Advertise on TGCFor one, marriage isn’t promised to everyone, and more than half of those who marry will be single again. But more importantly, marriage-centered singleness focuses on the single as an individual.
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May 27, 2024 | 
visitrichmondbc.com | John Lee
Most of us enjoy hanging with friends and family at our favourite local restaurants. But there are plenty of times when dining solo is also on the menu. Perhaps you’re gabbing a quick lunch in an unfamiliar part of the city or maybe you’ve had a long day and you’d rather treat yourself than cook at home. Richmond’s celebrated food courts, of course, are tailor-made for solo diners.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
jom.media | Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh
In 1960, the Singaporean Malay public intellectual Harun Aminurrashid travelled to Jerusalem. It was a stop on his journey through Arab countries after a pilgrimage to Mecca. He wrote about his experiences in Meninjau ka-Negara Sham (Viewing the Levant). In Jerusalem, past and present forged tangled paths.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
jom.media | Tsen-Waye Tay |Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee
The photographs circulating online of Yazan Kafarneh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy on his deathbed in Rafah, southern Gaza, are meant to shock. Taken with his family’s permission, they show the “skeleton” his father said he’d turned into, of a human being seemingly without be-ing.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
jom.media | Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Unsu Lee
Note to readers: palawa kani, the only Aboriginal language to survive in Tasmania to this day only uses lowercase letters. Two cities await visitors to Hobart, Tasmania’s capital. One reflects its colonial past, with Georgian-era buildings and leafy squares flanking streets that run down to piers, where from the early 1800s ships bearing British convicts and settlers docked, and from which intrepid explorers departed for Antarctica.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
jom.media | Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Unsu Lee
Time is like water,and water is as cold and deepas consciousness. And time is like a reflectionmade partly by water,partly by me. Time and waterrush trackless to vanishinside my consciousness. - Stein Steinarr, Icelandic poetOk is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier. In the next 200 years, all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.
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Jul 11, 2023 | 
visitrichmondbc.com | John Lee
Artists and art fans will be flocking to shoreline Steveston Village on the weekend of July 22 for one of Metro Vancouver’s coolest cultural happenings. The 13th annual Grand Prix of Art will see up to 125 creative-types from every skill level unpacking their easels at designated outdoor spots—then painting whatever they see in front of them in a fascinating three-hour race against the clock.
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Jun 29, 2023 | 
visitrichmondbc.com | John Lee
Dragonflies descend on flowering lily pads as swallows dart across the water hunting for insects. Fuzzy ducklings stay close to their watchful mothers as gaggles of Canada geese waddle around showing their young how to nibble the grass. Lush hydrangeas burst forth with blue and yellow blooms as slender purple irises flower along the shoreline.
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May 17, 2023 | 
visitrichmondbc.com | John Lee
It’s a T-shirt-warm evening and you’re hanging with friends on the chatty patio of your favourite Richmond restaurant. A golden sunset is unfurling across the sky, the table is filled with delicious dishes and chilled libations and a deep reverie of relaxation is reminding you that you really need to do this more often. Not sure where to go next? Read on for some drink and dine patio hotspots to discover in Richmond––complete with our tasty menu suggestions.
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Mar 7, 2023 | 
visitrichmondbc.com | John Lee
When Eric Pateman took over the culinary program at Vancouver International Airport in September 2022, he knew he would be busy. But the highly experienced restaurant and food industry entrepreneur loves a challenge. And with 66 YVR food and beverage operators to curate and a five-year culinary reinvention plan now underway, he has been fully relishing his role.
