Shauna Baker is reporting for City Lights down at the Dr.Sun Yat-Sen Gardens to celebrate the Chinese New Year, welcoming in the Year of the Ox. “The history of the garden is actually a scholar’s home, and this was built 23 years ago. Everything here is brought from China so it is a very unique […]
Category Archives: Family Activities
City Lights- Chinese Night Market 2008
February 27, 2009 – 10:43 pm
Heather Bissonnette brings us to Vancouver’s Chinatown to check out the local night market. Right in the center of Chinatown, not only are there good deals to be had on a range of products from hand-crafted bags, clothing, jewelry and ornaments, there are many stalls with second hand items that can quell your bargain hunting urges, […]
City Lights-Go Fish
January 7, 2009 – 1:29 am
Erin Ireland is here with City Lights to investigate one of Vancouver’s great little culinary secrets. Go Fish, a little fish shack situated down on the water in False Creek, pulls extraordinary numbers regardless of the day, the time of year, or the weather. This fish n’ chips joint continuously has a line-up off the […]
Terminal City Rollergirls- Roller Derby
December 24, 2008 – 7:10 pm
Paul Anthony, reporting for City Lights, gets amongst it with the Terminal City Rollergirls at the Minaru Arena, Vancouver’s first all female roller derby league. Announcer Mac the Mouth breaks down the name of the game for us, “Each team has a pack of five skaters, the back last skater wears a star on her […]
BCSPCA- Toy Drive
December 20, 2008 – 11:19 pm
Shauna Baker and City Lights are out at the BCSPCA Toy Drive to find out just what’s going on in the name of pets. Rhonda Sherwood, SPCA, Chair of Vancouver Community Council, describes her involvement with the SPCA Toy Drive as coming from “something I was really ignorant to…the value of toys for animals, especially shelter animals. […]
Rogers Santa Claus Parade 2008
December 17, 2008 – 7:52 pm
Shauna Baker, City Lights, and 300,000 people are out in the cold on a December 7th afternoon to participate in the holiday extravaganza that is the Rogers Santa Claus Parade. 2008 is the fifth year of the Santa Claus Parade, and spectators are lined up thick along the parade route, starting at Boughton and Georgia […]
Grouse Mountain- The Peak of Christmas
December 17, 2008 – 6:39 pm
The Peak of Christmas, on Grouse Mountain, is one of Vancouver’s favourite holiday traditions. Ryan Lowe and City Lights are up at snowy heights to discover why. After making a bee-line straight to Santa’s lap to garner the promise of a new snowboard, Ryan learns that there are many more attractions up on Grouse Mountain […]
One of a Kind Christmas Show and Sale
December 4, 2008 – 8:32 pm
Host Shanua Baker is at BC Place to see what vendors have to offer the crowds of growing Christmas shoppers. This is the first show of its kind in Vancouver, having come from Toronto where it’s been on the go for thirty-five years, New York for two, and Chicago for ten. Having graced our wet […]
Novus Free Talk-Thanksgiving
November 29, 2008 – 12:50 am
How do you celebrate Thanksgiving? What do you look forward to the most? The family? The food? The wine? Novus Free Talk discusses just what it is that makes Thanksgiving so special. For some people in this city Thanksgiving is a new celebration for them, so its all about getting together with friends and family […]
Novus Free Talk-Halloween
November 26, 2008 – 2:31 am
The costume is the one thing us Vancouverites are most concerned about when it comes to Halloween. It’s all about the costume. Once you’ve got that, anything goes. Novus Free Talk discovers that we are a nation of die-hard trick and treaters, pulling off amazing costumes, amazing feats, and amazing times. Here are some of the […]
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