The small town of Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island has made a big impression for its efforts to promote local and sustainable food production. It is the first Cittaslow, or Slow City, in North America. Robyn Smith, Vivian Luk and Yvonne Robertson look at how one town has found an alternative to fast-paced living, and [...]

Tourism Vancouver is expecting more visitors this year, one reason being the recent international exposure from the Olympic games. Though this is good news for the local economy, this influx in tourism comes with an unexpected price for the city’s natural beauty. Jes Abeita, Rebecca Cheung and Ursula Diaz produced this report.

The SOLEfood Farm in East Vancouver is part of a larger project to provide locally grown food in Vancouver’s poorest neighbourhood. However, it is finding it hard to grow produce at a cost that is affordable to the people in the area. The farm is only able to offer only six jobs to Downtown Eastside [...]

While a vegetarian diet has its benefits, simply replacing your chicken with chard isn’t enough. The key to proper vegetarianism is supplementing the nutrients lost when animal-based foods are removed. Mike Green, Brooke Hykaway and Jessica Michielin take a bite out of the equation that vegetarianism automatically equals healthy.

Chickens in Vancouver face a vote at city council deciding the conditions for keeping them in backyards. For some chicken owners, the new regulations could be a curse, rather than a blessing. Daniel Hallen has the story.

The journalism industry is evolving, and at the forefront of this shift are students from UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism. For this television broadcast, we broke the conventional rules of reporting. We engaged with unique storytelling formats and experimented with diverse shooting and editing techniques. The end result is a host of videos that showcase [...]

Format: Reporter vs. Reporter Watch as reporters Sarah Berman and Megan Stewart go head-to-head over issues surrounding the Squamish First Nation’s plan to erect a billboard at the south end of the Burrard Street Bridge. Critics say the billboard will threaten driver safety, but advocates believe the Squamish First Nation have the right to develop [...]

Format: Satire A new book titled Time to Eat the Dog? reveals just how detrimental your pooch’s meat-eating diet can be to the environment. In this video, reporter Sarah Stenabaugh investigates how far Vancouverites are willing to go to reduce their pet’s eco-paw print. Produced by: Katie Hyslop, Karen Moxley and Sarah Stenabaugh.

Format: Process This piece combines traditional news with a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the story. You’ll witness the choices, decisions and events that helped shape Brent Wittmeier’s coverage of Vancouver’s plan to reduce city water consumption. Produced by: Brandi Cowen, Faiza Zia Khan, Aaron Tam and Brent Wittmeier.

Format: Investigative Of all the formats, the investigative piece is our most traditional. Kevin Suavé takes an in-depth look at how provincial funding cuts to the Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) autistic treatment program are impacting families across the province. Produced by: Josh Dehaas, Erin Empey and Kevin Sauvé.

Format: Camera-swap In this story, you’ll witness the city of Vancouver through a new vantage point.  The video was shot with two different cameras. Reporters Darren Fleet and Magally Zelaya handed over one of their cameras to their subject—a UBC PhD student who suffers from spina bifida and is in a wheelchair. The reporters then [...]

This newscast produced by UBC journalism students is in a traditional format and features stories from in and around Vancouver. In the show you will find a report on the British Columbia’s proposed harmonized sales tax, the Dalai Lama’s visit to Vancouver, funding cuts to the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Lower Mainland’s newest [...]

A clip from the UBC journalism students’ documentary, Ghana: Digital Dumping Ground, that aired on PBS Frontline/World’s season finale on June 23 2009. It was produced through funding from a $1 million gift to UBC’s Graduate School of Journalism from the Mindset Foundation. The team of UBC graduate journalism students investigating e-waste in three countries [...]