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Langara College
, mottoeng = Knowledge is Freedom , established = April 1, 1994 , type = Public , endowment = C$5.8 million , administrative_staff = , faculty = , president = Paula Burns , students = 22,000 , city = Vancouver, British Columbia , country = Canada , coordinates = , campus = Urban , free_label = , free = , colours = Orange, black, white , athletics_affiliations = PACWEST, CCAA , sports_nickname = Langara Falcons , mascot = Falcon , academic_affiliations = ACCC, CBIE, CUP , website = , logo = Langara College logo.png Langara College (snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ in ''Halkomelem'') is a public degree-granting college in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which serves approximately 22,000 students annually through its university, career, and continuing studies programs. The college takes its name from the neighbourhood in which it is situated, which was named after Spanish Admiral Juan de Lángara. History Langara College courses and programs were first offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public University
A public university or public college is a university or college that is in owned by the state or receives significant public funds through a national or subnational government, as opposed to a private university. Whether a national university is considered public varies from one country (or region) to another, largely depending on the specific education landscape. Africa Egypt In Egypt, Al-Azhar University was founded in 970 AD as a madrasa; it formally became a public university in 1961 and is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the world. In the 20th century, Egypt opened many other public universities with government-subsidized tuition fees, including Cairo University in 1908, Alexandria University in 1912, Assiut University in 1928, Ain Shams University in 1957, Helwan University in 1959, Beni-Suef University in 1963, Zagazig University in 1974, Benha University in 1976, and Suez Canal University in 1989. Kenya In Kenya, the Ministry of Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Arts
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre artist Patrice Pavi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristi Pinderi
Kristi Pinderi (born August 2, 1982, Pogradec) is an Albanian activist advocating for LGBT community rights and a freelance journalist resident in Canada. He is the founder of the Pro-LGBT organization in Albania. Political activism Kristi Pinderi, known in Albania as a LGBT rights activist, has fled Albania, and lives in Canada. He came out to his family at the age of 27. In March 2012, he established Pro-LGBT, an organisation that works mainly to raise awareness about LGBT topics. In May of that year, along with 8 other activists he pedaled at the Dëshmorët e Kombit Boulevard in Tirana in what was called the first pride event in Albania. During the parliamentary elections of 2013, Pinderi, together with activist Xheni Karaj, developed for the first time a series of consultations with key political parties to include LGBT rights reference in their programs. In the framework of that initiative, Pinderi and Karaj had the opportunity to meet with former Prime Minister Sali Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Sullivan
Sam Sullivan (born November 13, 1959) is a Canadian politician who had served as the MLA for Vancouver-False Creek. Previously, he served as the Minister of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development with responsibility for Translink in the short-lived BC Liberal government after the 2017 election, as well as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and has been invested as a member of the Order of Canada. He is currently President of the Global Civic Policy Society and adjunct professor with the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Early life Sam Sullivan was born on November 13, 1959, to East Vancouver residents Lloyd and Ida Sullivan. His father ran Sully's Autoparts on East Hastings Street. He has three brothers, Donald, Patrick, Terry, and a sister, Carol. Sullivan attended Chief Maquinna Elementary and Vancouver Technical Secondary School in East Vancouver. Quadriplegic Sullivan became paralyzed after breaking his neck in a skiing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaurav Sharma (author)
Gaurav Sharma (born 4 March 1992) is a Canadian author and novelist of Indian origin, best known for his national (India) bestselling novel, '' God of the Sullied''. His other books include, '' Diary of a Whimsical Lover'', '' Long Live the Sullied'' (sequel to God of the Sullied), '' The Indian Story of an Author'' and a semi-autobiographical fiction '' Gone are the Days'' which he completed writing in ten months. Prior to '' Gone are the Days'', Gaurav authored three textbooks related to the field of journalism and mass communication. Early life and education Sharma was born in New Delhi, raised in Sitamarhi where he spent his childhood with grandparents and completed initial school education from N.S. DAV Public School. Then he again moved to New Delhi and completed Bachelor of Journalism and Mass Communication from GGSIPU in 2014. In 2016, he earned a Post Degree Diploma in Business Administration from Langara College. He was a permanent resident of Canada until 2021. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Mochrie
Colin Andrew Mochrie (; born November 30, 1957) is a Scottish-born Canadian actor, writer, producer and improvisational comedian, best known for his appearances on the British and US versions of the improvisational TV show ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'' Mochrie honed his comedic talents with Vancouver's TheatreSports League and Toronto's Second City theatre. He has appeared in dozens of television series and films, as well as theatrical shows. With his wife, comedian Debra McGrath, Mochrie co-wrote, co-produced, and co-starred in the Canadian sitcoms ''Getting Along Famously'' and ''She's the Mayor''. He has written for numerous other series and events, and wrote and performed for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Mochrie's work has been recognized with numerous awards, including two Canadian Comedy Awards, a Gemini Award, and a Writers Guild of Canada award. He was named Canadian Comedy Person of the Year at the 2013 Canadian Comedy Awards. Early life Colin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Mason (journalist)
Gary Mason is a Canadian journalist. He currently is the national affairs columnist for ''The Globe and Mail'', and covers events in western Canada from a conservative Vancouverite perspective. Biography Mason grew up in Tsawassen. Mason graduated from Langara College's journalism program. He started his career with the ''Victoria Times Colonist'' before moving to the ''Vancouver Sun'', where he worked for nineteen years as sports section editor and provincial political affairs. Mason was hired by the ''Globe'' as part of an effort to expand the publication to British Columbia readers in 2005; his familiarity to local readers was a factor in his hiring. Awards Gary is a five-time National Newspaper Award nominee, winning it three times. He has received B.C.'s highest journalism honour, the Jack Webster Award, eight times. Recently, he was recognized with the Bruce Hutchinson Lifetime Achievement Award. He has authored or co-authored six books. He appears frequently on televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Kallin
Catherine Kallin is a Canadian theoretical quantum condensed matter physicist whose research topics have included spin wave theory, the quantum Hall effect, frustrated antiferromagnets, chirality in superconductors, and high-temperature superconductivity. She is a professor emerita of physics and astronomy at McMaster University. Education and career Kallin is originally from Vancouver, where she was an undergraduate at Langara College and the University of British Columbia (UBC), graduating from UBC in 1979. She was turned off from physics in her high school education, but regained interest after taking a general-interest physics course at Langara. She completed her Ph.D. in physics at Harvard University in 1984. Her dissertation, ''Some Dynamic Electronic Properties of Semiconductor Surfaces and Interfaces'', was supervised by Bertrand Halperin. After postdoctoral research at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joey Haywood
Joel "Joey" Haywood (born 3 September 1984) is a Canadian-born Trinidad and Tobago professional basketball player. He has been a member of the Trinidad and Tobago national team. Due to his reputation as a streetball player and his ball-handling expertise, he is often nicknamed "The King Handles". Early life Haywood was born on 3 September 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia. His family—which included his father Zephryn and older brother Gary—moved from Trinidad and Tobago to the city of Burnaby in British Columbia in Canada. Gary, who regularly played basketball, would often take his younger sibling with him when he played. At age 7, Joey chose to stick with the sport instead of playing soccer, his father's favorite sport. He said, "In soccer, there's too many people on the field, and you don't get your time to shine." In the area Haywood was brought up, he practiced playing in the same park that future Simon Fraser University star Jordan Mason would practice in. Haywood' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ujjal Dosanjh
Ujjal Dev Dosanjh ( pa, ਉੱਜਲ ਦੇਵ ਦੁਸਾਂਝ) (), (born September 9, 1947) is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 33rd premier of British Columbia from 2000 to 2001 and as a Liberal Party of Canada member of Parliament from 2004 to 2011. He was minister of health from 2004 until 2006, when the party lost government. He then served in the Official Opposition from January 2006 until 2011. Dosanjh was one of four visible minorities to serve in Paul Martin's Ministry. Prior to being involved in federal politics, he spent ten years in provincial politics. He was elected in the Vancouver-Kensington riding in 1991 as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party (BC NDP) and re-elected there in 1996. He served as the Attorney General of British Columbia from August 1995 to February 2000. When the leader of his party resigned in 1999, Dosanjh put himself forward as a candidate and won the leadership vote. With the win he became Canada's fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Doheny
Daniel Doheny (born ) is a Canadian actor known for starring in the Canadian comedy film ''Adventures in Public School'' and the Netflix films ''Alex Strangelove'', a coming-of-age story, and '' The Package'', a raunchy comedy. Early life and education Doheny was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where he graduated from Lord Byng Secondary School in 2008. He then went on to attend Studio 58, a professional theatre training program at Langara College, where he graduated in 2012. Career In 2013, Doheny played six roles in ''Hamlet'' and ''Twelfth Night'' during the summer season of Bard on the Beach. He returned to the Bard stage in 2016 in '' The Merry Wives of Windsor''. Doheny is also part of the sketch comedy troupe HumanTown, who won the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's ComedyCoup competition in 2014. As part of the prize, the troupe wrote, produced, and acted in a self-titled comedy special which aired on CBC Television in 2016. Doheny won the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Acheson
Alison Acheson is a Canadian writer of fiction for adults and children. Biography Acheson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. In her youth she studied through both public school and correspondence school. She left school just before her sixteenth birthday, and worked as a hairdresser, before enrolling in Langara College and the University of British Columbia to become a Bachelor of Arts and subsequently a Master of Fine Arts. Acheson has taught writing for children and pedagogy in the MFA program at UBC, and continues to teach extension courses in creative writing at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. as well as from her own writing workshop site. Acheson has three sons, with whom she lives in her home in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Her husband, Marty Hatlelid, died April 10, 2016. Acheson's memoir, ''Dance Me to the End: Ten Months and Ten Days with ALS'', describes his diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and the final m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
