I had spent the day playing tourist in my own city, visiting First Nations art galleries and the Stanley Park totem poles, and the Bill Reid Gallery.
The next day I was covering the Dalai Lama event, called the Vancouver Peace Summit, so I chose to stay overnight at one of the hotels in downtown Vancouver. [...]

“Bill [Reid] is taking you by the hand and taking you through his gallery,” Martine Reid tells us as we step into the Bill Reid Gallery in Vancouver. She was the wife of Bill, celebrated Haida artist and CBC radio announcer (1920-1998), who describes herself as Bill’s “wife, partner and best critic.”
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Today was a day to play tourist in my own city, checking out some First Nations tourism spots in Vancouver, BC, mostly art galleries and the totem poles in Stanley Park.
There’s a great little First Nations gallery in North Vancouver called Khot La Cha Gallery (270 Whonoak Street, 604-987 3339). Unassumingly tucked off the main [...]

For the second time in the last three years, his Holiness the Dalai Lama is in Vancouver, Canada and I’m lucky enough to be here at the Vancouver Peace Summit. (The first time was the Dialogues in Vancouver session at GM Place in 2006.)
It’s impossible not to walk away inspired to be a better person [...]