Regularly, I am asked, how does someone become an animal behaviourist?

Well, I was lucky, and in the right place at the right time. Over twenty years ago, the...

"You don't find a lot of high school kids saying they want to become a dietitian," says Tamar Kafka, dietetics education co-ordinator for the faculty of...

On a rainy afternoon, Tamara Litke hands out seeds to Ms. Collins's Grade 3 class at General Wolfe Elementary. To a chorus of creeped-out EEEEwwwww, she shows them...

Twelve years ago, Ledger immigrated to Canada after being invited to the University of British Columbia’s Animal Welfare Program as a visiting scholar. She...

Eating is hard when conscience sits at your table.

Take quinoa. Or wait. Maybe, don’t. Recent news reports say Bolivian farmers who grow quinoa can no...

Twenty-two national restaurant chains have joined B.C.'s Informed Dining nutritional information project and will roll out the program at 12,000 food outlets...

Do white foods make you fat and lethargic?

A lot of diet gurus would have you think so: Eliminate the white foods and watch the pounds melt away. White flour,...

Jim Lee is standing inside his ominously quiet chicken processing plant.

Running at full tilt, Cami International Poultry Inc. of Welland, Ont., would normally...

UBC has confirmed that they will be home to a micro-brewery in 2017.

Predictably, the school’s home brewing club are the first to raise a glass to the...

As Europe's horsemeat scandal grows, with quantities of the product having recently been found in Ikea meatballs, adventurous foodies are flocking to try the often...

Dr. Jim Thompson, Professor and Director of the UBC Dairy Education and Research Centre, is the recipient of the 2013 Award of Excellence for Innovation in Agriculture...

The Investment Agriculture Foundation of BC (IAF) announced recently that Dr. Jim Thompson, Professor and Director of the University of British Columbia (UBC) Dairy...

Charging city council with going too far—or not far enough—a packed crowd watched as elected officials unanimously approved new measures this week aimed at...

For John McNichol and Tim Durance, there’s nothing dry about dehydration. The pair of Vancouver co-CEOs are building an international business that could upend...

Vij's group of companies (restaurants and Vij's frozen curry retail products) contributed $250,000 to help with a complete makeover of the University of B.C....

Award-winning Vancouver-based chef Vikram Vij and his wife Meeru Dhalwala are proud to announce their involvement in a brand new venture with the University of British...