For the three decades that followed the Second World War, Commercial Drive had a distinctive Italian flavour to it. Today, a local renaissance is shaping Vancouver’s Little Italy, with a new generation of businesses offering authentic Italian cultural and culinary traditions with modern flair.
The Thomas Haas you meet during any busy business day is pretty much the Thomas Haas you meet at special events, such as the many pastry and dessert competitions he serves as judge for. He is outgoing, indefatigable, charming and almost unremittingly funny.
True to its name, when you enter the Three Centuries Shop, you are travelling to a different time. One can scarcely describe the treasures inside the building, the top floors of which make up the home of shop owner William MacKinnon.
Where punishment of the corporeal self is said to free the spirit, public subjugation of the ego may free us all. After all, what is a truly mortifying moment but a painful recognition of our shared humanity?
No collector likes to hear the words, “You have purchased a fake.”
Articulate, educated and undeniably attractive, Nazanin Afshin-Jam could have easily pursued anything she pleased; acting, singing and modeling were only a smattering of her successes by age 25. Instead, her lifelong passion for human rights became her focus, and now, it is her career.