Civic Lee Speaking, Vancouver Sun, May 17, 2012 Where was this Sam Sullivan when he was mayor? On Wednesday night I saw a side of Sullivan I’ve never seen before. Humble, awed, inspired and inspiring, well-spoken and at times at a true loss for words. This was the Sam Sullivan I saw at his latest [...]
By Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun May 15, 2012 Former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan is holding a “public salon” Wednesday night at the Playhouse Theatre to highlight people he believes have a passion for their community. From Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sharing his counterintuitive approach to life to Dr. Unjali Mulhotra describing the challenges in achieving [...]
Vancouver is featured on CNN as a livable city.
By Sam Sullivan, Special to the Sun March 26, 2012,Vancouver Sun I usually agree with Gordon Gibson, but not with his suggestion that Vancouver should just say no to growth and let him live a quiet life. In the 1880s Canada decided to make Vancouver its “terminal city.” A monumentally expensive railway was built which [...]
By Denise Ryan, Vancouver Sun March 26, 2012 Photograph by: Glenn Baglo, PNG, Vancouver Sun Berta Lopera is a BertaColombian-born Canadian who is learning Farsi and greetings in other languages as part of former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan’s greeting fluency program. ———————————————— When Colombian-born lawyer Berta Lopera first arrived in Vancouver to study English, all [...]
Sam Sullivan was recently invited to Bogota, Columbia to speak to several groups related to urban planning, disability and mining. Following is media coverage on his visit.
Issues include drugs, crime By Andrew Fleming, Contributing Writer, Source: Vancouver Courier November 15, 2011 Three years after being kicked to the curb by his own party, former NPA mayor Sam Sullivan is still active in Vancouver. Ironically, he said he finds it easier to get things done now that he’s no longer in power [...]
Source: Vancouver Sun Over the last few decades, Vancouver’s streets have filled with voices speaking more than 100 languages. For most of us the sounds seem like impenetrable babble. Although it is unlikely that any of us will become fluent in these languages, this should not deter us from discovering the treasures that they hold nor [...]
Greeting Fluency official launch June 23, 2011. Courtesy of Abco Film Corp. The Greeting Fluency Initiative encourages citizens to learn a few words of greetings in the languages of their neighbors. Our communities are becoming more multicultural and multilingual. This presents great opportunities for both the more traditional older communities and the newer ones. Older [...]
Source: Philippine Asian News Today Learning seven simple phrases is not much more difficult than learning to use chopsticks. This was the gist of former Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan’s message when he conceptualized the introduction of seven phrases of Vancouver’s three most important languages — Cantonese, Punjabi and Tagalog—in a forum on “Greeting Fluency” at the [...]
Mongolian with instructor Batsuren Eenjin
