For Students, By Students
The seemingly endless summer weather that pushed gently and deeply into the school year appeared to turn abruptly, and a morass of unfriendly murky gloominess spread in as a replacement. And it seemed, the projects and the tests and the stressors and the this and the that came riding with it, and a hunkering down,…
By Annie Wagner, ‘27 Tik Tok celebrity Emmanuel the emu, a 5 foot 8, 120-pound bird who is famous forvideo-bombing his owner’s educational videos about farming has lost most of his flockmates to a deadly outbreak of avian flu. Emmanuel is caught up in a worldwide avian influenza outbreak that has affected over 50 million…
By Elliott Deyell, ’26 Once again, British Columbia is being hit with a series of atmospheric rivers, causing downpours of rain after an elongated drought. An atmospheric river is a large, narrow stream of water vapour that travels through the sky. Last year, the historic rainfall caused the flooding of 15,000 hectares of land, and…
The Ethics of Care
A deep dive into protein powder
There was an unusual stillness in my room, the hectic and unbridled swirling milieu absent, and only patient, slotted sun rays lay across empty blue chairs. The beginning edges of September, with assignments barely assigned and quizzes yet given, yielded peace and hope, before the churn and grind of another school year descended upon us…
By Lucas Rucchin, ’24 While you were trimming away your July afternoons in leisure, Amirali was cutting open the organs of a deceased pig to locate its heart. In the noon shade inside West Point Grey Academy’s second largest tent, I have with me Amirali Banani, Class of ‘24, whose extensive travels this summer…
By Henry Luo, ’24 God Save the King That is the cry of unwavering loyalty towards the British monarchy, and a cry that symbolizes the end of an era. For many people, Queen Elizabeth II’s passing came unexpectedly. She spent her last evening at Balmoral Castle in Scotland which sat on a leafy green field…
By Julia Bohnen ’24, pictures by Anderson Gao ’24. This volume features Caroline Kwon (’23) and Liam Dachner (’23). Each Humans of WPGA volume showcases short profiles of students who attend our school. Aimed at bringing our community closer, we hope that HOWPGA allows you to see inside the lives of students attending our school…
By Elliott Deyell, ’26 Artemis, the Greek goddess of the moon and twin sister of Apollo, hopes to join her brother on the moon by 2025. Artemis was founded to finish what the Apollo program of the late 60s and early 70s started; to return humans to the moon. Being the goddess of the moon,…