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UC Graduate launches online music community With his passion of filmmaking and music UC Business graduate Corban Tupou created an entire online music community – Sounds of the Local. UC Graduate Corban Tupou, 22, created Sounds of the Local, a group of young people who mix, create and share their music purely for fun. Read…
It’s time to shelve the ‘small country’ excuse “It is time to stop saying New Zealand is a small contributor to climate change, and start getting serious about it… If we’re more honest about it, getting serious about climate change is not about protecting the planet. It’s about keeping the planet habitable for humans.” This…
The city’s recycling facility – EcoSort on Parkhouse Road, Sockburn, is opening its doors on Saturday 31 October from 9am to 1pm for people to take a look at the facility which is normally off-limits to the public. Visitors will also be able to get up close to a recycling truck and learn about how…
NZ’s Covid-19 methods are effective but ‘old fashioned’ – UC disaster expert “It shows that New Zealanders need to have a conversation about what things we would give up to stop the impact of the lockdown,” disaster expert, Professor John Hopkins, tells RNZ in response to our ‘old fashioned’ COVID19 methods. New Zealand needs to…
A new artwork featuring a diving board could soon grace the banks of the Avon River opposite the Antigua Boatsheds. A Christchurch City Council Committee will decide next week whether Natalie Guy’s The Pool should be permanently installed on the Oxford Tce riverbank in central Christchurch. The location was chosen because it is an open…
There is much to digest in New Zealand’s election results and the likely shape of the next parliament. UC’s Professor Bronwyn Hayward & Dr Lindsey Te Ata o Tau MacDonald deliver their initial responses and predictions alongside other poltical experts in an article on The Conversation. More at the source
It was after 10pm on 24 October, 1870 when a fire started in an empty house on Lyttelton’s Oxford St between the Queen’s Hotel and a boot-maker’s shop. The flames quickly spread through nearby shops until both sides of London St were burning. The fire raged along Oxford St and Norwich Quay through wooden houses,…
Christchurch City Council is looking at options for upgrading the city’s 45 tsunami warning sirens to make them compliant with the national standard. The Council installed the sirens, which are located along the coastline between Brooklands and Taylors Mistake, in two stages between 2012 and 2014. The sirens are regularly tested to ensure they are…
Sunita Gautam has been elected the Central ward’s representative on the Linwood-Central-Heathcote Community Board. Progress results show that 23.46 per cent of Central ward electors have voted in the by-election, and that: Sunita Gautam Sunita Gautam (Labour) has 958 votes Celeste Donovan (Independent) has 640 votes Clive Antony (Independent Citizens) has 623 votes Paul Lonsdale…
Start your engines: From a motorcycling event to a free classical concert and an ultra trail run, there’s plenty of action happening in Christchurch this weekend. Rev into Kickstart Have a Go If motorbikes spin your wheels, head to Canterbury Agricultural Park for Kickstart Have a Go 2020. This annual motorcycling event for riders, trainers…
Introducing our Tumu Taiao – Mana Whenua Experts on Council Anei kau ana te reo maioha o Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu me te Kaunihera Taiao ki Waitaha i ruka i te ekeka mai o Iaean Cranwell rāua ko Yvette Couch-Lewis hai Tumu Taiao – Mana Whenua Experts – ki te pae Kaunihera Taiao ki…
Christchurch City Council’s Draft Community Housing Strategy is now open for public feedback. Residents can have their say on the draft strategy until 16 November 2020. Give your feedback on the draft Community Housing Strategy. The Council is proposing changing its current Social Housing Strategy to reflect a wider mix of housing types and financial…
Sponsored by ChristchurchNZ, Kiwi Innovation Network (KiwiNet) and Ryman Healthcare, the HealthTech Supernode Challenge aims to identify and generate commercially viable solutions that address real healthcare problems, with a special focus on the Aged Care and Rural New Zealand sectors. The 22 challenge semi-finalists went through an intensive six-week accelerator programme, working through key development…
Water quality of lakes and rivers of Upper Waitaki highlighted An overview of the water quality of the lakes and rivers in the Upper Waitaki catchment was presented to the Upper Waitaki Water Zone Committee at its October meeting on Friday. The past year’s annual water quality monitoring results show that five lakes in the…
“Ōtautahi Christchurch has always been a place of exploration and stories, with perhaps the richest Antarctic history on the planet,” Kennedy said. “The Antarctic Gateway City Trail enables people to experience this history in depth, at the places it happened, and at their own pace.” Figures from 2017 show that National Antarctic Programmes that utilise…
Two UC innovations among KiwiNet award finalists Two University of Canterbury engineering innovations were among the 12 finalists selected for the eighth annual KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards held last night. Associate Professor Aaron Marshall’s vision for New Zealand is to be the first country to have a zero-waste galvanising industry. For further information please…
UC politics expert insight: A campaign of missed opportunities After a long and COVID-delayed campaign, New Zealand’s general election is just a day away. For the fourth and final time, Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins met last night for a televised debate. University of Canterbury Professor Bronwyn Hayward offers her…
Step into the scene of murderous plots with a Christchurch Heritage Festival tour of the home of crime fiction queen Dame Ngaio Marsh to mark the 125th anniversary of the author’s birth. Born in Christchurch in 1895, Marsh died in 1982, aged 86. Nestled in a quiet corner of Cashmere, the weatherboard house – designed…
A fun new hoarding erected around Christ Church Cathedral is giving people a glimpse of the building’s past and its future. The new 58-metre long fencing information panels have been installed over the past few days and were officially ‘unveiled’ earlier today. Dean of Christchurch Lawrence Kimberley says the panels are intended to inform and…
Environment Canterbury is increasing the frequency of buses on the popular Avonhead to Sumner route. From 29 November, buses on the Purple Line (or Route 3) will run every 10 minutes all day on weekdays, and every 15 minutes during weekends. ECan Transport Portfolio Lead Councillor Phil Clearwater said this is an exciting and significant…
Buses to run every 10 minutes all day on route 3 From 29 November, buses on route 3 Airport/Sheffield Crescent to Sumner (the Purple Line) will run every 10 minutes all day on weekdays, and every 15 minutes during weekends. Transport Portfolio Lead Councillor Phil Clearwater said this is an exciting and significant step in…
Anti-bullying attitude important every day – NZ education expert Anti-bullying expert Dr Cara Swit is delighted to see University of Canterbury (UC) students supporting the annual Pink Shirt Day tomorrow, but would like people to feel empowered to confront bullying every day. Pink Shirt Day in the College of Engineering 2019 “Days like Pink Shirt…
University of Canterbury renews hosting rights for Antarctic Headquarters A renewed agreement between the University of Canterbury (UC) and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) will see the international Antarctic headquarters housed at UC until 2027. COMNAP Executive Secretary Michelle Rogan-Finnemore, University of Canterbury (UC) Vice-Chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey and…
From our Chair: Legacy issues One of the most difficult tasks we face at Environment Canterbury is determining how best to deal with a range of historic ‘legacy issues’ around the region. *Jenny Hughey, Chair, Environment Canterbury These are the problems that Cantabrians and Councils have so far been unable to sort out. Caused by…
Students embrace politics in countdown to 2020 election Students at the University of Canterbury (UC) have organised a number of events to connect young voters with political candidates in the lead-up to the 2020 elections. Hinerangi Curtis, Phillipstown Community Hub General Manager Viviana Zanetti, Lisa McLaren and Jovis Lavalais worked together to create an event…
Artworks by avid adventurer and Antarctic explorer Frank Worsley sail into view on the Akaroa Museum website this month to mark the start of the summer season on the ice. In conjunction with Christchurch’s Days of Ice celebration, the new exhibition – titled This Book Belongs to Commander Frank Worsley – reveals the prized pencil…
The world’s last remaining huia nest is one of the rarely-seen taonga on show in a Christchurch Heritage Festival exhibition marking 150 years since the Canterbury Museum first opened its doors. Since that opening day on 1 October, 1870, the Museum’s collection has grown from 25,000 objects to more than 2.3 million. To mark the…
UC Law Professor New Zealand author on foreign bribery report New report on foreign bribery describes New Zealand as having ‘limited enforcement’. UC Law Professor John Hopkins is the author of the New Zealand report on behalf of as part of Exporting Corruption 2020: Assessing Enforcement of the OCED Anti-Bribery Convention. See the Exporting Corruption…
Christchurch City Libraries’ annual Big Bargain Book Sale is back on this month following two COVID-19-enforced delays. The Big Bargain Book Sale will now take place at Pioneer Stadium on Friday, 16 October from 9am to 7pm and on Saturday, 17 October from 9am to 4pm. The sale was initially set for March and then…
A $53 million wastewater project to improve the health of Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour is a step closer to completion. Four new pump stations have been built around the harbour, to serve as powerhouses to pump all of the Lyttelton Harbour communities’ wastewater over the hill to the main treatment plant in Bromley. More than five kilometres…