The sounds of feet shuffling, coins clinking and people chatting drown out all other sounds every morning in Granville Station. After the rush dies down, the dim SkyTrain station transforms into a modest concert hall. Paul Neufeld, a classical guitarist, fiddles with guitar strings to play Spanish Romance. Jimmy Jackman serenades commuters with Dream a [...]
In a cramped room barely twenty feet from side to side, there’s a window overlooking a grimy alleyway, a few pieces of worn furniture and an old television set. Rodney Watson’s apartment in an East Vancouver church is small but spotlessly clean. “I feel like I’ve gone from one prison to another,” said Watson, a [...]
An association that brings together war veterans in one of Canada’s most expensive neighbourhoods is struggling to pay its taxes. The City of Vancouver has so far not taken action to recover the funds, but people who run the Billy Bishop Legion, a branch of The Royal Canadian Legion, are not taking any chances. despicable [...]
When Anoop Singh, 36, entered the taxi business seven years ago, he was making 15 trips to and from Vancouver’s YVR airport per day. Now, he works double shifts and is lucky to make eight. “This was a sanctuary at one time,” said Singh. “You could make some decent cash and look after your rent [...]
Vancouver restaurants are bracing for a major increase in their operating costs in 2010. The average 100 seat Vancouver restaurant use to pay $485 per year as a seat tax. That same restaurant will now be paying $800 for those seats – a 63 per cent increase. The city pushed for the tax increase in [...]
Kitsilano needs more social housing, and city council is changing zoning bylaws to make it happen. In a unanimous decision, council voted to re-zone 2304 West 8th Avenue to allow for construction of a four-storey apartment complex — despite organized and outspoken opposition from many people who live near the lot. The apartment complex, which [...]
Val Stewart’s 500 sq ft apartment is a testament to her life. The cozy space is filled with overstuffed furniture and pictures of her family that line the walls. Stewart has been in her apartment on Beach St. overlooking the ocean for 15 years. “To get this apartment facing the water was everything to me,” [...]
Ana Cagas Tabella knows first-hand being accredited as a nurse with international credentials in Canada can be a lottery for new immigrants. Cagas, a former nurse in Philippines, came to Canada as a member of the Live-in Caregiver Program. She was surprised that she would have to wait for a couple of years before she [...]
Hockey enthusiasts in southeast Vancouver are facing a shortage of ice despite the construction of two new rink facilities in preparation of the 2010 Olympic Games. From January 15, the newly built rink at Killarney will be used solely for the Olympics. It will host short track speed skating training sessions throughout the Games, resulting [...]
Any given Saturday at Burnaby Lake Park, music professor Nikolai Maloff and computer programmer Geoff Dryer can be found engaging in a showdown of aeronautic spectacle. In the skies above, lightweight, mini-engined planes dodge gliders with 13 foot wingspans. Below the air traffic, fellow flyers unpack hand-painted model airplanes of various sizes from the backseat [...]
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