Canadians will see more trucks on the road, will earn less abroad for their products and will lose import business to American ports, shippers say, if Canada doesn’t improve the way it runs its railways. Groups representing shippers are lobbying Transport Canada to introduce new rules to compel railroads to offer better service. In the [...]
By Kate Adach Ori Garcia lived in constant fear before fleeing Mexico. She suffered homophobic violence and humiliation in a country often considered safe for queers. “As a transgendered woman, every day that go by in my life, in my country, was a matter of life or death,” she said. Garcia applied for refugee status [...]
For almost 20 years, Alfred and Angela Chan fashioned floral arrangements and sold them to a loyal community of customers in the Cambie Village. But next week the Chans will close the doors of Arts Flowers and Gifts for good. “It’s too hard to do business on Cambie Street,” said Alfred Chan. More than a [...]
Canada’s greenest city is about to push forward on a new bike share system. The City of Vancouver already invests millions of dollars in bike lanes and car-free transit initiatives. Bike share has been an idea in Vancouver for almost 20 years, said Scott Edwards, who is part of the Greenways and Neighbourhood Transportation team. The [...]
A Vancouver sex store is open for business despite a city order to shut it down. The store owner lost an appeal with the Vancouver board of variance on Oct. 14. The city refused store owner Tony Perry’s original application for a development permit on Sept. 3 because the store violates zoning by-laws. “This is [...]
The crisp morning air smelled of blood and livestock as a group of Muslims arrived at a Pitt Meadows slaughterhouse to perform a ritual sacrifice on Eid ul-Adha, a key Islamic holiday. “The first drop of blood spilled will absolve you of your sins,” said Sheikh Qaidjoher Mufaddal Diwan, one of the group members. He [...]
Vancouver needs a sobering centre to keep intoxicated individuals out of jail, says the BC Civil Liberties Association. B.C. has the highest rates of death in custody in Canada, according to a recent association report. Fifty-three per cent of the deaths between 1992 and 2007 were accidental, many of those caused by complications from alcohol [...]
Lucy Gregory discovered she doesn’t mind spending time in the dark. Gregory, a first-year student at the University of British Columbia, was part of a UBC team that placed second in a new North America energy-saving competition that ended Nov. 20. UBC was the only Canadian university to participate in the three-week competition between 39 [...]
Update: Edna Ner passed away on Dec. 2. Brigita Anastasia Ner, alone by her comatose mother’s bedside, waits for Citizenship and Immigration Canada to decide whether her father can visit Vancouver from the Philippines. Her father, a pastor, applied for a temporary resident visa on Nov. 8 after his wife, Edna Ner, 47, suffered a [...]
A determined group of residents in Vancouver’s West End have taken to the streets in protest every Saturday since October. They are concerned that plans to address the city’s acute rental shortage in the area will undermine the neighbourhood’s character. On one particular Saturday, members of the West End Neighbours marched across Vancouver’s Davie Street armed [...]
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