Monika Qually misses Vancouver. The 30-year-old misses the lush North Shore mountains and the fresh West Coast air. But she does not miss the city’s sky-high housing prices and low-paying jobs. “We couldn’t afford to start a family in Vancouver,” said Qually, so she and her husband decided to move to Toronto, where houses are [...]
Maureen Sugrue thought she was doing a good thing. When Vancouver councillors started pitching the idea of taking down the viaducts that connect the downtown to eastern Vancouver, Sugrue and many other residents campaigned energetically to get city engineers to also look at how to reduce commuter traffic that streams from those viaducts through a [...]
1898 False Creek flows to the edge of what is now the Cottonwood Gardens, and what may soon become the Malkin Connector. 1915 CN Rail fills in the eastern part of False Creek and turns it into the False Creek Flats, an industrial area composed of warehouses, train terminals and bus depots. 1958 City planners [...]
Derek Lappano has a decision to make about his unusual Vancouver home: Will he quietly leave town like the others, or stay, despite the cold weather and the cold reception from some residents? Lappano, a 26-year-old graduate from Montreal’s McGill University with a double major in English and philosophy, moved to Vancouver two months ago. [...]
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