One person’s street art is another’s nuisance. Katie Dangerfield, Daniel Hallen and Yvonne Robertson look at how new limits on the amount and type of street art allowed during the 2010 Winter Olympics are making it difficult for artists.
Rod Gash is a resident of Kitsilano’s first homeless shelter. A recovering addict, Gash lived in area carports before the shelter opened Jan. 15 on West 4th Avenue between Pine and Fir Streets.
Gash was among the sixteen people who arrived opening night. The shelter reached its 40-person capacity within days of opening, on Jan. 19.
Gash [...]
Up to 35 positions are scheduled to be eliminated from the City of Vancouver Department of Engineering, but so far, one group appears to be safe.
Vancouver City Council passed its 2010 operating budget Dec. 18, 2009, which included cuts to programs and jobs proposed in November. According to a union official, jobs will go as [...]
Nearly 500 surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver do not post information about who owns them, making it impossible for people to find out who is watching them and why.
The cameras, 200 of which are in alleyways, skirt privacy laws and breach official guidelines for overt video surveillance by private companies. These guidelines require notification to [...]
Dennis Rose and Chris Turo sit on foldable chairs outside Robson Street’s designer shops in downtown Vancouver nearly every day, selling their art on the sidewalk.
They carve wooden feathers and watch shoppers stroll by, arms draped with shopping bags that hang like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
Wood chippings typically collect at their feet. The smell [...]
Allie Slemon, a fifth year English student at the University of British Columbia, was surprised to find a strongly worded email from President Stephen Toope in her inbox.
Toope warned of Metro Vancouver’s proposal to regulate academic lands on the Vancouver campus. He said this would be “devastating” to academic freedom and could put a “choke [...]
Xin Xin Deschner emigrated to Vancouver from Beijing nearly 20 years ago for the quality of life.
She settled in Kingsway, one of east Vancouver’s oldest and most culturally diverse neighbourhoods. She married, had a family, and went to work as a teacher in a local secondary school.
Now she’s worried the city’s plans to increase density [...]
BC Housing and the City of Vancouver are listening to ex-residents and advocates of Little Mountain housing site, but for many it is two years too late.
Demolition crews, cranes, and rubble have taken over the 15-acre land in Vancouver once occupied by BC’s oldest public housing development.
Nearly 600 people were displaced throughout the province. For [...]
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 32-year-old [...]
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.
“We have [...]
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