Vancouver refugees will get new centre for housing, services
The hundreds of refugees who pour into Vancouver every year will soon get a base unlike any they’ve had before — a one-stop housing, support, and services centre[...]
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Canada Line a boon for retailers everywhere — except one sad stop
Moha Bateni crosses his arms and gazes out his storefront window. Across the street a crush of pedestrians file in and out of the King Edward transit stop[...]
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Laneway housing heats up city council race
Some residents in Dunbar, a neighbourhood made up predominantly of single-detached homes, are hoping that the incoming Vancouver City Council will put a moratorium on the building of[...]
Opposition critics decry Park Board’s ‘loss of independence’
With a municipal election looming, opponents to the Vancouver Park Board’s elected officials are alleging that the organization has lost its independence from City Hall. At the heart[...]
Pedestrian politics leave South Vancouver on the curb
“It’s asking for death” says Nigel Pease, a Vancouver bus driver who regularly sees pedestrians darting across Main Street in heavy traffic. The six-block stretch of Main just[...]
Vancouver Broadway businesses fear another Canada Line
Plans by Vancouver’s major political parties to improve transit along the Broadway corridor have some worried about the fallout on their businesses. City transit is a top priority[...]
Candidates scrap over tangled planning policies
Vancouver politicians are sparring over the terms of upcoming community plans for Grandview-Woodland, the West End and Marpole. City planners said the new plans, now under consultation, replace[...]
Viaduct debate fuels False Creek park uncertainty
Uncertainty over the future of an important passageway into downtown Vancouver has cast further doubts over long-running plans for a park in False Creek. The current incumbent party,[...]
Park Board ‘plays dead’ says community representative
Patrick Couling, a board member of the False Creek Community Centre on Granville Island for 27 years, agrees with opposition candidates that the primarily Vision-COPE Park Board has[...]
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