Asat Bidu stood in line at Vancouver International Airport (YVR) one afternoon in late March, waiting to check in to her flight to India. She makes the trip with her husband and son every couple of years, transferring through cities like Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Manila along the way. Bidu and her family are [...]
On March 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez oil tanker ran aground off the coast of Alaska, resulting in the one of the worst ecological disasters in history. The 23rd anniversary of the spill was marked by the gathering of hundreds of people at the Vancouver Art Gallery who, at the same time, voiced their opposition [...]
On a stormy day, angry surf crashes against the Iona Island jetty with enough force to shake its foundations. The jetty is a 4-kilometre needle of land that sticks out into the Strait of Georgia, exposure that ensures it’s in need of constant repair. It costs the Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) up to $2.5 [...]
Long before it became the ‘condo city,’ the prized waterfront real estate of Vancouver was home to towering kelp forests, roaming herds of sea urchins and beaches blanketed with shellfish. The creatures that depend on those staples as food — like salmon, sea otters, seals and even whales — were abundant in Vancouver’s waters. Many species have [...]
In December 2011, Canada withdrew from the Kyoto Accord, citing economic reasons. According to a statement by Environment Minister Peter Kent on Environment Canada’s website, the accord “is not the path forward for a global solution to climate change; instead, it is an impediment.” The world consensus through the International Panel for Climate Change reports [...]
Adrienne McShane considers herself to be a very lucky legal assistant. She and her colleagues no longer have to share the same pot of coffee that’s been congealing all day long on a burner in their Vancouver office. Now, she simply reaches up and grabs one of the multiple varieties of single-serve coffee packs neatly [...]
As consumer-owned electric vehicles begin to hit Canadian streets, some candidates vying for a seat on the city council are considering Vancouver’s readiness for the cars and the charging infrastructure they require. Dealerships across the lower mainland began to sell Canada’s first widely available electric car models this fall. On Nov. 5, the provincial government [...]
The B.C. government’s announcement of rebates on electric vehicles and their charging stations follows similar programs in Ontario and Quebec. While Vancouver’s mild year-round climate makes it a prime location for electric vehicles, the city has a less developed network of charging stations than Toronto and Montreal. Sean Allan, an engineer for BC Hydro subsidiary [...]
The historic logging boomtown of Port Renfrew is redefining its relationship with old trees. Nestled on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island, the town’s livelihood and identity grew out of logging old-growth forests for most of the 20th century. Mechanization of the logging industry in the 1980s led to significant job loss, which forced the [...]
By Lena Smirnova and Carrie Swiggum
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