It’s a drizzling Wednesday night on Commercial and East Broadway Street in East Vancouver. The glaring yellow streetlight illuminates about forty people clustered in loose groups at the Commercial-Broadway Skytrain station entrance. Seven native teenagers stand at a bus shelter bench tossing jokes back and forth and chatting. Some of them smoke; others pace back [...]
Alyssa Kohlman has a lot invested in her scrambled egg breakfast. She spent roughly $1,000 to bring two hens from her flock of six with her when she moved moved to Vancouver from Colorado a few weeks ago. “Totally nuts, I realize,” she said. “But my animals are pets, they’re not livestock.” Vancouver city council [...]
Vancouver legalised backyard hens in June as part of the city’s food policy and campaign to be the greenest city in the world by 2020. It is legal to keep chickens in Victoria, Esquimalt, Burnaby, Surrey, Richmond and New Westminster. Chickens are also permitted in many major U.S. cities, including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago [...]
Hastings Park may be one of the noisiest, most dilapidated pieces of parkland in Vancouver, and a city plan to develop and beautify the area isn’t passing the smell test from local residents either. It is “all about commercialization,” said local resident and Hastings Park Conservancy member, Pat Miller. The park boasts less than 20 [...]
A spark lit on Facebook has helped bring the Parade of Lost Souls in Vancouver back from the dead. Organizers cancelled the popular event last year due to funding cuts. But community members came together by social networking to plan an unofficial gathering in Grandview Park in the east of the city. The renegade Parade [...]
Five-hundred to 1,000 Vancouver youth sleep in the streets every night. Misha used to be one of them. Tonight the 16-year-old shares a muffin and cigarettes with her friends on a downtown sidewalk. They roll a joint as Misha tells her story. “My father has been using crack for forty years,” said Misha, “my mother [...]
Having a little cottage behind her home has always been a dream for Ocea Ringrose. “Growing up as a kid I always loved the idea of having a little coach house or a little studio house,” Ringrose said. “It’s just so cool.” In one year, Ringrose will have that cottage. She and her partner, Colin [...]
Parents in East Vancouver are worried about Olympic road closures that are three weeks longer than expected. Principal David Ferguson of West Coast Christian School heard in October that the street outside his school would be closed after Jan. 24. “I was a bit surprised to hear the news,” said Ferguson. “We knew that the [...]
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