Canadians will see more trucks on the road, will earn less abroad for their products and will lose import business to American ports, shippers say, if Canada doesn’t improve the way it runs its railways. Groups representing shippers are lobbying Transport Canada to introduce new rules to compel railroads to offer better service. In the [...]
For almost 20 years, Alfred and Angela Chan fashioned floral arrangements and sold them to a loyal community of customers in the Cambie Village. But next week the Chans will close the doors of Arts Flowers and Gifts for good. “It’s too hard to do business on Cambie Street,” said Alfred Chan. More than a [...]
Canada’s greenest city is about to push forward on a new bike share system. The City of Vancouver already invests millions of dollars in bike lanes and car-free transit initiatives. Bike share has been an idea in Vancouver for almost 20 years, said Scott Edwards, who is part of the Greenways and Neighbourhood Transportation team. The [...]
A Vancouver sex store is open for business despite a city order to shut it down. The store owner lost an appeal with the Vancouver board of variance on Oct. 14. The city refused store owner Tony Perry’s original application for a development permit on Sept. 3 because the store violates zoning by-laws. “This is [...]
Lucy Gregory discovered she doesn’t mind spending time in the dark. Gregory, a first-year student at the University of British Columbia, was part of a UBC team that placed second in a new North America energy-saving competition that ended Nov. 20. UBC was the only Canadian university to participate in the three-week competition between 39 [...]
A determined group of residents in Vancouver’s West End have taken to the streets in protest every Saturday since October. They are concerned that plans to address the city’s acute rental shortage in the area will undermine the neighbourhood’s character. On one particular Saturday, members of the West End Neighbours marched across Vancouver’s Davie Street armed [...]
More than half of health care workers in Vancouver Coastal Health facilities choose not to get a flu shot, despite efforts by officials to encourage doctors and nurses to get vaccinated. Health care workers can get the influenza vaccine against seasonal flu free of charge but the program is voluntary. Unvaccinated staff risk contracting the [...]
B.C. charities are upping the ante in their fight against a proposal to build the province’s largest casino in downtown Vancouver. Over 9,000 B.C. residents signed a petition released by the B.C. Association for Charitable Gaming Nov. 16., complaining that charities are being cheated by the provincial government around gambling revenue. They say the city [...]
One of the most desirable and expensive places to live in Vancouver is becoming the test case for an ambitious policy to provide more affordable homes in the city. The affluent Point Grey neighbourhood has the most backyard houses under construction anywhere in the city, with five in one lane. But the city’s haste to [...]
B.C.’s tough impaired-driving penalties aren’t worrying at least one Vancouver bar owner. Eli Gershkovitch, owner of Steamworks Bar and Restaurant, said sales are up compared to last year and he has even had to hire additional staff. Inside Steamworks, a hockey game blares on widescreen TVs and patrons sip foamy house-brewed pints. Servers rush from [...]
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