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This week, City Council approved a massive rezoning request by developer Wall Financial Corporation for Shannon Mews in Kerrisdale. Kerrisdale is but one of...
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has announced a plan to freeze supportive housing development in the Downtown Eastside (DTES). The plan is part of a...
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Tenants in two Mount Pleasant buildings have found themselves among the first wave of renters impacted by the upcoming Broadway corridor redevelopment. One of...
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In BC alone, more than 13,000 people have died from overdoses and drug poisonings related to the unregulated and systemically toxic drug supply since...
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As the election approaches, we can expect the assault on harm reduction to grow and metastasize as a lurid wedge issue, fed from Conservative...
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It's about a lot more than viaducts. On July 27, council's Standing Committee on Transportation and Traffic voted to begin a comprehensive planning process...
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Many Vancouverites are wondering what the City is doing to make Vancouver affordable and therefore liveable. Unfortunately, the City’s main affordable housing initiative over...
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Vancouver's two developer-funded parties, the NPA and Vision, are identical on core policy issues. Both put developers before people, and hold their breath for...
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Vancouver's in-control municipal party, Vision Vancouver, votes as a bloc. You're surprised? Parties exist to march in step. They call it discipline. The just...
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A found public art piece on the Rize site, with the caption DEC 25. A fire, still suspect by many Mount Pleasant residents, burned...
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Michael Barnholden, author of Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Rioting in Vancouver (Anvil Press 2005), is associate director of Humanities 101...
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In the 2008 election, Vision Vancouver and Gregor Robertson recognized that to win an election in progressive Vancouver, politicians needed to talk the talk...
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"The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images" - Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord...
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Vancouver City Council's two standout issues in the first half of 2011 landed for wrap-up on the same afternoon of 19 April 2011 as...
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The VPL has implemented a branch-wide ban on employees who show symbols of support for the Palestinian people. According to internal workplace memos obtained...