City Council took steps on a proposed new Empty Homes Tax to help relieve pressure on the rental housing market. City staff will now move forward with public consultation to provide homeowners with...

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City Council took steps on a proposed new Empty Homes Tax to help relieve pressure on the rental housing market. City staff will now move forward with public consultation to provide homeowners with...
Seniors in the Sunset neighbourhood might one day have their own centre. At a Board meeting last night, Vancouver Park Board directed staff to investigate potential sites for a seniors’ centre near...
Mayor Robertson joined local students and family members at the Strathcona Community Centre Association breakfast program, where over 11,000 meals were served to local students and family members f...
Facebook has made a number of tweaks to its News Feed algorithm that has publishers and businesses scrambling to keep up. The social giant has shifted its newsfeed yet again and this time they are ...
The Energy Forum — a coalition of B.C. power producers, industry associations and environmental organizations —released today an open letter calling on the B.C. government to deliver a plan to achi...
Four ways B.C. can reclaim “climate leader” status Whenever Premier Christy Clark is asked about her climate change plans, she touts the success of the policies put in place by her predecessor Gord...
Those who have struggled with or currently battle an eating disorder know that it is a very lonely and secretive illness. Constantly surrounded by stigma and perpetuated by the media in fragmented ...
Opinion: Super energy-efficient buildings have key role to play in climate action B.C. premier Christy Clark has sure talked a lot about saying yes of late. “To grow and diversify our economy, we m...
VANCOUVER – Margo Wagner and Joan Sorley had been friends for years before they realized they’d both been raped. The British Columbia politicians were drawn to each other, among the few...
VANCOUVER – Canadian actress Pamela Anderson prompted laughs from starry-eyed fans when she quipped she would never vote for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper. But she quickly switched to a ...
VANCOUVER – Vancouver is launching a global search for a new city manager after announcing that veteran civil servant Penny Ballem is out of the job. Mayor Gregor Robertson said Tuesday that ...
VANCOUVER – Mai Eilia asks one question when she sends Facebook messages to friends in her war-ravaged homeland of Syria: “Are you still alive?” “When you ask someone you kn...
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