Memo to Media: Watchdog the Environment
Photo published in The Tyee.
Author Archives: David P. Ball
Remembering street nurse Bonnie Fournier
Photo published on CBC News.
Surrey School District passes anti-homophobia regulation
More than a decade after their predecessors waged a battle to ban gay-friendly books from their school district’s classrooms, the Surrey school board’s trustees passed an anti-homophobia regulation June 20.
Study Details Canada’s ‘Perfect Storm’ Housing Problem
Eroding incomes and plunging rental stock leave 380,600 households in ‘severe’ need.
Advocates call for ‘social impact’ assessments of new Downtown Eastside developments
The city should require low-income “social impact assessments” of all new businesses and condominiums in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
New Gas, Trade and Tech Ministries in Clark’s Cabinet
BC premier promises her team will ‘accelerate’ jobs plan and ‘run a tight ship.’
Feds have ‘no choice but to listen’ to municipal pressure on affordable housing
Over the past decade, the average price tag of new homes in Canada has almost doubled, and homeownership remains hindered by skyrocketing personal debt.
No public hearings possible on coal terminal expansion, says port authority
Faced with mounting environmental pressure over the proposal to build a four- to eight-million ton coal transfer terminal at Fraser Surrey Docks (FSD), the regional port authority opened its annual meeting to public questions for the first time today.
‘Joy of Feeding’: Nourish Your Body and Soul
Sixteen home cooks, 16 ethnicities. Fundraiser for UBC Farm set for June 30.
Senate scandal a ‘major crisis,’ but Liberals Trudeau and Dion cautious on reform
Two of the Liberal Party of Canada’s highest-profile leaders decried the growing Senate expenses scandal while in Vancouver this weekend, but both Justin Trudeau and Stéphane Dion expressed caution about calls to reform or abolish the institution.
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