Although the BC New Democrats have not released their election platform yet, the party’s housing critic is pushing for the province to take a “leading role at the table” on affordable housing, including direct investment in new social housing units.
Downtown Vancouver may have the equivalent of nearly two-dozen 30-storey condominium towers sitting empty, serving as merely oversized “safety deposit boxes” for the wealthy, according to researchers. But blaming the city’s severe housing prices on absentee foreign investors could just be “this decade’s version of the Yellow Peril,” a UBC business professor has warned.
What does Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray have to say about co-operation, cannabis, climate change — and Campbell’s Cabinet?
As the provincial election campaign churns ahead, a new coalition of businesses, unions and environmental groups are hoping to change the conversation.
Vancouver event unites advocates, developers, architects, politicians and more.
Plans to ramp up exports from Washington, Oregon and BC are uniting opposition across 49th Parallel.
While the B.C. government celebrates its win of a national environmental award for a pact that protects the province’s Sacred Headwaters region, the leader of a group that shared the honours criticized ongoing proposals for coal mines in the area.
Expansion for Asia export puts BC in middle of climate, jobs fight in Washington state.
As part of its campaign promises, the BC Conservatives would abolish the province’s nascent carbon tax aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions, party leader John Cummins said today.
Vancouver’s housing crisis worsened in the Downtown Eastside in the past year, according to a report released yesterday by an activist housing group, with fewer and fewer Single Resident Occupancy (SROS) rentals within reach of many residents’ budgets.
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