Vancouver city council has unanimously approved a separated bike lane for the Dunsmuir Viaduct.

Vancouver city council has thrown its support behind getting cops on bicycles after the police department’s temporary bike squad disbands following the Olympics.

Jeet-Kei Leung admits that the B.C. Compassion Club Society is better known for the “medicinal-marijuana side of things” than for its adjoining Wellness Centre, which provides a number of subsidized treatment services on a sliding scale.

A long-time queer advocate is incensed that Mary Polak, B.C.’s minister of children and family development, has appointed a former colleague to the board of the B.C. College of Social Workers.

An East Van multimedia commentator responsible for branding the Olympic rings “the five cock rings of death” has confirmed two police officers dropped by his studio.

An East Van multimedia commentator responsible for branding the Olympic rings “the five cock rings of death” has confirmed two police officers dropped by his studio.

A Jewish 2010 Olympic torchbearer who swam for Canada in the 1972 Munich Olympics is “disturbed” by Vanoc’s inclusion of footage from Adolf Hitler’s favourite propagandist in a promotional video.

A Jewish 2010 Olympic torchbearer who swam for Canada in the 1972 Munich Olympics is “disturbed” by Vanoc’s inclusion of footage from Adolf Hitler’s favourite propagandist in a promotional video.

The city councillor who suggested the Georgia and Dunsmuir viaducts should be torn down does not believe spending $300,000 to add a two-way bike path to the latter bridge is a waste of money.

Grace McCann is set to receive about 3,000 pounds (about $5,080) for being the first person to attempt a citizen’s arrest of former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair in response to a bounty offer.

Two Vancouver legal experts have given a thumbs-up to U.K.-based Guardian columnist George Monbiot’s offer of a bounty for a citizen’s arrest of former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair.

Patrick Condon is ready for civil disobedience, ready to block machinery, and ready to be arrested if it means he can stop the provincial government’s Gateway Program.

Capilano University professor Cam Sylvester is more interested in “social capital” and support networks than in creating cookie-cutter capitalists with aspirations to fire Donald Trump.

A professor with UBC’s centre for human settlements wants to see more public discussion about “the benefits of a more compact urban form” along the Cambie corridor.

Veteran Richmond city councillor and long-time farmer Harold Steves believes the B.C. Liberal government’s proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road is a “crime against humanity”.

One of Kitsilano’s best-known community activists believes that any transit expansion planned for the Broadway corridor should be “safe, friendly, and affordable”.

The president of the Friends of the Bloedel Association has told park board commissioners he has lost sleep contemplating how to ensure the Bloedel Conservatory remains open.

Although Vancouver resident Roger Annis concedes “there was no way to avoid the earthquake” that struck Haiti January 12, he said exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide would “absolutely” have prepared his country better for the tragedy.

As well as keeping 2,800 athletes warm during next month’s Olympics, the NEU will serve up to 16,000 residents and businesses when the area is built out.

As well as keeping 2,800 athletes warm during next month’s Olympics, the NEU will serve up to 16,000 residents and businesses when the area is built out.

Conservatives have gone out of their way to field candidates from diverse backgrounds and are increasingly trying to woo immigrants to the party.

Activists need not look over their shoulders in fear of preventive arrest in the lead-up to next month’s Olympics.

Activists need not look over their shoulders in fear of preventive arrest in the lead-up to next month’s Olympics.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has overturned rent increases of up to 38 percent for tenants at the 14-unit Seafield Apartments in Vancouver.

On December 4, ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks, Sean Devlin and four others were arrested following a daylong sit-in at the office of North Vancouver Conservative MP Andrew Saxton.

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has dismissed a Burnaby resident’s complaint alleging discrimination related to the termination of her membership in and tenancy at Bounty Housing Co-operative.

Liberal senator Larry Campbell claims that Bill C-15 could cost B.C. taxpayers tens of millions in incarceration fees if the Conservative legislation seeking mandatory minimum sentences for drug offences becomes law.

About one-third of the 24 cultivators contracted to grow medicinal marijuana exclusively for the B.C. Compassion Club Society will be affected if the minority Conservative government’s Bill C-15 becomes law.

Wilderness Committee national campaign director Joe Foy wants B.C.’s auditor general to investigate the sums of money involved in the long-term power-purchase agreements B.C. Hydro has signed with independent power producers.

On the cusp of the holiday season, B.C. Hydro has sent to the provincial government its report on the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River.

As of yesterday (December 16), the TransLink Web site ranked the more than seven-week-old HandyDart strike as “minor” in severity.

A Kitsilano-based HandyDart user is “bloody insulted” that TransLink has ranked the more than seven-week-old strike as “minor” in severity on its Web site.

Private power executive Harvie Campbell has said that, while they do share the same last name, he is “not at all” related to B.C. premier Gordon Campbell.

The two sides involved in the HandyDart labour dispute that has lasted close to seven weeks have agreed to talk this Thursday (December 10).

Cycling advocate Richard Campbell has enjoyed riding across the Burrard Street Bridge since the city reallocated one southbound vehicle lane to cyclists and in-line skaters last summer.

New Westminster school trustee Casey Cook told the Straight the arts community and local businesses have sent a clear message regarding the fate of the 60-year-old Massey Theatre: “Keep that theatre.”

NDP environment critic Rob Fleming calls it “a pay-as-you-go system”.

Beginning next week, the Vancouver-based United Church of Canada minister Rev. Bruce Sanguin and his congregation will help coordinate a local rotating fast for climate-change action.

No public records remain of a speech that B.C. energy, mines, and petroleum minister Blair Lekstrom gave at the Independent Power Producers Association of B.C.'s annual convention on November 2.

It is well known that B.C. Hydro president and CEO Bob Elton will step down from his role at month’s end, on December 31.

Arts groups make up five of the eight nonprofit organizations recommended in a city staff report for consideration as tenants in the city-owned section of the Woodward’s development at 101 East Hastings Street.

UBC professor Bill Rees will testify against Prime Minister Stephen Harper at noon today at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

The Vancouver park board voted on November 25 to close down the Bloedel Floral Conservatory and the Stanley Park petting zoo to deal with a $2.8-million anticipated budget shortfall.

HandyDart's drivers began striking on October 26, less than 10 months after TransLink contracted out the 27-year-old service to the for-profit MVT Canadian Bus Inc., affecting nearly 30,000 users.

Vancouver journalist Miro Cernetig said he thought Premier Gordon Campbell’s climate-change initiatives were “a little crazy” until he had a few stories on them under his belt. Now he has parlayed his knowledge into his fifth documentary.

The Crown agency mandated to provide subsidized housing in B.C. is citing confidentiality in not disclosing details of the contract of purchase and sale that it is negotiating with a private partner to develop Little Mountain.

Council agreed that moving ahead with the development was important to get as many tenants back into the housing as possible.

Vancouver Civic Theatres director Rae Ackerman says it’s “easy” to grade the acoustic leaps and bounds heard in the Queen Elizabeth Theatre following long-awaited recent improvements.

David Eby, executive director of the B.C. Civil Liberties Association, says that B.C. is “really close” to seeing better oversight of investigations into police-related deaths.

COPE councillor David Cadman is claiming Vision Vancouver’s six representatives on the board of Metro Vancouver have hung him out to dry in his vociferous pitch to secure funding for a trip to Copenhagen next month.