Carlito Pablo
Staff writer Carlito Pablo lives in Vancouver. On sunny weekends, he and his family are usually found on beaches and in parks. A journalist who formerly worked in Manila, he's a proud new Canadian.
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They’re hemmed in from the left by the NDP and from the right by the B.C. Conservatives.
There were about 94,000 foreign students in B.C. in 2009-10. Eighty-three percent, or 78,100, were concentrated in the Lower Mainland southwest region.
Through a variety of activities, Welcome to My Life steers students through topics like self-esteem, healthy lifestyles, peer and family relationships, and Internet safety.
Political scientist Maxwell Cameron says that Chilliwack-Hope is the strategic battleground for the B.C. Liberal Party in this year’s two byelections.
The RCMP “lost” hundreds of “top secret” files about its undercover officers, according to a police psychologist.
Police dogs are biting and hurting people more often than cops are injuring civilians with firearms, Tasers, batons, and old-fashioned hand blows combined.
Vancouver’s Riley Park Community Centre is awaiting demolition and its footprint’s return to green space. But the debate about the fate of this civic facility built in 1964 isn’t over just yet.
The Vancouver Airport Fuel Facilities Corporation is seeking provincial and federal approval to build a jet-fuel facility on the south arm of the Fraser.
Designed to pass through the Panama Canal, these Panamax-class vessels are the type of ships that will arrive at B.C.’s northern coast if the Enbridge pipeline gets built.
Hamilton, who is one of the pioneers in the long and hard fight for LGBT rights in the city, doesn’t make the same defence for Denike’s Non-Partisan Association colleague Sophia Woo.
Numbers from city hall provide an initial postmortem of a controversial program of financial and other incentives for developers to build market rental homes in Vancouver.
Chinatown is in decline. Rents are low and vacancies are long. Businesses are closing. Property values and sales haven’t improved in years. Crime is rampant, especially drug-dealing.
Vancouver’s governing civic party will have to look for a new executive director.
“The Occupied Vancouver Sun” discusses where the Occupy Vancouver movement is heading after the winter.
Ex-premier Bill Vander Zalm says Victoria didn’t do a good job of negotiating the repayment of the $1.6 billion given by Ottawa to the province for adopting the harmonized sales tax.
The president of the union representing inside workers for the City of Vancouver wants to have a little chat with city councillor Geoff Meggs.
While the B.C. NDP is currently ahead in the polls, a look back to 1941 shows that may not translate into success for the party come election time.
Even the judge doesn’t doubt how much love John Guest and his two sons poured into their Mount Seymour property. And money, too.
The controversial program that sought to encourage the construction of market rental housing in Vancouver through financial and other forms of incentives ended on December 15, 2011.
Is Geoff Meggs required by law to resign as a Vancouver city councillor if he gets nominated as a B.C. NDP candidate?
He’s one of the last few B.C. MPs who haven’t endorsed any aspirant to take the place of the late Jack Layton.
Nanaimo MLA Leonard Krog has good things to say about the folks wanting to replace the late Jack Layton as federal NDP leader.
Environmental activist Ben West used the word “shame” twice to describe the delayed nomination of a B.C. New Democratic Party candidate in Vancouver-Fairview
Vincent Fodera says he isn’t selling. Not unless the buyer promises to put up a nice spot for Jimi.
In the new year, former councillor Ellen Woodsworth has yet to find some certainty about her and her partner’s situation.
Michael Geller wears many hats.
Occupy Vancouver protesters have temporarily moved indoors but are planning to take major action after winter.
The new Independent Investigations Office will look into police-related incidents that result in severe injury or death.
Tsur Somerville may be the director of UBC’s Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate, but he gave a rather surprising answer when asked about the prospects for Metro Vancouver’s housing market in 2012.
This was the year that the curtain started coming down on denial.
The Health Officers’ Council of B.C. is endorsing a regulatory approach to cannabis control that is similar to the way government deals with tobacco and alcohol.
For Terry Martin, there’s one important task to be done when the left-leaning Coalition of Progressive Electors holds its annual general meeting next year to assess its debacle in this fall’s civic election.
Vision Vancouver’s Tim Stevenson is open to the idea that future multi-unit premises should be completely smoke-free.
Surrey–Green Timbers MLA Sue Hammell believes that if the prostate specific antigen (PSA) test was free, more deaths could be prevented through early detection.
That text message you just received may be a bald-faced lie.
Taking on more public responsibility would have been tough, says Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan.
The Metro Vancouver board of directors has a new chair and vice chair.
Political observers debate whether or not Stephen Harper's Conservatives have altered the definition of "Canadian centrist" during their nearly six years in power.
Tension between the Sto:lo Nation and the Yale First Nation over the Five Mile Fishery could ratchet up in early 2012.
The year 2012 will be the last in the five-year shifting of taxes from business to residential properties.
A 21,327 square-foot piece of prime property on the Burnaby side of Hastings Street has been sitting vacant for decades.
The former NDP MLA for this constituency is saying she’s trying her best to “stay out of it”.
Anti-homophobia activist Ryan Clayton wants to yell at Ken Denike and Sophia Woo.
House leader John Horgan says it's a good time to be a New Democrat.
The Vancouver police board will decide whether to change the police department’s controversial policy on dealing with requests for information under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
New Democrats will have the perfect opportunity to showcase their prize catch at their three-day convention at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
According to North Vancouver mayor Darrell Mussatto, it’s concern for the environment that is driving the densification of his municipality.
Jim Green sounded glad that the
Straight phoned him to talk about a provincial candidate whose name is almost the same as that of Premier Christy Clark.
He gave up a winnable seat in city council and what could have been a third term in office.
More than eight years after two young girls were injured in a motor-vehicle accident, their family can now finally claim the cost of $742 for their massage therapy from ICBC.
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