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Health Features | Olympics

Professor Chris Shaw offers safety tips for Olympic protesters

Olympic critic Chris Shaw has seen firsthand what police are capable of doing to break up rallies.
Health Features | Olympics

Professor Chris Shaw offers safety tips for Olympic protesters

Olympic critic Chris Shaw has seen firsthand what police are capable of doing to break up rallies.
News Features | Olympics

City of Vancouver offers free Olympic tickets to long-time volunteers

If you believe you’ve done any service for the City of Vancouver, there’s reason to expect that a complimentary ticket could be on the way soon.
News Features | Olympics

City of Vancouver offers free Olympic tickets to long-time volunteers

If you believe you’ve done any service for the City of Vancouver, there’s reason to expect that a complimentary ticket could be on the way soon.
News Features

Smoking crackdown coming to public areas in Vancouver

The Vancouver park board is determined to curtail smoking in parks and on beaches, playing fields, and trails.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Mario's Gelati owner threatens to sue city and Vanoc over Olympic street closures

Mario Loscerbo says his business near the athletes' village lost more than $1 million after the city started ripping up the streetscape to prepare for the 2010 Games.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Mario's Gelati owner threatens to sue city and Vanoc over Olympic street closures

Mario Loscerbo says his business near the athletes' village lost more than $1 million after the city started ripping up the streetscape to prepare for the 2010 Games.
Straight Talk

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan smells “stink” over garbage site

Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan believes that there should be an inquiry into the provincial government’s handling of Metro Vancouver’s garbage-disposal plan.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Striking car rental workers put up picket lines at Vancouver airport ahead of Olympics

Unionized workers at Hertz put up picket lines today (February 2) at the Vancouver International Airport and other Lower Mainland locations.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Striking car rental workers put up picket lines at Vancouver airport ahead of Olympics

Unionized workers at Hertz put up picket lines today (February 2) at the Vancouver International Airport and other Lower Mainland locations.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Activist says B.C. should be building housing, not Downtown Eastside "propaganda" centre

One homeless person, on average, dies every 11.4 days in B.C., according to housing activist and Olympic critic Am Johal.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Activist says B.C. should be building housing, not Downtown Eastside "propaganda" centre

One homeless person, on average, dies every 11.4 days in B.C., according to housing activist and Olympic critic Am Johal.
News Features

Education profile: Fran Grunberg

Fran Grunberg has devoted her entire career to advocacy for the young. Although she doesn’t consider herself any different from most social workers, there’s likely a piece of her in many children who have been protected from harm.
News Features

Education profile: Krishna Pendakur

Much of economist Krishna Pendakur’s academic work focuses on one distressing correlation between race and income: it pays to have light skin.
News Features

Elected education boards wary of axe

As Vancouver prepares to lay off teachers due to funding problems, Vancouver board of education chair Patti Bacchus has another pressing concern in mind: are elected education boards next on the chopping block?
Straight Talk

City denies protest permit to 2010 Welcoming Committee, informs police

With or without approval from city hall, anti-Olympic activists will hold a rally on the afternoon of February 12 on the north lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Vision Vancouver politicians okay with free Olympic tickets

Unlike COPE councillors David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth and park board commissioner Loretta Woodcock, Vision Vancouver politicians see nothing wrong with using Olympic tickets purchased with taxpayers’ money.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Vision Vancouver politicians okay with free Olympic tickets

Unlike COPE councillors David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth and park board commissioner Loretta Woodcock, Vision Vancouver politicians see nothing wrong with using Olympic tickets purchased with taxpayers’ money.
Straight Talk

Amateur sports groups lose out in Empire Bowl deal

Amateur sports groups are “getting shafted” over Empire Bowl, according to Mike Cooke, founder of the Crosstown Slo-Pitch League, an adult softball club.
Olympics | Straight Talk

COPE councillors criticize $60,000 cost of free Olympic tickets for city officials

The free tickets the city is offering to Vancouver councillors, park board commissioners, and their spouses or partners to attend the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics cost taxpayers more than $60,000.
Olympics | Straight Talk

COPE councillors criticize $60,000 cost of free Olympic tickets for city officials

The free tickets the city is offering to Vancouver councillors, park board commissioners, and their spouses or partners to attend the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics cost taxpayers more than $60,000.
Olympics | Straight Talk

TransLink advertising limited to Olympic sponsors as 2010 Games near

Many regular advertisers on Metro Vancouver’s transit system have vanished, and their spaces have been taken up by companies who paid big bucks to be associated with the 2010 Winter Games.
Olympics | Straight Talk

TransLink advertising limited to Olympic sponsors as 2010 Games near

Many regular advertisers on Metro Vancouver’s transit system have vanished, and their spaces have been taken up by companies who paid big bucks to be associated with the 2010 Winter Games.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Olympic protest zones don’t exist, VPD says

The RCMP–led Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit and the Vancouver Police Department aren’t reading from the same page on the issue of protest zones during the Olympics.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Olympic protest zones don’t exist, VPD says

The RCMP–led Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit and the Vancouver Police Department aren’t reading from the same page on the issue of protest zones during the Olympics.
Real Estate

Cambie Street corridor increases density

In July 2009, council approved the terms of reference for the Cambie Corridor Planning Program, which will deal with the area between West 16th Avenue and Southwest Marine Drive. The first phase will define planning principles and an interim rezoning policy.
Blog - Politics

U.K. garden founder urges Gregor Robertson to save Bloedel Conservatory

The issue of the looming closure of Vancouver’s iconic Bloedel Conservatory has gone international.
Straight Talk

Vote on smoking bans for Vancouver parks and beaches expected February 1

Vision Vancouver park board commissioner Raj Hundal told the Straight that the board is expected to take up on February 1 a staff recommendation on how to deal with smoking in the city’s park system.
Straight Talk

Metro Vancouver board puts off decision on regional waste management plan

The Metro Vancouver board of directors voted today (January 15) to defer making a major decision regarding the region’s waste-management plan.
News Features | Olympics

RCMP rejects making preventive detentions prior to 2010 Olympics

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

RCMP rejects making preventive detentions prior to 2010 Olympics

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

Metro Vancouver residents raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief efforts

Ladner resident Matthew Levy says there’s a long list of things that need to be done in earthquake-devastated Haiti.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Extra buses being deployed for Olympics

TransLink spokesperson Ken Hardie has said that 160 additional buses are ready to roll to meet the anticipated increase in ridership during the Olympics.
Olympics | Straight Talk

Extra buses being deployed for Olympics

TransLink spokesperson Ken Hardie has said that 160 additional buses are ready to roll to meet the anticipated increase in ridership during the Olympics.
Real Estate

Gay tenants win B.C. Human Rights Tribunal complaint

The B.C. Human Rights Code prohibits discrimination in tenancy on a number of grounds, among them disability, sexual orientation, and lawful source of income. What Edmund Bro and Keith Scott experienced with their landlord, Michael John Moody, is exactly what the code forbids.
Real Estate

B.C. home sales soared in December

Home sales in the province in December 2009 were the second-highest for December in the past 20 years, the B.C. Real Estate Association reported on January 12.
Straight Talk

Coun. Suzanne Anton says "it's time" Vancouver had a woman as mayor

But that doesn’t mean she’s saying that she’ll run for mayor.
Olympics | Straight Talk

City of Vancouver to remove trash bins from streets for Olympics

Don’t be surprised if trash bins on the streets of Vancouver start disappearing.
Olympics | Straight Talk

City of Vancouver to remove trash bins from streets for Olympics

Don’t be surprised if trash bins on the streets of Vancouver start disappearing.
News Features

Salvadoran activists target gold mine

For SFU undergraduate student Ana Linares, there are things more important than gold at stake in the fight against Vancouver-based company Pacific Rim Mining Corp.
Straight Talk

Police Olympic overtime costs still unknown

With the Victoria Police Department spending $141,000 in overtime to guard the launch of the Olympic torch relay in the provincial capital last October, how much overtime pay will Vancouver police rack up during the 2010 Games?
Real Estate

Short Term Incentives program spurs rentals

The West End is bracing for a rush of rezoning activity this year.
Real Estate

Local housing market posts sales increase

The local housing market posted a 44.8-percent increase in sales last year over 2008, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.
Straight Talk

Anti-HST initiative could launch petition in April, Bill Vander Zalm says

Former B.C. premier Bill Vander Zalm has set in motion the process for an initiative against the harmonized sales tax.
News Features

Upbeat Marc Emery on way to jail

Canada’s Prince of Pot finds great irony in his pending extradition south of the border.
News Features

Economist Jon Kesselman refers to B.C. MSP fee as a head tax

Economist Jon Kesselman has two things to tell British Columbians about the six-percent increase to their Medical Services Plan premiums in 2010.
Straight Talk

MP Don Davies wants independent RCMP watchdog

Federal NDP public-safety critic Don Davies is urging the Conservative government not to name a “partisan” appointee to replace Paul Kennedy, whose term as chair of the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP ends on December 31.
Straight Talk

Robert Dziekanski inquiry may find misconduct by RCMP officers, court rules

Retired judge Thomas Braidwood can make findings of misconduct against the four RCMP officers involved in the 2007 death of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport, the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled today (December 29).
News Features

Vancouver's budget-planning process draws fire

Coun. Ellen Woodsworth of COPE has lots to say about how Vancouver’s budget-planning process has disregarded public opinion.
Straight Talk

Caregiver changes not enough, prof says

A UBC geography professor has said there’s no reason why present-day ethnic-minority caregivers should be treated differently from the mostly European women who came to Canada as domestic workers prior to the mid 1970s.