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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

But that doesn’t mean she’s saying that she’ll run for mayor.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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).

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

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.