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.
While many Filipino Canadians are focused on the showdown in Vancouver–Kensington between two members of their community, incumbent B.C. NDP MLA Mable Elmore and Liberal...
B.C.’s New Democrats, hopeful of governing after the May 14 election, foresee a largely positive relationship with federal Conservatives in Ottawa.
They point to many...
Outgoing B.C. Liberal MLA Kash Heed isn’t casting a ballot on May 14. “I’m parking my vote,” Heed told the Straight in a phone interview.
It’s probably his parting shot at what he...
Bob Williams has been around long enough to say that times are indeed different these days. These days a director of the Vancouver City Savings Credit Union, or Vancity, Williams...
Except for B.C. Liberal Celyna Sia Sherst, the rest of the candidates in Vancouver-Mount Pleasant have something to say about the protests outside PiDGiN restaurant.
Picketed...
Many are gripped by the notion that foreigners are taking over homes in Vancouver.
“There is an obsession with it,” economist Ryan Berlin observed in a phone interview with the...
Mathew Kagis is often asked a question that candidates from more established political parties don’t hear.
“Usually, [it is] if we’re serious being the Work Less Party,” an amused...
Only a handful of candidates in the May 14 provincial election are of aboriginal descent.
More than 60 years after being granted the right to vote provincially, Natives are...
In order to support themselves and two children, each full-time working parent should earn $19.62 an hour, or $35,708 annually.
For families in Metro Vancouver, this is the...
A new coalition has come up with 13 “modest” proposals to serve as “reasonable protections for tenants”.
The recommendations are in a report released Wednesday (May 1) by the B.C...
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