According to a recent report by the UN’s independent expert on minority issues, Gay McDougall, Canada still has a long way to go before it can claim to have eliminated racial discrimination.
Two members of the Pembina Institute have argued that with the right environmental policies, including a sharp increase in wind-powered electricity generation, the country’s gross domestic product could rise.
Can bars and clubs in Vancouver legally scan your ID and take your photograph as a precondition for entry? There seems to be some confusion around the matter.
Vancouver residents may want to ask the mayor one question on December 3 when city council holds its final public consultation on next year’s budget. Why do they have to pay more taxes and receive fewer services while businesses get a tax holiday?
Plutonic Power Corp. CEO Donald McInnes uses words like shocking and mind-boggling when describing this past summer’s B.C. Utilities Commission ruling that B.C. Hydro’s 2008 Long Term Acquisition Plan was “not in the public interest”.
A proposal to create a provincial law to allow authorities to forcibly remove the homeless from the streets may not stand the test of Section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
More than five years ago, TransLink brought forward a three-year strategy and 10-year outlook, which explicitly acknowledged that spending vast sums of money wasn’t going to get many more people out of their cars and on the transit system.
Thanks to B.C.’s peculiar alcohol regulations, cider with a higher alcohol content is less expensive than cider with a lower percentage of alcohol. That concerns Tim Stockwell, director of the Centre for Addictions Research of B.C.
A Royal Roads University professor says local tourism will survive a tough recession but that peak oil and localization of travel will affect the industry in coming years.
