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Vancouver can learn housing solutions from London, Montreal, and other cities: activist Alicia Barsallo

Alicia Barsallo says Vancouver can create more housing by using its powers.

B.C. legislative committee makes no recommendation to increase welfare rates

Coalition asks finance and government services committee to suggest a raise in income and disability assistance.

Site of Vancouver’s first train station set for revival with modern industrial building

PortLiving has proposed a seven-storey building at 711 Alexander Street.

Vancouver MLA Mable Elmore calls meeting amid ‘crisis’ at Filipino-built, migrant-serving Helping House

The Multicultural Helping House Society has been serving newcomers for more than 20 years.

Denied laser hair removal and halal food in B.C. jails, transgender woman files human rights complaints

Bianca Lovado was jailed in the Alouette Correctional Centre for Women, and Surrey Pretrial Services Centre.

Walk of the Week: The old village in Mount Pleasant

New developments are putting the neighbourhood’s heritage features at risk.

Bullied and homeless for a time, woman wins wrongful dismissal suit against Vancouver law firm

Judge rules that Paul Doroshenko’s Acumen Law Corporation was not justified in terminating the woman’s articling and employment.

Vancouver head shop CottonMouth applies to sell pot at West End location

CottonMouth Smoke Shop says customers want to get their weed from its Davie Street store.

Telus CEO Darren Entwistle battles registrar of land titles in B.C. Supreme Court

The deck was for the exclusive use of the Entwistles. The views are awesome, for sure, but there was a problem.

South Granville’s arts identity inspires cultural space at new Vancouver condo project

The Solterra Group of Companies proposes a 11-storey condo building in the South Granville area.