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Honieh Barzegari: A city of immigrants

A Vision Vancouver candidate explains how it felt to receive a notification that the city didn't want her using her Farsi name on the ballot.

Dr. Paula Rochon and Surbhi Kalia: How climate change is impacting older women

Climate change also impacts older adults, who tend to live alone and lack social connectedness, and older women face loneliness on a greater scale than men.

Alex Hemingway: Five reasons supply matters to the housing crisis

The housing crisis in B.C. is a multi-headed beast, requiring an all-hands-on-deck effort to make homes affordable and available to everyone as a human right.

Hermona Kuluberhan: Lisa LaFlamme’s CTV exit is a lesson for the next generation of women journalists

Hold on to those ideals if you will, but be prepared to contend with reality as it is.

Hilary Thomson: Vancouver schools are not equipped for the climate crisis

A Vision Vancouver candidate makes the scase that local schools simply don't meet the needs of today's teachers and students.

Joseph Wu: Working as one for the global good

Taiwan's minister of foreign affairs declares that no matter what happens, his country will resolutely defend its sovereignty and security.

Laura Funk and Maria Cherba: Everyone wants to die at home—don't they?

Our common assumptions about dying at home may not consider what it means or looks like for different people.

Jeff Shantz: Beanbags do kill, despite what police are saying following the death of Chris Amyotte in the DTES

Nothing is gained for the community by police defensiveness after a fatal encounter.

Breen Ouellette: Residential Tenancy Act's vacancy loophole is decimating the demographic diversity of Vancouver

A COPE candidate for council explains why the City of Vancouver had to appeal a recent court ruling quashing a city bylaw.

Dr. Karina Zeidler: Sewer Socialists of the 1900s knew how to make healthy cities (we can learn a lot from them)

A Vancouver candidate for school board says there are lessons in this story that can be applied in the fight against COVID-19.