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COVID-19: Open letter from DTES frontline workers to Horgan, Dix, Henry, Daly, Stewart, and Darcy—we need more, now

Dual crises in the Downtown Eastside and need for urgent actions

Doreen Nicoll: Coronavirus a chance to rethink Canada's social safety net

A universal basic income would create a more inclusive and sustainable foundation to help families ride out future economic storms.

Jeff Shantz: “Shut down Canada”—from a politics of appeal to a politics of disruption

"People troubled by the blockades may have to realize that these are only the opening act of a new political reality in Canada."

Andrey Pavlov: Rental housing—where Seattle thrives, Vancouver stumbles (from the Goodman Report)

Instead of asking how Seattle has built so much rental housing, Mayor Kennedy Stewart should be asking what we have done in Vancouver to prevent the same outcome.

Werner Antweiler: Care-based auto insurance saves money and enhances services for injured people

The UBC Sauder School of Business associate professor says the notion that ICBC is clogging up the court system is unsubstantiated.

V. Victoria Shroff: Veterinarians should be included when considering public safety and dog behaviour

Beings on both sides of the leash—the human and the dog—need adequate training to keep the public safe.

Matthew Nathanson: Beware of David Eby's no-fault hustle

A Vancouver criminal lawyer says if the government wanted to save you money, it would let you choose your own insurer rather than forcing you to eat cold ICBC gruel.

Dave Demers: Hell strips, designed ecologies, and supercharged Nature—more tools to fight climate crisis

The vice-chair of the Vancouver park board proposes optimizing the biological output and overall connectivity of the city's marginal landscape.

Cay Burton: Reconciliation is dead—the educational ramifications of an empty promise

Canada lost something critical last week by shoving aside efforts toward positive settler-Indigenous relations in order to mobilize, with exactitude, the ever-reaching, greedy-...

Andrew Frank: Inconvenienced by Indigenous rights blockades? Thank Premier Horgan for your troubles

He and his ministers knew (or ought to have known) exactly where this was all heading when they granted a five-year extension of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline’s environmental...