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Cycling advocates criticize Vancouver’s curbing of West End revitalization planCycling advocates say Vancouver City Council's scrapping of the 30-year, $300 million West End Waterfront Plan is “short-sighted."PoliticsMay 12
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No magic at city council for Vancouver mushroom dispensaries as retail framework rejectedVancouver city council has rejected an attempt to create a licensing framework for retail stores selling magic mushrooms and other psychoactive ethnogens.PoliticsApr 10
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Vancouver lays out Indigenous rights action plan to mark 10 years of reconciliationVancouver is celebrating a decade of reconciliation with an action plan to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.PoliticsJun 3
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Vancouver greenlights plan to boost pedestrian safety infrastructureThe unanimously supported motion will see staff return in June with an operational plan to reallocate capital funds for safety measures near schools, community centres and parks.PoliticsMay 29
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City council looking at denser housing in Vancouver’s Shaughnessy neighbourhoodBill 44, adopted by the Provincial legislature in November 2023, will allow for increased maximum densities for the purpose of creating new “small-scale, multi-unit housing.”CanadaApr 18
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‘Take over the city’: Massive technology summit coming to Vancouver in 2025It will be the first North American flagship event in Vancouver and will be replacing the existing Collision summit in Toronto.TechJun 13
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Vancouver doing bare minimum to densify Shaughnessy, critic saysVancouver council is set to hear a report next week on allowing multiplexes in the First Shaughnessy neighbourhood, a heritage conservation area protected from increased density.PoliticsMay 23
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Vancouver council takes first step towards preserving, expanding co-op housingVancouver city council approved a motion Wednesday seeking to preserve and expand the city's aging stock of co-op housing.PoliticsMar 13
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Vancouver torpedoes 30-year plan to remake West End waterfrontVancouver councillors said the plan was too expensive and have sent it back to the park board to be refocused specifically on ways to protect the shoreline from climate change.EconomyMay 10
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Affordable rental development underway in Vancouver’s Little Mountain neighbourhoodThe site has sat empty for more than a decade after 234 former social housing units were destroyed on the 15-acre property.CanadaApr 25
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Vancouver neighbourhood group launches petition, bus ad opposing seniors housing projectA group of Dunbar homeowners are fighting the project, saying the building is too high and will tower over nearby homes, blocking out the sun.PoliticsApr 9
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City of Vancouver mulls property tax increase, cap for next yearCouncillors also debated a possible limit, or cap, on property tax increases starting with next year, as a way to make the city more affordable.EconomyMay 30
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Vancouver wants Supreme Court of Canada to weigh in on bylaw limiting rent hikesTwo B.C. courts have rejected a Vancouver bylaw limiting how much landlords can hike rents when SRO units turn over. The city wants the Supreme Court of Canada to hear the case.CannabisApr 2
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Embroiled B.C. mayor seeks court order to overturn censure, sanctionsQuesnel mayor Ron Paull has filed a court petition to overturn sanctions imposed on him after his wife allegedly circulated a controversial book about residential schools.CanadaJun 1
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Another downtown Vancouver business calls it quits, citing crime and disorderDowntown Vancouver consignment store Mine and Yours is closing up shop, citing growing crime and street disorder.CrimeJun 4
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Vancouver could sell naming rights to parks, public assets to boost revenuesThe city announced a similar sponsorship deal with Freedom Mobile last week, which will see the wireless carrier take naming rights to a new PNE Amphitheatre for 10 years.PoliticsMay 28
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Premier’s office accused of interference in Richmond, B.C. drug site decisionA Richmond city councillor believes the province intervened improperly in a decision over whether to consider a safe drug consumption site at the community's hospital.PoliticsMay 29
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Taylor Swift effect: Homeless taxied out of Edinburgh to make room for concert fansEmerging reports claim Taylor Swift's Edinburgh Eras Tour shows may make for a cruel summer for some of the city's most vulnerable people.EntertainmentMay 29
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Public defecation creating a stink in Courtenay, B.C.A city councillor is bringing forward a motion to try and address the issue, by trying to find funding for a 24-hour washroom facility for the downtown area.HealthMay 25
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Vancouver should allow more dwellings per lot in Shaughnessy, report saysThe report proposes that council should allow up to six dwelling units on all lots in the first Shaughnessy District and up to eight dwelling units for secured market rentals.PoliticsJun 13