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What happens when your partner doesn’t want to get married and you do

What happens when your partner doesn’t want to get married and you do

Even though more people are cohabiting before marriage these days and choosing to marry later in life if at all, a majority of people still view marriage as a personal goal in life or a rite of passage.
Pipeline politics plays out at city hall

Pipeline politics plays out at city hall

I'm going to make an assumption that most of you have come to the conclusion that Vancouver city council is opposed to Kinder Morgan's plans to construct another pipeline from Alberta to Burrard Inlet.
Lessons from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation house tour

Lessons from the Vancouver Heritage Foundation house tour

While housing affordability and taxation continue to be very much in the news, this week I would like to explore another important issue facing our city: how best to preserve heritage structures and character homes.

Opinion: Double property taxes for vacant properties

Levy could help fund affordable housing
Ohm the podium: Clark's PR stretch should extend to Zumba

Ohm the podium: Clark's PR stretch should extend to Zumba

There’s been a lot of grunting as of late over Premier Christy Clark’s latest PR stretch to close down the Burrard Street Bridge June 21 for a few limber hours to hold a free yoga session in celebration of International Day of Yoga.

Vancouver has a promise to make in reconciliation

The past week’s news has been filled with discussion of the final report from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission . Even though the truth gathered in the report is hard to hear, I’m glad.

Big business becomes economic dinosaur

It was no regular ivory tower exercise when professors Martin Gilens of Princeton University and Benjamin Page of Northwestern University posed an intriguing question: does the U.S.
DAVID SUZUKI: On World Oceans Day let’s learn to treat the seas better

DAVID SUZUKI: On World Oceans Day let’s learn to treat the seas better

June 8 is World Oceans Day .

Micro housing units are worth a try

Basically I was trying to figure out whether or not size matters. Or, more to the point, whether it matters more than anything else. So there I was the other morning wandering about my house with a tape measure.

Vancouver city hall needs to do proper housing research

Housing policy appears to have been drafted on the back of a napkin
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