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Will Vancouver elect Canada’s first Green mayor?

Will Vancouver elect Canada’s first Green mayor?

Political climate is favourable for Adriane Carr and co.
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Housing in Vancouver will get worse before it gets better

Housing in Vancouver will get worse before it gets better

Better use of land key to affordability in Vancouver
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Rant/Rave: Week of Nov. 30

Rant/Rave: Week of Nov. 30

KEEP THE PRESS FREE Just a comment on this week’s Torstar/Postmedia closures. [Editor’s note: It was reported on Monday that Postmedia and Torstar had swapped 41 newspapers, with plans to close 36 of the titles, at a loss of 291 jobs.
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Renewable energy isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than fossil fuels

Renewable energy isn’t perfect, but it’s far better than fossil fuels

In their efforts to discredit renewable energy and support continued fossil fuel burning, many anti-environmentalists have circulated a dual image (see below) purporting to compare a lithium mine with an oilsands operation.
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Some radical ideas to deliver affordable homes in B.C.’s pricey Lower Mainland

Some radical ideas to deliver affordable homes in B.C.’s pricey Lower Mainland

Western Investor editor Frank O'Brien says we must go all-in to solve B.C.’s housing crisis
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Some radical ideas to deliver affordable homes in B.C.’s pricey Lower Mainland

Some radical ideas to deliver affordable homes in B.C.’s pricey Lower Mainland

Western Investor editor Frank O'Brien says we must go all-in to solve B.C.’s housing crisis
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Vancouver's 10-year housing strategy provides faint hope for those ‘squeezed out’

Vancouver's 10-year housing strategy provides faint hope for those ‘squeezed out’

Strategy is long in length, long overdue and a long way off
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Louie, De Genova, Deal to seek re-election in 2018

Louie, De Genova, Deal to seek re-election in 2018

Vision’s Andrea Reimer, NPA’s George Affleck won’t seek another term
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Referendum count is not as promised

Referendum count is not as promised

The B.C. Liberals are going to ride objections to next year’s referendum on a new vote-counting system to the bitter, proportionally representative end.
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Corporate influence inflames political cynicism: Suzuki

Corporate influence inflames political cynicism: Suzuki

In 1952, my Grade 10 civics teacher asked us what we hoped to become as adults. One of the most popular boys answered, “I hope to go into politics.
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