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Energy savings missed when retrofits punished: Victoria mayor
By February 9, 2011 01:45 pmGovernments need to stop punishing property owners who make their old buildings more energy efficient, Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin said yesterday. Read more…
Poverty contributed to 21 BC child deaths: children's advocate
By January 27, 2011 01:43 pm 3 commentsVICTORIA - British Columbia's children's watchdog is calling on the provincial government to do something about the province's high child poverty rate in a report that reviews the sad, short lives of 21 dead children. Read more…
Vancouver approves green building targets
By January 26, 2011 04:29 pmVancouver City Council approved a list of revised Greenest City 2020 targets last week. Buried in the fine print are some hints as to how the city may implement its green building ambitions. Read more…
Filed inVancouver delays DTES tower proposal
By January 21, 2011 11:24 am 1 commentsA controversial proposal to allow 12 to 15 storey buildings in the Downtown Eastside was suddenly yanked from city council’s Thursday planning committee agenda and delayed to gauge public opinion. Read more…
Filed inGreen building to support 7.9 million American jobs
By January 12, 2011 11:11 am 1 commentsGreen building is forecast to generate $554 billion in economic activity and support more than 7.9 million American jobs from 2009 to 2013, according to a study by Booz Allen Hamilton. Read more…
Filed inGreen building systems growing abroad
By January 11, 2011 11:11 amIf the British Columbia wood products industry aspires to evolve beyond exporting raw logs and cheap 2x4s, it might be worth a look at the expanding green building certification systems in China, Japan and beyond. Read more…
Filed inTop green building trends for 2011
By January 10, 2011 06:01 amGreen building consultant Jerry Yudelson expects green renovation, reduced water consumption and net zero buildings to top this year's green building trends. Read more…
Filed inCanucks owners interested in Olympic Village
By November 19, 2010 11:31 amCould the owners of the Vancouver Canucks add the Olympic Village to their real estate portfolio? Read more…
Filed inNearly-homeless population faces dangerous health conditions: study
By November 19, 2010 09:26 am 1 commentsSome new tracking of people who are one step away from being homeless reveals a large population rife with mental illness, hunger and chronic health problems. Read more…
City of Vancouver puts troubled Olympic Village into receivership
By November 17, 2010 06:19 pm 3 commentsThe City of Vancouver announced Wednesday that Ernst and Young was assuming control of the Millennium Southeast False Creek Properties and the Millennium Water development. Read more…
Honour House to open for Remembrance Day
By November 9, 2010 12:12 pmHonour House officially opens at 2:00 p.m. on November 10, meeting the goal set by its founder, Allan De Genova, a year ago. The New Westminster facility will offer a place to stay for members of the Canadian Forces and first responders while receiving care in the Metro Vancouver area. Read more…
Filed inMetro Vancouver immigration gets animated
By October 22, 2010 12:00 pmThe patterns of immigrant settlement that have shaped Metro Vancouver have been brought to life. Read more…
Filed inSFU prof designs homelessness teaching resource for B.C. high schools
By October 7, 2010 11:26 am 4 commentsIn the province with Canada’s “poorest postal code” and poorest families, a UBC economics professor thinks it’s time B.C. high schools began teaching their students about the economics of homelessness. Read more…
Filed inCanadian business to lobby Harper on homelessness
By September 27, 2010 02:15 pm 3 commentsThe Canadian Chamber of Commerce will lobby the Harper government for a national plan to end homelessness, having passed a resolution brought by the Burnaby Board of Trade. Read more…
Government regulations add to housing costs: minister
By September 27, 2010 10:27 am 13 commentsGovernment regulations drive up the cost of housing in British Columbia, housing and social development minister Rich Coleman told delegates to the Union of B.C. Municipalities conference in Whistler this morning.
“Every dime we put on someone's shoulders is a piece of a mortgage that they're carrying that they have to pay and something else in the household will have to give way,” he said. Read more…
Filed inProblems with government phone line amount to 'negligence': advocate
By September 24, 2010 12:12 pm 2 commentsA change to the housing and social development ministry's phone system has made it even harder to get help, said Renée Ahmadi, an advocate with the Action Committee of People with Disabilities.
“The word negligent comes to mind,” said Ahmadi. Read more…
Olympic Village woes continue
By September 23, 2010 10:03 amThe scheduled Saturday marketing relaunch of the Olympic Village is on hold until sometime in October as the future of its developer seems foggy. Read more…
Filed inInfamous Vancouver hotel set to return
By September 20, 2010 10:43 am 1 commentsSitting vacant since 2006, the American Hotel at 928 Main Street used to conjure up tall tales – many true – about decrepit living conditions, drug-dealing building managers and regular assaults on drug-addicted tenants. Read more…
Filed inHousing numbers mask lack of new units: CCPA report
By September 13, 2010 06:00 am 2 commentsHomelessness has grown in British Columbia because of a failure of the federal and provincial governments to build new social housing units, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Read more…
Filed inHomeless shelter in Kamloops gets a makeover
By August 25, 2010 06:05 pm 2 commentsThe Ministry for Human Resources and Skills Development announced today that it will finance improvements to a youth homeless shelter in Kamloops. Read more…
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Councillors heed to residents, shrink social housing complex
West End group to city: more communication needed
Social housing activists hold sit-in at former Olympic athletes village
City to consider modular housing pilot
Canada short changes mental health care: Kirby
'Home of the Future' needs a new home
NDP pushes renters' rights bills
Liberals announce over 1,000 social housing units
Parents can't afford to get their kids back, say civil rights lawyers
Giving voice(mail) to the homeless
Vancouver to cough up another $32 million for Olympic Village housing
Province extends funding for three Vancouver shelters
Vancouver homeless count appears political: Coleman
Aboriginal homeless threaten tent city if shelter closes
Vancouver homelessness up 12 per cent since 2008
BC Housing suing Vancouver agency for money owed, mismanagement
No room for single-family zoning in Vancouver's future: panel
Vancouver counts its homeless today
TAPS, government differ on gaming grant cut
Gaming grant cut to Victoria anti-poverty group
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Tent village packs up
Vancouver promotes 'less as more' in green design
Mike Harcourt argues with protester
Organizers will close Olympic Tent Village if asked
Low-income B.C. seniors lose homes to Saturday fire
'Good vibes' at homelessness rally
Giant banner dropped from Cambie Bridge
BC's Coleman to foreign press: your problems are worse
Victoria group raising money to help families with rent
Mayor Robertson unfazed by negative media attention
Create a VANOC for homelessness, campaign urges
Robertson calls for post-Olympic homeless count
Downtown Eastside info centre a "whitewash" say residents
Victoria bids on bankrupt motels
Vision Vancouver ‘can’t support’ red tent campaign
VANOC chips in for homeless youth shelter
Ready or not, city plans to open shelters
New homeless shelter won't close gap
Ombudsperson recommends improvements to seniors' care
Victoria loses appeal of right-to-shelter case
Off the Throne
The British Columbia legislature resumes sitting this week, but not before Premier Christy Clark outlined her spring agenda in an appearance on the Vancouver radio station where she used to work in what was pitched as a replacement for the throne speech. That agenda amounted to staying the course: focus on the economy, no money for teachers or anything else, and no higher taxes.
This from a premier who won the leadership of her party on a "change" platform. Perhaps appropriate then that the government didn't bother with a more formal speech from the throne at a time when polls suggest an increasing number of people are wondering if the premier's going to, as they say, piss or get off the pot.
-- Andrew MacLeod
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