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40 people living in tents on Vancouver street agree to move to housing

Forty people who were living in a street encampment on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside that is being cleared by city workers have accepted offers of accommodation, BC Housing says.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | August 25th 2022

David Eby, the odds-on favourite to take over for John Horgan as both the leader of the BC NDP and the premier of the province, might finally give them a fighting chance, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Province of British Columbia/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Canadians are being crushed by the housing market. B.C.’s wannabe premier might be able to help

It’s intergenerational warfare by proxy, one that’s been fought on the battlefields of municipal zoning bylaws and redevelopment applications, and the forces fighting for more density and affordability continue to suffer heavy casualties, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Opinion

By Max Fawcett | Opinion, Politics | August 12th 2022

Tents line the sidewalk on East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, where city workers started efforts to clear the encampment on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

As Vancouver dismantles downtown tent city, residents say they have nowhere to go

A resident of a street encampment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside watched on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, as workers began removing some people's belongings after the city handed out notices advising that tents and other structures will be dismantled.

By Brenna Owen | News | August 10th 2022

Tents line the sidewalk on East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, on Thursday, July 28, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Vancouver's mayor wants feds and B.C. to increase funding for homeless

The deadline to dismantle an encampment along Vancouver's Hastings Street has passed with little change, but the city's mayor says he's reached out to the federal and B.C. governments for urgent funding and other supports.

By The Canadian Press | News, Politics | August 5th 2022

Duncan Martin brings clean power to communities. Photo by Cody Skinner

Duncan Martin believes in communities’ power for the future

Through the worker-owned Vancouver Renewable Energy Cooperative (VREC) and its community-owned solar investment arm SolShare Energy, Duncan Martin and his colleagues provide solar arrays at no upfront cost to a building owner.

Opinion

Youth climate action

By Patricia Lane | Opinion | August 2nd 2022

City of Vancouver votes to join class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies

The city is tagging on to a larger campaign, Sue Big Oil, which is a collection of local governments across British Columbia banding together for a class action lawsuit, arguing fossil fuel companies should help municipalities recoup climate-related costs.

By Cloe Logan | News | July 21st 2022

Camron Sabour shows two acorn squash he purchased at a discount from a last-chance produce rack at a grocery store in Ottawa, Ont. on June 27, 2022. [Photo by Isaac Phan Nay/Canada’s National Observer]

How you can cut your grocery budget — and emissions

Grabbing groceries before they get trashed has a green side-effect, too: reducing food waste cuts down on planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, research shows.

By Isaac Phan Nay | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | July 5th 2022

Photo by Marcia Chambers/Alamy Stock Photo

130-year-old menus show how climate crisis is affecting what we eat

By studying the so-called mean temperature of restaurant seafood, scientists have shown how the species that grace our plates have changed with time.

Race Against Climate Change

By Ian Rose | News | July 4th 2022

Erika Reyes grabs a bite from takeout delivered in reusable containers distributed by Inwit, a tech company based in Toronto. Photo by: Melanie Valente-leite

Takeout in a post-plastics world

Though many restaurants across Canada have already begun using more sustainable alternatives to plastics, the federal government’s announcement this week of the pending bans still came as an unwelcome surprise to some.

By Chloe Rose Stuart-Ulin | News, Climate Solutions Reporting | June 24th 2022

The discovery of a woodpecker's nest, as shown in this handout image provided by the Community Nest Finding Network, has halted construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline along a 400-metre stretch near Chilliwack. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Community Nest Fin

Woodpecker nest halts construction of TMX pipeline near Chilliwack

The Crown corporation says the area will not be cleared until there's confirmation from a wildlife resource specialist that no nests are active, which would be the end of nesting season.

By Canadian Press | News | June 22nd 2022

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