Posted from Vancouver Sun - News / Vanc... 89 days ago
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A proposed highrise development at Kingsway and Broadway is being both praised as a model of dense and sustainable urbanism and denounced as a way-too-tall monolith that will escalate gentrification in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant. Opinion is divided over whether a 19-storey condo tower, develop... (original story)
Posted from Vancouver Sun - News / Vanc... 102 days ago
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In September, the Surrey school district took the hesitant step of providing a breakfast — of sorts — to almost 600 hungry children in eight inner-city schools where the poverty rate in some neighbourhoods is an astonishing 80 per cent. The hesitation was due to a lack of money to provid... (original story)
Posted from Vancouver Sun - News / Vanc... 102 days ago
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RCMP Cpl. Benjamin (Monty) Robinson, who was involved in the fatal incident involving Polish traveller Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver International Airport in 2007, is set to go to trial next Monday to face an obstruction of justice charge. Robinson originally elected to be tried by a jury, with jur... (original story)
Posted from Vancouver Sun - News / Vanc... 103 days ago
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Just seven months ago, Susan Oliver was bedridden — stuck in a hospital room with her feet sewn together to facilitate healing following a gruesome ATV accident that left the dancer with serious injuries from head to toe. But on Sunday, the 14-year-old was back on her feet, not only walking, b... (original story)