1+ hour, 18+ min ago  (240+ words) The City of Richmond is rolling out 30 km/h speed limits on local residential roads across the city, replacing the provincial default of 50 km/h on neighbourhood streets as part of an effort to create safer, calmer communities for people…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (738+ words) Last month, Vancouver mayor Ken Sim made the assertion that he had 11 AI agents “running right now, doing all of my, a lot of my, work in the background.” It caused just a little bit of controversy, as rival politicians…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (485+ words) There’s a widespread view in the hospitality industry that liquor rules have not kept pace with how people actually want to use shared social spaces. While there have been meaningful changes introduced since my 2023 story on the subject, the core…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (356+ words) Vancouver’s big tent party is getting bigger. Armor Valor, a former OneCity council candidate, has announced that he will be running with the Vancouver Liberals, who are led by Kareem Allam, Mayor Ken Sim’s former chief of staff. Valor, who…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago  (542+ words) For most of the civic parties in the upcoming October election, abolishing the democratically elected Vancouver Park Board is not on the priority list. While opinions differ on whether having a separate, elected park board is effective (Vancouver is the…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago  (347+ words) The October municipal election is getting clearer by the day, as actual names and faces get attached to party slates. Today, progressive party OneCity, which is running William Azaroff as its mayoral candidate, announced its candidates for council, school board,…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (737+ words) In my first week as a journalism teacher, I inherited a class of senior students as they were halfway through their program. A hand shot up. “You’re the first journalist of colour we’ve had as an instructor,” said the student....

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (768+ words) On the surface, a Major League Baseball team in Vancouver seems like a great idea. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred himself said as much not that long ago in an interview with Sportsnet. Think about it. A city that has craved…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (689+ words) Kenya-Jade Pinto has a framework for thinking about the world. “What do we owe to each other?” askes the director/producer of new documentary The Sandbox. “And how do we hold ourselves to the standard of being able to meet…...

4+ mon, 6+ day ago  (622+ words) Few pieces of news completely floor me these days. After more than a decade and a half writing about various issues, it takes a lot to completely surprise me, to hear something that makes me fall off my bike. That…...