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OPINION: The City’s Climate Emergency Response will make MORE than a cat fart’s difference, thank you very much

OPINION: The City’s Climate Emergency Response will make MORE than a cat fart’s difference, thank you very much

Matt Horne is the City of Vancouver’s climate policy manager. He is responsible for delivering on the City's commitment to have 100% of the energy used in Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­come from renewable sources before 2050.
OPINION: Will the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive really help you buy a home?

OPINION: Will the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive really help you buy a home?

Canada’s federal government really wants to help you buy a home – or at least, make you believe that voting for them will help you buy a home.But will the First-Time Home Buyer Incentive actually work?
BC Ferries’ booze cruise experiment stuck in bureaucratic dry dock

BC Ferries’ booze cruise experiment stuck in bureaucratic dry dock

The long-awaited promise of alcohol sales on the high seas, sadly, is stuck in bureaucratic dry dock.
OPINION: The City of Vancouver's Climate Action Plan won't make a cat fart's difference

OPINION: The City of Vancouver's Climate Action Plan won't make a cat fart's difference

David Fine is an Oscar-winning Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­filmmaker who manages the VanPoli Facebook page , contributes regularly to various social media discussion groups and helped form Housing Action for Local Taxpayers (HALT), which advocates for measures to addr
No butts about it: tossing your cigarette on the ground is unacceptable

No butts about it: tossing your cigarette on the ground is unacceptable

As usual, improperly tossed cigarette butts come down to the responsibility of the smoker, and the hard evidence is all around us.
Here's why we published (then took down) a piece about "BC NDP housing policies destroying wealth"

Here's why we published (then took down) a piece about "BC NDP housing policies destroying wealth"

British Columbia’s NDP Premier John Horgan This past Friday we re-published THIS opinion piece which originally appeared in Business In Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­, a sister publication of ours here at Glacier Media .
Let's be frank: We were weenies for falling for the Wienermobile prank

Let's be frank: We were weenies for falling for the Wienermobile prank

When someone in the lower mainland purported to have an iconic Wienermobile for sale on Craigslist, let's just say we really wanted this listing to cut the mustard. But we ended up being the weenies here.
OPINION: Trudeau grasping at straws with single-use plastic ban

OPINION: Trudeau grasping at straws with single-use plastic ban

But, somewhat like the dilemma Trudeau has in supporting a pipeline project and professing the need to address climate change, this is not a problem we created in 500 days and not one that can be addressed by 2021.
Three people dead in Burnaby in two days: This madness has to stop

Three people dead in Burnaby in two days: This madness has to stop

The scene on Thursday on Marine Way near Boundary Road in Burnaby. A 75-year-old pedestrian died. Photo: Shane MacKichan I had to change the headline of this blog this morning. It originally read as "Two people dead in Burnaby in two days.
How a Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­cabbie, a fentanyl dealer and money laundering made it into one court case

How a Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­cabbie, a fentanyl dealer and money laundering made it into one court case

One of many fascinating stories on what Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­has become and what people will do to make an illegal buck in one of the most unaffordable cities in the world.
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