The city's public review of the controversial Sequel 138 condominium development near Hastings and Main Street – the heart of the impoverished Downtown Eastside (DTES) – came under fire today as ...

One of the true pleasures of growing your own food is eating vegetables that you can’t find in stores. From the crunch of fresh-picked peas right off the vine to the intense flavour of frost-sweetened ...

The proposed expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline (also known as the Kinder Morgan pipeline) is a controversial issue in British Columbia. This information page provides a brief background and ...

April 20 is a special day in Vancouver. The city's marijuana laws become even fuzzier than usual as cannibis-law reform activists, students, tourists, local farmers, and straight-up stoners gather ...

One common excuse I hear for why the transportation in BC and Canada is so much dirtier than in Europe is that Canada is a much bigger and more spread out. It is certainly true that denser populations ...

After years of relentless reporting by the Vancouver Observer, it looks like the Canadian Citizenship Act is finally going to change. Jackie Scott's court case could become as definitive to Canadian ...

“You’d be hard-pressed to find an Indigenous person who hasn’t experienced that kind of loss and that kind of grief. We all know someone who has been murdered. We all know someone who has been removed ...

“You’d be hard-pressed to find an Indigenous person who hasn’t experienced that kind of loss and that kind of grief. We all know someone who has been murdered. We all know someone who has been ...

A new report by the Council of Canadians harshly condemns the federal government's "assault" on laws and institutions protecting Canada's freshwater. ”The Navigable Waters Protection Act no longer ...

Last year BP projected global climate pollution would "most likely" surge 26% by 2030. As I reported at the time, this would crank up the Earth's thermostat a disastrous +4C according to the ...

City Council made history by voting to support a shift to 100 per cent renewable energy sources, becoming the first city in Canada to take this step. In the motion, which passed unanimously, ...

This week's update is all about getting Canadians to help shape the fight for the open and affordable Internet. With only four core staff on the OpenMedia.ca Team, we can only stand up against the Vic ...