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YVR Airport Station on SkyTrain's Canada Line. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Canada Line union issues 72-hour strike notice

Labour action on this SkyTrain line could begin early next week.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 30, 2021
Preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of the UBC School of Biomedical Engineering Building. (UBC)
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UBC planning $315 million facility expansion of medical research and nursing schools

To train more nurses and practitioners, and for biomedical engineering research.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 29, 2021
Proposed 2021 taxi flat rate changes for trips from Vancouver International Airport. (Passenger Transportation Board)
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Taxi companies seeking higher fares for trips starting from YVR Airport (MAP)

This includes new smaller zone boundaries for higher fares.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 29, 2021
Edmonton public transit bus. (Edmonton Transit Service)
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Alberta government signals new regional transit system for Edmonton

Edmonton will have a regional transit system like other major North American urban centres.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 28, 2021
Downtown Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver's rental housing vacancies saw small improvement in 2020: CMHC

But the affordability of rents is still problematic.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 28, 2021
Exterior of the newly completed Starbucks in Abbotsford using Nexii's building technology. (Nexii)
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Vancouver-based green construction startup raises $33 million in new funding

The three-year-old startup's value has quickly soared to $620 million.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 28, 2021
Artistic rendering of the City of Surrey's new Cloverdale Sport and Ice Complex. (RDHA)
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City of Surrey to borrow $151 million to construct new recreational centres

Three new major community and recreational facilities will be built by 2024.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 28, 2021
Team India at the 2019 Honda Celebration of Light fireworks competition in Vancouver. (Gabriel Lam/Meimento)
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Without big events, British Columbia's 150th anniversary in 2021 will be a quiet one

2021 was supposed to have been BC's version of "Canada 150."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 28, 2021
Uber and Lyft decals. (Shutterstock)
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Lyft and Uber mark one-year anniversary of launch in Metro Vancouver

Metro Vancouver passengers are amongst North America's top tippers.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 27, 2021
Vancouver residential street parking. (Google Maps)
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Vancouver seeks public feedback on mandatory parking permits for all residential streets

City of Vancouver is aiming to launch mandatory parking permits by late 2021.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 27, 2021
Artistic rendering of the Ashlu rental housing building at 38012 3rd Avenue in Squamish. (Eighth Avenue Development Group)
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BC Housing financing 67 new rental homes in Squamish for moderate incomes

BC will provide the developer with about $24 million in financing.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 27, 2021
Burnaby's Metrotown area. (Shutterstock)
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BC home sales in 2021 forecast to return to 2016's red hot volumes

And there will be another spike in home prices this year.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 27, 2021
Site of Skeena Terrace at 2298 Cassiar Street, Vancouver. (Government of BC)
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BC government proposes redevelopment of 11-acre East Vancouver social housing site

The massive redevelopment near Rupert Station could bring even more social housing.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 27, 2021
Artistic rendering of 5 West 2nd Avenue, Vancouver. (MA+HG Architects/Point Grey Developments)
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Stacked box tower with rental homes proposed for Olympic Village (RENDERINGS)

It will have 122 rental homes, including units for moderate incomes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2021
Cyclist in downtown Vancouver during COVID-19. (Shutterstock)
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Steep hills are a primary challenge for cycling in Metro Vancouver: data

Steep hills are much more of an issue than the availability of bike lanes.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2021
A Nova Bus electric-battery bus used by TransLink charging at the Marpole bus loop. (TransLink)
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Federal government funds $16M for TransLink's first 100% electric-battery bus route

15 new electric-battery buses will arrive in 2022 šŸš

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2021
Uber and Lyft decals. (Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver taxi companies lose court challenge against Uber and Lyft

Taxi companies have lost their battle against ridehailing in BC.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2021
TransLink electric-battery bus. (TransLink)
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TransLink to tap into $154M federal gas tax fund forĀ 57 electric-battery buses

And new replacement escalators and elevators at SkyTrain stations.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Jan 26, 2021
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