The Province
The Vancouver Airport Authority is banking on making YVR a destination point not only for tourists, but for locals looking for Louis Vuitton and Mario Prada as well…
The Vancouver Airport Authority is banking on making YVR a destination point not only for tourists, but for locals looking for Louis Vuitton and Mario Prada as well…
A small but vocal group of Richmond seniors were despondent Monday after city council rejected their call for a bylaw quashing Chinese-only signage in a city where more than half the residents are of Chinese descent “We are the new minority,” Marlene Esplen, who has lived in Richmond for more than 20 years, said outside city hall Monday. “A lot of people around here are too scared to talk about this issue.”…
TransLink officials are being criticized by Metro Vancouver mayors for backing off on the push for new funding solutions to expand the transit system.
Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie accused the transportation authority of shirking the unpopular task of securing new revenue tools and dumping the job in the laps of the mayors.
“This is a complete and utter abdication by the board and by TransLink to do what they’re supposed to do,” Brodie said at a March 7 meeting of Metro Vancouver’s newly formed transportation committee.