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Metro Vancouver mayors in a meeting Thursday have delayed the transit funding referendum to sometime after this November’s civic elections…
Metro mayors’ transit plan hits a snag
Globalnews.ca
The $7.5 billion transit plan unveiled by Metro Vancouver mayors earlier this month had cold water poured on it Tuesday by Transportation Minister Todd Stone…
Developers offer cash instead of affordable housing
Vancouver Sun
As Metro Vancouver cities push developers to provide affordable housing in new developments, some builders are finding it easier to simply give municipalities cash instead…
Is Vancouver ready for another Olympics?
The Province
As cities fall by the wayside, giving up their bids to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, residents of Metro Vancouver and Whistler can be excused for wondering: Could we, should we, do it all over again?…
Out with the glass, in with the milk cartons
Vancouver Sun
Under new recycling rules, which come into effect Monday, glass is no longer welcome to be co-mingled in Metro Vancouver blue bins with other recyclables…
Metro criticizes port land-use plan on farmland, coal exports
Richmond Review
“We know it’s just a matter of when they want to incorporate it as industrial land,” Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie told Metro’s transportation…
E-waste makes up more than a third of material violations at Metro landfills
Vancouver Sun
Metro Vancouver residents and commercial trash haulers don’t seem to be getting the message that electronic waste and leftover paint are not allowed in our landfills…
Metro Vancouver cities, health authority at odds over emergency calls
Vancouver Sun
B.C.’s two largest cities are leading a push to reverse recent changes by the ambulance service that they claim are putting the province’s patients at risk and off-loading the cost of emergency services to municipalities…
Fraser Valley decries incinerator plan, Burnaby mayor claims they’re ‘slamming door after cows …
The Vancouver Observer
Two outspoken members of Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste Committee were on the attack Thursday at the committee’s March meeting, this time about being kept in the dark about a plan to handle garbage in the neighbouring Fraser Valley Regional District…
Metro mayors dismiss TransLink report on tunnel replacement
Vancouver Sun
Metro Vancouver directors are calling for a fuller analysis of the region’s transportation network, saying more information is needed before the province can justify plans for a new bridge to replace the George Massey Tunnel…