A “staggering” number of women and children have become homeless since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shawn Bayes, executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society, said the society currently has 113 shelter beds for women and children in its facilities – and that’s not nearly enough to meet the need.
“I would say we turn away probably 40 per cent of the calls we get,” she said.
Is ‘renewable’ natural gas a climate solution — or masterful greenwashing?
Each time Tim Crossin turns on his gas fireplace to heat the modest home he shares with his partner, the avowed environmentalist "assuages" his climate guilt with a reminder that he is paying a premium for so-called "renewable" natural gas.
City sweeps on East Hastings are a cruel, costly and counter-productive spectacle
Less than six months into their term in office Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC majority have made clear their vision for Vancouver: more police, less justice. More inequality, less compassion.
Police moved into Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Wednesday morning as the city began carrying out its plan to remove a street encampment from the neighbourhood.
East Hastings Street, where people have been living in tents and make-shift structures, has been shut down at Main Street while the process begins.
B.C. is taking valuable steps but the new budget is full of mixed climate signals.
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that future action to curb emissions will become progressively more difficult — and undoubtedly more expensive — with every increment of warming.
