Urban

01/09/23
Author: 
Greg Sakaki
Nanaimo city council voted to accelerate implementation of the province’s zero carbon step code, which will effectively eliminate natural gas as an energy source for heating space and water in new homes starting a year from now. (News Bulletin file photo)

Aug. 29, 2023

City council votes 5-4 to accelerate adoption of zero carbon step code

Natural gas will not be the primary heat source in new homes built in Nanaimo starting next year.

City council, at a meeting Monday, Aug. 28, voted 5-4 to accelerate adoption of the zero carbon step code to 2024, six years ahead of the province’s timeline of 2030.

31/08/23
Author: 
Emily Fagan
photo: Samuel Engelking via Now Magazine

Aug. 28, 2023

 ‘Many Canadians, especially renters, are closer to homelessness than they might imagine’

Increasingly since the pandemic, in cities across the country, more and more people are choosing to live in a tent, often out of necessity, because they feel unsafe in overcrowded shelters, or they’re turned away because shelters are at capacity.

Encampments have become a regular fixture in parks and sometimes on city streets, as more and more people face rapidly increasing rents and fewer and fewer options.

31/08/23
Author: 
Alex Hemingway
Property owners should pay their share, says Alex Hemingway. Photo via Shutterstock.

Aug. 30, 2023

Land wealth is fuelling inequality and rising housing costs. Here’s a solution.

30/08/23
Author: 
Zack O’Malley Greenburg
Grist / Al Pereira / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty; David Corio / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty; Scott Gries / Getty; Raymond Boyd / Getty; Getty Images

Aug. 30, 2023

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30/08/23
Author: 
Courtney Shea
Andrea Horwath speaks to supporters during a campaign rally in 2022. (Geoff Robins/The Canadian Press)

Aug. 28, 2023

14/08/23
Author: 
Christopher Cheung
More ‘nimble, proactive and direct’: Burnaby will join five existing municipal and regional housing corporations taking direct responsibility for delivering affordable homes. Photo by Christopher Cheung.

Aug. 14, 2023

Why Burnaby Decided to Develop Its Own Housing

BC’s third-largest city is aiming for rents at 50 per cent below market. Here’s how.

07/08/23
Author: 
Stefan Labbé
Level 4 and 5 (high to extreme) drought conditions impacted more than 80% of B.C.'s river basins as of Aug. 4, 2023.B.C. government

Aug. 5, 2023

Persistent dry and hot weather pushed Metro Vancouver to enact Level 2 watering restrictions Friday for the first time since 2015.

More than 80 per cent of B.C.’s river systems face high to extreme drought conditions.

02/08/23
Author: 
Georgia Kelly
Thorncliffe Park Tenants holding a rally on May 1, 2023. Credit: Thorncliffe Park Tenants

July 26, 2023

Tenants take back power from landlords through strike action

When Mohamad Khalil Aldroubi heard that his landlord would be increasing the rent by up to 5.5 per cent starting last May, he started knocking on his neighbours’ doors. 

Aldroubi’s family has lived at an apartment complex at 71 Thorncliffe Park Dr., Toronto, since 2015. He has five kids. Like him, other tenants at other apartment complexes at 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park were already struggling to manage previous rate hikes. 

16/07/23
Author: 
Dongsheng News, Orinoco Tribune
China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. Dongsheng.

Jul 14, 2023

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