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> The Light Rail Committee: Property Taxes Will Quadruple Over The Next Decade ... Feb 4/08

> Has the Fraser Valley Real Estate Market Levelled Off? ... Feb 4/08

> Health System Failing DTES: Police Have Become Defacto Social Workers ... Feb 4/08

> Sheila Abraham Says Govt Discriminates Against Her By Failing To Provide Smoke-free Social Housing ... Feb 4/08

> RAV Ravaged Cambie Street Merchants Fight Back With "Shock and Owe" Campaign ... Feb 3/08

> BC Govt Wants SkyTrain-like Line for Port Moody, Coquitlam ... Feb 2/08

> Private Power Producers Spark Rivers Debate, Increases In BC Hydro Rates ... Feb 2/08

> Mentally-ill Overwhelming Police and Their Resources: Report ... Feb 2/08

> Special Avalanche Warning Issued for Vancouver's North Shore Mountains ... Feb 1/08

> Pulling the Plug on Public Hydro to Result in a Series of BC Hydro Rate Hikes ... Jan31/08

> Vancouver Website Promotes Red Dots to Stop Junk Mail, Help Environment ... Jan 31/08

> David Suzuki Foundation: Pacific Salmon Stocks are Declining, at Critical Point ... Jan 31/08

> Up to 15,500 in BC Homeless: Report ... Jan 31/08

> BC Hydro Fires It's Fairness Commissioner... hmmmmmmmmm ... Jan 30/08

> Delta Wants Say On Delta Landfill ... Jan 30/08

> Metro Vancouver Board Adopts Three-pronged Approach to Reduction and Recycling ... Jan 30/08

> City of Vancouver to Bring in a Consultant to Look at Metro Vancouver's Garbage Impact on Delta Landfill ... Jan 29/08

> New Housing Affordability Survey Shows BC has 3 of the Most Unaffordable Housing Markets in the World ... Jan 29/08

> Premiers Conference in Vancouver to Focus on Climate Change ... Jan 28/08

> BC Hydro wants to jack-up your electricity cost, despite BC Hydro already being very profitable ... Jan 27/08

> Metro Vancouver Turns It's Eyes To Delta Landfill ... Jan 26/08

> Metro Vancouver Housing Affordability Hits All-Time Record Low ... Jan 25/08

> Grow-ops Contributing To The Rental Housing Crunch ... Jan 24/08

> Homeless, Housing Stats Disputed... Minister Coleman's Figures are 'bogus' Says NDP Critic ... Jan 24/08

> Land Claim Fears Scuttle Metro Vancouver's Cache Creek Trash Plans ... Jan 23/08

> Governor General Michaelle Jean Dogged by Anti-Poverty Protestors at Vancouver Downtown East Side Tour ... Jan 23/08

> Metro Vancouver Not Asked For Transit Plan Input: Mayor ... Jan 22/08

> TransLink CEO Suddenly & Surprisingly Says She's Calling It Quits ... Jan 17/08

> Transit Authority Defends Right To Hold Secret Meetings ... Jan 16/08

> Translink Board Meetings No Longer Open To Public ... Jan 16/08

> BC's Transit Upgrade Plan Gets Mixed Reviews ... Jan 15/08

> Peter Julian, MP: Telus is "Price Gouging" With Their New Long Distance Network Access Fee ... Jan 14/08

> BC Govt. Unveils A $14-Billion Public Transit Plan ... Jan 14/08

> Full Winter Closure of the Grouse Grind Trail Remains in Effect ... Jan 11/08

> Burnaby Residents Set To Sue Over Kinder Morgan Oil Spill ... Jan 11/08

> A Large Langley Township-owned Lot Subdivided and Sold Off Secretly ... Jan 8/08

> Translink Democracy Derailed... Political Appointees to Replace Elected Reps ... Jan 6/08

> Rafe Mair Says TransLink Has Been Hijacked ... Jan 5/08

> New Recycling and Disposal Restrictions Effective January 1, 2008 ... Jan 1/08