Twenty-two workers at the Dunbar location voted to join the USW in February, joining two other Metro Vancouver Starbucks — Clayton Heights in Surrey and Valley Centre in Langley — in beginning negotiations for a collective agreement. Around the same time, workers at non-unionized shops in B.C. were given pay increases.

oh so they actually can afford to pay their staff more.....

Subsidizing homeowners with a taxpayer-funded cheque for $500 is regressive policy for a leftist party. Even if we're means-testing it, there's so many better ways that money could be spent.

Once again, as a renter dealing with year over year increases of hundreds of dollars per month, I get nothing.

lol a temporary boycott with an explicitly defined timeframe of two days. Yeah that'll show them.

"dealing with" is a charitable way to describe "pacing around my apartment desperately trying to avoid thoughts of existential dread"

lmao we're just making taxis again

The very obvious solution to our housing crisis, the one almost literally every other country on earth would do, is to upzone our cities contained in the greenbelt. To say those cities are full and swap out greenbelt land is criminally negligent. Sprawl will cost us not only in upkeep but in the environmental devastation.

“let’s tear down everything here that all the existing residents chose and replace it with something else that we think is more logical”.

This feels like a dishonest interpretation that misses a lot of the nuance presented in the article.

Fighting this with regulation is a losing battle. The mobility revolution is already here. The long-term solution is to build more mobility lanes to accommodate.

According to CMHC we need to build 15000 - 18000 homes per year in Vancouver to catch up on housing supply. According to the city report, this proposal is expected to net 150 - 250 homes per year.

We just spent years of research, consultation, and council meetings to get us 1% of our needed supply. Our system is deeply broken and ABC are clearly not the ones to fix it.

their answers mostly hovered around it being “divisive.” if you’re wondering what the fuck that means in the context of more housing for people, I’m right there with you.

they also said the provincial regulations will take care of this. That’s literally not true because of Shaugnessy’s exclusive zoning status.

in short, they don’t have a coherent argument against Boyle’s motion outside of pettiness.

Nobody should be shocked to learn since the removal of the bike lane, the park has seen no extra parking revenue, fewer people cycling, and a 40% increase in drivers exceeding 50 km/h in the 30 km/h zone. Not only have they made the park less accessible, but also more dangerous. Let's all remember this isn't a bike lane on a four lane arterial, it's a city park !!

Just unbelievably incompetent work from ABC.

politely asking cyclists to dismount instead of building them dedicated infrastructure is the problem here. It's counter-intuitive design all to spare drivers from taking any of their space. It offloads all the conflict to vulnerable people outside of cars.

But when you live in a city you have to accept some level of "disturbance" (remember this is children playing, not a rock concert) from others. Following your logic, we wouldn't be allowed to permit anything in the entire city ever again. Vancouver desperately needs new things like daycares and housing and we can't let the loudest (and richest) residents veto their inclusion.

Zooming out, this is 10 minutes from the downtown core of Vancouver, the region of 3 million people. You can't expect it to be preserved in amber forever. Ultimately this will mean fewer families are allowed to live in Vancouver because childcare is so important, and that hurts the entire city.

In relative terms it's not much, but 8000 votes for someone insane as chris sky is kinda terrifying.

Hot take here I know, but good, gas is too cheap.

I have no love for the Liberals but this is indisputably good policy for incentivizing rental supply. Gotta give credit where it's due.

ah yes nothing more predictable than a conservative politician promising to "trim the fat"

god forbid we house too many people

I had no idea this was so dangerous. Uninstalling now

Seriously. I think this is ultimately good policy but it needs to be paired with increasing our hotel supply. My poor wedding guests got hosed last year visiting from ontario, hotels are easily $600/night in the summer now. This is going to make it much worse.