Metro Vancouver
Metro Vancouver passes pared-down budget
December 20, 2025On October 31, the Metro Vancouver Regional District passed its budget for the 2026 fiscal year. It focuses on “drinking water, waste management, solid waste management, regional planning, regional parks, and more,” according to a Metro Vancouver press release. Initially, the draft budget faced public scrutiny due to significant projected increases in spending. It would have raised average household costs by up to 5% compared to the previous year. However, following the completion of a financial review on April 9, the Board approved a plan that eliminated nearly $364 million in operating savings and $1.1 billion in capital expenditures from…
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Never have I ever: Public transit edition
March 11, 2025Is it just me, or has Metro Vancouver’s public transit system gone to the dogs lately? All while the fares are expected to keep rising? The sheer audacity, man! Before diving into more complaining, I acknowledge that we have a…
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Metro Vancouver calls for student representatives in a youth and education advisory panel
February 3, 2023Metro Vancouver opened applications for a Youth and Education Advisory Panel on January 10. The aim of the panel is to involve youth and educators in the planning and infrastructure projects taken by Metro Vancouver to build an inclusive future…
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Vancouver’s Pee and Poo mascots are an unfortunate necessity
May 18, 201919/05/19: This story was corrected from an older version. The waste management campaign was incorrectly attributed to The City of Vancouver instead of Metro Vancouver. Metro Vancouver recently unveiled two new mascots: Pee and Poo, who look like, well, an engorged…
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SFU survey suggests Vancouverites’ commitment to democracy is dropping
October 30, 2018While Metro Vancouverites value democracy, many of them have become disengaged with it, according to a recent public opinion survey. This survey was done in August 2018 by SFU's Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, and it polled 1,506 participants. As…
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SFU Residence and Housing serves students’ needs amid housing crisis in Vancouver
September 30, 2018While the housing crisis in Metro Vancouver is seeing on-campus dorms fill up and pushing students to look for housing elsewhere, SFU Residence and Housing is taking steps to provide more extensive housing for its students. “A student may…
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SFU students and alumnus create app for locating halal eateries
July 4, 2018SFU student Mostafa Azarbar has co-created an app for locating and organizing halal food services in Metro Vancouver with two SFU students and others. HalalMe, a mobile app launched in early June, helps people who consume halal food locate eateries…
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Upwards trends concern SFU researchers
March 21, 2018Renter anxiety increasing in Metro Vancouver, say SFU researchers In a step away from the numbers and towards the people involved, SFU researchers Nicholas Blomley, Andy Yan, and Natalia Perez are using data to see how Vancouver’s housing prices…
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Metro Vancouver is neglecting its senior population, says SFU lecturer
January 24, 2018Metro Vancouver’s senior population (aged 65+) has experienced a drastic rise and Vancouver was not built with the new demographic in mind, revealed Andy Yan, director of the City Program at SFU, in a special lecture on January 8…
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Homelessness in Lower Mainland reaches new levels, says report
October 24, 2017The number of people experiencing homelessness in the Lower Mainland has reached its highest level and is growing four times faster than the population, according to a new report that combines the latest counts from across the region. The recent…
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