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The Culture of Meat
Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
Food safety scares as well as animal welfare, human health and environmental concerns have no doubt given Canadians many reasons to rethink where our meat comes from. There's just one problem: meat that may be safer (that which is healthier, more humanely produced and has less of an overall ecological impact) is not always readily available. This is especially the case in British Columbia. Prior to October 2007, it was legal for a British Columbian to show up at a farm and purchase meat from a farmer. That choice is no longer afforded to anyone because all meat sold in the province must now be processed at a federally or provincially licensed facility.
A buyer's market in Vancouver still no bargain
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
According to The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, Canada's most expensive market is in "a buyer's phase," but the cost of an average detached home is still $305,878 higher than the national average. The Canadian Real Estate Association lists the average price in May 2008 for a property in Canada as $318, 761, where houses in Vancouver are listed at an average of $624,639. According to the numbers from June 2008 released by REBGV, a typical detached residential property in Greater Vancouver sells for $765,654. That's a change of seven per cent over one year and 89.5 per cent over five years. A typical apartment will cost $388,722, a change of 7.8 per cent over one year and 105.2% over five years.
Court gives B.C. safe-injection site one-year reprieve
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
The controversial safe-injection site here that allows addicts to shoot up illegal drugs in a safe environment won a major court victory Tuesday, shielding the facility from a threat of being closed by the federal Conservative government for at least another year...
Vancouver's Bed Bug Plague
Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
At least once a week in Vancouver, bug exterminator Mark Amery enters a private home, lifts a mattress and watches the box spring move with blood-sucking vermin. It's an optical illusion caused by up to a thousand twitching bed bugs, each no larger than a lentil, which are infesting more houses, rental apartments and hotel rooms in Vancouver today than at any point in the city's modern history.
Vancouver Olympics security cameras raise privacy concerns
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
The RCMP plans to install hundreds of closed-circuit television cameras for security during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, CBC News has learned. Under the plan, cameras would be placed at approximately 100 Olympic sites, including both athletic and public celebration venues.
Green Party staple opts for new Vision
Posted by Shemuses from Canada
For years, Andrea Reimer and the civic Green Party were inextricably linked in Vancouver politics. Not anymore. The 36-year-old activist left the party in March to co-chair NDP MLA Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination campaign.
Doctors to visit poorest Vancouver residents to free up hospital beds
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
In a bid to reduce the number of hospital beds being taken up by the homeless and drug addicts in Vancouver, doctors will soon be making house-calls to those who live in single room occupancy (SRO) hotels in the Downtown Eastside. Many residents of the Downtown Eastside are seriously ill, often the result of drug use and hard living on the streets, said Lorna House, the director of mental health for the Vancouver Coastal Health Authority. By the time they get to a hospital, she said, they often need long-term care.
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