Police cancel ticket given to homeless man tenting on Vancouver sidewalk

Tweet City police will cancel a ticket mistakenly given to a homeless man who is camping across from their Downtown Eastside station. James Oickle, a man from New Brunswick, set up a red tent on a sidewalk next to Vancouver’s provincial court several weeks ago, saying he did it because he felt safe near the [...]

Vancouver cuts Olympic Village social housing

Tweet Vancouver city council has approved a plan to halve the amount of social housing in the Olympic Village development. Councillors spent hours Thursday debating how to keep an Olympic promise to provide 252 social housing units at the athletes’ village, but in the end they approved a $32-million plan to rent out half of [...]