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• City of Vancouver steps up enforcement on illegal short term rentals - CBC.ca

  26-10-2016 23:34
  
  CBC.ca
  City of Vancouver steps up enforcement on illegal short term rentals
  CBC.ca
  Just three weeks after the city of Vancouver announced its plan to introduce a framework to regulate short term rentals, city inspectors say they're stepping up enforcement against illegal short term suites, including those advertised on sites like Airbnb.
  
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• Fired Vision Vancouver school board trustees allege education minister defamed them - CBC.ca

  26-10-2016 23:12
  
  CBC.ca
  Fired Vision Vancouver school board trustees allege education minister defamed them
  CBC.ca
  Four fired Vision Vancouver school trustees are demanding a retraction and apology for what they say are defamatory comments from the education minister and the president of the B.C.'s School Superintendents Association. Trustees Allan Wong, Joy ...
  Fired Vision Vancouver school trustees accuse Education Minister Mike Bernier of defamationStraight.com
  Four fired Vancouver school board trustees
  
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• Vancouver area's empty-home rates have almost doubled since 2001 - The Globe and Mail

  26-10-2016 11:00
  
  MetroNews Canada
  Vancouver area's empty-home rates have almost doubled since 2001
  The Globe and Mail
  The proportion of Metro Vancouver homes left vacant or not used as a primary residence has almost doubled since 2001, a time when the region's residential real estate sector increasingly became a magnet for both local and foreign investors, according ...
  Empty homes not just a Vancouver issue: plannerMetroNews Canadaall 2 news articles »
  
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• Critics call for more social housing as Vancouver set to dismantle homeless camp - CBC.ca

  26-10-2016 08:17
  
  CBC.ca
  Critics call for more social housing as Vancouver set to dismantle homeless camp
  CBC.ca
  The City of Vancouver says outreach workers are helping about two dozen people move into a shelter after the homeless camp they were staying at was deemed unsafe. City spokesman Tobin Postma says the camp where up to 70 tents were erected in July ...
  City of Vancouver moves to dismantle tent city on Hastings StreetVancouver Sunall 9 news articles »
  
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• City of Vancouver moves to dismantle tent city on Hastings Street - Vancouver Sun

  26-10-2016 04:17
  
  Straight.com
  City of Vancouver moves to dismantle tent city on Hastings Street
  Vancouver Sun
  In the week that the City of Vancouver is hosting a conference of international housing experts, crews moved in Tuesday to dismantle a months old homeless camp in the city's poorest neighbourhood. But even as the rain fell on those preparing to leave ...
  Vancouver removes homeless from West Hastings tent cityNews1130
  City of Vancouver to evict tent city in Downtown Eastside over health, safety concernsG
  
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• Vancouver steps up campaign against illegal short-term rentals - The Globe and Mail

  26-10-2016 03:26
  
  Vancouver steps up campaign against illegal short-term rentals
  The Globe and Mail
  City inspectors have found Airbnb rentals that were nothing more than backyard storage sheds – without bathrooms – behind a house near Boundary Road. They found a 14-unit building in the south Granville area where every apartment was listed for ...
  Complaints about short-term rentals spike in VancouverNews1130all 8 news articles »
  
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• 5 questions about British Airways Flight 286 emergency landing in Vancouver - CBC.ca

  26-10-2016 03:18
  
  Huffington Post Canada
  5 questions about British Airways Flight 286 emergency landing in Vancouver
  CBC.ca
  Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Vancouver International Airport today, scrambling for flights after their British Airways plane to London made an emergency landing late Monday night. We know that 22 cabin crew and three pilots from the plane ...
  Jet makes emergency landing in Vancouver after crew 'became unwell'The Globe and Mail
  British Airways flight makes emergency landing in Van
  
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• 3 arrested in violent Vancouver pot shop robbery - CBC.ca

  26-10-2016 00:34
  
  News Talk 770 Calgary
  3 arrested in violent Vancouver pot shop robbery
  CBC.ca
  Three men have been arrested in connection with a violent marijuana store robbery in Vancouver 10 days ago, while a fourth female suspect remains at large. Vancouver police says Darnel Matsui, 28, from Medicine Hat, Hosea Smith, 26, from Calgary and ...
  One suspect still out there after Vancouver pot shop is robbedNews1130
  Two Albertans in custody after violent marijuana shop robbery in Vancouver660 News
  Three ch
  
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