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Surrey's mayor has a vision for a new 12,000-seat venue

The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says the "groundwork has already begun" on a new 12,000-seat stadium or arena in the city, but some are questioning the size.

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Neighbourhood 'inequities' subject of upcoming Vancouver council vote

South Vancouver residents have poorer access to services, with social spending per capita over five years almost 10 times less.

Are Highrises Really Bad for Your Health?

We took a closer look at an intriguing claim from a Vancouver mayoral candidate.

B.C. lags behind other provinces in life satisfaction

Building community connections strengthens life satisfaction, say experts.

Bursting social bubbles after COVID-19 will make cities happier and healthier again

Meg Holden, Atiya Mahmood, Ghazaleh Akbarnejad, Lainey Martin and Meghan Winters Circles designed to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus by encouraging social distancing line San Francisco’s Dolores Park on May 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger) The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic introduced the idea of bubbles to our social lives.  These strict directives to stick to our bubbles are essential to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. At the same time, this way of thinking disrupts our understanding of the kinds and quantities of social interactions needed to make healthy cities possible. Health and social networks In 2013-14, the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health Authorities asked 33,000 people living in the Lower Mainland of B.C. a series of big-picture questions about their health, at the individual and community level. One of these questions, a marker of physical and mental health, was:

Vancouver explores ways to increase rental housing

The Globe and Mail Published January 13, 2021 DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press For 50 years, Vancouver has been a predominantly renter city, and with the price of real estate what it is, that demographic will only grow bigger. That means government needs to step up its game in order to supply a growing region with the affordable and secure rental housing that it needs. That will be the topic of a virtual panel discussion held jointly by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the City of Vancouver, called Towards a More Equitable Housing System: Is Vancouver a City for Renters? One of the event panelists is Evan Siddall, president and chief executive officer of Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation. The CMHC, Mr. Siddall says, has helped reverse the significant decline that B.C. had seen in rental housing construction in the past several decades, since condominiums became more profitable when they started coming online in the 1970s.