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VANCOUVER At least three separate reports warned health officials and local governments about the kind of heat waves that could cost lives in the Lower Mainland, but the analyses and documents appear to have been forgotten when they were needed most. A CTV News Vancouver investigation has uncovered documents from the B.C. Centre for Disease Control with clear criteria for a “heat health emergency” established in the wake of the region’s last deadly heat wave in 2009. Health officials have not responded to queries about those warnings and others. The most crucial document dates back to 2012. Authored by a BCCDC doctor and a researcher – both of whom also teach at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health – the document laid out a plan to prevent the kind of death toll they’d seen in the summer of 2009.
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When design drawings circulated last week for the forthcoming Broadway Subway stations, some observers were struck by what was not there: namely, a whole bunch of development in the air overhead.
Designs for most new stations on the $2.8 billion subway line appear to show single-storey structures, which seems, at first glance, like a massive missed opportunity to develop that prime real estate in a way that serves the public good, especially with badly needed non-market rental housing or child care.
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2020 will be remembered as a transformative year around the world. How did it change Vancouver?
For the sixth year, the Vancouver City Planning Commission brings together our city’s top urban thinkers, planners and advocates for our annual year-in-review forum a discussion of how the last year’s events and decisions will shape where Vancouver is heading.
The panel on February 18, 2021 includes
Kamala Todd, an Indigenous urban community planner and filmmaker;
Alex Boston, a renewable, resilient +restorative cities specialist;
Anthonia Ogendule, a Black community leader empowering youth to transform communities and shift culture; and,
Jesse Donaldson, an author and journalist who shines a provocative light on Vancouver’s civic culture and history.