RehRomano

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Dan Fumano: ABC Vancouver returns $116,000 in prohibited donations from 2022 election (vancouversun.com)
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Wine overtakes beer as B.C. drinkers' preferred summer beverage purchase (www.vancouverisawesome.com)
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BC marks first overpass collision of 2024 | News (dailyhive.com)
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After promising many times to reduce the mayoral budget during his campaign, Mayor Ken Sim proposes $180k increase to mayor's office while cutting Fire Dept. budget by $1 million (twitter.com)
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B.C. Uber workers call on province to cap the number of drivers on the road: 'Right now, it's essentially a free for all,' says ride-share driver (www.cbc.ca)
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Surrey, Abbotsford extortion schemes set B.C.'s South Asian community on edge (vancouversun.com)
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Price is Right contestant arrives on expense-paid visit to New Westminster (bc.ctvnews.ca)
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Homeowners Refuse to Accept the Awkward Truth: They’re Rich - Owners of the multi-million-dollar properties still see themselves as middle class, a warped self-image that has a big impact on renters (thewalrus.ca)
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B.C. announces minimum wage and other labour protections for app-based gig workers (biv.com)
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Airbnb operator says he's facing losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars because of new short-term rental laws (bc.ctvnews.ca)
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‘It’s 2023’: B.C. woman shocked Hullo Ferries doesn’t allow motorized wheelchairs - BC | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
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Rent is going up more than $100 a month right now — with the average asking price a record $2,117 (www.cbc.ca)
 

Average asking price for a new tenant has risen by 9.6% in last year, Rentals.ca says

Vancouver's only unionized Starbucks set to close: Store on Dunbar Street will shut down at end of September due to expiring lease, company says in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Twenty-two workers at the Dunbar location voted to join the USW in February, joining two other Metro Vancouver Starbucks — Clayton Heights in Surrey and Valley Centre in Langley — in beginning negotiations for a collective agreement. Around the same time, workers at non-unionized shops in B.C. were given pay increases.

oh so they actually can afford to pay their staff more.....

Ongoing cost-of-living crisis should trigger another housing benefit payment: Singh in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Subsidizing homeowners with a taxpayer-funded cheque for $500 is regressive policy for a leftist party. Even if we're means-testing it, there's so many better ways that money could be spent.

Once again, as a renter dealing with year over year increases of hundreds of dollars per month, I get nothing.

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