B.C.’s housing minister has released the names of 10 municipalities that will be required to hit yet-to-be-established targets on
new home construction or risk having the province force through higher density.
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BRITISH COLUMBIA
(The Canadian Press)
These 10 municipalities are now required to hit housing targets
B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Khalon has released the names of 10 municipalities that will be required to hit yet-to-be-established
targets on new home construction or risk having the province force through higher density.
Why it matters: Municipalities that meet targets will receive provincial cash for such amenities as parks, bike lanes and
recreation centres. Those that don’t meet the targets will be overruled by the province, which has the power to rezone entire
neighbourhoods to create more density.
• The first 10 municipalities were selected using a weighted index based on factors that include urgency of housing need,
projected population growth, land availability and housing affordability.
The 10 municipalities are: Abbotsford, Delta, Kamloops, Port Moody, Saanich, Vancouver, Victoria and the districts of North
Vancouver, West Vancouver and Oak Bay.
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COURTS
(Arlen Redekop / PNG)
Former marketing director sues Vancouver developer alleging wrongful dismissal, lack of pay equity
A former marketing director of one of B.C.’s largest real estate developers is suing the company for almost $1 million, largely to
make up for what she called a shortfall in her salary compared to her male counterparts for the past five years.
Tracy Parolin, a married mother of 10-year-old twins, said in a notice of civil claim against Cressey Development Corp. that the
reason she was given that two male co-workers “made more money is because they were hungrier than her and she had other
priorities, like her kids.”
“After returning from pregnancy leave, Ms. Parolin has been repeatedly excluded from meetings and decisions pertaining to her
assigned projects on the grounds that, ‘You’re a mom and never here,’ or ‘You are too busy being a mom, so decisions are made
without you.'”
Voice and email messages left with Cressey’s office were not returned. None of the allegations have been proven in court.
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• The former payroll manager at two Surrey-based construction companies has been ordered to repay close to $1.9 million she took
from the firms, as well as pay $100,000 in punitive damages. According to Supreme Court of B.C. Justice Gary Weatherill, over the
course of several years — ending in August 2021 when she quit — Domenica Fazio stole $1.9 million, using an elaborate scheme in
which she placed unapproved wages into a series of accounts in her name.
• A high school teacher in the central Okanagan has accepted a five-day suspension for dealings with students that were deemed
inappropriate and for resharing social media posts seen as “transphobic” by a parent at his school. Justin Daniel Moses Enns
signed a consent resolution agreement with the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation earlier this month that was posted online
Tuesday.
• Vancouver police have identified the man who was killed in the West End on the weekend as 43-year-old Jonathan James Bulloch.
The Vancouver resident was stabbed on Saturday just before 10 p.m. near Davie and Bute streets. He was taken to hospital where he
died. No arrests have been made.
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WORD FOR WORD
(Jason Payne / PNG)
"The margins are getting thinner.
"We can only raise the prices so much to stay competitive."
— Pitt Meadows farmer Brad Hopcott on inflation resulting in higher costs across almost every aspect of the farm business
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OPINION
Adam Zivo: A 14-year-old is dead. Her dad blames 'safer supply' drugs
Fourteen-year-old Kamilah Sword overdosed and died last August after becoming addicted to hydromorphone, a drug which her friends
say they often acquired through drug users who were defrauding Vancouver’s safer supply programs. Her father, who wants answers
for his daughter’s death, feels “brushed aside” by the government and worries about how the investigation of his daughter’s death
is being handled.
Last week, he shared his story and introduced me to Kamilah’s closest friends, and their parents, who explained how hydromorphone
abuse has ravaged their families and contributed to a new generation of opioid addicts in Port Coquitlam.
Collectively, they painted a disturbing portrait of a community where the abuse of “dillies” (the slang term for Dilaudid, a brand
of hydromorphone) is ubiquitous among teenagers, thanks, in part, they say to the wide-scale defraudment of “safer supply”
programs.
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HEALTH CARE
(edwaittimes.ca)
Fraser Health information available on updated ER wait-time tracker
A website that lets people track the waiting times for emergency rooms across Metro Vancouver now includes sites in the Fraser
Valley.
Context: Fraser Health announced Tuesday that it would begin making ER waiting times at Surrey Memorial and some other facilities
public via an online dashboard managed by Vancouver Coastal Health.
• The announcement came as the health authority struggled to address criticism of conditions at Surrey Memorial and other
hospitals, including claims that a lack of resources is compromising patient care.
• The dashboard provides information on waiting times and locations at dozens of hospitals and urgent care clinics around Metro
Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast.
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The Halfmoon Bay General Store on the Sunshine Coast, built in 1937, is showing its age.
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