Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Frances Bula
Publication Date: August 16, 2025 - 09:00
Vancouver’s land development plan could help pay for city budget, chief of staff says
August 16, 2025
Vancouver’s ambitious plan to develop thousands of market-rate apartments on city land could eventually bring in enough money to cover almost half of the municipal operating budget, Mayor Ken Sim’s chief of staff says.
That’s the long-term goal, said Trevor Ford, who enthusiastically described the plan as the equivalent of what Vienna, Singapore or the University of British Columbia have done by developing their own land. Vancouver’s current operating budget is $2.34-billion.
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If there was a fire, a flood, kids in need of skates or a hungry family in Montreal, Sid Stevens could be counted on to organize help.For seven decades, his name was synonymous with Sun Youth, the community organization he founded with his friend Earl De La Perralle when they were both barely into puberty.
September 2, 2025 - 16:53 | Sue Montgomery | The Globe and Mail
A rising number of students across Canada are struggling with bullying, poverty, and mental illness as they head back to the classroom. That’s according to the brand-new Raising Canada Report, commissioned by Children First Canada. It says more than 70 percent of Canadian youth between the ages of 12 and 17 have experienced bullying in the last year. Furthermore, over 13 percent of children were living in poverty by the end of 2024. And when we examine the data for teenagers, 1-in-5 say they’ve experienced cyberbullying in the past 12 months. We dig through the data in Hour 2...
September 2, 2025 - 16:38 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
The report found 71 per cent of youth between the ages 12 and 17 reported experiencing at least one form of bullying in the past 12 months.
September 2, 2025 - 16:37 | Sean Previl | Global News - Canada
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