Metro Vancouver approves regional plan focused on transit-oriented housing

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The years-long process for updating the Metro Vancouver region’s master plan, now called Metro 2050, culminated with Friday’s final approval of the strategy by Metro Vancouver Regional District’s board of directors, comprised of the region’s elected municipal officials. Such regional plans are updated about once a decade, with the previous plan, Metro Vancouver 2040, approved in 2011. Extensive consultation was performed with the region’s municipal governments and TransLink to update this regional growth strategy, along with public consultation. This region, as of 2016, has a land base of 2,870 sq km, with only 837 sq km allowed for development, including 701 sq km for urban areas and 136 sq km for industrial and mixed-employment areas. Metro Vancouver is a major urban area in North America, but it is also amongst its smallest geographically.
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It was inevitable that Vancouver Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau’s light-hearted quote about the “Bruce, there it is” chants would reappear in a negative light at some point. Every recurring loss is now a new record for the longest losing streak to begin a season in Canucks history. Not even 12 months later, does it make sense for this team to consider another coaching change? There’s no easy answer for the Canucks, but a coaching change doesn’t seem like the solution. With Boudreau making $2.5 million this season, do the Canucks want $5 million tied up in coaches that they fired?

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Deep freeze: A 140-year-old cold record was just shattered in BC

Temperature records were shattered in BC on Thursday, as a wide swath of the province endured a deep freeze that has resulted in extreme cold warnings. According to a weather summary from Environment and Climate Change Canada, more than 40 (that’s right, 40) spots in the province broke their records for the coldest daytime high records for Thursday, December 22. The summary may also contain preliminary or unofficial information and does not constitute a complete or final report. Much of the country is being walloped by wicked winter storms on Friday, with flight cancellations galore for major transportation hubs in Vancouver and Toronto. Environment and Climate Change Canada has also issued a string of weather warnings for every single province in Canada on Friday, varying from extreme cold warnings, snowfall warnings, and freezing rain warnings to wind warnings, storm surge warnings, and rainfall warnings.

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"Avoid travel" in Vancouver ahead of snow, ice pellets, and freezing rain

Ahead of an upcoming winter storm that promises to bring snow, ice pellets, and freezing rain to Metro Vancouver, agencies warn people to avoid travel if possible. “Unnecessary travel should be avoided.”Metro Vancouver is currently under an arctic outflow advisory and a winter storm watch. ECCC warns that as freezing levels start to rise this week, heavy snow will be mixed with ice pellets before changing into rain. Most dangerous is the freezing rain expected as the weather changes from snow to rain. “For central and eastern Fraser Valley and inland Vancouver Island, periods of freezing rain could continue into Saturday afternoon,” said ECCC.

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