Vancouver

Vancouver has a "vision zero" goal but the current plan is failing. Injuries and deaths continue to rise every year.

Why? Carbrain idiots.

We need a serious plan.

Councillor Maloney's motion will ask the city to prioritize known interventions from around the world, and actually get us to vision zero.

This action plan will set the framework for shit that actually works. Bollards, pedestrian spaces, protected active transport lanes, slower speeds, intersection daylighting... If it works, we'll do it.

Please call your city council members

https://council.vancouver.ca/20250709/pspc20250709ag.htm

https://visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/07/03/take-action-renewing-vancouvers-vision-zero-plan/

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/219536

Firefighters are using a rescue on the Grouse Grind on Monday to remind the public to ensure they are prepared for the difficult hike.

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Hi all,

I'm thinking of saving up some money eventually to get a permit for a city park somewhere for me to plant a small flower garden in honor of somebody. I won't leave a plaque with any name of the specific person tho, it will be an anonymous public garden.

If anybody knows if there is a process for this, please let me know.

New operating rooms at Vancouver General Hospital will provide people in Vancouver and throughout British Columbia with better access to faster, high-quality surgical care.

Construction has begun on 15 new operating rooms and one hybrid operating room upgrade as part of Phase 2 of the operating-room expansion at Vancouver General Hospital. Completion of both phases of the operating-room expansion is expected to increase the number of surgeries from 16,800 to more than 19,000 per year.

One of Vancouver’s most anticipated summer traditions returns as the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, in collaboration with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO), presents Symphony at Sunset at Sunset Beach Park on Saturday, July 5, 2025.

Now in its sixth year, this popular event offers an opportunity to experience live orchestral music in one of Vancouver’s most scenic waterfront settings. The evening's program will include classical favourites and selections from blockbuster film scores including Harry Potter and Star Wars, performed by the full VSO under the direction of Music Director Otto Tausk. Event details

Date: Saturday, July 5, 2025

Location: Sunset Beach Park

Time: 8 pm to 9:30 pm

Admission: Free

The original title felt like clickbait / ragebait to me, and it can be found here: "This long Vancouver road will be renamed šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm Street this summer"

More context:

Next week, Vancouver City Council is expected to approve the renaming of Trutch Street in the Vancouver Westside to “šxʷməθkʷəyə̓masəm Street” — a recommendation by City of Vancouver staff as part of the reconciliation efforts with local First Nations.

This specific new name, suggested to the City by Musqueam First Nation in September 2022, means “Musqueamview Street” in English. It will become Vancouver’s first legal street name in hənq̓ə̓minə̓m̓, the traditional language of the Musqueam, and the city’s first legal street name not written in English.

Trutch Street is a north-south street spanning 18 city blocks across a length of about 1.5 km between Point Grey Road and West 16th Avenue, going through Kitsilano’s residential neighbourhoods. About 100 unique addresses are impacted by the renaming.

The renaming removes the legacy of Joseph Trutch, who held the historic position of British Columbia’s first Lieutenant Governor in the 1870s.

Trutch’s policies toward Indigenous peoples drew renewed scrutiny starting in Spring 2021, amid the resurgent national controversy over Canada’s residential school history. In response, then-mayor Kennedy Stewart initiated the process to rename the street in July 2021.

Trutch was deemed to be a central figure in denying First Nations’ land rights and drastically reducing reserve sizes.

To address this communicational issue, there will be two street signs on each post along the street — one sign with “šxʷməθkʷəy̓əmasəm St” and a second sign below in English with “Musqueamview St”.

Such bilingual signage will be similar to the University of British Columbia’s campus street signs, installed over the past decade, which include both the English and hənq̓ə̓minə̓m̓ street names — created in partnership with the Musqueam First Nation.

As well, emergency response databases will provide the name “Musqueamview St” when searched.

Journalists from a few major Metro Vancouver news publications that closed earlier this year are now banding together in a fight to save local news.

[...] The three publications that closed were Burnaby Now, New Westminster Record and Tri-City News.

Now, journalists who formerly worked at these publications are hoping to launch a new publication. Daily Hive spoke with Cornelia Naylor, who has over a decade of experience and was part of the Burnaby Now and New Westminster Record teams.

They’ve launched a fundraiser with a goal of $100,000 and hope to launch a new publication later this year. We asked Naylor why Glacier Media shut down the local news publications.

“They cited financial problems or financial challenges, and there was not much more explanation than that.”

Naylor says the end goal is a community-owned, worker-run news cooperative, and the hope is that this publication will fill all the gaps left behind by the shuttered Glacier publications.

“I think this model is already working in Quebec. It would be the first in Western Canada.”

We often hear politicians talk about local news and its importance, and asked Naylor if the government can play a role in this journey to build a new publication. Naylor first expanded on the situation in Quebec, where six daily newspapers were set to be shut down.

“The government, I think, jumped in with interest-free loans, and there was fundraising.”

The 2025 Honda Celebration of Light competitors include:

• Yukon on Saturday, July 19, staged by Midnight Sun Fireworks
• Quebec on Wednesday, July 23, staged by Royal Pyrotechnie
• Nova Scotia on Saturday, July 26, staged by Fireworks FX