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Urban Fix

A Complicated Kindness

Frustrated by bureaucracy and inaction, the city’s elite rolled up their sleeves to solve homelessness. Two years and $2 million later, the Streetohome group is no closer to a fix

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How the Olympics Came to Vancouver

Fifty years after a group of dreamers hatched an improbable plan to bring the Olympics to B.C., the 2010 Winter Games are about to begin. Here’s how fantasy turned into reality

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Mr. Big: Vancouver's Top City Planner

Brent Toderian has the respect of the world. If only local developers felt the same way

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The Queen of Vancity

The month before Tamara Vrooman took over as CEO of Vancity, the financial system fell apart. Can she reinvent the credit union?

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A Pacific Spirit Murder

Friend, sister, wife, mother, athlete, hippie. Roundly loved, incomprehensibly killed. The life and death of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry

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The Unlikely Revolutionary

Joel Solomon has put his millions, and those of a powerful circle including Rubbermaid heiress Carol Newell,into a new business-first socialism

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The Coleman Projects

Working closely with the city, building a real-estate empire for the province, and rethinking the way we do shelter, Rich Coleman is riding the housing portfolio to new heights

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Up False Creek

Lost in the furor over Olympic Village delays and cost overruns are the Iranian-born brothers who bet the farm that they could transform an industrial wasteland into a green mecca

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