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Georgia Vaiduct Closure Looms
Olympic Line streetcar will debut on Thursday
The new line will be functional starting Thursday and will run from Granville Island to West 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street, allowing passengers to connect to the Canada Line.
The company brought the two Flexity cars in from Brussels to contribute to transportation for the 2010 Winter Olympics but also to show off the first fully accessible, low-floor streetcars in North America as a marketing tool.
A total of $8.5 million was spent upgrading the tracks and overhead power lines for the Flexity cars.
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Georgia Vaiduct Closure Looms
Judge overturns 38-per-cent rent hike for West End tenants
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Linda Loo ordered Gordon Nelson Investments, which owns the Seafield building at 1436 Pendrell Street, to return the additional rent collected since April of last year.
She found the increase "patently unreasonable" and she has overtuned rent increases of up to 38 per cent for tenants.
The Seafield is a 14-unit heritage building, located four blocks from English Bay, where many of the tenants have lived for more than 30 years.
The landlord took ownership of the building on July 31, 2008. Six months later, the owner applied to increase the rent for 13 units by up to 73.3 per cent. The tenants opposed the rent increases because they said the statutory criteria for permitting additional rent increases above four per cent a year were not met.
B.C. wood will be famous
Yesterday, VANOC revealed some details about the podiums where world's athletes will mount, in order to receive their medals: it will be made of wood from communities across B.C.
Each of the podiums is made of more than 200 slabs of wood, arranged vertically like the grill of a truck.
From above, the podium is supposed to resemble Vancouver Island.
The pieces were donated from 23 community forests, First Nations and businesses across the province — yellow cedar from Campbell River, birch from Clearwater, spruce from Merritt.
“In giving their wood to VANOC, they’re saying, ‘We’re part of these Games,’” said Premier Gordon Campbell. “‘We’re showing the world who we are as British Columbians.’”
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