The numbers are staggering. CKNW news has learned there were several million people riding the Metro Vancouver bus system for free last year. On board Coast Mountain buses is a button drivers are to push if someone gets on and refuses to pay. Last year drivers pushed that button 2.1 million times. If you multiply that number with the minimum … [Read more...]
Are you alone in a crowd?
September 19, 2012 by
People gathered at the Orpheum Theatre Tuesday night for the kick-off of a week-long summit to look at isolation in Metro Vancouver. It's an effort by Simon Fraser University, the City of Vancouver, and the Vancouver Foundation after the foundation came out with research earlier this year indicating isolation and disconnection are problems in … [Read more...]
