HandyDART employees held a small protest at Broadway and Commercial in Vancouver on Saturday to protest Translink's funding freeze of their service over the next three years. Mark Beeching, a training instructor at HandyDART, says seniors and the disabled will likely have to turn to taxis. Even at half price under the taxi saver program, he says … [Read more...]
A freeze on some drug research companies will be lifted soon
September 19, 2012 by
The BC government is lifting a freeze on at least some drug research contracts in the wake of an alleged privacy breach. Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid says the freeze should be lifted in the next few days. "I'm happy to announce that in the next few days we will be able to restart just over about one million dollars worth of these … [Read more...]
Bus Driver Hiring Freeze
May 27, 2012 by
The Coast Mountain Bus Company has put the brakes on hiring bus drivers. For the last couple of years there's been a big push by Coast Mountain to recruit and hire more bus drivers because of service expansion and attrition. Coast Mountain's Derek Zabel says that's ended now with the Mayor's Council turning down the supplemental Translink … [Read more...]
