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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

B.C. orders West Vancouver to implement plan to build more homes and meet its target

 https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/07/b-c-orders-west-vancouver-build-more-homes/ 

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/land-covenants-1.5442686 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/striking-racist-language-from-west-vancouver-land-covenants-would-cost-1-million-report-estimates/ 

https://globalnews.ca/news/7182842/vancouver-councillor-racism-bc-real-estate/

https://vancouversun.com/news/staff-blogs/a-short-history-of-racism-in-b-c-and-globally

https://thelaurier.ca/discriminatory-covenants , https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qlgyR3x73iQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_segregation_in_Greater_Vancouver 

https://forbiddenvancouver.ca/kkk-history-vancouver/ 

https://equity.ubc.ca/news-and-stories/debunk-myths-about-the-history-of-black-people-in-b-c 

Despite the worlds population consisting mostly of nonwhite people and in spite of generations of multicultural immigration in Canada, BC is still slow to build big for the larger overlapping community. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver#Minority_representation

The Lions+Gate+Bridge is a 3 lane joke of a bridge that should have been relieved with a 7-8 lane tunnel decades ago.

The YVR-Canada+Line is a joke of a line with only 2 car trains, not 5-6. 

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