Ontario to miss deadline to fund nurse practitioners, leaving some patients paying out of pocket

If, in late 2024, you walked the shoreline in Vancouver beach to beach, through the laid-back and well-off Kitsilano neighbourhood and past the museums in Vanier Park, you’d arrive at a construction site where eleven residential towers rose from new foundations. This cluster of high-­rises and skyscrapers—squeezed between the bridge and the water, neighbouring parks, and single-family homes—looks like a second downtown packed into just four blocks. It feels distinct from the rest of the city. That’s because this site is not part of Vancouver. The development, Sen̓áḵw, which roughly...