Metro Vancouver

of purchasing houses. The first reason that government should participate into the housing market is because of a huge amount of empty houses in Vancouver which purchased by foreign buyers, especially the Chinese buyers are viewed as the top buyers for the empty houses. According to the data shown on almost a quarter of condos were empty in Vancouver by the end of March, 2013 (BULA FRANCES, 2013). Also, majority of these condos were owned by foreign investors, instead of the local residents.…

and to “think [myself] away from the familiar routines of everyday life” (Mills) it requires that I trace my parents’ separate journeys culminating in their calling Vancouver, Canada home. Like a stone skipping across a pond, my grandfather made the journey from Ireland to upstate New York and, a generation later, his son to Vancouver, BC. When questioned on the subject of his wanderings, my father would offer anecdotes about the mountains of snow and bitterly cold winters on the southern shore…

It is a member municipality of the Metro Vancouver regional district and metropolitan area. it is the second largest city of British Columbia and has the population of over 500,000. The six "town centers" the City of Surrey comprises are: Fleetwood, Whalley/City Centre, Guildford, Newton, Cloverdale, and South Surrey Abbotsford is in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia, adjacent to Greater Vancouver. it is the largest city in the Fraser Valley Regional District…

burdened by purchasing ticket and using transportation owing to the fact that price of metro-pass is being hiked, as a consequence passengers are gradually decreasing. Specifically, last November, the transit commissioners not only approved increasing cost of fare starting in January, but also broke election pledge about freezing fare in 2015 (PEAT, November 23 2015). For this reason, people who cannot afford to hiked metro-pass are likely to experience constraint of physical and social…

workforce that affect strongly the organization where they work, thus their following retirement will have a strong impact in Canadian organizations. (Rogers, 1993) According to MacKenzie and Dryburgh (2003), Managers in cities like Toronto and Vancouver are typically the oldest and most vulnerable to near retirement due to the high levels of experience. In fact, Rogers (1993) argues that due to the monetary and human investment in their training through large public educational programs, Baby…

because of my part time work to assist my parents with our living situation I wasn’t able to justify the student loan. My parents work very hard for what we have and it is harder and harder to support ourselves with the high rental prices in metro Vancouver let alone the rising cost of tuition. While I was sitting in a politics and ethics class my professor divulged whether it was acceptable for governments to disallow students from declaring bankruptcy on student loans and through the…

communications. Recent data from Statscan research revealed some interesting statistics and projections, most striking of which was that in the next few years, half the Canadian population would be foreign-born. With 1 in 2 people in metro cities like Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal already of ethnic origin, multicultural Canada is quickly merging into…

Throughout the past couple of years police brutality has become more and more prominent. With recent cases coming every few weeks in the United States, but also some cases happening in Canada, one that happened this past year here in Metro Vancouver at East 41st avenue and Knight Street; a man named Tony Du caused members of the public to call the police, about a distraught man standing in an intersection of a road waving a piece of wood around in the air and shouting, when police arrived…

New immigrants to Canada are much more likely to have babies than their native-born counterparts. Immigrant women who have spent five years in Canada “have almost twice as many children of pre-school age (as) the average Canadian-born woman,” according to an extensive study by two noted economists. The University of Waterloo’s Ana Ferrer and Princeton University’s Alicia Adsera pored over two decades of Statistics Canada census data to reach their conclusion. There are major birthrate…

Asians (Vietnamese included) reside in urban core areas, especially near Chinatowns. Toronto’s Little Saigon has over 300 Vietnamese businesses where pho is frequently sold. In Vancouver, Vietnamese Canadians opened up a variety of Vietnamese stores and restaurants all through Surrey. In Montreal, next to the Jean-Talon metro station there is a project being promoted to build the first ever Vietnamville. Investment opportunities are open to Vietnamese…