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by Michael Stewart

July 20, 2015

Don't look back

Priced out of Vancouver, we moved to Victoria. Notes from our first year in the capital city.

With no poverty reduction plan, B.C.'s the odd one out

It’s a much-talked-about fact that B.C.’s poverty rates have been among the highest in Canada for over a decade. But inequality in this province is making headlines again as B.C. has become the only Canadian province without a poverty reduction plan.

In Victoria, lessons from View Towers

David Tataryn receives a disability income—that’s $906 for British Columbians living alone, a monthly amount that makes it near impossible to find housing in Victoria’s private rental market. But for 16 years, he managed to rent an affordable suite ($398 when he moved in, $526 when he moved out) in Victoria’s...