January 31, 2009 Headlines

LOCAL
Sullivan: Olympic Village Doomsayers Are Wrong [The Tyee]

2010 Olympic budget gets needed tune-up [CBC]

B.C. acquires 15 new properties to house homeless [CBC]

Province buys housing units for the homeless all over B.C. [State of Vancouver]

Social housing piggy bank is still empty [The Vancouver Sun]

Jordan Bateman in Vancouver [Price Tags]

Court orders Falun Gong to remove protest hut from Chinese consulate [Chinese in Vancouver]

Metro Vancouver Sustainability Report [Stephen Rees]

“No Gateway Bailout” says Wilderness Committee on Budget Vote [Stephen Rees]

Ron Parks finds P3 projects have higher costs, bias and secrecy [Stephen Rees]

CANADA
A mighty controversy: Are windfarm opponents getting their facts straight? [Rabble]

INTERNATIONAL
The toll may tip the debate on the size of a new Interstate 5 bridge [The Oregonian]

Beaverton to Wilsonville, via Chi-town [The Oregonian]

Environmental Issues Slide in Poll of Public’s Concerns [New York Times]

Sea Dust, pt 1 [Infranet Lab]

From pollution fight, seeds of change sprout [Chicago Tribune]

Paved Paradise: Cemeteries in Parking Lots [Roadside Resort]