Frances Bula
fabulavancouver.bsky.social
Frances Bula
@fabulavancouver.bsky.social
Cities are life! Writing about Vancouver region urban issues, politics, housing + more for Globe and Mail mainly, BCBusiness, Vancouver mag, and a few more. Grand-daughter of Saskatchewan farmers, mom/step-mom to four millennials coping with housing market
What do you mean, "no build up." Don't quite understand that.
August 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I think they are still considered tenants. The people across the street from me say they are eligible for mitigation, though many others in the five houses purchased aren't, for various reasons. Likely only one person on lease in communal house, e.g.
April 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And someone in the party was texting others that Lucy Maloney and Sean Orr had won.
April 6, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Reposted by Frances Bula
Staff at Marpole-Oakridge told some seniors trying to skip the regular line that seniors can’t get priority access because “half the line is seniors”. They only let seniors with obvious mobility issues to skip the regular line.
April 6, 2025 at 2:57 AM
He was her chief of staff briefly, unless this respected writer hallucinated that.
April 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Although I see from this extensive profile done in Alberta that he has done some work with Smith.
www.sprawlcalgary.com/the-strategi...
‘I’m a bad boy’: The Stephen Carter story | The Sprawl
For better or worse, he's altered Alberta politics.
www.sprawlcalgary.com
April 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Yes, it's good that they have a priority entry. That's a good option for the people who need it. (I got offered that access today -- not sure if because they recognized me as a reporter or thought I was limping, ha ha -- but chose to stick to the regular line-up.)
April 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Yes, I've heard that already from a few
April 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Thanks!
April 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Here's the link to apply for voting by mail. But they won't mail this late so you have to go to city hall to pick up the package by noon Friday. vancouver.ca/election/202...
Apply to vote by mail | City of Vancouver
Apply to vote by mail in the 2025 Vancouver by-election.
vancouver.ca
April 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Yes
April 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I'm told by fellow reporter Mike Howell that the advance voting last Wednesday, March 26, already resulted in a 40 per cent increase in advance voting over the TWO days of advance in 2017. So looks like turnout is definitely up.
April 1, 2025 at 5:07 PM