On any ordinary day, the South Vancouver neighborhood bustles with the sounds of life, but Saturday was no ordinary day. It was a celebration of Filipino culture, and music from a live concert echoed through the streets as families lined up at food trucks and children played. On Sunday it was strangely silent. “It gives…
A driver plowed into a group of partygoers attending a Filipino street festival on Saturday evening in Vancouver, British Columbia, killing at least nine people, according to the local authorities. Vancouver police said earlier that they were investigating a “mass casualty incident” at a neighborhood block party. The police said they had taken “a lone…
A driver plowed into a street festival honoring Canada’s Filipino population in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday evening, killing “a number of people,” according to the local police. The police said they had taken one suspect into custody: the driver, a 30-year-old man from Vancouver. In a news conference overnight, local officials did not specify…
Janet Robertson had few choices after being evicted from her apartment of two decades in Vancouver, Canada’s most expensive city. Even listings in nearby suburbs were out of reach after years of paying 900 Canadian dollars, or $650, monthly for her studio apartment. She kept going until she could find something she could afford and…