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Dryden, Ontario has a a few choices designed for a variety of low-income families on the brink of homelessness.

Part 2 of 2.

Murray Dobbin: With Mulcair gone, the NDP "is entering a period of self-reflection and reinvention that it has never experienced before."

That feeling when you hear you're a finalist for the 2016 CJF Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism: http://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/…/04/15/Tyee-2016-CJF-Nomination/

B.C. Premier Christy Clark said it was a teaching moment when children told her they want to cut down fewer trees. She told them that means less jobs, less money, higher taxes.

We decided to ask some actual educators for their thoughts on Clark's teaching moment.

Without having their kids with them at least part time, someone on welfare can lose their BC Housing suite.

First of two in a series.

The City of Vancouver's proposed Affordable Homeownership Pilot Program is limited to only permanent residents or citizens who have been living and working in the city for five years.

Experts at Urbanarium debate whether Vancouver needs a city-wide plan. It's the only municipality in Metro Vancouver that doesn't have one.

Link to purchase tickets for Urbanarium City Debate #5 in story. They sell fast!

Crawford Kilian: "This is indeed the time for a leap, and the longer we postpone it, the worse our chances of survival."

To curb emissions associated with transportation, should we encourage the sale of high-priced cars, or say, increase bus hours? Resource economist Jim Johnson weighs in.

NDP labour critic Niki Ashton called recent federal exemptions to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program 'very troubling.'

Canada once acted to ensure everyone had affordable telephone access, but the tool of the day is the Internet.

Edward Snowden: "Rather than those who represent us in our government being accountable to us, we are now accountable to them."

"Unity" and "renewal" were on many lips at the NDP convention, but the process ahead will be messy. Here are six key areas they'll need to find agreement in.

Mulcair and the NDP discovered too late that it is constant campaigning that gets you elected.

"As the premier made her argument that her province needs pipeline construction to put hard-luck Albertans back to work, around half the delegates opted to sit, while others stood in applause."

There are allegations of "racism of low expectations" in districts with high numbers of Aboriginal students getting an alternative certificate to a high school diploma.

Tom Mulcair's closing speech to New Democrats: "As we said at the outset and it is still the case now… the only thing that is important is that we leave here united."

Close encounters of a new kind.

Here's some data for you: foreign buyers mostly bought condos built after 2010, making up six per cent of all owners in that group in 2015.

An investigation into whether or not big donors bias our premier may run into trouble before it even starts.