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Joanne Lee-Young

Reporter · CA

Indexed articles, last 90 days
13
Latest publication
Sep 30, 2026
Outlet visibility, for The Province
Top 500K sites
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Jul 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Joanne Lee-Young

    B.C. Election: Long-term care wait times need to be addressed, seniors group says (opens the original)

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    Addressing the acute shortage of long-term care beds and the challenges of providing new ones are at the top of a list of priorities that a seniors advocacy group is putting forth to the political parties ahead of the Oct. 24 B.C. provincial election. “We are a long ways back and down from what we need,” said Doug Jones, president of the Canadian Association of Retired Person’s Vancouver Island chapter, noting that more than 7,000 seniors are waiting for placement with average wait times nearing

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Joanne Lee-Young

    $4.4 billion worth of new condos sitting unsold across Metro Vancouver — and many aren’t small (opens the original)

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    Thousands of new condos are sitting unsold across Metro Vancouver, leaving developers with about $4.4 billion worth of finished-but-vacant real estate, new research shows. And they aren’t all tiny condos often geared at investors. The unsold inventory includes a range of sizes, with larger, two- and three-bedroom units making up a significant share of what’s still on the market. “It’s actually not as weighted heavily towards the smaller units, as one may think,” said Darcy Rai, president of the

  3. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Joanne Lee-Young

    Vancouver's population dropped in 2025, and growth softened in other Metro cities. Here's what it means (opens the original)

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    Vancouver’s population shrank by more than 8,000 people from 2024 to 2025, the largest decrease going back more than 20 years, B.C. Stats figures show. The only other decrease in population during this time was in 2021, when it fell by around 5,000, which was attributed to COVID-19. Across Metro Vancouver, the population is growing much more slowly after years of massive growth, driven primarily by changes in federal immigration policy. But there is also the impact of the high cost of living, es

  4. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Joanne Lee-Young

    Vancouver's laundromats are folding, but there is hope for this rough and tumble business (opens the original)

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    On a recent weekday, Margot Kaiser popped in to an east Vancouver laundromat, Canadian Coin Laundry located in a small strip mall on Main Street near King Edward Avenue, to pick up several bags of clothes that had been washed and folded. Even though her apartment in Kerrisdale has laundry facilities, Kaiser prefers getting her clothes cleaned off-site. “The landlords aren’t keeping up their machines, so either my stuff is getting wrecked or they’re breaking down mid-cycle,” she said. For years,

  5. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Joanne Lee-Young

    Customers of North Vancouver currency exchange demand answers after millions in funds frozen (opens the original)

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    Hundreds of distraught customers of a North Vancouver business that specializes in moving money between Canada and Iran are demanding answers after the company suddenly froze all deposits, withdrawals and transactions. Postmedia was there earlier this week as dozens of customers filled the parking lot in front of Apadana Currency Exchange at 1705 Marine Dr. and then stormed into its office to grill the owner. Some of them said they had not received money they were expecting for covering househol

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