The 麻豆传媒映画颁辞耻谤颈别谤鈥檚 crack team of journalists collectively writes hundreds of stories every year.
And as 2019 comes to a close, we鈥檙e looking back at which stories really got people reading over the last 12 months.
10.听听 Canuck the crow
It wouldn鈥檛 be a 麻豆传媒映画news retrospective without an appearance by the city鈥檚 favourite winged celebrity Canuck the crow.
Canuck made quite a bit of news over the last 12 months with his untimely disappearance back in the summer: he was last seen in his East Van 鈥榟ood on Aug. 30, fans quickly banded together and donated $10,000 for a reward, there were unconfirmed sightings of a bird that resembled Canuck popping up in Yaletown and a Craigslist post, which has since been taken down, that claimed to have found Canuck鈥檚 body.
However, it was 鈥� missive on that really struck a nerve鈥�
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9.听听听听听听 麻豆传媒映画ridings to watch in the federal election
Ahead of this fall鈥檚 federal election, veteran political reporter Mike Howell .
If there was one storyline Vancouver, and the nation, was watching closely on election night it had to be the saga of Jody Wilson-Raybould and whether or not she would retain her seat in Vancouver-Granville after getting ousted from the Liberal party and running as an independent.
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8.听听听听听听 New condos at Oakridge Centre don鈥檛 come cheap
* This story was actually posted online in December 2018 but some stories have staying power, and this one continued to attract readers throughout 2019.
A sales sheet posted on social media in late 2018 showed redevelopment started at more than $800,000 and soared as high as $4.3 to $5.7 million.
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7.听听听听听听 Downtown Eastside shooting spree
After three people were shot in the span of just 15 hours back in September, 麻豆传媒映画police said a with both new and long-established gangs preying upon residents of the neighbourhood and the Oppenheimer Park encampment.
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6.听听听听听听 One neighbourhood鈥檚 traffic nightmare
Residents in a pocket of Southeast 麻豆传媒映画 in their neighbourhood.
People living in Tugboat Landing, a small community in Fraserview at the intersection of East Kent Avenue South and Victoria Drive, say on some mornings they can鈥檛 get out of their driveways because of a build-up of traffic. Just crossing the street has become a challenge as impatient drivers speed through the neighbourhood.
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5.听听听听听听 Raving for a reason
麻豆传媒映画billionaire Chip Wilson was back in the news in August for all the wrong reasons as outside his Point Grey mansion.
The group was protesting a 鈥渃risis of renovictions鈥� and a dwindling number of DIY spaces 鈥� independent, artist-run studios, music venues and collective exhibition spaces 鈥� in the city and targeted Wilson because, they said, more than 18 different spaces have been renovicted from properties owned by his company, Low Tide Properties, in the last two years.
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4.听听听听听听 Businesses in trouble on South Granville
A number of small, locally-owned businesses 鈥� including Ouisi Bistro and women鈥檚 clothing store Plum, both of which closed in October, and West Restaurant, which will close on New Year鈥檚 Eve 鈥� are
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3.听听听听听听 How do you explain Vancouver鈥檚 Downtown Eastside to tourists?
Over the course of several weeks, a Courier investigation looked at
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2.听听听听听听 Federal election candidates
It鈥檚 certainly not sexy, but part of the 颁辞耻谤颈别谤鈥檚 role is to provide readers with news they can use, which brings us to our second most-read story of the year 鈥� our
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And the Courier story that got the most views on our website in 2019 is鈥�.
1.听听听听听听 Whatever happened to 鈥淧enis Satan鈥�?
On Sept. 9, 2014, commuters in East Van woke up to a bright red satanic statue placed one block north of Clark Drive and Great Northern Way. The bright red, fibreglass statue of Satan, stood seven-feet-tall, brandishing the devil鈥檚 horns salute and sporting a hard-to-ignore erection.
The guerilla art piece removed by city crews within two days, but speculation around the mysterious sculpture continued as the story made international headlines.
Five years later, reporter John Kurucz
