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Frances Bula
FreelanceUrban affairs contributor
francesbula@gmail.com

Frances Bula has written about urban issues and city politics in B.C.’s Vancouver region, covering everything from Downtown Eastside drug addiction to billion-dollar development projects, since 1994.

Latest articles

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Vancouver municipalities struggle to set 2022 budgets due to ‘school tax’ imposed by province
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Flooding in B.C. has overwhelmed the sewage systems of smaller communities
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Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart counters critics with campaign-style speech
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Federal funding helps salvage Downtown Eastside Vancouver social-housing project
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False Creek residents hopeful that redevelopment will preserve neighbourhood
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Vancouver’s Broadway corridor plan calls for increased density but preservation of village feel
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UBC to develop new campus in Surrey after making $70-million land purchase
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The Vancouver mayor’s race kicks off – and it’s a marathon, not a sprint
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Vancouver struggling to gain public input on rash of projects
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B.C. government proposes legislation to speed up permitting applications
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Firing of contractor on Metro Vancouver’s billion-dollar waste-treatment plant could affect other projects
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Indigenous development on Vancouver’s west side to include three 38-storey towers
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Vancouver reimagines vast swath of city land around False Creek
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Vancouver votes down parking permits, a key part of the city’s climate plan
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Vancouver mayor Philip Owen became an unlikely ally of drug users
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Vancouver’s parking permit proposal faces mixed reactions as it heads into vote
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Former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen dies
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Experts blame human feeding for sharp rise in urban coyote attacks
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June heat wave in B.C. was deadliest weather event in Canadian history
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Despite election promises, federal parties do not control many factors affecting availability, cost of homes