NORTH VANCOUVER – MLA Bowinn Ma is welcoming $8,000 through the province’s Multiculturalism Grant Program for community projects designed to promote multiculturalism and fight racism. “North Vancouver is an incredibly diverse community, where there is no place for intolerance,” said …
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NORTH VANCOUVER – Local MLA Bowinn Ma is welcoming $252,500 through the province’s BC Arts Council Grant Program for community projects that will create new programs that encourage more inclusivity and accessibility in the creative sector, including those that support …
Listen to MLA Ma discuss the Marine-Main B-Line on CKNW
West Vancouver council voted Monday night to keep the rapid transit route out of the Ambleside and Dundarave business districts, for now District staff will look at alternate options, but a bus-only lane will not be one of them. Is …
BCLC halts plans for North Shore casino
March 12th, 2019 – Brent Richter/North Shore News There will be no casino or slot parlour coming to the North Shore anytime soon. In 2016, the B.C. Lottery Corporation, the provincial agency that regulates gambling in the province, sought expressions of …
MLA Bowinn Ma creates West Vancouver B-Line themed parody of ‘Hey Jude’
March 11th, 2019 – Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive “#WestVan… don’t let us down. Be a leader, and make it better…” Ahead of tonight’s pivotal District of West Vancouver decision on the route of the future North Shore B-Line through the municipality, …
North Van child care centres receive funding for 172 new spaces
February 8th, 2019 – Maria Spitale-Leisk/ North Shore News North Shore parents will soon have more childminding options – 172 to be exact. The province announced $431,950 in funding for licensed child care spaces at two new centres in North Vancouver …
North Shore to get real-time traffic warning signs
February 6th, 2019 – Brent Richter/North Shore News Everyone’s been there, lurching along in stop-and-go traffic, wondering what’s at the other end of a long line of tail lights. The province and the three North Shore municipalities will be deploying …
District of North Van looking for traffic congestion remedies
Jeremy Shepard/North Shore News They concur on the disease but find themselves divided on the cure. District of North Vancouver mayor and council, three MLAs, and an SFU traffic expert traded ideas on how best to alleviate the North Shore’s …
Opinion: North Shore B-Line is the precursor to future rail transit
Written for Daily Hive by Bowinn Ma, MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale. “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.” ― Gustavo Petro I want to see rapid transit to the North …
Province breaks ground on next phase of North Vancouver highway project
Jane Seyd, North Shore News – December 18th, 2018 North Vancouver politicians marked the next phase of the massive Lower Lynn highway interchange improvement project Monday with shovels at the ready, saying improved east-west connections should make life easier for …