Costco Wholesale has major plans to add at least two more store locations in Metro Vancouver, but what sets one of these future locations apart is that it will feature a store concept unique to the region.

The region’s first Costco Business Centre is planned for New Westminster, catering specifically to business customers with bulk and specialized products, in contrast to the far more common Costco warehouses primarily tailored for everyday shoppers.

For obvious reasons I'm trying to be more local and cutting out American produce, so I figured a CSA box (Community Supported Agriculture) would be a good move. Unfortunately, DuckDuckGo has given a bewildering collection of results and I've heard some CSAs are less good than others. Have any of you fine folks used any, have any recommendations or anything else that might help?

Funding highlights:

• 411 Seniors Centre Society: $210,000 over three years was granted for community information, referral services, and activities that promote active aging and social connection to their network of Vancouver's seniors, the majority of whom live on a very low income.
• Indigenous Healing and Wellness: $245,000 was granted to organizations that provide traditional, spiritual and cultural healing and wellness activities to support Elders and Traditional Knowledge Keepers in Vancouver’s urban Indigenous community.
• Leave Out Violence (LOVE) Society BC: $34,628 was granted for programs and workshops to address violence prevention for at-risk youth.
• Neighbourhood Houses in Vancouver: $1.3 million collectively was granted to support a wide range of programs, activities and services in neighbourhood houses across the city that address City priorities.
• QMUNITY, BC's Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Resource Centre Society: $125,000 was granted to provide to improve the lives of 2SLGBTQIA+ through support, connection and leadership.

The City of Vancouver is proactively initiating municipal-led rezoning of certain areas of both area plans into new low-rise building and high-rise tower zoning.

If the City’s proposal is approved, it would eliminate the need for case-by-case rezoning applications for individual projects that already align with existing area plan policies, within the selected areas for pre-zoning.