On Wednesday, some Vancouverites said benches along the refurbished Granville Street Connector bridge looked like an afterthought as their placement on the sidewalk with yellow paint has drawn ridicule. Jeff Leigh, the Vancouver chair of advocacy organization HUB Cycling, said that while the benches may eventually be changed, there are other things that can be done to make the bridge safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

Shushma Datt has been a trailblazer over her nearly six-decade-long career. She told the CBC's Amy Bell that she is leaving the radio station she helped found two decades ago to focus on programming for seniors and elders in the South Asian community.

A new study from the University of B.C. and the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation found that smallpox, overfishing and rapid industrialization devastated the traditional foods of First Nations in the area. Study co-author Michael George said his people went from hearing stories of abundance to "nearly nothing" while his daughter and another co-author Michelle said it shows the need for habitat restoration.