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Christina Montgomery

Christina Montgomery is former writer and editor for Vancouver Observer. 

Doing the math on laneway housing

The figures are as friendly as the miniature homes, magazine discovers.

Did ferry fares really have to go up?

BC Ferries' challenge is smart management -- smart enough find a way around costly fuel.

Canada pulls the plug on Kyoto

Activists vow to deal with news in "usual creative fashion".

Sales pitch begins on border deal: we'll catch more EI cheats

As Canada inks US perimeter security deal, critics ask if it's worth the cost.

Angry Gitxsan say no to chiefs -- and no to Gateway

Controversial oil sands pipeline splits an "embarrassed and shamed" First Nations community.

As Europe wobbles, will we lean back toward the States?

Troubled times abroad may push Canada into old patterns, columnist muses.

Vancouver home prices flatten. Finally.

Nine straight months of rising prices came to an end in September.

Energy exports are all that stand between Canada and a recession

Cheery statistics mask grimmer reality, economists fear.

BC chases Ottawa for a deal on HST debt

Premier to plead poverty as she mulls repaying $1.6 billion.