Vancouver Rejects "Green" Wal-Mart, Big-Box Tire Store

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VANCOUVER - "It was a shock to everyone. The "green" Wal-Mart designed especially for Vancouver was turned down overwhelmingly by Vancouver city council Tuesday, after developers spent four years working on it and opponents spent just as long battling against it.

Only Mayor Larry Campbell and his two political opponents from the Non-Partisan Association supported the big-box store proposal for a former car dealership site on Southeast Marine Drive at Main.

In a rare display of unity on a controversial issue, both factions of the centre-left Coalition of Progressive Electors voted together in opposing the project -- a move that came as a surprise to the more left-wing COPE Classic bloc.

Everyone also voted the same way in voting down a giant Canadian Tire store planned for a site nearby."

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