Vancouverites complain after trash collection suspended amid cold snap

Vancouver residents are complaining to the city in droves after waste collection services were suspended amid the recent cold snap, with some trash bins not emptied for more than a month. An unusually long bout of winter weather saw centimetres of snow throughout the city in late December, with continuous snowfall only recently being replaced by the region’s usual relentless rain. The amount of snow on the ground led the city to suspend trash collection on two days, Dec. 30 and 31, according to

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