Top headlines from Vancouver and beyond for October 5 2011:

With a similar protest planned for Vancouver October 15, The Globe and Mail examines #occupywallstreet’s local roots.

A sad day for our city as the legendary Red Gates “cultural wildlife refuge” officially shuts down, forced out of their Hastings studio space by a web of Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

Mayors in Metro are set to approve a 2.5-cent increase in the region’s gas tax this Friday as a means of funding public transit operations and expansion.

Jailed marijuana activist Marc Emery is using a new democracy outreach program which, promises a formal response to any petition with over 5,000 signatures, to seek a pardon from U.S. President Barack Obama.

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