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After 25 years with Malcolm Brodie leading the way, the City of Richmond has elected a new mayor. Rob Howard has been named the new mayor in a tightly contested race that didn’t have a clear frontrunner. At the time of p...
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Pete Fry, leader of the Green Party of Vancouver, has been elected the city’s new mayor, dethroning ABC Vancouver’s Ken Sim. As the results started to roll in, Fry jumped to an early lead that never let up. As of the tim...
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Early results tonight show incumbent Linda Buchanan has been re-elected in the 2026 civic election, securing a third term as the mayor of the City of North Vancouver. According to preliminary election results, Buchanan h...
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Incumbent Mike Hurley has secured a third term as mayor of Burnaby. Hurley has received 28,946 votes, according to the City of Burnaby’s preliminary election results. Burnaby First’s Heymann Yip trails in a distant secon...
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It looks like Doug McCallum has dethroned Brenda Locke and will serve as the Surrey mayor for another four years. This is far from McCallum’s first rodeo, with 13 years of experience leading Metro Vancouver’s second most...
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After longtime Coquitlam mayor Richard Stewart decided to step down last year, the city finally has new leadership. Craig Hodge has been officially elected as the next mayor of Coquitlam in the 2026 municipal election. W...
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Daniel Fontaine is the newly elected mayor of New Westminster. Fontaine received 12,361 votes, according to the City of New Westminster’s preliminary election results. He was running against incumbent Patrick Johnstone,...
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To no one’s surprise, Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West has been re-elected to the position he has held since 2018. West, a popular figure in Port Coquitlam, hasn’t had much competition in previous elections, and in the las...
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If you haven’t voted in your municipality’s civic election yet, today is your last chance to help decide who will lead your community. Saturday, Oct. 17, is the main voting day for civic elections in communities across B...
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The Burnaby Citizens Association (BCA) party wants to restore and upgrade the Velodrome Trail — Burnaby’s answer to the Grouse Grind. For the past 18 months, the scenic steep hiking route on the northwest corner of Burna...
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Vancouver Whitecaps supporters are turning up the heat on B.C. Premier David Eby and Conservative Party leader Lorne Doerkson. With the Oct. 24 provincial election fast approaching, the Vancouver Southsiders supporters g...
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Four of Vancouver’s top five mayoral candidates support extending SkyTrain to the University of British Columbia (UBC), but their commitments differ on how to advance the long-awaited project, which ultimately depends on...
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BC NDP leader David Eby faced a flurry of attacks on his provincial government’s record from Conservative Party of British Columbia leader Lorne Doerkson and Green Party of British Columbia leader Emily Lowan during the...
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Just before the snap provincial election call, the BC NDP-led provincial government was developing changes to provincial forestry laws that would allow some logging rights to be removed without compensation, reducing the...
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The proposal to build a new permanent Filipino Cultural Centre in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood has changed drastically, with a proposed new facility at a nearby property replacing the previous concept and loc...
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BC NDP leader David Eby is promising to give the City of Surrey its own municipal charter if his provincial party is re-elected, taking up a proposal Mayor Brenda Locke of the Surrey Connect municipal party first brought...
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After running uncontested in the previous municipal election four years ago, two well-known Metro Vancouver mayors now have challengers. Brad West, who has been the mayor of Port Coquitlam since 2018 and served three ter...
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The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising to cancel the BC NDP’s current project of building an $8.5-billion, eight-lane immersed tunnel to replace the aging, seismically-deficient, and congested George Mas...
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Housing affordability is a defining issue ahead of the October 26 municipal election across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond. In the latest episode of TRREB’s Ready to Real Estate podcast, Chief Information Offi...
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Private developers and non-profit housing organizations in British Columbia have joined forces ahead of the provincial general election, warning that rising costs are preventing them from building homes across a wide ran...
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On Tuesday, British Columbia’s three major provincial political party leaders offered sharply different plans to improve the provincial economy to a business community increasingly very concerned about the direction of t...
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Ken Sim is seeking re-election as Vancouver’s mayor, with public safety once again at the heart of his campaign. In August, prior to the municipal campaign period starting, Sim and his ABC Party voted to have a public sa...
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Nearly two weeks after ruling out creating a new vehicle levy and/or road tolls for TransLink, BC NDP leader David Eby is promising a long-term funding solution for Metro Vancouver’s public transit authority that would n...
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It has been a record-breaking turnout for the Vancouver civic election so far, and final voting day is nigh, with a plethora of council candidates to choose from. For voters who haven’t yet cast a ballot and who are stil...
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