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Government & Policy
Over the past few weeks of campaigning, the BC NDP has released a flurry of campaign promises ahead of the snap provincial election, including saving the average driver $20 per tank on gas, a tax on unsold condos, lower...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising to reduce provincial income taxes by about $1,000 annually for eligible British Columbians through a major increase in the amount people can earn before paying prov...
Government & Policy
The Green Party of British Columbia is proposing a one-time wealth tax with rates reaching 20 per cent, followed by an annual tax of up to five per cent. This would be implemented for British Columbians with net wealth e...
Government & Policy
Just ahead of the civic election on Oct. 17, 2026, Kareem Allam’s Vancouver Liberals have now released a 148-point platform plan for what they would do if elected to the mayor’s office, Vancouver City Council, Vancouver...
Government & Policy
British Columbians with taxable incomes $190,405 and higher would pay more provincial income tax under a BC NDP proposal the party says would eventually raise $1 billion annually in new revenue for the provincial governm...
Garry Marr
Vacancy tax is trying to force owners to sell but may just be adding more costs
Government & Policy
A former Vancouver mayoral candidate is running in the Vancouver-Strathcona riding for the BC NDP. Amanda Burrows, a renter, prominent social justice advocate, and the executive director of the First United Church in the...
Government & Policy
B.C. election season is upon us, with both the local and provincial elections just weeks away. The municipal election is on Oct. 17, and the provincial snap election is just one week later on Oct. 24. Municipal and provi...
Government & Policy
Pete Fry’s Green Party of Vancouver released its 71-page election platform today, outlining commitments across Vancouver City Council, Vancouver Park Board, and Vancouver School Board ahead of the fast-approaching civic...
Government & Policy
The BC Greens announced that it will protect renters by implementing vacancy control and ending pet bans. In a policy brief, the BC Green Party said that “good rental homes” are key to solving the housing crisis, as more...
Government & Policy
White Rock Mayor Megan Knight’s name will no longer appear on the City’s 2026 mayoral civic election ballot, after the provincial government approved her withdrawal from the race. In a statement issued this afternoon, in...
Government & Policy
The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising that they will neither introduce new provincial taxes nor increase existing ones if their party forms the next government. In an announcement yesterday, the party s...
Government & Policy
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby said a new tax on unsold condominiums would improve housing affordability, but the election promise is drawing criticism from the Conservatives and mixed reaction from experts.
Government & Policy
UPDATE on Monday, Sept. 28: The City of White Rock will remove Mayor Megan Knight’s name from the 2026 civic election ballot, after receiving permission from the provincial government to do so. --------------------------...
Government & Policy
Just three days into the provincial election campaign, BC NDP leader David Eby is promising a major new interventionist measure on housing supply. He is proposing to implement a new additional tax on developers who leave...
Government & Policy
Mayoral candidate Kareem Allam of the Vancouver Liberals civic party wants B.C.’s provincial political parties to commit to extending SkyTrain’s Millennium Line to the University of British Columbia (UBC), demolishing th...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Jeff Brown, who is the executive vice president of NorthStar Development. He has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and also owns and oversees Westwynd Real Est...
Garry Marr
The policy argument for buying these units is that they are cheaper than building low-income housing
Government & Policy
Converting British Columbia's glut of unsold condos into affordable housing is about supporting Canadians, not distressed developers, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday as he defended his government's proposal.
Government & Policy
The joint plan by the Government of Canada and Government of British Columbia to purchase thousands of vacant strata market condominium homes from for-profit private developers and convert them into affordable housing is...
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