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Government & Policy
Pete Fry is running to be Vancouver’s next mayor — and he said he has a vision of the city achieving its “very best.” Fry, mayoral candidate for the Green Party of Vancouver, has a platform that addresses housing, transp...
Government & Policy
Kareem Allam is running to be Vancouver’s next mayor — and he said he is doing so to bring young people back to the city. Allam, who is running with the Vancouver Liberals (which do not have affiliation with the provinci...
Government & Policy
Colleen Hardwick is in the running to be Vancouver’s next mayor, with housing affordability and “livability” a key component of her platform. This is Hardwick’s second stab at the mayor’s seat. After serving as a city co...
Government & Policy
Both the BC NDP led by Premier David Eby and the Conservative Party of British Columbia led by Lorne Doerkson have each committed to set aside $15 million to help establish a permanent Filipino Cultural Centre, if they a...
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
The BC NDP-led provincial government and the City of Surrey have reached an agreement to work together on plans to create a provincial museum dedicated to Canadians of South Asian heritage, years after the provincial gov...
Government & Policy
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke’s Surrey Connect party is proposing nearly $1.5 billion in additional spending on public facilities, public parks, and streets, while promising to keep property tax increases at or below the rat...
Government & Policy
Would converting part of the old St. Paul’s Hospital campus on Burrard Street into a facility for voluntary and involuntary mental health and addictions treatment amount to creating a prison in Downtown Vancouver’s West...
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
Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk wants to introduce a new municipal tax on homes left empty for much of the year, with the revenue dedicated to building new affordable housing projects within the city. The Imagine...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Frances Bula, an award-winning, longtime civic affairs reporter and journalism professor, and now a Vancouver City Council candidate under the OneCity party in the October 2026 civic e...
Government & Policy
A Vancouver neighbourhood association has lost its bid to overturn the approval for a low-rise secured purpose-built rental housing project near SkyTrain’s King Edward Station, after a judge upheld the City of Vancouver’...
Government & Policy
After nearly four years of Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver in power, Vancouverites will head to the polls in a little over a month and vote for the next mayor and council. Currently, there are five main contenders for mayor: P...
Government & Policy
About four years after local sports groups challenged Township of Langley Mayor Eric Woodward to deliver a facility they never expected to see built, the massive five-arena expansion of Langley Events Centre (LEC) is abo...
Government & Policy
With Vancouver City Council done for the term and the municipal election now less than two months away, an advocacy group has issued a “report card” for councillors’ track records on road safety issues. Vision Zero Vanco...
Government & Policy
The Government of British Columbia is officially cancelling Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) highly controversial plan to open an overdose prevention site (OPS) at 900 Helmcken St. in Downtown Vancouver. Vancouver Mayor...
Government & Policy
The City of Vancouver could spend as little as $40 million to keep the existing Kitsilano Outdoor Pool operating for another 15 years — or as much as $300 million to completely replace it with a new facility offering mor...
Government & Policy
A new residential development is coming to northeast Edmonton, set to bring multi-unit housing, park space, and other amenities to the Gorman neighbourhood. City council on Monday approved three bylaws intended to suppor...
Government & Policy
Vancouver voters will officially be asked to weigh in on public hard drug use and establishing a major mental health and addictions treatment facility during the civic election on Oct. 17, 2026, after the ABC Vancouver m...
Government & Policy
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says he and his ABC Vancouver party colleagues have reached a “tipping point” over the city’s addictions and mental health crisis and the associated resulting public disorder, as he formally launc...
Government & Policy
Vancouver voters could be asked to weigh in on two major changes to the municipal government’s approach to the drug and mental health crisis: stronger restrictions on the open use of hard drugs in public spaces, and a pu...
Government & Policy
OneCity Vancouver is promising to make it cheaper to install heat pumps, provide cooling systems to hundreds of vulnerable residents, and reverse building-related climate policy changes made under Mayor Ken Sim and the A...
Government & Policy
Two Richmond mayoral candidates who are both sitting city councillors agree that losing the Richmond Night Market would be a major blow to their city and the Metro Vancouver region as a whole, but they differ over how fa...
Government & Policy
TEAM for a Livable Vancouver has expanded its candidate slate for the October 2026 civic election, while doubling down on its opposition to the City of Vancouver’s controversial Villages Plan, which was rejected by Vanco...
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