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Government & Policy
Green Party of British Columbia leader Emily Lowan marked her election to the B.C. legislature with a highly combative speech attacking both the incoming majority Conservative provincial government, led by premier-elect...
Government & Policy
BC Greens leader Emily Lowan has won the riding of Saanich North and the Islands. Lowan, 26, was running against Kala Bryson of the NDP, Ryan Windsor of the Conservatives, and CentreBC’s Richard Smith. According to preli...
Government & Policy
On the last day before the provincial election, David Eby made a final attempt to earn votes that he now desperately needs to win the election he called just weeks ago. At a media availability outside the Surrey Fleetwoo...
Government & Policy
The Green Party of British Columbia is promising to limit rising fees and give residents with long-term leasehold contracts a more affordable way to challenge their building owners. Earlier this week, party leader Emily...
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B.C. food bank visits have gone up by 100 per cent since 2019. Food Banks Canada just released Canada’s 2026 HungerCount, revealing that monthly food bank visits in B.C. went up by 14 per cent between 2025 and 2026. In 2...
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BC Greens leader Emily Lowan will get a boost on the campaign trail from Vancouver’s new mayor-elect, Pete Fry. This past weekend, Fry secured a stunning victory, kicking Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim (for a couple more weeks)...
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 City of Vancouver’s 2026 civic election attracted tens of thousands more voters than the previous election, with preliminary turnout climbing just over 43 per cent. According to preliminary figures released by the Ci...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
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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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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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...
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...
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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...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Penny Gurstein, a professor emeritus at the School of Community and Regional Planning and a founding director of the Housing Research Collaborative at the University of British Columbi...
Government & Policy
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) could be the first major Canadian airport to bring in private investors under the Government of Canada’s proposed overhaul of airport operations. This follows Prime Minister Mark Car...
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The federal government has announced a new $2-billion national heat pump rebate program aimed at lowering energy costs, reducing emissions and making Canadian homes more energy efficient. Speaking Thursday, Prime Ministe...
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Metro Vancouver Regional District is rejecting the Conservative Party of British Columbia’s case for removing several of its responsibilities, arguing that the party’s election-time criticism overlooks recent spending re...
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The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is investigating fire-damaged ABC Vancouver campaign signs at a volunteer’s home, raising concerns that flames could have completely engulfed numerous campaign signs and spread to hi...
Government & Policy
Vancouver’s five leading mayoral candidates offered sharply different plans for reducing public disorder, controlling the escalating cost pressures of the City of Vancouver, and getting residential and commercial develop...
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Mayor Ken Sim’s ABC Vancouver is proposing new construction incentives, new rental homes on City of Vancouver-owned land, and tougher consequences for supportive housing operators with persistent safety problems — all pa...
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...
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Sean Orr is raising concerns about the placement of ABC Vancouver’s election signs. Orr, a former Vancouver City Councillor with COPE Vancouver who is seeking re-election, sent out an email last week, pointing out the va...
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David Xie says he is no longer pursuing a seat on Burnaby City Council, but his name will still be on this month’s civic election ballot. He previously entered the municipal race under the New Burnaby civic party and is...
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