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Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Joanne Shao, who is the vice president of development for Century Group. ---------------------------------------- Walk into any conversation about housing in Metro Vancouver today, and...
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The B.C. Court of Appeal has temporarily halted any further demolition work of the closed Vancouver Aquatic Centre, where a highly controversial planned redevelopment would replace the aging 50-metre lap pool with a 25-m...
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Surrey First party mayoral candidate and sitting city councillor Linda Annis is proposing a 1,000-delegate conference centre and a 2,000-seat performing arts centre in Surrey City Centre, as alternatives to Mayor Brenda...
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VIA Rail’s long-distance services, including trains serving Vancouver and Prince Rupert, are proceeding with a major upgrade through the Government of Canada’s investment of more than $4.7 billion in new passenger rail c...
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A major new facility for storing, processing, and distributing food is proposed for Metro Vancouver, with the aim of helping British Columbia producers get their products to more customers across Canada and overseas. BC...
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Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by David Fine, who is an award-winning filmmaker and Vancouver resident. He writes on political issues and manages the 10,000-member VanPoli Facebook page. -------------------------------...
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Three Metro Vancouver houses recently docked in Haida Gwaii. On Oct. 2, the three mid-century homes finished a multi-day journey via barge up the B.C. coast to the archipelago. Now, the Old Masset Village Council will co...
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The Surrey City Development Corporation (SCDC) and Simon Fraser University (SFU) have submitted their development permit application for Phase One of Centre Block, which will be home to SFU’s new Stephens Family School o...
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Amid news of a wave of Starbucks closures, a new location has opened along Vancouver’s Central Broadway corridor. The coffee chain has moved into the ground-floor retail space designated for a cafe in the newly built The...
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Drivers heading east out of Downtown Vancouver face months of vehicle traffic disruptions on the Georgia Viaduct, beginning with the closure of its Main Street off-ramp on Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. The City of Vancouver issu...
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For one night each year, Nuit Blanche renders Toronto a de facto art gallery, with exhibits taking over streets, parks, public buildings, and unexpected corners of the city. But while Nuit Blanche can feel spontaneous to...
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For more than 40 years, SkyTrain’s brain and nerve centre has operated out of the Edmonds operations and maintenance centre (OMC1) in Burnaby. Today, it oversees the Expo and Millennium lines. Built in the 1980s for the...
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Örnsköldsvik, Sweden, has a population of about 35,000. Vancouver has a population of about 775,000. According to Henrik Sedin, Örnsköldsvik has the same number of ice rinks as Vancouver. “I’m just comparing to when I gr...
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Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley does not have an uncontested path to re-election this time around. After securing a second term by acclamation ahead of the 2022 civic election, when no other candidates stepped forward for the...
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The Supreme Court of British Columbia has dismissed a legal challenge by a community group and pool users to the City of Vancouver’s plan to replace Vancouver Aquatic Centre’s 50-metre lap swimming pool with a 25-metre p...
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Just over a decade after Whistler retired its hydrogen-powered transit buses, a new generation of zero-emission vehicles is set to make up a significant share — roughly half — of its local fleet. BC Transit has allocated...
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Mayoral races are heating up around the province, and while much has been made about the Vancouver election, there is some noise being made in Surrey, too, in this case, regarding public washrooms. The frontrunners in mo...
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A recently shuttered Petro-Canada gas station on Granville Street in Vancouver’s Marpole Village area is eyed for a sizeable mixed-use development. A new rezoning application calls for the redevelopment of the site at 80...
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Eight hotels across British Columbia are set to change hands as Vancouver-based Synvest Group of Companies acquires the family-based business behind Accent Inns and Hotel Zed. Mandy Farmer, the CEO of the business, annou...
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Earlier this morning, Surrey mayoral candidate Doug McCallum claimed that he was making an announcement that would “change the direction of the Surrey municipal election.” He announced that if he is elected as Surrey’s m...
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Construction on the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension continues this fall, and drivers and commuters are being warned of additional traffic pattern changes starting this month. The Government of B.C. announced that a sec...
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What makes an urban building one residents are excited to call home?Ask that question in Toronto today, and the answer will be shaped less by price point, height, or even fine finishes than it was a few years ago. Now, a...
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In the City of Toronto, developers broke ground on 156 condominium units in the first half of 2026, according to CMHC's new Fall 2026 Housing Supply Report. The decade average is roughly 7,000 units a year.Nationally, th...
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The winners of 40 Under 40 Industrial Leaders have officially been revealed, highlighting the unsung heroes of Canada's economy.The impact of these 40 honourees is felt across vastly different (but often overlapping) ind...
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