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Last updated Oct 15, 2026 · 6:15 AM ET
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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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A new shopping plaza east of Edmonton is getting closer to completion, and the developer has just announced an awesome lineup of restaurants expected to open there. Ever Real Estate Developments has announced seven new r...
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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...
Government & Policy
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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Rental prices in Canada have been driven by more than just population growth. A new Bank of Canada (BoC) research paper breaks down the factors that can explain the recent surge in 1 bedroom rents from 2020 to 2026. They...
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In back-to-back announcements, Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk promised to both create a “Senakw-style partnership” for rental housing as well as create a ‘no new casino’ moratorium. This is in the run-up to the O...
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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...
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A CMHC survey finds rising costs are prompting developers to delay projects and reduce unit sizes, even as new supply helps ease pressure on rents.
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Updated StatCan estimates erase most of the previously reported population decline, strengthening the case that rising supply helped drive asking rents lower.
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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...
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A new hotel is officially on the way to downtown Calgary, with construction now underway on a 131-room hotel along the river. Truman, Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC), and Marriott International announced the st...
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A new real estate report is out detailing home sales in the luxury sector, and it isn’t looking too good for sellers in West Vancouver. This comes after 2025, which saw “serious stagnation” in the luxury sector, and it h...
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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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Colleen Hardwick, a former Vancouver city councillor and the mayoral candidate for the TEAM For A Livable Vancouver party, is calling for governments to take a more direct role in creating new homes that middle-income re...
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A B.C. renter initiated a legal fight against her former landlord in hopes of getting her security deposit back, all while making some fairly substantial claims against him. According to the renter and the BC Civil Resol...
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COPE Vancouver, a municipal party with candidates for City Council, the School Board, and the Park Board in Vancouver’s upcoming municipal election, has unveiled its 2026 platform. Some of the party’s key promises are to...
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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...
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With just over three weeks until the municipal election, campaign promises from the Vancouver municipal parties are starting to pile up — especially on housing, public safety, and jobs and the economy. Daily Hive Urbaniz...
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Just a few weeks after a facility fully leased to TELUS was listed for sale, another facility fully leased to Tesla has now also hit the GTA industrial market, according to a new listing that recently came online.The pro...
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A landlord was forced to face the music after some B.C. renters started a legal fight when they discovered the landlord had deducted fees from their rental deposits. Details of the rental dispute were shared in a BC Civi...
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A new residential development is coming to Stony Plain, bringing 102 new homes to the town west of Edmonton. The Eclipse will be a three-storey apartment building with 102 residential units. The project is being develope...
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Tenant organizers say they have successfully beat back a landlord's attempt to retroactively raise rents by over five per cent at a west-end Toronto apartment building.
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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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B.C. businesses have faced a number of challenges in the past several years, and a new survey from TD reveals how it has impacted them financially. It found that over 60 per cent of B.C. small business owners reported fa...
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