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New Development
An office tower project approved about six years ago for a narrow vacant lot in the Central Business District of Downtown Vancouver could now become predominantly a sizeable hotel, with office space retained on its upper...
Government & Policy
Three days after election night on Saturday, Vancouver mayor-elect Pete Fry is already preparing to take the reins at City Hall, where he will lead a largely new Vancouver City Council facing a very steep learning curve...
Government & Policy
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)...
New Development
The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising to build a new specialized hospital for women and children in Surrey, bringing more care closer to home for families who otherwise travel to BC Children’s Hospital...
Renting
If you’re looking at moving soon, a surprising Metro Vancouver city might entice you with a double-digit rent drop. Liv.rent has just released its October 2026 Rent Report, revealing that the average asking rent for an u...
Housing Market
The Vancouver real estate market has been on a steady decline over the past few years — and new analysis reveals just how tough that has been for sellers. Zealty, an online property search service, looked at regular resi...
Government & Policy
As the results started trickling in for the Surrey election over the weekend, one thing became clear very quickly: Doug McCallum had more than a fighting chance to win. Then, without warning, Brenda Locke took the stage...
New Development
There are just 38 more Calgary Flames games to be played at the Scotiabank Saddledome. That’s an exciting yet somewhat jarring number, as it truly puts into perspective just how soon the Flames will start playing out of...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Jason M. Sutherland, who is the UBC Professor of Health Services and Policy and Director of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research in the School of Population and Public He...
Opinion
Written by Brad West, who was re-elected for a third term as the mayor of Port Coquitlam in the October 2026 civic election. ---------------------------------------- As we look at the municipal election results from acro...
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 voter turnout increased in the City of Surrey’s 2026 civic election, with preliminary results showing 134,437 ballots cast — up by more than 15,500 from four years ago. The preliminary count for Metro Vancouver’s sec...
Government & Policy
Doug McCallum is returning to Surrey City Hall with a commanding majority behind him, after defeating incumbent mayor Brenda Locke of the Surrey Connect party in the 2026 civic election. Preliminary results show his Safe...
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
Mike Little has secured a third term as the mayor of the District of North Vancouver in the 2026 civic election. As of the time of writing at 11:53 p.m., with all voting places reporting, he has secured 10,431 votes — ah...
Government & Policy
Both Langley Township and Langley City both have had a shakeup in their politics, with fresh faces winning against the incumbents in each municipality. In Langley City, Delaney Mack is now the mayor-elect, winning with 3...
Government & Policy
After 25 years with Malcolm Brodie leading the way, the City of Richmond has elected a new mayor. Rob Howard has been named the new mayor in a tightly contested race that didn’t have a clear frontrunner. At the time of p...
Government & Policy
Pete Fry, leader of the Green Party of Vancouver, has been elected the city’s new mayor, dethroning ABC Vancouver’s Ken Sim. As the results started to roll in, Fry jumped to an early lead that never let up. As of the tim...
Government & Policy
Early results tonight show incumbent Linda Buchanan has been re-elected in the 2026 civic election, securing a third term as the mayor of the City of North Vancouver. According to preliminary election results, Buchanan h...
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
It looks like Doug McCallum has dethroned Brenda Locke and will serve as the Surrey mayor for another four years. This is far from McCallum’s first rodeo, with 13 years of experience leading Metro Vancouver’s second most...
Government & Policy
After longtime Coquitlam mayor Richard Stewart decided to step down last year, the city finally has new leadership. Craig Hodge has been officially elected as the next mayor of Coquitlam in the 2026 municipal election. W...
Government & Policy
Daniel Fontaine is the newly elected mayor of New Westminster. Fontaine received 12,361 votes, according to the City of New Westminster’s preliminary election results. He was running against incumbent Patrick Johnstone,...
Government & Policy
To no one’s surprise, Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West has been re-elected to the position he has held since 2018. West, a popular figure in Port Coquitlam, hasn’t had much competition in previous elections, and in the las...
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