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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...
Government & Policy
Lorne Doerkson, the leader of the Conservative Party of B.C., announced the party’s public safety plan earlier today, promising to end open drug use in B.C.’s towns and cities. In a release, the party said that they will...
Industry & Regulation
The Sutton Place Hotels in Vancouver, Halifax and Toronto earn recognition among the top hotels in their respective Canadian regions VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Sutton Place Hotels i...
Government & Policy
If elected, Lorne Doerkson’s Conservative Party of British Columbia would completely overhaul Metro Vancouver Regional District by drastically downsizing its scope, mandate, and operations. The party announced today its...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
A B.C. man running for Kelowna City Council who says he doesn’t even like politics is garnering lots of attention online, and it isn’t because of his policies or campaign promises. Brady Rogers, who calls himself an “inv...
Government & Policy
British Columbians with taxable incomes $190,405 and higher would pay more provincial income tax under a BC NDP proposal the party says would eventually raise $1 billion annually in new revenue for the provincial governm...
Opinion
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. -------------------------------...
Housing Market
A West Vancouver home has been listed for nearly $60 million, a year after being listed for the same price. We covered the bougie home that’s located at 3330 Radcliff Ave. last year, when it was listed for the exact same...
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
Voters in the City of Victoria and the District of Saanich will be asked this month during the civic election on whether their municipalities should become one, although the outcome will not automatically lead to a merge...
New Development
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...
Industry & Regulation
News Provided by Stock Preachers VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Stock Preachers News Commentary – Global Market Insights valued the e-brokerage market at $14.1 billion in 2024 and projects...
Government & Policy
In October 2026, voters in the City of Vancouver and across the province will be heading to the polls twice for two separate elections. The first visit to the polls will be on civic election day on Saturday, Oct. 17, fol...
Housing Market
VANCOUVER, British Columbia & GRAPEVINE, Texas — Alpha Cognition Inc. (NASDAQ: ACOG) (“Alpha Cognition”, “ACI”, or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapeutics for debilitating neurodegenerat...
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
The City of Surrey says its bylaw officers did not remove election signs at the southwest corner of the intersection of 72 Avenue and 132 Street, rejecting Safe Surrey Coalition mayoral candidate Doug McCallum’s allegati...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Spencer van Vloten, who is a nationally published writer, community advocate, a recipient of the B.C. Medal of Good Citizenship, and a Vancouver Park Board candidate with the Green Par...
Housing Market
Home sales in the Vancouver region were 8.4% lower last month compared with a year ago, as fewer apartment-style homes changed hands.
Government & Policy
In 2025, the Government of British Columbia provided TransLink with what was described as a final provincial operating subsidy, helping to cover a major portion of the public transit authority’s revenue shortfalls over t...
New Development
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...
New Development
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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