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Government & Policy
White Rock Mayor Megan Knight’s name will no longer appear on the City’s 2026 mayoral civic election ballot, after the provincial government approved her withdrawal from the race. In a statement issued this afternoon, in...
Renting
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...
Government & Policy
A high-speed rail link between Calgary and Edmonton just took another step forward. The Province of Alberta is getting ready to launch a formal Request for Proposal (RFP) process this fall for a high-speed rail project c...
Renting
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...
Government & Policy
Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk wants to introduce a new municipal tax on homes left empty for much of the year, with the revenue dedicated to building new affordable housing projects within the city. The Imagine...
Government & Policy
The Conservative Party of British Columbia is promising that they will neither introduce new provincial taxes nor increase existing ones if their party forms the next government. In an announcement yesterday, the party s...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
Authored by: Grant Cameron, Senior Director of Public Affairs, RESCONCanada’s housing market may finally be moving in the right direction, but industry leaders, economists, policymakers and housing experts agree the coun...
Opinion
B.C. Premier David Eby already has the job, the majority power, and the authority to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump’s economic war. He has yet to explain convincingly why doing that job required interrupting the...
Government & Policy
Surrey mayoral candidate Mike Starchuk is proposing a new Fraser River waterfront destination and a cricket and rugby stadium as part of a push to bring major international sporting events to the city. Starchuk’s Imagine...
Government & Policy
The possibility of flying non-stop between Vancouver and Vietnam has moved a major step closer to reality, following a new agreement between the federal governments of Canada and Vietnam that allows direct flights betwee...
Government & Policy
UPDATE on Monday, Sept. 28: The City of White Rock will remove Mayor Megan Knight’s name from the 2026 civic election ballot, after receiving permission from the provincial government to do so. --------------------------...
New Development
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...
New Development
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...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Frances Bula, an award-winning, longtime civic affairs reporter and journalism professor, and now a Vancouver City Council candidate under the OneCity party in the October 2026 civic e...
Government & Policy
B.C. residents are being asked to vote twice in October: in a local election and a snap provincial election. While Premier David Eby was likely trying to seize on the fact that the Conservative Party of B.C. was unravell...
Government & Policy
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...
Government & Policy
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...
Renting
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...
Government & Policy
Mayoral candidate Kareem Allam of the Vancouver Liberals civic party wants B.C.’s provincial political parties to commit to extending SkyTrain’s Millennium Line to the University of British Columbia (UBC), demolishing th...
Government & Policy
A Vancouver neighbourhood association has lost its bid to overturn the approval for a low-rise secured purpose-built rental housing project near SkyTrain’s King Edward Station, after a judge upheld the City of Vancouver’...
Opinion
Written for Daily Hive Urbanized by Mike Starchuk, the Imagine Surrey candidate for Mayor of Surrey in the October 2026 civic election. A former MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale and a 32-year veteran of the Surrey Fire Service,...
New Development
Prince Edward County — land of wineries, farms, and quaint storefronts — will soon be home to one of Ontario’s largest residential developments: a 7,500-unit master-planned community located on the site of a WWII militar...
Government & Policy
Small-scale infill projects have gone from a barely noticeable share of Toronto’s housing starts to a more meaningful one in just two years, according to a new analysis from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)...
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