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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...
Mortgage Rates
A two-building seniors residential complex in Ottawa's Citiplace neighbourhood has officially changed hands following a court-ordered sale, according to filings in Ontario Superior Court and a press release.The complex c...
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...
New Development
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...
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...
New Development
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...
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,...
Housing Market
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...
Renting
Rent prices have eased across Vancouver and Toronto by 6% and 5%, respectively
Housing Market
Both cities are at 'moderate' risk of a housing bubble, with depleted supply in Toronto potentially raising the stakes
Renting
Vancouver is the country’s priciest rental market, and although rent affordability has (very slightly) improved over the last couple of years, renters in the city are still spending a staggering amount of their household...
Government & Policy
The Vancouver Liberals unveiled their housing plan today, promising to make construction of new housing cheaper and faster if the party and mayoral candidate Kareem Allam win in the upcoming municipal election. They said...
Renting
Canadian renters with aspirations to move are facing much more than a logistical hassle, according to a new report on housing affordability from Statistics Canada (StatCan). The research, which draws from the fourth cycl...
Renting
Vancouver or Toronto may come to mind when thinking of cost-of-living struggles, but a new study has found that a city in Alberta is seeing one of the worst rent affordability crunches in the country. The study from Sing...
New Development
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...
Government & Policy
At least three BC NDP MLAs and cabinet ministers have announced they will not run again as British Columbia heads into the Oct. 24 snap provincial general election. Newly appointed Minister of Health Ravi Kahlon and Emer...
Government & Policy
Vancouver’s 2026 civic election ballot is set, with voters heading to the polls on Saturday, Oct. 17, to choose a mayor, 10 Vancouver city councillors, seven Vancouver Park Board commissioners, and nine Vancouver School...
Renting
Vancouver rent prices have been steadily falling over the past few years. But according to new analysis from Rentals.ca, the U.S.-Canada trade war might mean that this relief is short-lived. Vancouver’s rental market wil...
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