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City of Vancouver ‘pauses’ work on mayor’s push to abolish elected park board

The City of Vancouver has paused the work of abolishing the elected park board after the provincial government failed to implement Mayor Ken Sim’s requested...

Prime Minister Mark Carney: Collaboration with municipalities ‘more important than ever’

Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Friday in front of hundreds of municipal politicians—including Vancouver city councillors—that his government will be a “reliable partner” on a...

Vancouver to get its own ‘iconic’ sign on downtown waterfront

Vancouver is getting its own “iconic” sign. City council voted 10-1 Wednesday to spend $300,000 towards the placement of a permanent Vancouver sign along the...

Vancouver council considers three more rental housing towers

Vancouver city council will consider three more rezoning applications next week for rental housing towers along the Broadway corridor that — if approved — will...

Vancouver police spend $410K on 16 barriers to prevent future vehicle attacks

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) had experimented with the use of mobile vehicle barriers in February at the Lunar New Year Chinatown parade and have...

Vancouver sees steep drop in abandoned police calls

The Vancouver Police Department has seen a significant decrease in the number of abandoned calls to its non-emergency phone line after improvements were made by...

Council hits pause on proposed 18-storey tower near Mount Pleasant heritage homes

Vancouver city council has deferred a decision on whether to allow a developer to build an 18-storey rental housing tower in a Mount Pleasant neighbourhood...

Hundreds gather at Vancouver’s Holy Rosary Cathedral in wake of Filipino festival tragedy

Hundreds of mourners gathered Friday at Holy Rosary Cathedral in Vancouver to hear Archbishop J. Michael Miller promise the Filipino community that they are not...

$1.1M fee for Granville SRO sparks debate at city hall

A $1.1 million fee that the owner of a vacant single-room-occupancy building on the downtown Granville strip must pay to transform his property into a...

Vancouver police chief says officers don’t have quotas for drug arrests in DTES

Police Chief Adam Palmer has refuted a claim that his department has ordered drug arrest quotas for officers participating in a $5-million strategy to dismantle...

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