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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...

Vancouver mayor’s bitcoin push a ‘hill that I’m willing to die on’

Mayor Ken Sim says his continued push to have Vancouver become a bitcoin-friendly city is “a hill that I’m willing to die on” as he...

Vancouver police chief Adam Palmer joining RCMP

Vancouver Police Chief Adam Palmer will be joining the RCMP as an assistant commissioner, according to an internal RCMP document viewed by BIV. The document...

Former mayor Gregor Robertson to run with Liberals in Vancouver

He’s back. Gregor Robertson, who served as Vancouver’s mayor from 2008 to 2018, has returned to politics and was acclaimed Sunday as the federal Liberals’...

Massive social housing-detox centre for Vancouver sees costs reach $200M

 A long-planned social housing-detox centre that will be built over a city block in East Vancouver is now estimated to cost close to $200 million...

Vancouver politicians push for electric passenger ferry to Gibsons, Bowen Island

A Vancouver city councillor and two park board commissioners announced plans Friday to potentially have an electric passenger ferry operating by 2027 that would connect...

Vancouver mayor Ken Sim calls for pause on ‘net new supportive housing’

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim announced Thursday that he will bring a motion before council to pause any “net new supportive housing units” in the city...

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