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Artistic rendering of the CIBC Square towers in downtown Toronto. (WilkinsonEyre and Adamson Associates / Ivanhoe Cambridge)
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Microsoft opening new Canadian HQ office in downtown Toronto

Goodbye Mississauga, hello downtown Toronto!

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 12, 2018
Early massing concept of the new student residence built around UBC Walter Gage Residence. (UBC)
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New 1,000-bed student residence to be built around UBC Gage Towers

New student housing on Gage's parking lots and green space.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 12, 2018
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IKEA opens new massive distribution centre in Metro Vancouver

This massive hubs handles all of Western Canada's products.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 12, 2018
Artistic rendering of 77 East Broadway, Vancouver. (Eric Law Architect Inc.)
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6-storey building proposed for East Broadway and Quebec Street

A remarkably unambitious proposal just one block from a future SkyTrain station.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
Artistic rendering of 4464 Dunbar Street, Vancouver. (IBI Group Architects / Qualex Landmark Ltd.)
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City block-sized housing building proposed for Dunbar Village retail strip

It will replace over a dozen existing businesses.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
Richmond Public Library's book dispensing machine at Hamilton Community Centre. (Richmond Public Library)
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Richmond Public Library launches book dispenser machine technology

The book dispensing machine is the first of its kind in BC.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
Rides at Playland in the PNE. (Júbilo Haku / Flickr)
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Fair at the PNE records slightly lower attendance for 2018

Wildfire smoke was likely a factor.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
New SkyTrain Mark III car being delivered on a flatbed truck from Ontario to Vancouver. (TransLink)
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First of 56 new SkyTrain cars on the road to Vancouver from Ontario plant

These cars are traveling westward on the Trans Canada Highway.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
Artistic rendering of the changes to 333 Seymour Street, Vancouver. (B+H Architects / PCI Developments)
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New-look expansion coming to downtown Vancouver office tower

WeWork is opening a location in the tower.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
Vancouver skyline. (Shutterstock)
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BC approves largest allowable rental hike in 15 years

Rental rates can be raised 4.5%.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 11, 2018
The Electra Meccanica team ringing the NASDAQ bell on August 31, 2018. (Electra Meccanica)
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Vancouver-based electric car company rings NASDAQ opening bell

Electra Meccanica is behind a revolutionary three-wheeled car.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 7, 2018
Artistic rendering of the Bombardier Innovia Metro Mark III train now in use on SkyTrain's Expo and Millennium lines. (TransLink)
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Trudeau announces $1.37B in funding for Broadway Subway and Surrey LRT

Both projects have been officially approved by the federal and provincial governments.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 5, 2018
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the SkyTrain Operations and Maintenance Centre. (Kenneth Chan / Daily Hive)
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Trudeau in Surrey on Tuesday to make a major transit announcement

Federal funding for Metro Vancouver's transit projects.

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  • Sep 4, 2018
Futuristic transportation. (Shutterstock)
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TransLink providing up to $50,000 in grants to university researchers

A total pool of $300,000 is up for grabs.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Sep 1, 2018
Human poop scattered on the patch of grass on the northwest corner of Hornby Street and Helmcken Street. (Daily Hive)
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Hundreds of human feces scattered on this Vancouver grass patch

"This is the most poop-covered stretch of grass I have ever seen."

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  • Sep 1, 2018
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley. (Government of Alberta)
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Alberta is leaving the federal climate plan due to the Trans Mountain decision

"Without Alberta that plan isn't worth the paper it's written on." - Premier Rachel Notley

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Aug 31, 2018
Artistic rendering of the new St. Paul's Hospital and health campus at the False Creek Flats. (IBI Group Architects / Providence Healthcare)
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This is the design of the new $1.2-billion St. Paul's Hospital (RENDERINGS)

Nearly a dozen buildings in the False Creek Flats, including a hotel.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Aug 31, 2018
Artistic rendering of the Surrey Museum expansion. (HCMA Architecture + Design / City of Surrey)
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Museum of Surrey reopens next month after $16-million expansion

Admission into this museum is free.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Aug 31, 2018
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