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Long snaking line at the Trout Lake Community Centre polling station for the Vancouver City Council by-election on April 5, 2025. (Submitted)
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Vancouver by-election voters face hours-long waits in line amid 50% cut in poll sites

"They obviously didn’t have enough staff."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 6, 2025
The temporary 27,500-seat Empire Field stadium at Hastings Park in Vancouver, as seen in June 2011. (Anne-Marie Sorvin/USA TODAY Sports)
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Vancouver Whitecaps in talks on building new PNE stadium

Discussions underway with the City of Vancouver.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 5, 2025
Industrial Light and Magic Vancouver at The Stack. (Kenneth Chan)
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Disney opens Industrial Light and Magic's largest studio in Vancouver

"The local talent base has really expanded."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 5, 2025
Long lines outside Vancouver City Hall on April 1, 2025 for advance voting in the Vancouver City Council by-election. (Yvonne Hanson/Shutterstock)
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Record advance turnout in Vancouver City Council by-election

84% higher than the 2017 by-election's advance voting.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 5, 2025
800 Robson Plaza in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan)
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Fewer local residents visiting downtown Vancouver: report

A troubling trend after years of recovery from the pandemic.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 4, 2025
Greater Vancouver Food Bank facility at 3454 Lougheed Highway, Vancouver. (Greater Vancouver Food Bank)
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Greater Vancouver Food Bank launches campaign to buy $15M permanent home

With major refrigeration capacity to store and distribute fresh food.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 4, 2025
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How to vote in the Vancouver City Council by-election this Saturday

When and where to vote, and eligibility.

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  • Apr 3, 2025
B.C. legislature in Victoria. (Kenneth Chan)
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B.C. government's budget performance to be the weakest globally: forecast

"Continued weakening in governance and fiscal and debt management."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 3, 2025
Concept of 1045 West 14th Avenue, Vancouver. (Buttjes Architecture/Wall Financial Corporation)
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Nearly 3,100 homes in 13 new towers approved by Vancouver City Council

The overwhelming majority of these new homes will be rentals.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 3, 2025
New residential towers around SkyTrain's Burquitlam Station on the border of Burnaby and Coquitlam. (Elena_Alex_Ferns/Shutterstock)
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Metro Vancouver 'missing' home buyers, despite favourable conditions

Driven by economic uncertainty due to the U.S. tariffs.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
The house at 1444 Argyle Ave. on the Ambleside waterfront in West Vancouver is concealed by bushes and trees. (Google Maps)
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West Vancouver buys last Ambleside waterfront house for seamless park space

The last of 32 waterfront lot acquisitions since the 1970s.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
Pierre Poilievre. (Conservative Party of Canada)
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Poilievre's Conservatives to fast-track new pipelines and energy projects

Canada exports 98 per cent of its crude oil to the U.S.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
Office buildings in downtown Vancouver. (Urban Napflin/Shutterstock)
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Downtown Vancouver office vacancy rate now below suburbs for first time in years

And it's still Canada's tightest downtown office market.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
Amazon fulfillment centre in Toronto. (Golden Shrimp/Shutterstock)
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'Existential concern' in Canadian industrial real estate due to U.S. tariffs

"Impact of tariffs will be more directly felt by Canadian industrial markets."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
February 2025 preliminary concept of the new Vancouver Aquatic Centre. (Acton Ostry Architects/MJMA Architecture and Design)
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New Vancouver Aquatic Centre will include smaller 25-metre pool after all

"This feels like an end of an era and I'm sorry I wasn't able to stop it."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 2, 2025
March 2025 rental housing tower concept for 2219-2285 Cambie St., Vancouver. (Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership/Nicola Wealth Real Estate)
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30-storey rental housing tower proposed for Cambie Bridge's south end

Instead of the previous proposal of a 10-storey office building.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 1, 2025
Not the final design; preliminary conceptual artistic rendering of the public park transformation of the green rooftop park of Vancouver Convention Centre's West Building. (Pavco)
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New public park planned for green roof of Vancouver Convention Centre

"Turning this iconic green roof into a public park."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 1, 2025
Proposed new building forms for the Lower Twelfth Street Area Study Update, March 2025. (City of New Westminster)
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New Westminster City Council balks at 'Manhattan' density plan

"Parade of towers that leads to the downtown."

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 1, 2025
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