Why every housing bubble looks like the new normal"This time is different," buyers tell themselves. They’re right—until they’re terribly wrong.
Vancouver’s opioid crisis can be measured in discarded needlesB.C.’s illicit-drug users are going through 15 million needles a year, and a lot wind up in alleys, parks and playgrounds. We followed the guy who picks them up.
Canadians are googling ’housing bubble’ like madWhat people search for on Google is a good indicator of public sentiment, and right now Canadians are fixated on housing bubbles
How to cool a red-hot housing marketAnimal spirits still rule Canada’s real estate scene, working urban markets into a froth. But there are ways to tame them.
How Indigenous people are rebranding Canada 150The Canada 150 birthday celebrations could stand to be more inclusive of the Aboriginal experience. Vancouver is trying to make that happen.
How Canada’s big banks pumped up the housing bubbleThe banks earn big profits off soaring house prices, knowing that taxpayers will clean up the mess if the bubble pops. That has to change.
’Dumped by Trump’ a badge of honour in VancouverProtests met cartoonish opulence as the Trump brothers opened their Vancouver hotel and tower
Just how bad is the snow in Vancouver?In a word: very. Another 10 cm of snow will produce the city’s fifth snowiest year since the 1970s.
Mel Lastman’s open letter to the people of VancouverIn 1999, Mel Lastman famously called in the military after Toronto was hit by a snow storm. Vancouver should do the same, he says.