Tag Archives: Vancouver

Vancouver-based Carter Fox usually cycles to work in Burnaby, taking the Central Valley Greenway — a major 24-kilometre bike corridor that connects Vancouver, Burnaby and New Westminster. But for the past month, Fox has avoided the greenway after the City of Vancouver closed off a section adjacent to the site where a rooftop parking deck collapsed …

Vancouver real estate marketer and art collector Bob Rennie will be vacating his office in the oldest building in Chinatown to make way for a new Chinese Canadian museum.  The Chinese Canadian Museum, scheduled to open next summer, will be located in the Wing Sang Building on 51 East Pender St. — currently home to …

When Umar and Atefah Khan moved to Calgary from Toronto in May, they created the Tiktok account @toronto2calgary to document their journey. It all started when they began posting about their three-day cross-country road trip to update friends and family back home. The Khans say they didn’t know where their …

A team of scientists out of the University of British Columbia has outfitted a mobile lab that can detect air pollutants on the go. The scientists say because the van can collect data as often as every second it’s on the move, it will show a more detailed picture of …

More than a year after a controversial proposal to expand the Vancouver Drydock, many North Vancouver residents say they’re frustrated over a lack of communication, and worried about the expansion’s potential impact on their community.  Vessels, from tug boats to large freighters, are serviced and repaired at the Vancouver Drydock, one of …

When Karen Wai King Lew told a B.C. judge that her mortgage debt had been completely forgiven, she invoked a two-decade-old conspiracy theory about a “new world order” that has recently resurfaced. According to a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling, Lew appealed a foreclosure order on her Vancouver home on …

Fire officials are investigating the cause of a south Vancouver blaze Wednesday evening that damaged three residential buildings, created a giant plume of black smoke visible from as far away as the North Shore, and forced the evacuation of more than 10 people. The three-alarm fire started sometime around 5 p.m., the city’s …

Hundreds of fans of Japanese popular culture, including anime, video games, and cosplay, converged at the Vancouver Convention Centre for three days this weekend. It’s the first time in three years that Anime Revolution — popularly called Anirevo — has been held. It’s also the tenth anniversary of the event, which was …

For the first time in three years, the Vancouver Pride Parade hit the streets of the city’s West End on Sunday.  Huge crowds lined the streets to watch and cheer on the parade participants. Lee Keple, Vancouver Pride Society interim executive director, said ahead of the event that it would be …

The small Vancouver Island community of Duncan is struggling to find housing solutions for people who live in RVs as some of them face tripling rent increases and restrictions on where to park. While recreational vehicles are generally more affordable places to live, they are subject to city bylaws across the …