Open this photo in gallery The Komagata Maru monument in downtown Vancouver on May 18, 2021. DARRYL DYCK/ The Canadian PressThe defacing of a public memorial in Vancouver to those who were aboard a ship that was forced to return to India more than a century ago is being treated by police as a possible hate crime. Police say they began an investigation Sunday after seeing reports that white paint had been splattered on the Komagata Maru memorial on the city’s seawall in the Coal Harbour neighbour

Open this photo in gallery Paddlers from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation arrive by traditional canoe to take part in a park renaming ceremony at Belcarra Regional Park in Belcarra, B.C., on Oct.... Belcarra Regional Park, near Port Moody, B.C., will have an Indigenous name, which local First Nations say translates to' biggest place for all the people.' JONATHAN HAYWARD/ The Canadian PressA Metro Vancouver park has been renamed to include the site’s Indigenous name, which officials say will better ref

The real estate market in Metro Vancouver eased in June from its record-setting pace in March and April. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the number of homes sold in the region totalled 3, 762 last month, up 54 per cent from the 2, 443 sales recorded a year earlier, but down 11.9 per cent from the 4, 268 sold in May 2021. Sales last month were 18.4 per cent above the 10-year June sales average. The benchmark price for all residential properties in Metro Vancouver was$ 1. 175 milli

Open this photo in gallery B.C. Minister of Education Rob Fleming speaks during a press conference in Victoria on June 2, 2020.... CHAD HIPOLITO/ The Canadian PressAn eight-lane tunnel under the Fraser River will replace an obsolete crossing that has frustrated Metro Vancouver drivers for decades. The B.C. government announced the new tunnel connecting the cities of Delta and Richmond on Highway 99 will cost$ 4.15 billion, with a completion date of 2030. Transportation Minister Rob Fleming says

Stewart has called for the Vancouver Police Department’s budget to be curtailed, and he has been vocally critical of the department’s handling of two incidents that became high-profile embarrassments for the city.Mr.... A B.C. mayor can act as chair of police board meetings, and can be a board’s public representative, but can’t make motions or vote.In Ontario, police boards have a majority of city council members or city-appointed representatives.... Stewart began trying to persuade the police

Open this photo in gallery The sun begins to break through the clouds above the downtown skyline as a man runs on the seawall in Stanley Park in Vancouver on Dec.... The teams will attempt to find ways of accommodating a 50-centimetre rise in water levels by 2050, and a two-metre rise by 2200. The purpose of the exercise is to help the city imagine new sea-change strategies to implement at some point in the future.... ” Vancouver has been planning for sea-level rise since 2012, as have many ot

Open this photo in gallery The Balmoral and Regent hotels in the downtown Eastside in Vancouver, Nov.... It would also put a notice on the land title to warn that there are unresolved building bylaw infractions on the property, which sits at the south end of Vancouver’s Granville Strip nightlife district.... That summer, matriarch Parkash “ Pash ” Sahota, who was head of the corporation that owned the Regal, had a leg amputated, then was put into a nursing home and died months later in January

Wendy Cox in Vancouver here. Willie Nahanee, 79, has found within himself the ability to forgive the nuns who taught him at the former St.... Paul’s Indian Residential School in Vancouver for 10 years, as well as those who were his teachers for a year at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. Seventeen of his family members were also taken away from their homes and forced into the schools.... Because the harm that was done through the residential schools is only a reflection of what wa

Open this photo in gallery Philip Owen stands in a back alley in Vancouver's Eastside, Oct.... Wilson. The two had learned a lot about each other as Mr.... Wilson, the unlikeliest of allies, both campaigned in the late 1990s and early 2000s for improved treatment of drug users and for Canada’s first supervised-injection site.So Mr....

Another 11 people have been arrested by RCMP enforcing an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island. The Mounties say several people were found Monday locked down along the Reid Mainline Forest Service Road, off the Braden Mainline area.Of the 11 arrests, five were for breaching the injunction( civil contempt of court), four for obstruction and two for mischief. The RCMP say in a statement that protesters breaching the injunction have been put