8 h. ago Massive gap in Metro Vancouver affordable housing, report finds

The region's housing needs report shows Metro Vancouver needs 11,400 new affordable rental homes each year.

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11 h. ago Pace of rent increases slows, but housing costs still rising in Metro Vancouver

Nearly 40 per cent of Metro Vancouver households are renters, and the report said the 'trend toward renting continues'

Economics

17 h. ago Outrageously colourful cluster of towers will be unlike anything else in Toronto

Ambitious plans surfaced in April for a proposal to redevelop a tract of City of Toronto-owned lands at a major transit hub with a multi-tower residential community that would look like nothing else in town.The sprawling site at 2444 Eglinton Avenue East, a commuter parking lot just north of Kennedy GO and TTC station and adjacent auto body shop, is set to be redeveloped with three new residential towers.But unlike the monotonous blue-grey glass Toronto residents are used to, these towers would feature wildly colourful designs from Vancouver-based Henriquez Partners Architects.The City's real estate asset management agency, CreateTO, has long planned to leverage this and other sites adjacent to transit, launching the Housing Now initiative in 2019 to activate underutilized City lands and work with private developers to get affordable housing built.CreateTO announced in January 2024 that Civic Developments, Windmill Developments, and the Co-operative Housing Federation of Toronto...

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19 h. ago Metro Vancouver report shows region building only half the housing that municipalities need

Meeting the regional needs of 46,000 new homes per year would require an "unprecedented acceleration" in construction, according to Urban Development Institute.

Politics

22 h. ago Canada’s national housing strategy remains ‘under construction’

Robert McLister: Any improvements in housing affordability in recent years have happened despite the government's plan

Society

36 h. ago B.C. crime news: Missing woman found dead in Dawson Creek was murdered, say RCMP

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Events

36 h. ago B.C. crime news: Missing woman found dead in Dawson Creek | Victim of pedestrian crash on Haida Gwaii was 'targeted'

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Events

36 h. ago B.C. crime news: Missing woman found dead in Dawson Creek | Victim of pedestrian crash on Haida Gwaii was 'targeted' | Cars torched, shots fired in Fort Nelson

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Thursday, April 24, 2025

Events

40 h. ago Metro Vancouver in for some balmy spring temperatures over the next few days

Inland temperatures expected to reach mid-20s Friday, while Sun Runners on Sunday are looking at blue skies with a few clouds and no rain.

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59 h. ago B.C. crime news: Two charged with sex assault, forcible confinement | Impaired speeder was picking up his child: RCMP

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Events

59 h. ago B.C. crime news: Person found dead in Merritt vehicle fire | Two charged with sex assault, forcible confinement

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Events

64 h. ago Toronto to clamp down on 'renovictions' this summer and here are the details

Toronto City Council has launched a public education campaign to remind homeowners and renters that its new "renoviction" bylaw will come into effect this summer in an attempt to "protect tenants from bad faith evictions."According to a release issued by the city, the Rental Renovation Licence Bylaw, which was proposed back in the fall and will come into effect on July 31, 2025, requires landlords to obtain a licence before "starting repairs or renovations that require tenants to move out of their rental units under the Provincial N13 process."Created to protect tenants from so-called "renovictions," when a tenant is evicted from their home under pretences of renovations by a landlord, this bylaw attempts to add more protections for renters."The bylaw is designed to protect tenants from bad faith evictions, preserve Toronto's affordable rental housing and establish a transparent and equitable process for landlords to complet...

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67 h. ago Metro Vancouver's 'grand bargain' over highrise clusters could be thrown into jeopardy

Douglas Todd: Residents have accepted the "grand bargain" when politicians create highrise clusters and leave other neighbourhoods more or less unchanged. But the pace of development is now feverish.

Other

3 d. ago B.C. crime news: Stabbing death in Vancouver's Strathcona area

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Events

3 d. ago B.C. crime news: Homeless woman murdered in Chilliwack | Stabbing death in Vancouver's Strathcona area

Here's a roundup of crime news from around Metro Vancouver and B.C. on Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Events

3 d. ago Denley: Politicians' ambitious plans won't fix the shortage of affordable housing

For real change to take place in the housing market, demand, supply and affordability all need to be aligned. They aren't.

Politics

4 d. ago Sutcliffe: We need to build homes faster in Ottawa. Here's how

If developers, city council, the federal government and the province team up, we can fix the housing affordability crisis. The housing task force is just the start.

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5 d. ago Is Trump overshadowing housing this federal election? Edmonton advocates weigh in

"Unfortunately, with this tenuous relationship between us and our friends in the south, this issue of housing, unfortunately, is kind of getting lost in the noise about tariffs and whatnot."

Politics

6 d. ago Police investigate 'extremist' vandalism at Metro Vancouver Sikh and Hindu temples

The Khalsa Diwan Society blames the vandalism on a small group of Sikh separatists trying to create division within the community.

Economics

6 d. ago Federal Election 2025: Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre campaign in Metro Vancouver Saturday

New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh attends Canada's largest Vaisakhi parade in Surrey while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in Richmond announces plans to give judges more powers to sentence drug offenders.

Politics