Justin McElroy

The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says although month-over-month home price increases cooled in September, more homeowners are listing properties and the composite benchmark price for the area is just over $1.2 million, a 4.4 per cent increase compared to September 2022.

The concerns from residents who showed up generally centred around parking and noise for a residential three-block street in the middle of Port Coquitlam without any sidewalks.

Unlike the rest of British Columbia, the people who will vote on the local land-use plan aren’t a mayor or councillors, but a board of governors — the majority of whom are appointed by the province.

With policing being the biggest department in Surrey’s budget, and Locke and the province engaged in a constant war of words, few other political stories in the city have gotten much attention in the last year.

Mayor Ken Sim says he will bring forward a motion to ask the province to change the Vancouver Charter so the city’s independent, elected park board can be removed and its responsibilities shifted to council.

Since it was created in 1888, the Vancouver Park Board has been a source of discussion and division. But the decision by Mayor Ken Sim to try and eliminate it could make its final chapter its most dramatic.

Among the reasons cited by Metro Vancouver for the increased budget were higher construction costs, an increase in parking area and bike storage lockers, and an increase to the size of a child care facility.

A man working with an Egyptian contractor posted the ships on Facebook Marketplace, hoping to get $15 million for the three ships — a fraction of the $460 million it cost to build them.

The AAP might be somewhat convoluted, but it stems from provincial rules over what local and regional governments are allowed to do.

Vancouver Park Board commissioners have voted to pass a staff report clarifying “appropriate” swimwear at the city’s pools.