Just three days into the provincial election campaign, BC NDP leader David Eby is promising a major new interventionist measure on housing supply. He is proposing to implement a new additional tax on developers who leave newly-completed strata market ownership condominium homes empty and unsold...
With just over three weeks until the municipal election, campaign promises from the Vancouver municipal parties are starting to pile up — especially on housing, public safety, and jobs and the economy. Daily Hive Urbanized examined campaign platforms from incumbent Mayor Ken Sim and ABC Vancouver,...
Mayoral candidate Kareem Allam of the Vancouver Liberals civic party wants B.C.’s provincial political parties to commit to extending SkyTrain’s Millennium Line to the University of British Columbia (UBC), demolishing the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts, and bringing both UBC’s self-governed area and...
B.C. residents are being asked to vote twice in October: in a local election and a snap provincial election. While Premier David Eby was likely trying to seize on the fact that the Conservative Party of B.C. was unravelling under the leadership of Kerry-Lynne Findlay, it might have the unintended...
Megan Knight’s name will appear on two election ballots just one week apart: White Rock’s civic election ballot on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026, and the provincial election ballot for Surrey South on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026. As recently as a week ago, the incumbent White Rock mayor planned to seek...
Meta glasses are here, and they’re drawing concerns from many corners of life over privacy, including schools in Metro Vancouver, like Johnston Heights Secondary School in Surrey. Daily Hive obtained a memo that was sent to families connected to Johnston Heights because some students were raising...
Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) Burnaby Mountain campus has received two Indigenous names as part of a project that also names four other locations at this campus. The Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Kwikwetlem First Nations joined university officials in revealing the names last week,...
Mayoral races are heating up around the province, and while much has been made about the Vancouver election, there is some noise being made in Surrey, too, in this case, regarding public washrooms. The frontrunners in most people’s eyes are likely the current mayor, Brenda Locke, former mayor Doug...
After disappearing from shelves for almost four years, Little Debbie snacks are officially back in select stores across Canada. In an email to Dished, McKee Foods confirmed the return of its beloved snacks to Canada. “We launched in Ontario in early September for the back-to-school season and...
