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    Andrea Loewen poses for a photograph in the home she shares with her friends in Vancouver, B.C. on March 26, 2023.

    Why I gave up my condo and moved in with my best friend and her family

    “We started a group chat called Modern Fam Jam to coordinate everything”

    The Building: Vancouver Island’s upward spiral

    The Malahat SkyWalk is a tourist spectacle—in the best sense of the word.

    The Move: Why one family left Toronto for Vancouver Island

    The Bergot-Brownings were itching to leave Toronto. One year and 14 goats later, they’re among greener pastures on Vancouver Island.

    The Chiu family in front of their new three-bedroom, two-bathroom townhouse in Calgary, Alberta. (Photos courtesy Allison Seto)

    The Move: Priced out of Vancouver

    Priced out of Vancouver, Martin and Nicole Chiu became first-time homeowners after a spontaneous move to Calgary

    “It hit me: Wow, the World Cup is really coming to Canada”

    In our Q&A with Jonathan Osorio, the national team star explains why the announcement that Vancouver and Toronto will be host cities at the 2026 World Cup is a very big deal.

    For $1.8 million you can buy this gorgeous floating home in Vancouver

    Waterfront homes in nearby Point Grey sell for upwards of $10 million, making this floating gem on Granville Island a relative bargain

    “We can not overlook those left in its wake.”

    Letters to the editor, April 1, 2022: Readers weigh in on a Kelowna development war, the shadow of COVID-19, and impoverished seniors in Vancouver’s Chinatown

    Bing Yu Jiao in his Chinatown studio apartment: finding connection in a kind of subdued facsimile of home. (Photograph by Felicia Chang)

    Seniors in Vancouver’s Chinatown are battling poverty and racism to put food on the table

    How a community program is knocking down barriers and feeding seniors

    Brunt in the bicycle area of the Vancouver Police Department’s property room. (Photograph by Vishal Marapon)

    Meet Canada’s only full-time bike theft detective

    Vancouver has finally put a dent in its long-running bike theft epidemic. All it took was one dedicated officer.

    Tao (left) and Schofield outside their Vancouver apartment building; the friends are fighting evictions in the city’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood (Photograph by Alana Paterson)

    Renters across Canada are banding together to fight high housing costs and evictions

    The pandemic has brought tensions over the decades-long housing crisis in Canada’s cities to a boiling point

    With pools closed some swimmers have turned to open water swimming (Photo by Jimmy Jeong)

    Swimming pools closed? Try the ocean.

    That’s what some Vancouverites were inspired to do to get their fix during the COVID-19 lockdown, learning open-water swimming at Jericho Beach

    In the battle over Hong Kong, the surveillance state knows no boundaries

    There is a proxy war happening in Vancouver over Hong Kong and activists say that not only are they being watched, but pro-Beijing provocateurs are trying to intimidate them

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