Economy, Law & Politics

The CMHC predicts conventional 5-year fixed-mortgage rates could peak at as high as 6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2022

Vancouver city council rubber-stamped five contracts worth almost $85 million on Tuesday at the first meeting since the civic election and last meeting of Mayor Kennedy Stewart’s term. The only no-bid contract approved was $3.

First year provides for a flat increase of 25 cents per hour and a 3.24 per cent increase

The following is a list of stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed in the week ended Oct. 12, 2022. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission and obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge gave a Richmond real estate and immigration lawyer another chance to avoid jail for contempt of court. Justice Gordon Weatherill had threatened Oct.

VANCOUVER — The B.C. New Democrat's newly minted leader and premier-in-waiting is promising "significant action" to bolster the province's affordable housing, health care system, public safety and the environment.

To counter increased risks to flooding, the B.C. government wants to improve flood maps, plan for community retreat in high-risk areas, and open up natural floodplains to give water a place to go. It's calling on public input for the new plan.

Vancouverites should keep their umbrella on deck for the next several days. The Metro Vancouver weather forecast includes a chance of precipitation nearly every day this week following weeks of unseasonably dry and hot conditions.

A transnational drug criminal from Vancouver, who was linked by police to a notorious underground Richmond bank, was sentenced to 14-and-a-half years in a U.S. prison Thursday.

Canada may have the longest total coastline in the world, but it still doesn’t have a solid understanding of the role nearshore ecosystems can play in sinking greenhouse gas emissions to combat the climate crisis, marine ecologist Julia Baum says.