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Team Sweden's performance at the 2018 Honda Celebration of Light fireworks festival. (Gabriel Lam/submitted)
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Honda Celebration of Light 2022 participating countries announced

Look up at the sky over English Bay, as Vancouver's biggest summer event is back! šŸŽ‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 28, 2022
Downtown Vancouver (Shutterstock)
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Downtown Vancouver pedestrian traffic and transit ridership recovery lagging

But there are real signs of recovery compared to earlier in the pandemic.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 28, 2022
Tree plantings. (Tree Canada)
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City of Surrey to plant 20% more new trees in 2022

A total of 12,300 trees, plus thousands of seedlings 🌲

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 28, 2022
Artistic rendering of 6877-6945 Palm Avenue, Burnaby. (DA Architects & Planners/BCGEU)
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Burnaby Council approves BCGEU rental housing at Royal Oak SkyTrain

Nearly 300 rental homes with half of the units at below-market and large enough for families.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 28, 2022
April 2022 artistic rendering of the revised design for Coronation Park in Port Moody. (Boniface Oleksiuk Politano Architects/Wesgroup Properties)
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Port Moody Council approves Coronation Park's 2,700 homes next to SkyTrain

The massive redevelopment received Port Moody City Council's green light.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 27, 2022
Starbucks closed many locations across downtown Vancouver earlier in the pandemic, including the cafe at the corner of Jervis and Robson streets. This retail unit, previously Cow's Ice Cream, has since reverted to an ice cream shop for Bella Gelateria. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Vancouver City Council proposes Empty Stores Tax to reduce vacant storefronts

This strategy to reduce storefront vacancies was initially proposed by Mayor Kennedy Stewart.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 27, 2022
Vancouver City Hall (City of Vancouver)
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City of Vancouver ends trend of shifting property taxes from businesses to residents

The business property tax share was previously on a downward trend since 1994.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 27, 2022
A single-family house under construction. (Shutterstock)
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City of Surrey sees real permitting progress after giving itself guaranteed timelines

Guaranteed permitting timelines and new tools and resources are having a real positive effect.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 27, 2022
April 2022 proposed design of the new off-leash area dog park at Emery Barnes Park. (Vancouver Park Board)
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The new design of the Emery Barnes dog park in downtown Vancouver (RENDERINGS)

Emery Barnes Park will see a complete redesign and expansion 🐶

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 27, 2022
Indigenous art design on the exterior of the Salish Heron vessel by Maynard Johnny Jr. (BC Ferries)
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New BC Ferries ship used as canvas for First Nations art (PHOTOS)

All four new Salish-class ships are now adorned with unique Indigenous art.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
New replacement flagpoles installed at Brockton Point in Stanley Park in 2019. (Vancouver Park Board)
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Flags of Vancouver's First Nations to be permanently raised at Stanley Park

The Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh flags will be permanently raised at Brockton Point.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
Carnaval del Sol at Concord Pacific Place. (Latincouver Cultural & Business Society)
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Carnaval del Sol Vancouver 2022 festival relocated to Jonathan Rogers Park

Some 15,000 people are expected at the three-day festival this summer ā˜€ļø

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
Collapse of the exterior wall at Vancouver Aquatic Centre, March 2022. (Megan Devlin/Daily Hive)
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Decades-long repair waits: 11 community centres in Vancouver in poor condition

Some of these facilities will be 90 years old by the time they are replaced.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
Artistic rendering of the tower concept above the future South Granville Station at 1477 West Broadway, Vancouver. (Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership/PCI Developments)
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City Council approves 39-storey tower above SkyTrain's South Granville Station

This tower with rental housing and office and retail uses will be Broadway's new tallest building.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
Pierre Poilievre in a single-family neighbourhood in Vancouver. (Pierre Poilievre)
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Poilievre to withhold federal funds from cities that don't build enough housing

The Conservative leader candidate is eyeing cities with a population of 500,000+ residents.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
April 2022 artistic rendering of the northeast parcel of Oakridge Park (Oakridge Centre). (Henriquez Partners Architects/Quadreal Property Group/Westbank)
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Mall redevelopment to create underground entrance for Oakridge-41st Avenue Station

An underground retail-lined corridor will provide this SkyTrain station with a second entrance šŸš‡

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
The dock at Harbour Green Park in downtown Vancouver. (Kenneth Chan/Daily Hive)
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Park Board to repair and reopen Harbour Green Dock in Coal Harbour

After being closed for four years, the popular dock will be repaired for reopening this summer.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 26, 2022
Single-family detached house in Vancouver. (Shutterstock)
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Home price drops expected for Vancouver and Toronto in 2023

Each 1% rate hike interest is $500 in additional monthly mortgage payments.

  • Kenneth Chan
  • Apr 25, 2022
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