Vancouver Sun
FROM ACTIVIST TO MAYOR
Mayor Pete Fry and his chief of staff Dominique Damian-Wallace take a stroll downtown on Oct. 28. Fry has travelled a unique path to becoming Vancouver's first Irish-born mayor since 1894.
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It's costly to get rid of old RVs in B.C., so people are simply dumping them
The travel trailer arrived overnight. On Oct. 31, in the grey light of morning, the recreational vehicle looked out of place, standing alone in a cornfield off a quiet country road in Abbotsford. Neighbours would later remark that someone had taken...
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DEADLY GRIZZLY SOUGHT
As the days tick down to winter, salmon leave the saltwater estuaries near Bella Coola and migrate up rivers and streams to spawn, drawing grizzly bears to the valley in the heart of B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. For the second year in a row,...
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Stamp honours little-known Chinese Canadian soldiers
When community historian Catherine Clement curated the first exhibition about Force 136, nine surviving members attended the launch. They were part of this little-known group of Chinese Canadian soldiers who were secretly trained to serve Allied...
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Life expectancy in province's Interior and north lower than in Metro: StatCan
Life expectancy in B.C. is nearly back to pre-pandemic levels, but there continues to be disparity among regions, according to new figures from Statistics Canada. The figures show Metro Vancouver residents are living longer than residents on Vancouver...
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DND WON'T SAY IF IT RECEIVED SECRET F-35 AUDIT FROM U.S.
The Canadian military is refusing to say whether it received a new and potentially controversial U.S. government audit on the F-35 fighter jet. The Department of National Defence has refused to answer questions about whether the Pentagon shared a...
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TIMES AREN'T CHANGING
Pediatric sleep researcher Wendy Hall says B.C.'S move to permanent daylight time is a mistake, and not just for kids who will have to walk to school in the dark. Biologically, humans respond to `sun time,' she says.
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Long COVID patients want virtual care funds restored
COVID-19 hit the Gaudet family of Maple Ridge hard. Mom Caroline Gaudet suffered debilitating migraines, heart palpitations and mobility issues. Her daughter, Gemma, who was nine when the pandemic hit in 2020, was so sick that she couldn't lie down...
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Locke blames Eby's snap election, voter confusion for election defeat
Outgoing Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says Premier David Eby's snap election derailed her re-election bid, sowing voter confusion and momentum for political change. “This was never a `change' election until the premier called the provincial election and...
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Warm and friendly air fills city hall during Sim's final council meeting
As Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim presided over his final city council meeting, he subtly broke with protocol. Partway through Tuesday's session, council's only public meeting falling between the Oct. 17 election, which saw Sim and his party ABC decisively...
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Premier-designate faces time crunch to get promised income tax cut done
Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson will have plenty of decisions to make in the coming days as he looks to carry out some of the B.C. Conservatives' election promises, including a large income tax cut that he says is his first legislative...
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Lights, camera, concern
Compared to hard-hit industries like the auto and steel sectors, Ontario's film industry is far from reeling amid the Canada-U.S. trade war. In fact, production levels have remained largely stable despite the trade war, and the province's culture...
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HEALING THE HARVEST
Dan Oostenbrink shows off a crop at Local Harvest in Chilliwack. The farm practises regenerative farming, a way to produce food that `heals' the soil and tries to mimic natural processes. `Nourishing food is more than just filling your stomach,' he says.
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NDP, Greens have plans to reduce grocery costs — are they workable?
In an effort to address affordability in the B.C. election campaign, the NDP and Green parties are putting forward plans to reduce the cost of groceries. The B.C. Conservatives, instead, assert that lowering taxes will put more money in people's...
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Leaders focus on Surrey in campaign's final days
Nita and Parma Lingam, longtime Surrey residents, participate in every election and hope their ballots cast Wednesday afternoon at an advance voting station lead to a change in leadership in B.C. The couple wouldn't say who they cast their ballots...
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WOMEN IN POLITICS
Three-month-old Jack coos as his mother, NDP candidate Bowinn Ma, discusses why more women haven't put their names forward for Saturday's provincial election. One reason may be the “significant barriers” that make it difficult for provincial...
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`Low-hanging fruit' is Fry's first order of business
Vancouver's new left-of-centre government will likely quickly start reversing some changes made over the past four years by the right-leaning ABC Vancouver party. But, the mayor-elect says, that doesn't mean all vestiges of ABC's time in office will...
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AI IS AN `ALIEN BEING'
British-Canadian Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often revered as the “Godfather of AI,” said AI is one of “three big revolutions where people ceased to be so important,” the others being Copernicanism — the understanding that planets revolve around...
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Downtown office vacancies buck trend
While most downtown cores in Canadian cities have had a decrease in office vacancy rates, Vancouver remains an outlier, a situation that is quite rare, says an observer of the local market. Blair Quinn, vice-chairman at commercial broker CBRE, said...
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HOT ELECTION TOPICS
As Vancouver residents prepare to choose a new mayor and council on Oct. 17, seven parties, including five with mayoral candidates, outline where they stand on key issues facing the city, including housing, crime and safety, the environment and public...
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Locke in foes' crosshairs as candidates square off in Surrey
New polling data shows incumbent Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke in a comfortable lead ahead of her six challengers with just over a week to go before election day. A Leger poll done for Postmedia News shows Locke with 24 per cent support, followed by...
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East Van residents are railing against traffic barriers that just create `chaos'
Generally speaking, Tom Siracusa isn't opposed to the traffic-calming measures that have been introduced in his east Vancouver neighbourhood over the years. “If you want to slow traffic at certain spots, certain intersections, I don't think anyone has...
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B.C.'s longest-serving school trustee retires after 41 years on Surrey board
B.C.'s longest-serving school trustee, Laurae McNally from the Surrey school board, is saying goodbye to the position she has held almost consecutively since 1980. The longtime trustee has seen many changes throughout her time, including...
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B.C. senior in dementia clinical trial wants to provide hope for his family
Pierre and Vivianne Seguin, a Port Moody couple, worry about whether dementia will affect their two adult sons and two granddaughters. While most cases of dementia are not hereditary, Pierre was diagnosed with young-onset dementia in 2022 at age 62....
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WHEN IS IT OK FOR LEADERS TO SHED TEARS IN PUBLIC?
To cry, or not to cry? In the realm of politics, that is the question. And the answer, says one University of Toronto expert, largely depends on your sex. “If you're a woman in the public sphere, you cannot win in terms of the expression of emotion,”...
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COST OF LIVING WOES
Zander Machan's birthday is on Oct. 24, but the provincial election that day won't be one of his favourite gifts. The new father and small-business owner from Burnaby didn't agree with the NDP'S decision to call an early election. But now that it's...
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Tsawwassen mourn two elders killed in Reconciliation Day crash
Under bright blue tarpaulins, two hand-carved Indigenous house posts stood Thursday outside the Tsawwassen Mills No. 3 entrance in South Delta, waiting for an unveiling that never came. Just steps away, more than a dozen colourful bouquets lined the...
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TRAGEDY IN DELTA
Two pedestrians were killed outside an entrance to the Tsawwassen Mills mall in South Delta on Wednesday morning. According to the Delta Police Department, the driver of the vehicle that hit the pair may have experienced a medical emergency before the...
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Former Surrey police chief asks B.C. Supreme Court to quash his firing
Fired Surrey police chief Norm Lipinski has asked the B.C. Supreme Court to overturn his termination. A petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday by Lipinski's lawyer, Robin McFee, a specialist in employment law, argues the firing of Lipinski by...
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GREAT LAKES BIND U.S.-CANADA TRADE IMPERILLED BY TRUMP TARIFFS
The American Century often draws a crowd when the ship pulls into the Port of Duluth-Superior to load Minnesota iron ore. Kids cheer when the captain blasts the fog horn. A voice on the loudspeaker retells the story of how the 305-metre-long bulk...
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UNEXPECTED CANDIDATE
B.C. Conservative Leader Lorne Doerkson, seen at the Anahim Lake Stampede in July, finds himself leading a party into an election after Kerry-lynne Findlay stepped down last Sunday. Meanwhile, Premier David Eby is crying foul over Doerkson's `interim'...
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As diesel prices climb, thieves drain machinery
It's the middle of the night on a construction site in the Lower Mainland. An excavator sits silent and dark. Then a truck pulls up beside it, and the driver sets up flashing lights that illuminate the machine. To a passerby, it might look like a...
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Printers double effort after snap election call
Municipal election signs are beginning to hit the lawns, but print shops are already bracing for another wave: Provincial campaign billboards, postcards and mailers are coming soon to a yard and mailbox near you. John Roden, general manager of three...
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Trump threat necessitated vote: NDP leader
Preparations for a snap election call began in earnest two weeks ago as U.S. President Trump became a focal point once again for British Columbians, and the B.C. Conservatives continued to come apart at the seams, according to multiple sources within...
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Eby about to call a totally unnecessary snap election
Premier David Eby faced tough questions about his scheme to call a snap election when he addressed the annual convention of local government leaders in Vancouver on Friday. “There are 3,500 British Columbians about to launch local campaigns, and many...
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Trump birthright citizenship law costs Canadians chance for baby
Renee and her husband had endured a decade of exhausting efforts to start a family, including multiple fruitless treatments and medical issues that seemed to make pregnancy impossible. Then this April the Toronto couple's ordeal seemed finally to be...
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MUNICIPAL ELECTION HEATS UP
As campaigns take shape, we look at where mayoral candidates from Vancouver — where lawn sign are seen above Friday — Surrey, Coquitlam, Delta, New Westminster, Richmond and West Van stand on key issues in the 2026 municipal election.
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Daily fixture on Grouse Grind marks 90 years
There are a few reasons Roger Sauvain does the Grouse Grind every day (yes, even in winter, but don't tell the authorities). “It keeps me fit, healthy and very, very happy,” said Sauvain, who celebrated his 90th birthday by doing the Grind. His time...
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EBY HINTS STRONGLY AT SNAP ELECTION CALL
Premier David Eby tried to make one thing perfectly clear at a news conference on Wednesday, namely that he had “no election announcement to make today.” He said that several times, just in case any reporters jumped to conclusions about an imminent...
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New B.C. paramedic training saved man who flatlined in ambulance
Retired accountant Ron Olynyk was just about to hit the third hole at Eaglepoint golf course in Kamloops five years ago when he suddenly felt like he couldn't catch his breath. “I had a bit of pain in my chest, but I didn't think it was anything...
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$4.4 billion in new condos unsold in Metro
Thousands of new condos are sitting unsold across Metro Vancouver, leaving developers with about $4.4 billion worth of finished-but-vacant real estate, new research shows. And they aren't all tiny condos often geared at investors. The unsold inventory...
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ONE PROPERTY, THREE BODIES
Up until last October, a mother, father and two children lived at 572 Kelly-Jordan Rd., near Smiths Falls, Ont. Then arrests were made. In the months since, a police search has unearthed three sets of human remains on the site, all related to a series...
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HARD TIMES HIT HOME
New data from B.C. real estate search platform Zealty shows the annual number of court-ordered home listings in the Lower Mainland has more than tripled over the last three years. The trend indicates `the economy is not in good health,' says Zealty...
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Firefighters from B.C. saw 9/11 grief first-hand
When he was just a rookie Vancouver firefighter in 2001, Keith Stewart desperately wanted to help the families of the more than 300 New York firefighters who died trying to save people from the burning World Trade Center towers. He and dozens of other...
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Focus on `culture war' destroying Tories, Clark says
The key to repairing rifts among the disparate factions that make up B.C.'s centre-right is to unite under one banner and build an agenda focused more on the economy, observers said this week, as former Conservative MLAs met in Surrey to hash out a...
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Woolly dog pelt returns to Coast Salish land
His name was Mutton. Although he died in 1859 at the tender age of 18 months, Mutton is a survivor who has returned to his ancestral territory to be studied, and welcomed with respect by Coast Salish artisans and community members. Mutton, a woolly...
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From an industrial hub to city's southern gateway
From his patio, Donald Scott has watched a corner of south Vancouver turn into a forest of towers. He lives across the street from Marine Drive SkyTrain hub. When the station opened in 2009, Marpole's Marine Landing neighbourhood was mostly...
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HOLY GROUND HANDOFF
Reverend Richard Watson shakes Pastor Joseph Concepcion's hand outside West Point Grey Presbyterian Church as he hands over a symbolic key and ownership of the 100-year-old landmark on July 9. Before the $6.4 million sale, some feared the church would...
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Family seeks answers after senior discharged from hospital to shelter
The family of a New Westminster senior is looking for answers about why she was sent to a Vancouver Downtown Eastside shelter, without their knowledge, after being discharged from hospital two weeks ago. Elizabeth Davis, 78, told Postmedia News she...
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UBC research suggests adding more plants to hospital menus
B.C. should increase the proportion of plant-based meals served to patients at all hospitals for health and environmental reasons, suggests new research from the University of B.C. It's not about eliminating all meat but more about boosting...
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Man vs. AI: Who will win air hockey faceoff?
An AI-driven air hockey robot created by UBC engineers that has defeated all challengers so far has a high-noon showdown today with a human 10time world champion. Tim Weissman, known as the “Kasparov of air hockey” for his strategic play, saw a...
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CONSERVATIVE LOSSES
These 13 MLAs have either resigned or been ejected from the B.C. Conservative caucus since March 2025. Seven of them have left in the past two weeks, citing concerns with new party leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. The latest to leave was Á'a:líya Warbus on...
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BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO
For decades, Canadian governments both Conservative and Liberal sought greater economic integration with the United States, the world's spendiest buyer of imports, including Canadian energy, machinery, lumber and wheat. But now, as U.S. President...
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CULTUS LAKE AT RISK
Is it possible to put a price tag on the perfect summer day? Leaping off a dock into cold, clear water. Gathering around a grill on the beach. Sleeping in a tent, water-skiing, catching a fish. A group of researchers is working to put a monetary...
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Bakery calls out retired NBA player for requesting free birthday cake
A Vancouver bakery owner is pushing back after a celebrity couple asked for a free birthday cake, calling the request “outrageous” and questioning whether social media exposure is a fair trade for small businesses. Fanny Lam, owner of Oh Sweet Day!...
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U.S. goods will get pricier — or vanish
Vancouver shoppers will pay more for some American goods — or watch them vanish from shelves — when Canada's new counter tariffs take effect Sept. 8. The measures are Ottawa's dollar-for-dollar answer to U.S. tariffs, hitting $27.6 billion in American...
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Grocery shoppers heed call to `Buy B.C.'
Britt Kirkpatrick came out of the Safeway on Vancouver's Davie Street on a sunny Monday morning with three bags of groceries and a small act of defiance inside them — B.C. produce she had chosen over the cheaper American stuff on the same shelf. “I'm...
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ENCRYPTION REMAINS STICKING POINT TO BILL C-22
Canadian law enforcement leaders are worried Bill C-22 has been defanged, and civil rights advocates say it has gone too far, but the federal government's bid for “lawful access” to Canadians' data for crime solving got a big thumbs-up from the...
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PIPE CHAMPS
The Simon Fraser University Pipe Band celebrates winning the World Pipe Band Championships at Glasgow Green on Saturday in Scotland. More than 8,000 pipers and drummers compete there every year.
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