Vancouver Sun
Fires leaves Mount Pleasant landmark damaged
An Italian restaurant in an old house in east Vancouver has been severely damaged after fire broke out in the residence above the business Wednesday night, Vancouver Fire Rescue Services said. The fire broke out around 8 p.m., near the intersection of...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
`A big, black hole on three streets'
Almost four months after the former Hudson's Bay Company flagship building in downtown Vancouver was put on the market, multiple groups have expressed interest in buying the property, industry sources say. While details are scant, some observers say...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Downtown residents search for options to save beloved grocer
Residents in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and Chinatown areas are trying to come up with ideas for saving a longtime grocer that has been listed for sale. They worry that if the Sunrise Market is sold to a new owner, the business could dramatically...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Self-driving taxi company pushes B.C. to remove its ban on autonomous cars
B.C. prohibits the use of fully autonomous cars, labelling them an “emerging technology,” but self-driving taxi company Waymo has been working hard to change the government's mind. Silicon Valley headquartered Waymo has been on a global push to expand...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
CANADA'S LANGUAGE WATCHDOG TRIPPED OVER A DOG'S TAIL ...
It was not AI-generated, computer-translated from English or the work of anglophones. The Valentine's Day message was written by real, live francophones — and, yes, they knew some would read it as a reference to part of the male anatomy. Internal...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
RECRUITING FOR CRIME
Even though extortion threats and shootings have slowed down in Surrey, a community leader says he worries that international students are still vulnerable to being recruited to carry out these crimes. Mohkam Singh Malik, a member of the city's...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
SLIDE RESCUE
As the B.C. coast continues to be hammered by torrential rains from an atmospheric river, several people were evacuated Thursday by helicopter from their homes in the north end of Coquitlam after a mudslide hit the area. Two people at a property hit...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Towers to open 113 years after village destroyed
In 1913, a barge arrived at Senáḵw Indian Reserve No. 6. Residents were ordered aboard by Indian agents, towed out to sea and set adrift to watch while their village was burned to the ground. Now, the village has returned. Three shiny towers, the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Retailer inherited legendary Italian shop in Chinatown
One of the quirks of Vancouver's Chinatown is that one of its most historic stores is Italian. Tosi and Company has occupied 624 Main St. since Peter Tosi moved the store there in 1930. When Peter died in 1973, his son Angelo took over the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
With gas over $2 a litre, here are a few ways to save money
The cost of gas in Metro Vancouver has tipped over $2 a litre, and there are few signs that global supply tensions caused by the Iran war and chaos in the Strait of Hormuz will ease any time soon. “When there are supply bottlenecks, that will factor...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
OFFICIAL INTRIGUED BY ANTI-DRONE SYSTEM FROM TRIO AT HEART OF EXPLOSIVES TRIAL
A senior official at the Department of National Defence says he wants to learn more about the anti-drone system three men charged in an Ontario gun and explosives investigation are working on, once their legal problems are resolved. But developing...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
BUILDING A LEGACY
As head of Vancouver's World Cup organizing committee, Jessie Adcock is tasked with putting together an event that will join the pantheon of major sporting moments in B.C. history. With the tourney nearing, The Sun takes a look at what to expect.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Piece-by-piece removal of the Pattullo likely done by end of 2027: director
Deconstruction of the 90-year-old, distinctive-orange Pattullo Bridge is slowly beginning, as evidenced by the gap — about the size of onethird of a football field — on one end of the bridge. Over many months, residents and commuters will see the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
PINBALL COMES A-DINGALINGING ONTO THE DRIVE
Outside, it's one of those cold and rainy days when you forget it was ever sunny in Vancouver. But inside an old wedding hall at 1739 Venables St., next to Commercial Drive, it's just rockin'. On a recent Friday afternoon, a couple of dozen people...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
142 seniors rescued as fire rips through Mission home
A piece of burning debris falling past a window caught Heidi Heke's attention. Until that moment, it was an ordinary Monday evening at Chartwell Carrington House, a retirement home in Mission. At 6 p.m., dozens of residents were eating supper in the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Summer festivals a fleeting sight in city
For nearly two decades, a 20-block stretch of Main Street in Vancouver has been closed to vehicle traffic one weekend every summer and burst to life with pedestrians — families weaving among food stalls, bands playing on makeshift stages and small...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
RUSSIA MAY SEE CHANCE TO BENEFIT FROM MIDEAST WAR
For Russia, the assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin's network of anti-Western partners, and it exposed Moscow's diminished influence on the world stage, from the Middle East to...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
`DEVASTATING' DELAYS
Iris Sharma, a Surrey teacher who was diagnosed with a brain tumour after months of illness and uncertainty, is among a growing number of B.C. residents concerned their health problems could worsen as they face longer wait-times to see a specialist.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Vacant since it was built in 1998, Surrey building offered for sale
A four-storey commercial building in Surrey that's been vacant since it was built in 1998, changing hands several times since, is finally showing signs of life. Encompassing an entire city block, the building at 14178 104 Avenue, between Whalley and...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
METRO FARMLAND DWINDLING
A new Metro Vancouver report shows that farmers, farms and farmland have all declined across the region during the past 25 years — a revelation that comes as little surprise to farmers who have seen costs grow as profits wither. “When I got into...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
SIM DUCKS QUERIES AFTER ATTACKING ORR
After days of dodging questions about a bizarre scandal of his own creation, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim appeared to want to clear the air on Tuesday afternoon. Unfortunately, he didn't really do that. Sim's office invited the media to city hall for a...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Daylight time to become permanent
This will be the last year clocks spring forward after the B.C. government announced Monday it was making daylight time permanent. The change will take effect Sunday, when clocks move ahead an hour. Permanent daylight time will mean that the typical...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
New series explores restaurants that bring neighbourhoods to life
We all have favourite neighbourhood haunts. It's that cosy breakfast café frequented by familiar faces who smile at you as they step in from the cold and settle in at their usual table. The takeout pizza or sushi joint around the corner where the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Developer's financial struggles cited in texts, court filings allege
Ian Gillespie, founder of one of B.C.'s most prominent development companies, Westbank, appears to have acknowledged in text messages last year that some of his company's signature projects were not profitable, behind schedule, over budget, or...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
In Puerto Vallarta, people inch back into beach life
On Sunday, Jamie Boratynec of Surrey was crouched behind a door, locked in a Puerto Vallarta hotel bathroom with staff while flashbangs and the sound of gunfire erupted on the streets outside her hotel. A day after her terrifying ordeal, an eerie calm...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
`SECRET' MEETING LED TO HOWE BRIDGE DEAL
The key piece of the puzzle that saw Canada pay the entire bill for the Gordie Howe International Bridge — thus allowing the massive project to proceed — came at a secret meeting. At least, it was supposed to be secret. In an interview with Postmedia...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
THE BIG RIG MENACE
Burnaby RCMP and fire officials respond on Boundary Road after a semi trailer hit a hydro pole on Jan. 13. Roadside inspections in recent years have put more than half of trucks checked off the road over serious safety and mechanical violations.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
BUCKSKIN GLOVES BOXING RETURNS
The first place David Robinson ever saw a man cry was at a boxing club. The boxer got knocked around sparring. The round ended and things moved on. “Tears after wins or losses are not unusual,” said Robinson, who was just a kid at the time. “There...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
B.C.'s miners scramble to hire as sector heats up
Dylan McIntosh will graduate from the University of B.C.'s mining engineering program this spring and go straight into a job at an Alaskan mine. When he arrived on UBC's campus four years ago, that particular career path wasn't top of mind. He had...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
A BUDGET OF RED INK AND TAX HIKES
B.C.'s finance minister delivered a budget Tuesday that includes billions in new taxes and cuts to the public sector, even as the deficit and provincial debt climb to new highs. Brenda Bailey said the measures were necessary to reduce the deficit over...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Homeowner hit with more liens after again being branded a `speculator'
A Richmond resident who was hit a few years ago with the speculation and vacancy tax only to have the charges reversed says the province has issued new liens against his property. It's a case that has left Tony Chan exasperated, confused and...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
UNITED IN SORROW
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Prime Minister Mark Carney arrive in Tumbler Ridge on Friday to honour the victims of Tuesday's mass shooting. They were joined by the party leaders of the federal NDP, Greens and Bloc Quebecois, placing...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
`BESTIES FOREVER IN HEAVEN'
Two 12-year-old girls were best friends who did everything together. On Tuesday, in a small town in northeastern B.C., they died together. Kylie Smith and Ticaria (Tiki) Lampert — along with several of their classmates — had their young lives cut...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
HOW A DAY OF HORROR UNFOLDED
Tumbler Ridge resident Dennis Campbell dropped his 12-yearold daughter Quinn off at school on Tuesday, while his son Seth, 15, walked to class. “Everything was good. We were having a great day. As normal as normal could be,” said Campbell, president...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Voice of the Canucks mourned
Jim Robson was the best of us. The Vancouver Canucks' first play-by-play man upon their entry into the NHL in 1970 until his retirement in 1999 remains the benchmark voice of the franchise, the soundtrack for generations of hockey fans in B.C. His...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Disoriented hiker saved from icy fiord
After getting lost on the Baden Powell Trail in North Vancouver last week, Haksung Lee found his way to a rocky shore. He took a kayak in the hopes of paddling down Indian Arm to get back to his car, parked in front of Honey Doughnuts in Deep Cove....
Read Full Story (Page 1)
CANADA'S RACE TO BUILD NEW WARSHIPS
As U.S. President Donald Trump was lecturing Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Western leaders in Davos last month, Vice-Admiral Angus Topshee was speaking to his officers about the new navy Canada is building to protect its sovereignty. In the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
WAVES OF EMOTION
Team Canada athletes enter Milan's San Siro Stadium during Friday's opening ceremony of the XXV Winter Olympic Games in Italy.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
NORTH VAN COMMUNITY GETS MOM TO THE GAMES
Brodie and Riley Seger aren't just skiing for medals at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. They're skiing for their dad, Mark; their mom, Patricia; and for hope. The North Vancouver brothers will compete for Canada in the downhill and super-G events. When...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
ICE motion heads for council vote
Vancouver city Coun. Pete Fry doesn't want ICE in his city. Fry has submitted a motion to ban officers from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, from being assigned in Vancouver when the FIFA...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
LOCAL CHEF GOBBLES RIVALS AT NATIONAL CULINARY TOURNEY
Vancouver has officially reached dynasty status. At least in the culinary world. Jaeyoung Park, chef de cuisine of Boulevard Kitchen & Oyster Bar, won Vancouver's third consecutive gold medal at the 2026 Canadian Culinary Championship in Ottawa on...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
YVR set records for trips, cargo shipments last year
Vancouver International Airport had its busiest year in its 94-year history. The airport, known by its official airport code YVR, posted record passenger trips and cargo shipments in 2025, with jumps in local traffic and travel to the Asia Pacific...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
CANADA HAS PLEDGED EV SECTOR $50B IN SUBSIDIES. IS IT WORTH IT?
If you want to play, you have to pay. But when that payment is in the Canadian automotive industry, it in turn pays off in building businesses across several sectors that grow a national economy and generate thousands of jobs, industry experts...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
WINDING IT DOWN
Hank and Elaine Lew, owners of Bill Chow Jewellers — one of Kerrisdale's oldest stores — will close the business this summer. Before that, Rufus Guitar and Drum Shop, which dates back to the 1960s, shuts its doors on Saturday.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Surrey council urges state of emergency
Surrey is calling on Ottawa to declare a state of emergency to combat an “acute and escalating” extortion crisis it says can't be tackled by the municipal government and conventional police responses. On Monday night, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke said a...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Design team's pride of lions offers familiar welcome in Burnaby
The Lions Gate Bridge is arguably Vancouver's best-known symbol. And the lion statues at the southern entrance to the bridge are an integral part of the span, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever made the crossing. Wouldn't it be great if you...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
`EVERYONE TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY'
At 15 years old, Danny CALGARY Motyka dreamed of one day opening a psychedelics drug lab. Two decades later, the Calgary chemist leads a team developing pharmaceutical-grade psychedelic compounds, operating out of a warehouse-sized laboratory in the...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
AVIAN FLU SURVIVOR
Joselynn Armstrong, 14, survived Canada's first case of locally acquired avian flu. B.C. Children's Hospital's Dr. Muhieldin Ahamad, right, was part of the team that treated her. Joselynn, whose parents Meghan Makowka and Ryan Armstrong are at left, is...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Woman fears transplant wait will kill her
A Kelowna woman with end-stage liver failure is drawing attention to her challenges in navigating B.C.'s transplant system, which has kept her waiting for over a year to get life-saving surgery. Lyndsay Richholt said her doctors told her she had six...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Mountie fans extortion fear flames
Premier David Eby, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Surrey Coun. Mandeep Nagra expressed alarm Wednesday after B.C. RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Brewer labelled the city's recent extortion-related shootings “not a crisis,” warning the comment...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Campbell River family mourns their daughter
The parents of a B.C. teenager found dead on an Australian beach said Piper James loved life and planned to return home after her trip to train to become a pilot. But James's decision to take a morning swim on a beach on K'gari, formerly known as...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
METRO IN A FOG
Fog covers parts of downtown Vancouver on Monday. Environment Canada has issued a warning for fog in most of Metro, especially areas close to the Strait of Georgia, which will continue until this afternoon.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP'S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump's tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world's other major economy. South Korea's Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
COME OUT AND PLAY
Goalie Kyle Mccarthy, centre, seen with teammates Brett Hagardt, left, and Reid Hearsum, is president of Cutting Edges Hockey Association, a group of more than 100 LGBTQ+ players ranging in age from 19 to 65, and the first of its kind in Western...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Decriminalization won't be renewed
The province's drug decriminalization test is coming to an end, three years after it was introduced with much fanfare as a measure meant to reduce stigma toward drug users and keep them alive until they could receive treatment. The pilot project was...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Brothers Keeper gangster found dead inside burning Surrey house
A Brothers Keepers gangster and suspected hitman was found dead in a burning Surrey house Monday, a short time after he returned to Canada from the Middle East. Naseem Ali Mohammed, known as Lil Man for his short stature, is believed to have been shot...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
SPOTTING A FLOOR CROSSER
When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits' views on the floor crossing were all over the place. The only consistency expressed in the media reports was that nobody, including those within his Conservative...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
LOSING THEIR APPETITE
Ron Macgillivray sold his house to keep his restaurants alive after the pandemic. Now, two of his locations are up for sale. His story isn't unique in B.C.: Restaurateurs across the province say they are battling with rising costs — including...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
TransLink bus routes vary widely in cost efficiency
On a recent weekday, TransLink's 614 shuttle bus, which runs through South Delta and Tsawwassen, pulled up to the stop at the South Delta Recreation Centre, empty except for the driver. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, four 99 B-Line buses departed from...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Metro Vancouver home sales in 2025 hit 20-year low, real estate agents say
Metro Vancouver's tepid housing market recorded its lowest number of home sales in two decades, according to the board that represents the region's real estate agents. Economic uncertainty, combined with a market with ultraexpensive homes that are no...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
'Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn't labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
LEFT WITH FEW OPTIONS
Surging rents mean tenants are often `pressured, pushed and forced' into increasingly precarious living situations, says Robert Patterson, a lawyer with the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre. Sage Smith explores the challenges renters face in the city.
Read Full Story (Page 1)
A `BEACON OF HOPE' IN ALBERTA
A significant shift in Calgary's municipal politics is being welcomed as a hopeful sign by some British Columbians who feel like their cities are building too much, too fast. Earlier this month, Calgary council voted to begin the process of repealing a...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Donations fade as costs increase
Every day, Surrey's AJ Sico sits in a wheelchair inside a south Vancouver care facility, his body still bearing the marks of a spring evening that has forever altered his family. “I never expected to see my adult son like this,” says his mother,...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada's digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
HIGH-TECH HEALTH
The 1.2-million-square-foot St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver is moving closer to its planned 2027 opening. The facility aims to provide leading-edge health treatment and research with an eye to embracing future developments in medical technology.
Read Full Story (Page 3)
MERRY CHRISTMAS
When the doors to the Strathcona Community Centre on Keefer Street were opened one day last week for breakfast, there was less interest in the boiled eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches and four types of cereal on offer than in the two former Vancouver...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
Two people dead after Surrey RV fire
Two people are dead following a fire inside a recreational vehicle Sunday night in Surrey, despite a neighbour jumping into action to help. Sukhwinder Saroya lives next door to the home where the RV fire happened around 9 p.m. Sunday in the 12200...
Read Full Story (Page 1)
BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world's largest automakers is building Canada's biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
Read Full Story (Page 1)