Alissa Thibault

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Amy Judd |Alissa Thibault

A massive new development is being pitched for downtown Vancouver. The Holborn Group says the project is about an ambitious city building on currently underutilized land and would include supportive housing, a hotel and what would be B.C.’s tallest tower.

1 week ago | globalnews.ca | Simon Little |Alissa Thibault

Vancouver’s mayor says he’s frustrated the province has yet to make legal changes that would permit the abolition of the city’s elected park board. Ken Sim asked the provincial government to amend the Vancouver Charter in December 2023, a critical step in his plan to dissolve the Vancouver Park Board. The following spring, Premier David Eby signalled the government was “committed” to making the changes after the 2024 provincial election, should he be re-elected.

2 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Simon Little |Alissa Thibault

The owner of a Vancouver barber shop who moved out of Chinatown due to street crime is now facing a major setback. Bootleg Barbers was one of several businesses destroyed by a suspicious fire on Hastings Street near Nanaimo Street last week.

3 weeks ago | globalnews.ca | Simon Little |Alissa Thibault

With just one week to go before federal election day, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is blitzing British Columbia. Singh spent his third consecutive day campaigning in the province, and second straight day on Vancouver Island where one political scientist says the fate of his party may play out. Of the NDP’s 25 seats at Parliament’s dissolution, more than half were in British Columbia, and include six of the seven seats up for grabs on Vancouver Island.

1 month ago | globalnews.ca | Simon Little |Alissa Thibault

A woman who has been tending what she calls a “sacred fire” in Stanley Park is pushing back against a local First Nations leader who has questioned her claim to the area. Brenda Silvey calls herself a matriarch of the land, and her supporters say they’ve been holding ceremony with support from hereditary leaders. She has kept the fire alight near the park’s totem poles for more than a month to protest the Vancouver Park Board’s operation to remove dead and dying looper moth-affected trees.