Martin MacMahon

1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Martin MacMahon

Vancouver’s mayor is expressing frustration that the NDP government has not moved forward on his plan to dismantle the park board. “We just want to run our parks how every other municipality runs them, like Burnaby,” Mayor Ken Sim told reporters on Wednesday. It’s been nearly a year and a half since Sim announced his plan to dissolve the Vancouver Park Board. Last week, the province made changes to legislation, including the Vancouver Charter. But there was no mention of the park board.

4 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Martin MacMahon

Vancouver Rise FC has made a perfect start to life in the Northern Super League – the first top tier women’s soccer league in Canada. The new club claimed a 1-0 victory at BC Place on Wednesday evening, defeating the visiting Calgary Wild in the league’s inaugural match. It came thanks to a 22nd minute penalty kick from Quinn, the Canadian international midfielder, who scored in front of an announced crowd of 14,018. Even before kickoff, it was an energetic atmosphere outside the stadium.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Martin MacMahon

Vancouver city councillors voted to reserve a decision on the future of the Jericho Lands until next week at a tense Tuesday council meeting, in which council heard from dozens of speakers – many voicing concern over the Indigenous led megaproject. “Is this respecting the natural form of the land? I think we all know the answer to that question,” asked one man during his time at the microphone. “This is anything but respecting the land.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Martin MacMahon

Travelling to the U.S. for many people just got a bit more complicated. The American government now requires visitors staying for 30 days or more to register or face stiff penalties, including jail time. The new rules – along with the trade war – have some snowbirds reconsidering their plans for next winter. “You know, it’s their country,” Salmon Arm, B.C., resident Philip Briddon told CTV News on Friday from Palm Springs, Calif., where he and his wife have regularly vacationed since 2008.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Martin MacMahon

It took stoppage time in the second match of a two-game series but the Vancouver Whitecaps have pulled off the improbable – beating Mexican Giants Pumas to book a semi-final showdown with Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. “It’s basically the equivalent of the Champions League semi-final,” explained Peter Czimmermann, the president of the Vancouver Southsiders, the Whitecaps’ biggest supporters’ club. “We are basically at the same stages as what’s happening in Europe.