New Vancouver tax intended to chip away at FIFA World Cup costs
The price of hosting the FIFA World Cup is rising in Vancouver, and the province is using a new tool to help cover the costs.

The price of hosting the FIFA World Cup is rising in Vancouver, and the province is using a new tool to help cover the costs.
The Vancouver Canucks front office is feeling the heat from fans over the way it handled the firing of Bruce Boudreau.
After weeks of speculation, the struggling Vancouver Canucks have fired head coach Bruce Boudreau.
A review has been launched after police officers were recorded restraining a handcuffed Indigenous child on the floor of a Vancouver hospital – an incident the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has denounced as "horrendous."
B.C.’s public safety minister made the right call asking for more information before approving Surrey's policing plans, according to two city councillors.
The price of hosting the FIFA World Cup is rising in Vancouver, and the province is using a new tool to help cover the costs.
The number of people moving from British Columbia to Alberta has reached a 20-year high, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada.
Victoria’s newest council has greenlit a contentious housing initiative that makes it easier to densify neighbourhoods, after a tumultuous and lengthy debate that’s gone on for years.
An armed robber remains at large after a small grocery in Nanaimo, B.C., was held up at knifepoint.
It's not on the menu, but comfort is what the Mah family serves up at the unassuming, out-of-the-way diner that just topped Yelp's list of the 100 best restaurants in Canada for 2023.
A recent B.C. Supreme Court case had Justice David A. Crerar invoking Rumpelstiltskin and the goose that laid the golden egg in his decision.
Vancouver’s airport is seeking feedback from people whose holiday travel plans were thwarted amid a series of winter storms.
The lead investigator in the search for unmarked graves at a former residential institution near the Williams Lake First Nation in central British Columbia says the latest phase of their work has uncovered 66 additional “reflections,” indicating children's graves.
Nicole Chan's boyfriend Jamie Gifford recounted her final hours during heartbreaking testimony at a coroner's inquest Wednesday.
First there was the toxic drug crisis, then the COVID-19 pandemic, then a worker shortage. These compounding crises have put Vancouver's paramedics and dipatchers under unprecedented strain.