A “bombshell” internal federal government document has triggered a new wave of accusations of government inaction in dealing with Vancouver’s housing affordability crisis.

There is no denying that the real estate market in Vancouver is red hot – prices have been rising with no end in sight. But one market analyst thinks we will see the bubble burst. Marc Cohodes used to run one of the largest hedge funds on Wall Street. Now, he’s eyeing the Canadian housing market.

The Vancouver chef who invented the California Roll is getting some special recognition from Japan's government. The country's ministry of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries has appointed Hidekazu Tojo — owner and chef of Tojo's Restaurant — to serve as a goodwill ambassador for Japanese cuisine. The appointment distinguishes him as belonging to the top tier of Japanese chefs, and he becomes one of only 13 such ambassadors overseas. The Consul General of Japan in Vancouver will formally present a certificate to Tojo at a special ceremony next Thursday.

Construction is underway in Vancouver for the world’s tallest timber tower by Acton Ostry Architects. The 18-story Brock Commons Student Residence at the University of British Columbia, which began construction in November 2015, will be completed in the summer of 2017. At 53 meters tall, with housing for 404 students, it will be the tallest mass wood hybrid building in the world. The structure’s two freestanding concrete cores will be completed by the end of May...

How foreign investors are squeezing out Vancouver’s middle class. By Kerry Gold. (Mar. 30)

Crabbers in Metro Vancouver are being reminded by the RCMP about the fines for illegal crabbing after two adult men from Vancouver were caught illegally crab fishing earlier this year.

Kevin Oke had a Vancouver millennial’s dream job, working as lead designer at a video-game company whose clients included Atari and Ubisoft Entertainment SA, but he still couldn’t afford a house. So he left his native city.

Why the country’s new élite is anxious to get out.

If words could dream, they’d dream of being used in TED Talks. These words lived the dream in Vancouver at TED2016.

On a crisp Sunday morning in November, Weymi Cho picked me up at my hotel, in downtown Vancouver, in her new car, a white Maserati GranTurismo with a red leather interior. She had slept only two hours the night before. A new karaoke machine had been installed in her apartment, a four-million-dollar condo with a view of the city’s harbor, and she and some friends had spent the night singing and drinking Veuve Clicquot.

A 16th dismembered foot in a shoe was discovered in Vancouver this week. By Yanan Wang. (Feb. 11)

A Vancouver woman convicted of abusing and killing family pets has been granted unescorted outings into the community.

Vancouver expects to legalize by the end of February the first 14 of at least 20 marijuana-related businesses now operating within city limits. On Monday, the city said it had whittled down 176 applications for the country’s first legal retail marijuana stores to 14 that will now go before the Development Permit Board for approval. Another six stores could be drawn from 19 applications that are deemed to be clustered too close to each other.

In one surveillance tape, a log with a sharp branch sticking out like a spear is placed on the bottom of a steep descent. Tineke Kraal was arrested in January, 2015, after two mountain bikers who suspected the trails were being sabotaged set up hidden cameras. Kraal must also do community service for dragging logs and rocks onto North Shore trails to slow down bikes.

It cost almost $5 million to process hundreds of people through the justice system after the Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver five years ago. The government’s criminal justice branch set up a riot prosecution team that resulted in 284 guilty pleas and nine convictions at trial.

What? Do they need to ask city officials for permission first?

Even more stunning, the study shows that of all declared occupations of owners — on homes worth an average $3.05M — 36% were housewives or students with little income

Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.

This Is That profiles Smoke & Flame, a Vancouver artisanal firewood company that is selling bundles of kindling for $1000.

One woman suffered life-threatening injuries after she was hit by tree during a severe rain and wind storm that whipped through B.C.’s South Coast on Saturday.