Opinion

Motorists line up to pay their fares at the Swartz Bay ferry terminal ticket booths.Photo: Darren Stone/ Times Colonist The traffic cops were set up outside the ferry terminal Friday afternoon, handing out lessons in patience one ticket at a time.

If Vancouver City Councillor Michael Wiebe has his way, in 10 years you might find yourself floating on a tube heading out of Trout Lake, winding up in False Creek near Science World.

A pile of garbage waited to be picked up near the entrance to Sunset Beach Park parking lot on April 22. Photo Dan Toulgoet Vancouver City Council voted on a motion today to look at suing the organizers of the 4/20 cannabis festival.

This kind of story isn’t the act of a terrible person. It’s the kind of mistake that people make, dozens or hundreds of times in a lifetime, with no consequences.

Cigarettes/Shutterstock Smoking. It’s one of those issues that seems so obvious, but never really is. It seems obvious people shouldn’t do it because it’s lethal, but they still do.

The city’s sweet new skate park in Queen's Park had just barely opened when some clown decided to vandalize it with a spray can.

In Vancouver, the most expensive rental housing market in Canada and one of the least affordable for homebuyers on the planet, about one-third of the homes have just one resident.

Our beloved sinkhole. Photo Bob Kronbauer Last year this columnist made the mistake of pointing out something weird and awesome , and the city went in and "repaired" it, effectively killing a quirky piece of Templeton Park.

Vancouver is always a good foil for parts of the country who see us as a bunch of bike-riding latté sippers who have no idea how the extraction of natural resources boosts the Canadian economy.

Every few days, without exception, someone in Vancouver takes to Twitter and voices their frustration with the fact we don’t have ride-sharing services such as Uber or Lyft.