Opinion

Colt Canada’s SA series of rifles are the consumer equivalent to the C8 and C7 series of weapons used by law enforcement. Pictured here are the SA20 and SA15.7 models.

Vancouver PD ERT members carrying Colt C8 carbine rifles at Italian Days on the Drive. Courtesy of Twitter @VanAlias / Adrienne Smith V.I.A.

https://www.facebook.com/swanson4council/ Jean Swanson rolled out the class war wagon this weekend while announcing her intention to run for city council in October, for left-wing mainstay party COPE .

Nine candidates are vying this Saturday to be Vancouver’s next city councillor. The seat became vacant this summer when Geoff Meggs resigned to become Premier John Horgan’s chief of staff.

Yesterday we published an article about how Vancouver City Council passed a motion to change the ballot in the upcoming election. Instead of listing candidates names alphabetically, in the October 20 election they'll be listed randomly.

Almost a year since the NDP government started mounting a major affordability intervention to cool down real estate prices, the market isn’t doing what was hoped.

Oprah Winfrey photo Shutterstock.com Oprah is moving next door. She just paid $8.3 million US ($6.7 billion Cdn) for a 43-acre compound on Washington’s Orcas Island, 35 kilometres east of Sidney.

People following Parks Canada on social media might be scratching their heads as the public agency announced it would be teaching people how to camp on Parliament Hill today. World Environment Day.

Photo Andrew Samuel Vancouver is in a full-fledged housing crisis. Housing, and especially rental housing, is priced astronomically high.

The notorious Sahotas.