Image of Vancouver Freeway Protests in the 1960s. Courtesy of the "Vancouver 1960s freeway protests" YouTube. It seems to us ...

Excerpted with permission from Canada and the Blackface Atlantic, published in April 2025 by Wilfrid Laurier Press. Thompson, ...

Many residents are unaware—and some are unpleasantly surprised—that the Broadway Plan allows for high-rise towers on quiet ...

Sure, Vancouver’s seawall is the popular place to bike, but that doesn’t mean the suburbs can’t be too — with a few fixes. In ...

Who is the city for? Last week, a good friend of mine recently told me he and his family were leaving Vancouver. His words struck a chord: “Vancouver has broken us.” Both he and his wife are working ...

Yaletown Vancouver & Superilla Sant Antoni. Images courtesy of Ken Straiton (Getty Images) and City of Barcelona respectively. Cities host our lived experiences. They are more than mere words in ...

A city’s arts form an ecosystem. It’s easy to focus on the big features – the trees, as it were – but the true health of the system lies in the understory, in the buzz of life at the ground level, in ...

On Nov 21, 2014 we opened the Spacing Store at 401 Richmond St. W. It’s been an amazing decade of being the city’s premier ...

Somewhere in this city, there’s a cyclist going about their business who will die in a terrible accident — perhaps sooner, perhaps later — because Doug Ford thinks his campaign to remove bike lanes ...

With Remembrance Day upon us comes time to reflect on past and present military conflicts. This piece, originally presented on Torontoist on November 11, 2015, looks at the history of one of the major ...