Victoria – Premier John Horgan has appointed a Rental Housing Task Force that will advise on how to improve security and fairness for renters and landlords throughout the province. The task force will be headed up by Vancouver-West End MLA Spencer…
Abbotsford – APRIL 10 UPDATE – The Abbotsford U-District Neighbourhood Plan received 1st & 2nd Readings at Monday night’s Council meeting. The Plan will now go to the public for input and a Public Hearing on May 28th, following which…
Abbotsford – The Town Cinema site on McCallum Road is about to be transformed into 150 rental apartments, 73 townhouses with 27 secondary suites. 23 of which will have micro-secondary suites, geared for university students. Abbtsford Councilor Dave Loewen took…
Calgary/Fraser Valley – Kinder Morgan Canada Limited announced that it is suspending all non-essential activities and related spending on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. KML also announced that under current circumstances, specifically including the continued actions in opposition to the…
Vancouver – A new online survey of 800 BC residents found that 66% of parents of children 18 or younger do not have a Will, which leaves the family vulnerable to outside decision-makers, delays and conflict if something were to…
Chilliwack – The number of homes sold via the MLS® System of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board totaled 303 units in March 2018. This was a decrease of 16.5% from March 2017, but stood close to the five-year…
Chilliwack – In January 2018, the City of Chilliwack participated in the Kinder Morgan route realignment hearing as an intervenor, presenting evidence against the proposed realignment to the National Energy Board (NEB). Since the beginning of the process, the City…
Kamloops/Abbotsford/Langley/Burnaby – Following the 2018 Provincial Budget, the first for the NDP since 2001, there are a few flashpoints that a number of Chamber’s of Commerce have mentioned as topic discussions for the upcoming BC Chamber of Commerce Annual AGM…
Chilliwack – As protests continue at the Kinder Morgan site in Burnaby, the NEB, National Energy Board approved on Thursday, the twinning of the Trans Mountain pipeline through Chilliwack. This is not a done deal but getting closer. From their…
Surrey – While sales reached slightly above the ten-year average for the month, a lack of sufficient inventory in the Fraser Valley continued to put pressure on homebuyers in March. The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board processed 1,664 sales of…