It's hard to have a conversation about gentrification, with all the baggage around the word. As long as many argue that any level of gentrification is to be absolutely avoided, positive and responsible change remains virtually impossible. Recently urbanist Richard Florida joined others in suggesting we need a new word to replace gentrification, asking "if all economic development and neighbourhood revitalization is gentrification, how do we grow and improve our urban areas?"

An anarchist group appears to be taking responsibility for a fire early Wednesday morning at a housing complex under construction in East Vancouver. ...

VANCOUVER - Voting isn't often the first priority in a community were many residents are preoccupied with poverty, homelessness and drug addiction, bu...

VANCOUVER - The children of four women whose remains were found on Robert Pickton's property have filed lawsuits against the police and Pickton himsel...

VANCOUVER - To outsiders, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside could be considered an intimidating place, where some backalleys are strewn with syringes an...

This model of development, mixing both non-market and market uses in a self-supported manner is an innovative, yet repeatable approach. We recognize these two projects will not solve the housing or affordability issues that plague Vancouver, but we do believe they are small, positive steps forward towards creating more vibrant mixed communities throughout the city.

As protests and public discussion over gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside heat up, some local residents want to make it clear that anti-g...

Anarchists are being blamed for stealing a street sign from a Vancouver restaurant that hands out sandwiches to the homeless. It's the second attack o...

A local restaurant owner says someone smashed the windows of his pizzeria on Commercial Drive for the third time in the last half year. Ry...

Talk is cheap, and Vancouver's Mark Brand exemplifies the social entrepreneur who's all about getting things done. Brand's business isn't about stuffing his personal bottom line. Over coffee at his diner, Save On Meats, he shared his vision and goal for being a leader and creating a social business model that's independently sustainable, while supporting the local community.

VANCOUVER - Two groups representing residents on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside plan to file a complaint with the police board over allegations of disc...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police are hunting for a man suspected of beating a sex trade worker who was tied up and dragged by a van.Police say a 42-year-o...

Demonstrators have been protesting outside Pidgin for two weeks, claiming the new high-end restaurant is a symbol of gentrification in Vancouver's Dow...

Bedbugs have been discovered in the provincial courthouse at 222 Main Street on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and those who work at the courthouse sa...

VANCOUVER - Herb Varley measures the transformation of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside by the trendy cafes, upscale grocery stores and high-priced salon...

Yes, the prejudices faced by Vancouver's missing women were systemic and institutional, but systems and institutions are made up of individuals, and ultimately some of them should be found responsible. Repeatedly, Commissioner Wally Oppal fails to do so. The judge has failed to judge. Imagine if during his time on the bench he'd been willing to hear such damning evidence, and then at the end of the trial declared that no sentence should be passed because, after all, in the end it's society's fault.

VANCOUVER - Kate Gibson needs a lot of advice.After spending years helping to run a widely-respected drop-in service for sex-trade workers on Vancouve...

VANCOUVER - The families of Robert Pickton's victims have received public confirmation of something they already knew to be true: if their daughters, ...

VANCOUVER - The closest thing Marilyn Renter has ever had to a trial for her step-daughter's death is the public inquiry into the failures that allowe...

From the NFB, Here At Home is an interactive documentary offering a look inside At Home, a radical experiment to end chronic homelessness. Led by the ...

VANCOUVER - A multimillion-dollar restoration will soon begin for 13 run-down hotels in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.The B.C. government announced Ha...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has rejected an application by a Vancouver police officer to throw out a disabled woman's complaint against...