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Jan. 16, 2026

Jan. 15, 2026

With London Drugs closing and Sunrise Market’s future unsure, the Downtown Eastside faces a retail desert.

Mike Tan’s relationship with Sunrise Market in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside dates back to his early childhood visits with his great-aunt.

Jan. 14, 2026

Jan. 13, 2026

The judge’s ruling could reinforce the right of journalists to report from inside police ‘exclusion zones.’

A trial beginning this week in B.C. Supreme Court could help clarify the rights of Canadians to protest, the ability of the media to cover those events, and the consequences for police when they violate reporters’ constitutional rights.

Jan. 12, 2026

The crisis could serve as catalyst if we make these seven pivots.

The long-predicted correction in Vancouver’s real estate market has arrived.

BC Assessment figures released this month confirm that residential values across the Lower Mainland have softened, with median single-family detached home assessments in Vancouver dropping about five per cent year over year, 10 per cent since 2022 and over 20 per cent in inflation-adjusted terms since the peak.

Jan. 12, 2026 (first published in Tribune Magazine Sept. 4, 2025)

Jan. 2026

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Jan. 8, 2026

Police have raided the home of one of India’s leading environmental activists over claims his campaigning for a treaty to cut the use of fossil fuels was undermining the national interest.

Investigators from India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) claim Harjeet Singh and his wife, Jyoti Awasthi, co-founders of Satat Sampada (Nature Forever), were paid almost £500,000 to advocate for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty (FFNPT).

Jan. 5, 2026

Reconciliation with First Nations, questions about land title, and creating economic certainty are complex and urgent questions in our province. That is why I feel the need to respond to an opinion piece by Conservative Party of BC interim leader Trevor Halford, published in the Vancouver Sun on Dec. 27.