Author Archives: Jay Banks

Vancouver’s Missing Landmarks

This article presents a couple of lost Vancouver landmarks, aiming to show that we’ve not forgotten they were with our city for a long time.

Art lovers, clear your agendas for the first half of September! The Vancouver International Fringe Festival is coming back again.

Fed up with impersonal apartments in the city? Do you sometimes wish to meet your neighbours, or at least know their names?

On August 30th, 2012, Vancouver will become one of more than 15 cities worldwide that have added their names to the le Dîner en Blanc network.

The unpleasant global economic situation is putting Bank of Canada policy makers into a corner.

It is quite informative to look into the numbers behind the real estate market in these cities and reveal the impact of various financial markets

The financial problems of the European Union touch Canada closely. Just a couple of days ago, new mortgage rules came into action.

New listings for detached, attached, and apartment properties were 4,802 — reaching a 5.8 per cent decrease in growth compared to July 2011.

Commercial galleries in Vancouver represent the primary visual arts market, and they’ve been doing a very fine job so far.

The Canadian real estate market is cooling down. What are the main reasons and what it means for the future trends?

Let’s travel back in time and look at beautiful historic photographs documenting important events, daily life and changing of Vancouver.

Every school and children need some rules, on that I am sure we would agree. But aren’t some of them a little bit too…creative? I mean, crazy.

Sometimes the words you hear aren’t what they seem to be. Check out this guide to real estate jargon.

What adjustments do we need to make to turn our home into a pleasant and comfortable place for a wheelchair user?

Concerns being raised recently that since the Conservatives overhauled the Canadian citizenship test in 2010, the standards have become too high.