Vancouver Blog

Latest blog posts from Jay Banks and his team about Vancouver BC

How to Avoid Vancouver Traffic Jams

When buying a home in Vancouver, location is an important factor to consider, especially when it comes to your commute.

Strathcona is Vancouver, British Columbia’s oldest residential neighbourhood with more than 8,000 residents to the day.

During the fall the burning red, bright yellow, and many shades of orange can change familiar urban scenes into some very dramatic images!

A poetry slam is the competitive art of performance poetry. It has renewed public involvement and interest in spoken word performances.

In the last two years, the global economy became topic number one in the media. The main question is: How to Fight the Crisis?

An island in the middle of a city, the Granville Island is a perfect example of a successful urban redevelopment.

How the financial crisis in 2008 and following years of uncertainty impacted companies focusing on wealth management around the world?

When you head East of North Vancouver, you will find yourself in a community of the Deep Cove, also affectionately called “The Cove” by locals.

With an increasing number of people living or just spending their holidays in forest regions, the risk of forest fires is increasing.

Vancouver, the “City of Glass” — is this the brand that the city should lose or the one to keep?

After the IMF report from January, here is another sign that the housing bubble in Canada is not just an imagined phenomenon.

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.