VICTORIA — B.C. is projecting a larger-than-expected budget surplus this year, despite a drop in revenues from real estate sales. The government’s surplus for the fiscal year ending next March 31 is on track to hit $2.24 billion, an increase of $301 million since the last quarterly financial update, mainly due to higher personal and corporate

Claire Wyrostok, owner of popular Vancouver vegetarian restaurant Black Lodge, wonders how long it will be until Vancouver’s hot real estate market pushes her out of business. In the four years that Ms. Wyrostok has been at her current location, on Kingsway just off Fraser Street, many of the buildings in her strip have been

Doug Langford will build you a new single-family home on your big 50-by-100-foot lot in South Vancouver. But that doesn’t mean he likes it. “The fact that the city of Vancouver still allows a permit for a single family home in the city, is crazy,” said Langford, the co-owner of JDL Homes. “I have clients