There is something faintly ridiculous about living in Vancouver and complaining that "there's nothing to do." Nothing to do? For 11 days every October, Vancouver becomes one of the great movie c...

Cinema Without Borders There is something wonderfully democratic about a great film festival. For eleven days in October, Vancouver becomes a city without borders. The streets may still be wet with ...

Part 4. The Whole Story. pic.twitter.com/VKNvUFItlg — Kareem Allam (@kareemformayor) September 11, 2026 According to the last census, there are 662,248 citizens who call Vancouver home. 54.5% of ...

VIFF 45: Where Cannes, Telluride, Venice, Toronto, New York and the Oscars Come Calling If the first instalment of VanRamblings’ look at the 45th Vancouver International Film Festival was about t...

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Chloe Leslie (@intheknow_withchlo) Vancouver’s Libraries Are Clos...

There are moments in the political life of a city when an election becomes about more than choosing a Mayor. October 17, 2026, is one of those moments. Vancouver is not simply deciding whether t...

Each year in their programme, the Vancouver International Film Festival sets out in their programme feature presentations representing the best of world cinema, film festivals that have garnered award...

Full text of COPE's candidate for Mayor Stephanie Allen's speech to a press conference delivered Sept. 2nd in Helen Gutteridge Plaza at Vancouver City Hall. Good morning, I offer my acknowledgem...

I want to have a plebiscite... on bringing in a ward system but only after a Citizen's Assembly to make recommendations to form the ballot question. pic.twitter.com/SAFXZtuFlH — Kareem Allam (@kareem...

Each September, the road to the Academy Awards begins in earnest. Before critics' prizes are handed out, before guilds weigh in, and long before Oscar nominations are announced, four of the world's...

Politics is often described as a contest for power: elections are won, governments formed, policies imposed and opponents defeated. But beneath all the arguments about taxes, housing, policing, healt...

https://youtu.be/1QhAbv-ypAA?si=zf-KekyanhYclhyQ Explore the 2026 Vancouver International Film Festival Programme Guide by clicking on the following link ... Vancouver International Film Festiva...

It’s time for Ken Sim to get his priorities right. Rather than spend money on suicide prevention barriers on Granville Bridge he spent $14 million on FIFA VIP tickets for his friends. It’s time for c...

At a time when municipal politics can sometimes look like an old person’s game, Solomon Yi-Kieran represents something Vancouver badly needs: a younger generation prepared not merely to complain about...

There are few issues more important to Vancouver than public safety, open-air drug use and the city's increasingly desperate struggle to respond to addiction and severe mental illness. That is prec...

This week COPE, The Coalition of Progressive Electors, and COPE's Mayoral candidate, Stephanie Allen, announced The People's Audit, COPE’s plan to open the books at Ken Sim's City Hall, hold him accou...

Each month, the Greater Vancouver Food Bank supports 15,000 families directly and another 20,000+ families through 119 community partner agencies (shelters / transition houses) in Vancouver, Burnaby, ...

There are only three serious-minded candidates seeking to become Vancouver's next Mayor in the 2026 Vancouver municipal election: COPE's Stephanie Allen, the Vancouver Liberals' Kareem Allam, and the ...

L-R, 2026 Vancouver Mayoral candidates: Colleen Hardwick, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver; Rebecca Bligh, Vote Vancouver; William Azaroff, OneCity Vancouver; Stephanie Allen (standing), The Coalition of ...

L-R, 2026 Vancouver Mayoral candidates: Colleen Hardwick, TEAM for a Livable Vancouver; Rebecca Bligh, Vote Vancouver; William Azaroff, OneCity Vancouver; Stephanie Allen (standing), The Coalition of ...

Serving as your Vancouver City Councillor has been one of the greatest honours of my life. In this short video, I share why I’m running again, what we’ve accomplished together over the past four years...

The history of the Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, more commonly known as the Vancouver Park Board, is in many ways the history of Vancouver. Few public institutions have done more to shap...

In 2025, VanRamblings makes our 44th annual foray to the Vancouver International Film Festival, where the regulars we've attended the festival with all these years once again find themselves in attend...

https://youtu.be/4ZkXSU9qWEY?si=rdwGcuTHQ2sZ3RPk The 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival gets underway tomorrow! Simply click on the underlined title of any one of the films below ...

The 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) kicks off later this week, on Thursday, October 2nd and is set to run through Sunday, October 12th A somewhat truncated, but still well ...

Ken Sim’s plan to get rid of industrial lands means more people have to travel to Richmond and Surrey for work. We’ll create the first Industrial Land Reserve to help keep good jobs here in Vancouver...

For journalists covering politics, and this very much includes VanRamblings, few tasks are more fraught than writing critically about political figures they have come to know well, respect, or even li...

The Vancouver Liberals strongly support a democratically elected Park Board. Our parks are not a land bank for development— or a home for corporate renaming. pic.twitter.com/2TOptWM26e — Kareem Allam...

Part One of my 2025 health update may be found here. At my December 5th, 2024 appointment with Dr. Brad Fritz, my family physician for the past 42 years, while addressing the issue of my prosta...

In Part One of a three part series, today on VanRamblings we take a look at this year's VIFF's Galas & Special Presentations on offer at the 44th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, set ...

In Vancouver, the politics of personal destruction has long been stock and trade for those running for office. In a city where political competition is fierce and civic identity is fragmented across 2...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rX36kEya_OY With 417 days still to go between today and election day, Saturday, October 17th, 2026 Vancouver candidate for Mayor, Kareem Allam, has begun his campaign...

As the dog days of summer give way to the crispness of early fall, the annual transformation of the cinematic landscape begins. The summer movie “silly season” — a cavalcade of sequels, superheroes...

On July 22nd, well respected Vancouver City Manager Paul Mochrie "stepped down" from his post, after serving more than four years in the job. Paul Mochrie, former City Manager in the City of Vancou...

Charismatic, achingly articulate and eloquent in a way we have never experienced in a member of Vancouver's political class seeking municipal office, a bold, historic, near revolutionary and unapologe...