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Explainer

How do community amenity contributions work, what’s the benefit, and why is the city making big changes to it?

We explain the history, benefits, and drawbacks of the often-referenced but complicated tool, and examine why the city is now moving away from it.

City Hall Insider: June 11, 2026

In this issue of our City Hall Insider, we go deep on community amenity contributions, explaining the history, benefits, and drawbacks of the often-referenced but little-understood mechanism, and exploring why the city is now moving away from it.

Mount Pleasant

Giusti rewards those willing to go beyond just pasta

There's a tension within the restaurant between delivering the classics and exploring different Italian cuisine. It's in that tension where the restaurant shines

FIFA

Canada's World Cup preview: injuries, a favourable draw, and a chance at history

The men’s national team has never won a World Cup game, but that could change on home soil. Plus, we look at the team’s chances in the tournament and its many connections to the Whitecaps.

Small Business

FIFA World Cup: Is it worth it?

Many residents, tourists and business owners are looking forward to the opportunities that come with FIFA. But critics say hosting such a high profile sporting event comes at too high a cost.

Park Board

The problems with Vancouver’s pools are just getting worse

Lookout readers have their say on the state of the city’s pools.

Park Board

Vancouver’s marine safety mess

A splashy effort to ban motorized personal watercrafts, like Sea-Doos, from Burrard Inlet was sunk by the park board, while a less dramatic plan to review marine safety measures was narrowly passed at the same meeting. The debate shows how overlapping jurisdictions in the ocean complicate reform and obscure accountability.

Small Business

‘Something that feels like home’: Beloved Trinidadian restaurant says goodbye to East Vancouver, for now

Baby Dahl officially shut its doors on May 13. But owner Dana Mohammed said she has new plans in the works.

City Hall

Colleen Hardwick wants to empower neighbourhoods and fight back on rezonings

TEAM mayoral candidate Colleen Hardwick wants to change the city's reliance on rezonings, strengthen local democracy, and step back from the city's focus on reconciliation.