Spirits Forget everything you know about timeless, classic cocktails: Smirnoff is here with a vibrant, modern twist on your favourites
Arts and Culture ‘Books, Booze & Chill’ Is the Low-Key Granville Island Hangout You’ve Been Waiting For
Weekend Getaways This Eco-Lodge Features Grizzly Tours, Sea Lion Encounters… and VIP Helicopter Rides
city How Vancouver’s $50 Dinner Club Is Cooking Up Connections Good Finds Club is serving up low-cost dinner parties and a new way to find friends in Vancouver—and they’re really making a meal out of it.
city The ‘Too Cute’ Market Offers an Antidote to Minimalism and Practicality A new Etsy pop-up market is on a mission to cute-ify Vancouver—one whimsical trinket at a time.
city 5 Local Mother’s Day Gifts to Spoil Mom—No Reservations Needed Ditch the brunch line and surprise her with thoughtful Vancouver‑made treasures she’ll actually love.
city The Vanmag Guide to Fostering a Pet in Vancouver Expert recommendations for caring for your new (temporary) furry friend.
city Know-It All: What Are These Strange Obelisks Doing on Ontario Street? Those ominous granite pillars are actually there for a practical reason.
city Does Dating in Vancouver Have to Suck? There are a million bad-date stories out there. But a ragtag group of hopeless romantics might just have you convinced that Vancouverites shouldn’t give up on love just yet.
city The Cover Story: 33 Reasons to Love Vancouver Right Now Despite the real estate woes and city hall drama, there are plenty of great reasons to stick around... and this list is only the beginning.
city Treat Yourself: 5 Best Spots for a Solo Date in Vancouver Who says you can’t enjoy the city alone?
city Find Your Sole Mates: How Mondays Run Club is Bringing Runners (and Friends) Together A casual 3K and a post-run beer turned into Vancouver’s most inclusive running club, bringing people together for fitness, friendship and fun.
city Know-It-All: How Far Can a Trolley Bus Go Off Its Cables? Untethered, these electric buses can make a small, steady break for freedom.
city 10 Pro Tips for Buying Flowers and Keeping Them Fresh Longer Local florists share all the dirt on choosing and caring for long-lasting local flowers.
city We Made You Some More Valentines, Vancouver Love is in the air, and our Vancouver-themed valentine cards are in your feeds.
city How Experiential Learning Grows Global Citizens Sponsored Content Students who engage in activity-based, hands-on learning are more confident, empathetic global citizens equipped to meet real-world challenges.
city The Most-Read Vancouver Magazine Stories of 2024 You guys are obsessed with food stories, as per usual.
city Know-it-All: Why Is it Called False Creek? A lazy mistake a hundred-plus years ago still haunts the inlet to this day.
city Know It All: Why Is Every Uber Ride in a Tesla Now? The electric car is the ride-share whip of choice, but what’s driving the trend?
city Last-Minute Vancouver Halloween Costumes Halloween's tomorrow, but there's still time to show a little Vancouver pride.
city City Informer: Why Do Vancouverites Set off Fireworks at Halloween? Halloween fireworks aren't a thing in other places. Why here?
city Where Do Silverfish Come From? These creepy crawly critters invade our homes—but definitely not our hearts.
city B.C. Wildfire Resource Guide: Essential Links for Live Updates, Personal Preparedness and More Your list of resources to get you through the 2024 B.C. wildfire season.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do in Vancouver With Your Most Elegant, Well Travelled Friend Who Lives in Linen Here's your checklist for entertaining your friend who summers in Greece and lives in linen and is so elegant that it’s never annoying when she talks about her “fragrance journey.”
city The Veggie Dog King Is Taking on the Seafood Industry, One Frozen ‘Tuna’ Roll at a Time The founder of Yves Veggie Cuisine and Gardein is back with a new mission: creating faux seafood even a carnivore will love.
city Know it All: Why Is the Permanent Building Full of Computer Servers? It’s one of downtown’s most beautiful buildings—and the internet lives there.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do With Your Introvert, Board Game Designer Brother in Vancouver A checklist for hanging out in Vancouver with your board game designer brother who hasn’t initiated a conversation with you in six years.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do in Vancouver With Your Outdoorsy, Bike-Riding Ex (Whom You’re Still Secretly in Love With) A four-part itinerary for winning back your bike-babe's heart.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do in Vancouver With Your Brother Who Wears a Suit Everywhere He infuses his own gin. He wears a suit everywhere but the gym. Here's how to plan the perfect day on the town for your brother who loves the finer things in life.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Entertain Your Green-Thumb Grandma Who Is Auditing an Archeology Course She loves plants, she loves dinos, she loves you. Here's your checklist for entertaining your grandma next time she's in town.
city The Ultimate, Hyper-Specific City Guide: 25 Itineraries for Entertaining People in Vancouver There's no one-size-fits-all way to enjoy Vancouver. So here are 25 different options for you.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do in Vancouver With Your Cool DJ Friend Visiting from Toronto A night out with your too-cool DJ friend who moved away five years ago and this is your last chance to convince her Vancouver is cool too so she’ll move back (oh god, don't blow it).
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: A Weekend With Your Culture-Vulture, Comedy-Loving Sister Here's how to spend a weekend with your culture-vulture Millennial sister who won’t stop talking about Ali Wong’s latest special.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do With Your Crunchy-Granola Roommate Who Brings Their Dog Everywhere in Vancouver ... and reusable cup.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: Your Former Bandmates Are in Town (And Some of Them Are Broke) Here's what to do on a day out in Vancouver with your former bandmates, who have grown up into cool adults with awkwardly disparate incomes.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: Entertaining Those Couple-Friends From Culinary School Consider this a checklist for how to entertain your Double Income No Kids couple-friends from culinary school who are eternally in the honeymoon phase the next time they're in town.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: The Perfect Day for Your Single, Marathon-Running Sister A day with your marathon- running, architecture-loving sister who is single and ready to mingle.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do With Your Frugal Grandpa Next Time He’s In Vancouver The game plan for an afternoon with your cane-wielding grandpa who will be absolutely furious if you pay more than $10 for a sandwich.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Entertain Your Sober, ‘Drag Race’-Loving Gen Z Skinfluencer Nephew in Vancouver Your nephew's coming to town and he's got some hyper-specific interests: skincare, drag and zero-proof cocktails. No problem.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do With Your Former Ski-Racer Mom (Who Also Loves Jimmy Buffet) Our city guide tackles another hyper-specific situation: how to entertain your mom who is a former ski racer and a lifelong Parrothead.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Plan a Perfect Vancouver Birthday for Your Girlfriend Who Loves Japan Turn a birthday weekend into a Tokyo-inspired adventure.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do When Your Cousin and His Toddlers Are in Town And they can't have screentime and it's raining, oh no oh no oh no.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Hang With Your Most Glamourous Aunt in Vancouver Here's how to spend an afternoon with your aunt who stopped in on her way to Aspen, draped in Chanel as always.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do in Vancouver With Your Preteen Nephew He wants to feel cool, but he still sleeps with a stuffed dinosaur. Here's how to give him the perfect weekend.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Show Your Coffee-Loving Bookworm Cousin a Good Time in Vancouver What to do in Vancouver with your overly caffeinated Prairie bookworm cousin who has never seen the ocean.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: A Day in Vancouver With Your Gluten-Free, Vintage-Loving BFF How to have the perfect day with you gluten-free BFF who loves vintage clothes and starts every anecdote with “One time, at Coachella...”
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do When Your Parents Are Visiting Vancouver Your parents are in town, and they love the steam clock and are disappointed the revolving restaurant is overbooked.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: What to Do With Your Vegan, Urban Planner Cousin on a Budget in Vancouver A checklist for entertaining your vegan cousin who’s finishing up her urban planning masters—and is totally broke
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: A Little Taste of India and Punjab Here in Vancouver Your relatives are in town from India and they took 4,000 photos in Tofino but they're starting to feel a little homesick. Here's how to cheer everybody up.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: How to Entertain Your Whiskey-Loving, Secret-Softie Boomer Dad A checklist for entertaining your whisky-swilling, motorcycle-driving father who listens to Olivia Rodrigo on repeat the next time you're hanging out in Vancouver.
city Hyper-Specific City Guide: A Nostalgic Day Out With Your College Drinking Buddies How to have the perfect day with your college drinking buddies who get more nostalgic with every pint.
city How Do Vancouver Streets Get Their Names? We can’t think of any better use of our tax dollars, honestly.
city Know-It-All: Why Doesn’t Vancouver Have a Mascot? We can't think of any better use of our tax dollars, honestly.
city Editor’s Note: What Is the Power 50 List All About, Exactly? Vancouver magazine's new editor-in-chief, Stacey McLachlan, shares insights on the making of the Power 50 issue.
city Greater Vancouver Food Bank Builds Capacity as Need Grows Sponsored Content BC food banks are serving triple the number they used to as more people with full-time jobs need help and lower-income donors drop off. Your donation to GVFB can change a community.
city The Disruptor: Hettas’ Shoes Are Actually Designed For How Women Run High-performance running shoes from Hettas are achieving something shockingly rare: acknowledging the needs of women who run.
city The VanMag Editors Share Their Favourite Stories of 2023 The stories that have stuck with us this year.
city The 10 Most-Read Vancouver Magazine Stories of 2023 You're obsessed with Restaurant Awards, we get it!
city Why Does Vancouver Have So Many Sister Cities? ... and what is our civic policy around sharing clothes?
city City Informer: Why Is the Kits Showboat Being Destroyed? An iconic, boat-shaped institution is about to sink.
city City Informer: Why Are Some Vancouver Street Lights Blue? ...and why is the City in such a hurry to change them back?
city City Informer: Why Are There So Many Palm Trees in Vancouver? We're not exactly known for balmy weather... so how do palm trees survive in Vancouver?
city BC’s Veterinary Medicine Field in Crisis Sponsored Content The Douglas College Foundation addresses the veterinary shortage by supporting veterinary technology students as they prepare for their careers.
city The Best Mother’s Day Gifts: Editors’ Picks Our editors share what they'll be getting their moms for Mother's Day (shh).
city Coyotes, Crows and Flying Ants: All of Your Vancouver Wildlife Questions, Answered From flying ants to bully coyotes to our like-clockwork crow convoy, it's your Vancouver Wildlife FAQ.
city Looking for a Hobby? Here’s 8 Places in Vancouver You Can Pick Up a New Skill It's never too late to learn something new: read on to find your new "thing."
city City Informer: What’s With All the Anti-Beetle Signs? The Westside is covered with signs warning beetles to stay out... but where did they come from?
city We Asked Vancouverites How They Feel About Valentine’s Day… and They Hate It Sorry, Cupid: according to a quick Instagram poll, there's not much V-Day excitement this year.
city The Results Are In: These Are the Most-Read Vanmag Stories of 2022 Editor's Pick From the best restaurants to powerful people to Indigenous solidarity, here are your favourite stories on vanmag.com in 2022.
city Ten Black Friday Deals to Check Out Now We've hand-picked ten outlets offering heavy holiday discounts this Black Friday week.
city Love Letter: Persia Foods Still Has My Heart Crowded, chaotic perfection: an ode to Persia Foods, the greatest (and most affordable) grocer in the city.
city The Salvation Army Kettle Program Kicks off for the Holidays Sponsored Content Listen for the familiar sound of Kettle bells and give generously at one of 2,000 locations across Canada.
city 5 Things to Do in Vancouver This Week (August 29-September 4) Flamenco Fest, African Heritage Fest and more.
city Everything You Ever Wondered About Vancouver’s Beaches, Answered City Informer answers your most pressing beach quandaries.
city City Informer: Where Do Those Crows Go Each Night? It's a nightly ritual: spotting the crows flying east. But where are they off to?
city City Informer: Why Are There So Many Bunnies at Jericho Beach? Where did these beach bunnies come from?
city City Informer: Where Did All These Hobbit Houses Come From? These houses look like they should be in Lord of the Rings, not Vancouver.
city City Informer: Where Are All Those Flying Ants Coming From? Every July, they descend on the city. Here's why.
city City Informer: What’s Inside the Towers on the Burrard Street Bridge? "They were not designed as affordable waterfront bachelor suites."
city City Informer: Who is the Voice of the SkyTrain? Our intrepid City Informer answers the age-old question.
city How Is the Counterflow Lane on the Lions Gate Bridge Controlled? Someone has to make sure we all make it off that bridge alive. But who?
city What to do in Hastings-Sunrise This eclectic and historical neighbourhood offers a wide variety of things to do.
city A Push for Cycling in Vancouver every new block of bike lanes has caused outrage and frustration. Two Activists want to turn the heat on that debate way up
city The business of removing the permanent Tattoos are meant to mark a moment forever, so what happens when that moment passes?
city She’s Got Game Video Games play an invaluable role in childhood, but most games are made by, and for, guys. Cue the Silicon sisters
city Is the World’s Greenest Building in Vancouver? Delving into the idea that human activity can one day make the bio-physical environment better
city Dog’s Best Friend Calgary revolutionized its approach to animal control. On a recent visit, Bill Bruce explained how Vancouver might do the same
city Spirit of the West Vancouver may be Canada's least formally religious city, but faith still flourishes here
