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Canada’s Great Kitchen Party Celebrates 20 Years With a Vancouver All-Star Invitational

Twenty years, six all-star chefs, and one big night in North Vancouver: Canada’s Great Kitchen Party knows how to throw an anniversary. The Vancouver All-Star Invitational brought some of the city’s most decorated competitors back to the kitchen to chase a podium finish and a ticket to the Canadian Culinary Championship, while guests sipped British...

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The Best of VIFF 2026, From a 196-Minute Masterpiece to an Underdog Favourite

The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) has wrapped its 45th edition, and critics and audiences agree that it was a huge hit! From multiple sold-out showtimes to added titles to the launch of the Luminary Award, VIFF has demonstrated that Vancouver’s flagship film festival is ready for its close-up. Highlights of the year included the...

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Dinners Are Sold Out, But Vancouver Entertains Is Just Getting Started

Vancouver Entertains, presented by RBC Foundation, is officially sold out at the dinner level, with all eight bespoke dinners across the city fully booked. But the evening itself, set for Friday, October 16, is far from closed to new guests. A limited number of tickets remain for the official After Party at TELUS Garden, and...

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The Stylist Who Is Ready to Talk: Michelle Addison Goes Independent

Fifteen years ago, Michelle Addison walked into The Room at Hudson’s Bay with a pitch and talked her way into a personal shopping job. She was in her early thirties, already a working actor, and had been running a small personal styling business on the side. That single pitch grew into a career across three...

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Holborn’s Visionary Silhouette For Vancouver: What Georgia + Abbott Means For The City’s Skyline

Vancouver has never lacked for views. What it has lacked, until now, is a single address built to command every one of them. Holborn‘s newly approved Georgia + Abbott development changes that equation entirely, introducing a 315-metre hotel tower that will stand as the tallest structure in Western Canada and, in time, the point of...

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Where Vows Meet the View: Granville Island Hotel x Dockside Restaurant

Just as the sun drops behind the marina, ceremony chairs facing yachts and sailboats gliding by turn the whole scene into something no photographer needs to stage. At Granville Island Hotel‘s Dockside Restaurant, the Yaletown skyline catches the last light from every angle, and not a single sightline stands in the way of it. Three...

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A Seat at Every Table: Inclusive Dining at Dockside Restaurant

When you venture in Granville Island Hotel and settle in for a meal, know that Dockside Resturant‘s culinary team draws on fresh, local, and seasonal West Coast ingredients layered with multicultural influences, a style that suits a restaurant perched at the edge of Granville Island, with the Public Market close enough that the kitchen restocks...

Inside a Penthouse Stay at Granville Island Hotel: Five Minutes From Everything

Stand at the entrance to the Public Market, surrounded by tourists hauling armfuls of dahlias and warm sourdough, and Granville Island Hotel is nowhere in sight. No towering signage, no valet circus, no line of idling town cars or car share queues. Walk five minutes along the water and the noise falls away, replaced by...

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The Discipline Behind the Grace: Chan Hon Goh’s Next Act

Chan Hon Goh has spent four decades chasing a single standard: excellence that never stops moving. Long before her recent appointment, she was a child in a Vancouver studio, absorbing correction after correction with a focus that set her apart even then. “When I reflect on what it means to become Vice President of the...

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Danny Singer: The Main Street Project x A Prairie Vision

Danny Singer photographs the entire main streets of small prairie towns. Not a building here, a storefront there, but the whole street, stitched together from as many as one hundred and fifty sequential images into a single seamless panorama. Every structure is shot straight on. No angle, no drama, no cheating the perspective. The effect...