High demand for condominiums and townhomes has continued to drive home sales in the Vancouver-area real estate market, according to the latest numbers from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. So far this year, those sales have accounted for 68.5 per cent of residential sales, up from 58.2 per cent last year, the board said in its April release.

Canadians will ring in the new year with a number of tax changes that will affect the bottom line of federal and provincial governments. Here's a look at some of them. Nationally The federal government is ending four child tax credits this year: arts, fitness, education and textbooks in 2017.

The City of Vancouver says it's opening up new emergency overnight spaces for people to protect themselves from a cold snap expected to last until Monday. The Creekside Community Centre at Olympic Village and the Britannia Community Centre on Commercial Drive will be open overnight on both Saturday and Sunday until 7 a.m.

As Khushdeep Singh tries to comfort his seriously-injured friend, he can't help but worry about his own safety. "It kinda scares me," said Singh. "I'm actually worried to work." Singh is a Regina cab driver. On Thursday evening, his friend and fellow cab driver, Iqbal Singh Sharma, was stabbed multiple times after an incident inside his taxi.

When Joseph Boyden penned the now-infamous open letter to the University of British Columbia this month seeking due process for his friend Steven Galloway - who was fired by UBC from his job as chair of the creative writing program - he knew there would be some kind of response.