Vancouver’s fireworks are back this weekend, and this time it’s a one-night-only affair. Summer Lights in English Bay lights up the sky on Friday, July 31, 2026, kicking off both the BC Day long weekend and the closing weekend of Vancouver Pride. It’s the city’s replacement for the Honda Celebration of Light, which was cancelled […]
This is a big one. Monday, August 3 is BC Day, a provincial statutory holiday, which stretches this into a four-day long weekend for most people. Metro Vancouver is packed wall-to-wall with things to do as a result, headlined by the biggest event of the summer: Vancouver Pride Weekend. The Vancouver Pride Parade takes over
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Planning a birthday party for a kid gets harder the older they get. A toddler is happy with bubbles and a soft mat to fall on. An eleven-year-old wants something with an actual adrenaline hit, and a thirteen-year-old wants that plus the freedom to hang out with friends without a parent hovering. If you’ve hosted
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This weekend is one of the busiest of the summer, with Vancouver Pride Week kicking off, the CFL’s Lions returning home, and two major free cultural festivals landing on the same two days. If you only make it to a couple of things, prioritize the Vancouver Chinatown Festival, the Caribbean Days Festival in Coquitlam, and
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has arrived, and it is not a movie meant to be watched on a laptop. Shot entirely on IMAX film cameras, Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic was built from the ground up for the biggest screen you can find. Real ships. Thousands of extras. A full-scale Trojan Horse hauled across a
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This weekend is a genuinely tough one to plan around, in the best way. The Vancouver Folk Music Festival wraps up its three-day run at Jericho Beach, the VSO’s free Symphony in the Park lands at Deer Lake in Burnaby on Saturday, and Surrey Fusion Festival takes over Holland Park with two full days of
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Discover the vibrant 2SLGBTQIA+ scene across Vancouver’s diverse neighbourhoods, from Davie Village to East Vancouver and beyond Welcome to Vancouver’s Queer Community Metro Vancouver is home to one of North America’s most diverse and established 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. British Columbia made history in 1992 as the first Canadian province to protect sexual orientation in its Human
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This is a sponsored article produced in partnership with Code Ninjas. Summer is when a lot of Metro Vancouver parents start asking the same question: what actually happens during one of these coding sessions everyone keeps recommending? The marketing language is easy to find. What’s harder to find is a plain, walk-through account of what
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What to do in Vancouver this weekend – weekly articles Metro Vancouver’s July 2026 events calendar is packed with summer festivals, free outdoor concerts, blockbuster movie premieres, and family-friendly things to do across Vancouver, Burnaby, Surrey, and Richmond. Whether you’re planning a Canada Day long weekend outing or looking for the best concerts, markets, and
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Canada Day 2026 falls on Wednesday, July 1 — Canada’s 159th birthday. Here’s every major celebration across Metro Vancouver, from Canada Place to Cloverdale, plus where to catch the best fireworks and which events won’t cost you a dime. Canada Day always sneaks up fast, and with a mid-week hump-day holiday this year, you’ve got
