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Practical guides, comparisons, and local context for planning this part of a Vancouver trip.

Vancouver summers are full of 'free' events that quietly cost you. These are the ones where the math works: Shipyards Night Market,…

Lynn Canyon has a suspension bridge, forest trails, and swimming holes in Lynn Creek — and it costs nothing to get in.…

Bear Creek Park's spray pad, the Surrey playground network, free family programming at recreation centres, and the South Surrey waterfront.

A good farmers market is one of the simplest pleasures a city can offer — fresh food, local producers, an excuse to…

Vancouver has a reputation for being expensive, and that reputation is earned. But here's what the cost-of-living complaints tend to obscure: a…