🎷 Jazz Lovers Counting Down to Annual Four-Day Festival in Fort Langley 🗓️
Andy Schildhorn • July 24, 2025
Jazz lovers are counting down the sleeps until the village of Fort Langley is taken over with the sights, sounds, smells, and soul of the eighth Fort Langley Jazz & Arts Festival.👉 More Details Here
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Babies, babies, and more babies. Last year was a record-setting 12 months for the Fraser Valley’s parents, as the region welcomed a massive surge in the number of new babies. The thousands of babies shows how the Fraser Valley is becoming a refuge for would-be parents seeking homes large enough to raise a family. Five hundred more infants were born in the Fraser Valley than the previous 12 months, marking a 10% increase from 2023. That sent the year’s birth figures past the previous high mark set in 2021—the particularly busy year after the onset of the COVID pandemic. The increase occurred broadly across the region, with only Hope registering a drop in the number of babies born to local numbers. (The BC Statistics figures are for the place-of-residence of the mother, not the city in which the baby was delivered.) Nearly 2,000 babies were born in each of Langley and Abbotsford, while Chilliwack was home to 1,202 new babies—a 15% surge in newborns, the largest year-over-year increase among the region’s largest centres. Details Here
Homeownership in Canada is now the most affordable it has been since 2022, according to a new report from Robert Hogue, assistant chief economist at RBC. The bank’s aggregate affordability measure fell to 55.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2025, down from 60.7 per cent a year ago. Lower interest rates, slight price reductions, and steady household income growth contributed to the improvement. “Prices are still a long way from more attainable pre-pandemic levels,” Hogue said. He said the gains over the past five quarters have only reversed about one-third of the affordability lost during the pandemic. Most major markets saw ownership costs decline, with Vancouver and Toronto posting the largest improvements. Despite that, they remain the least affordable housing markets in the country. In contrast, affordability worsened in Quebec City, Montreal, and Victoria. Read More
