Vancouver hip-hop musician Kyprios will be guest editor of The Vancouver Sun on Saturday, April 7th at 11 a.m. Tune in at vancouversun.com for the livestream covering topics ranging from music downloading, life as a hip-hop artist to testicular cancer awareness.

Survey results suggest most Canadians feel now is a great time to buy a home, but not for them personally.

OTTAWA – After months of stagnant or even falling employment, Canada’s economy has just had its biggest surge since before the last recession — adding 82,300 workers to the labour force in March.

OTTAWA – Statistics Canada says the value of building permits issued rose 7.5 per cent to $6.5 billion in February, following an 11.4 per cent decline in January.

TORONTO – The Toronto stock market was lower for a third day Thursday despite data showing solid job creation in Canada last month.

Little more than a week after the NDP chose a new leader and just a day before the party was to unveil its first in a series of ads targeting the Conservatives, it was the Liberals that were on the offensive Wednesday calling the official Opposition “hostile” and its newly elected leader, Thomas Mulcair, a “mini-Harper.”

Some people collect bottle caps, others hunt online for rare baseball cards, but Rene Bergeron goes to much greater depths to satisfy his collector’s itch. Over 20 years, the Cornwall, Ont., man has amassed the largest collection of Titanic artifacts in Canada.

MONTREAL – Fibrek Inc. (TSX:FBK) is asking the Supreme Court of Canada to rule on the defence it has used to fend off a hostile takeover bid by a company formerly known as AbitibiBowater.

OTTAWA – A quick look at March unemployment (previous month in brackets):

OTTAWA – Canada’s national unemployment rate was 7.2 per cent in March. Here’s what happened provincially (previous month in brackets):

OTTAWA – The national unemployment rate was 7.2 per cent in March. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples. (Previous month in brackets.)

Buckle your Louis Vuitton seatbelts, Vancouver, the Real Housewives TV show has premiered and there’s no turning back now.

VANCOUVER — Even as a Grade 8 student at Vancouver’s Killarney secondary, Jenna Talackova’s femininity was apparent.

Daniel Vernon Berge denied on Wednesday that he ever got angry or frustrated with his fiancee’s four-month-old daughter.

The extraordinary, life-saving work of Dr. Rick Hodes was honoured Wednesday night at a fundraising event at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver. An Evening to Bring Back Hope was also attended by Canadian inspiration Rick Hansen, on the 25th anniversary of his Man in Motion tour.

Vancouver police Det. Const. Lori Shenher told the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry Wednesday that she stands by most of a book she wrote that is full of raw grief about the murdered women, as well as scathing criticism of police. Shenher, who was the lead investigator in the late 90s when dozens of women went missing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, was also convinced after solid tips in 1998 that now-convicted serial killer Robert Pickton was the only prime suspect.

Vancouver Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini has said it, and now so has his estranged wife Taliah: their divorce battle currently before the courts will not hurt the operation of the team heading into the 2012 playoffs. On Wednesday, Francesco’s estranged wife of 20 years released a statement revealing her motivations in the high-profile Supreme Court divorce proceedings, as she pursues her proper share of the family assets.