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Feb. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Planning the New Broadway

Vancouver is getting a major Skytrain extension, a rapid transit line through the second-largest employment corridor in the Province of…
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Feb. 22, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Jericho Lands Update

Vancouver’s Jericho Lands are essentially 90 acres of greenfield, located amid some of Canada’s most expensive and most desirable real…
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Feb. 09, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Public Art — Whale Mural, Puerto Vallarta

Just walking around, and suddenly there’s this.…
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Feb. 04, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Surrey Langley Skytrain — TransLink Website

Skytrain rapid transit continues to be a much-discussed topic in Metro Vancouver.  HERE’s Nathan Pachal, Langley City Councillor and friend…
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Feb. 01, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver Region’s Dirty Laundry Now A Bit Cleaner

Maybe this won’t become a thermal coal port Port Metro Vancouver has cancelled the permit for a project that would…
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Jan. 31, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Nanaimo to Province — Your Government Is Safe

The NDP’s Sheila Malcolmson has won the January 30, 2019 byelection, and our Province’s slim GreeNDP coalition lives on. Congratulations…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — Let’s Change Granville Bridge

Council has unanimously supported directing staff to report on how to change the Granville Bridge, with design recommendations and costs.…
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Council to World — We Like Transit

Vancouver’s new City Council showed it’s stripes today, in a long discussion around extending rapid transit to UBC.  …
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Jan. 30, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Jobs Jar — Granville Island Council

You could play a part in the future of one of Vancouver’s favourite places. Granville Island is looking for people…
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Jan. 25, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

The Fallout at BC’s Legislature

Maria Dobrinskaya (@mdobrinskaya), a friend of Price Tags, has written a deep dive into the political fallout now descending on…
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Jan. 25, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Overbuilt and Underused — Granville Bridge

Changes are in the wind for Vancouver’s Granville Bridge, planned in the 1950’s as a downtown freeway component (like the…
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Jan. 24, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

World of Renting

More than 50% of households in Vancouver rent their home, and the vacancy rate is below 1%. Here’s an another…
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Jan. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Daffodil Hill

Out today on a small errand, which took me through Vancouver’s Sunset Beach Park.  Daffodils bloom there, and their peak…
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Jan. 22, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

The Planetary Health Diet

Among people in Metro Vancouver paying attention to climate change and its mitigation, what we eat is a rising issue.…

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