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Nov. 25, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Jericho Lands Update

Public consultations on this project have been pushed back from Fall 2015 to Spring 2016.  This is according to Deana…
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Nov. 25, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

When News Is In the News . . .

. . . . and the news is bad. I’ve written before about media concentration and the problems that ensue.…
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Nov. 24, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Items From Ian

Good article in the Guardian – part of the series ‘things which aren’t about Vancouver but could be’.   There…
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Nov. 24, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Changes In Alberta

Reaction to the Alberta Gov’t climate change announcements. In the Globe and Mail. A nice mix of pro, con and…
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Nov. 23, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Is the Party Over?

The party may not yet be over, but the hosts are starting to take out some trash and open some…
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Nov. 23, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Rules, On the Road? What?

Just in case you’d like to get out in public and share your thoughts about roads and the rules for…
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Nov. 23, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Unintended Irony

Here’s a video from VanCity Buzz that invites people to the new New Year’s Eve Vancouver celebrations in dear old…
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Nov. 22, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Thanks For the Memories

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, writes in the Huffington Post, as we…
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Nov. 22, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

A View of Future Roads

  Matt McFarland writes in the Washington Post about the future of transportation.  Yup, like Yogi Berra, he knows it’s…
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Nov. 22, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Attracting the Elusive Urbanista

Here’s the cover photo from the Holiday 2015 issue of the Globe Style Advisor (“The Globe and Mail Guide to…
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Nov. 21, 2015 / Ken Ohrn

Building Better Cities

PricewaterhouseCoopers has reported on the role of urban centres in the context of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economic and social…

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