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Feb. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

Graffiti Art for Our Time

Friend of PT Gerry Stafford: A bit of contemporary art/graffiti on the fence at the Queen Victoria Annex Elementary School.…
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Feb. 24, 2021 / Gordon Price

Panel – Urban Resilience: New Realities

Urban Resilience: New Realities Part of the Pandemonium: Urban Studies and Recovering from COVID-19 lecture series. Wednesday, February 24 5:00 PM Online…
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Feb. 23, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Poems & Prose on San Francisco’s Slow Streets~Where is Vancouver’s?

Jeffrey Tumlin is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Municipal  Transportation Agency. He was the person that alerted us…
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Feb. 22, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Shaken, Stirred but Not Sanded~Slow Streets Barriers Continually Kicked to the Curb

  David Finnis who is on Twitter @ilovethearts says: “This is one of the reasons many people don’t feel safe…
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Feb. 17, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Pandemic Line Wait at Windermere Care Centre

Windermere Care Centre is a privately operated long-term care facility located on 12th Avenue near Oak. The facility has 210…
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Feb. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

No Rush Hour, No Transit? The Pandemic Ultimatum

An insightful survey from Slate: The prevailing sense of doom comes from a dawning awareness that the old workday travel…
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Feb. 01, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Toronto Area Libraries Reach Out to Pandemic Isolated Seniors Through Library Cards

Who touches every household during the pandemic and knows where seniors live? Canada Post still goes door to door in…
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Jan. 12, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Main Street Pandemic Purchases? Here’s How British & Canadian Main Streets Are Doing

Great Britain’s “High” or main streets are seeing  purchases for things other than food drop by 24 percent in shopping…
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Jan. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

Bad News, Bonnes Nouvelles

It’s not looking good in New York: In Manhattan alone, new car registrations rose 76% and in Brooklyn, registrations climbed…
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Dec. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Concrete Transformation of Beach Avenue

Curbs are being poured along Beach Avenue from Stanley Park to Hornby Street. The City approved this permanent change from…
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Dec. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

Why doesn’t Global show us the Curve?

Global TV News rolls out the stats on Covid most nights, number by number: They talk about the curve –…
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Dec. 04, 2020 / Gordon Price

The New (Interim) Design for Beach Avenue

It’s all out in public now: Updated Interim Design: Room to Move- Beach Avenue Work starts soon on new features…
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Dec. 01, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic~Vancouver, San Francisco & the Mask Slackers

What happened in the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic regarding mask wearing regulation? In the first wave of the epidemic in…
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Nov. 26, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Dim Sum Predilections~ What will Happen Here by 11.20.2021?

  If ever there was a year that threw out most predictions, this is the one. On November 20, 2020,…

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