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Oct. 24, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

A Tower by Any Name other than…

BBC News reports on what happens when your brand and your name is Donald Trump. The Vancouver hotel designed by Arthur…
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Oct. 21, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

David and Goliath- those businesses in Tsawwassen and Ladner and the Mega Tsawwassen Mills Mall and Tsawwassen Commons Mall

  There is a lot happening on that very sensitive part of Delta, the floodplain that houses Class 1 agricultural…
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Oct. 21, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Migratory Bird Habitat versus Roberts Bank Port Expansion

City of Richmond Councillor Harold Steves has been circulating this article  written by Larry Pynn from the Vancouver Sun. While the…
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Oct. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

A Future without Jobs, Trucking Division

Kent Lundberg contributes this piece from Vox –  an interview with Andy Stern, former president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU):…
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Oct. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

If it's free, does it work? The Tallinn Free Public Transit experiment

As reported in The Guardian Tallinn in Estonia has been providing free public transit to its citizens since 2013, and also…
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Oct. 13, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Oakridge Transit Site Going going gone.

Business in Vancouver has published an article about the Really Big Deal-The sale of the Oakridge Transit Centre located on 41st…
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Oct. 07, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Silicon Valley, Affordable Housing, and a new Voting Block

As reported in the New York Times the San Francisco Bay area  is known for high housing prices often blamed on…
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Oct. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Quote: What Tsawwassen Mills means

From The Sun:   “What the Tsawwassen First Nation was able to accomplish with the opening of the mall is…
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Oct. 05, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Short List of Builders for the Ten Lane Massey Bridge Announced

In the “we just hoped this would go away” department, the Province’s ten lane bridge replacing the Massey Tunnel now…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Gordon Price

Item from Ian: Playing Monopoly in Vancouver

Ian picked this up from Rachael Ashe’s site, Canvas to the Imagination   Last week these small red houses began popping…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Cascadia Tech Hub-The Next Big Thing?

The New York Times suggests that smoother immigration policies and Vancouver’s ambitious technological hopes can spark a “Cascadia Innovation Corridor”, noting that…
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Oct. 03, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

The newest Vancouver Suburb an Ocean Away

The new Vancouver suburb as reported by Kerry Gold in the  Globe and Mail last Friday is not in British Columbia,…
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Sep. 30, 2016 / Gordon Price

A solution to overheated housing? In Vancouver?

From The Guardian: Has Vancouver found the solution to a super-heated housing market? There is a city which is suffering…
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Sep. 29, 2016 / Gordon Price

Almost least surprising Vancouver headline ever

Really – “in the world”? Once again, Vancouver is top of the list.  From Business in Vancouver: And yet, we…

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