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Mar. 16, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: 48 rolls of toilet paper and one complete business case

Two Ohrn Facebook posts back to back: . Record load of shopping: Chris Bruntlett Five big bags of groceries, 10lbs…
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Mar. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Scot: Transit and Development – The Implications

Scot links to this ‘advertorial’ from Colliers: an interview with Andrew Grant, President of the PCI Group, the developer of…
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Mar. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

Twinning Tweets: Sun columnists make each other’s points.

Not a good day for the Yes side in the Vancouver Sun: Pete McMartin begins on the front page: … what…
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Mar. 11, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ohrn, The Daily Scot and Others: Bateman, the Port Mann and the CTF

A number of items and articles, connected with a common theme. The Daily Scot linked to this video, with a…
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Mar. 04, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Two-Hundred-Million-Dollar Coincidence

Keep in mind this number: a base amount of $200 million.  That (plus many millions more) measures three separate things…
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Mar. 03, 2015 / Gordon Price

China’s Next Ghost Towns

From the South China Morning Post: Unlike ghost towns in the West which are laid waste by wars, natural disasters,…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Bikes Change Your Brooklyn Apartment Hunt

Well, maybe not yours – but it did for Jesse Warner-Levine and Hallie Nickelson, according to the New York Times: .…
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Feb. 26, 2015 / Gordon Price

Ray Spaxman: On Precedent

One of the trickiest things to watch out for if you are in charge of approving development in a city,…
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Feb. 25, 2015 / Gordon Price

Fraser Games – 5: The Larger Agenda

Is there a larger intent behind the referendum the Premier has imposed on the region?  Beyond the obvious discrepancies (why…
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Feb. 24, 2015 / Gordon Price

David Roberts: “What we can learn from British Columbia’s carbon tax”

From Grist: It is, on its own terms, a resounding success — carbon emissions are falling even as the economy…
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Feb. 13, 2015 / Gordon Price

Speaker Series: Urban Land Institute for Students at UBC – Feb 25

ULI BC has arranged a Speakers Series for students studying planning, real estate, architecture and related disciplines.  Learn more about…
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Feb. 12, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Daily Durning: Economics Explained

Spaxman submitted this one too: .…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

The Bicycle in Popular Culture: The Independent Ad

Charlie Walsh: Note the number of cyclists present and the number of helmets on their heads in The Independent’s promo video…
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Feb. 10, 2015 / Gordon Price

Wealth, Real Estate and New York – The Series

This is what puts the “New York” in the New York Times: a spectacularly researched and gripping story of not…

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