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Jun. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Sad Truth about the Province’s Annual 1.3 Billion Dollar Expenditure on Seniors

You read that right. Every year the Province provides 1.3 billion dollars towards long term care, both to non-profit and…
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Jun. 08, 2020 / Barry Rueger

Survival Tips from North Shore Developers

Over the weekend I had an article published at Fortune.com that explores how North Shore property developers are adapting their…
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Jun. 01, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Post Pandemic Homeless & Businesses Need Assistance from City, Province

As Vancouver enters the recovery phase in the pandemic and starts opening up commercial businesses, it is important for locals to…
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May. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

The biggest non-story of the covid emergency

When I first saw the news report in early March, I was astonished: the City and Park Board, in conjunction…
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May. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Two Percent Solution

Sun columnist Doug Todd, who has been writing insightfully about the housing market for years, reported this comment from a…
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Apr. 07, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Are Seniors’ Retirement Homes Toast in the Post-Covid World?

There will be lots of changes in the Post Covid world~one that can be predicted immediately is the change in…
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Apr. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

AirBnB Short Stay Rentals Look for Federal Government COVID Relief

In the “you just can’t make this stuff up” department,  AirBnB actually is approaching the Canadian government  for “tax breaks”.…
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Feb. 24, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Planning On the Edge~Where is Metro Vancouver Going? Panel Discussion & Book Launch this Thursday

  I received an advanced copy of “Planning on the Edge” which provides a reconciliation, social justice and sustainable development…
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Feb. 23, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Crisis? What Housing Crisis?

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month, Instagramming and podcasting his way across the country.  Follow his…
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Feb. 10, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 4: Random Acts of Density

Stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland does a backgrounder on The Grand Bargain and what Vancouverites (City and Metro) should know about…
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Feb. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Special Presentation on Future of Chinatown Tonight with CBC Radio’s Matt Galloway

CBC’s The Current is Doing  a Broadcast on the Future of Chinatown Monday February 10. Join Matt Galloway for a…
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Feb. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Bait and Switch~ Reliance Properties leaves 1188 Bidwell Street Returning Tenants with Few Options

Transparency is such an important quality and nothing is as vital when developers move existing established rental tenants out of…
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Jan. 27, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 2: Who Grows Where

  (Click on headline above for illustrations.) We asked stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland to do a background on The Grand…
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Jan. 21, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer: Some of the Basics on The Grand Bargain

Andy Coupland was the go-to guy for stats and data at Vancouver City Hall – and who periodically visits Price…

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