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Feb. 17, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Lego Evolution From Boys Toy to Universal STEM Building Blocks

Seven years ago Charlotte Benjamin wrote a hand printed letter to the Lego company talking about her visit to the…
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Feb. 16, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stopping change (of any kind) in Grandview

It doesn’t matter whether proposals for new housing in Grandview are massive or tiny, there’s a desire or a way…
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Jan. 28, 2021 / Gordon Price

Why Mobility Pricing is So Immobile

The mobility-pricing conversation has been mostly about technology and social engineering.  Mostly speculation, not specifics. No matter how much sense…
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Jan. 26, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Wallflower Diner’s Winning Strategy & Why Public Washrooms are Not Band-Aids

During the start of the Covid pandemic, bus drivers had a particularly hard time finding places to use washrooms. When…
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Jan. 20, 2021 / Gordon Price

Stats 101: A slowing rate of change is not a real loss

If you saw this headline in the Daily Hive, what would you conclude? Might you think that Canada’s big cities…
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Jan. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Making it Harder for Mr. Peanut to Run for Vancouver Mayor

  It’s no secret that when election ballots were alphabetized in the City of Vancouver that they seemed to favour…
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Jan. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

Is Vancouver a City for Renters? – Jan 21

The second event of The Future We Want: The Change We Need series, hosted by the City of Vancouver in…
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Jan. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

An Article of the Year: Doug Ward on Vancouver’s Housing Mess and Its Politics

It’s only mid-January, and already we have a nomination for ‘Article of the Year.’ Doug Ward’s long-form analysis in The…
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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. 12, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Free Webinar~Passing the Torch: Lessons Learned from Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Shirin Ebadi

  Passing the Torch: Lessons Learned for Future Generations of Women Advocates~A conversation with Shirin Ebadi at Simon Fraser University…
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Jan. 11, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Rise & Fall of the Developer’s Dream Subdivision ~”Montrelynview”

  There is a large flashy ad on twitter. A new development is being announced in Metro Vancouver. It  is…
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Jan. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

No Grand Bargain in Grandview: Conflicting Visions on the Safeway Site

Friend of Price Tags and resident of Grandview, Gerry Stafford (who lives meters from the Broadway SkyTrain station) sends along…
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Dec. 21, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Granville Street, 1911~Christmas Gift Pieces~”Be Sensible Give Furniture”

  The D. A Smith Furniture Company appears on Vancouver’s  Granville Street and moves into a “larger” premises at 931…
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Dec. 15, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Richmond’s Councillor Steves Pushes for Co-ordinated Strategy for Fraser River Estuary

Harold Steves needs no introduction to people in Metro Vancouver. He is one of the longest serving city councillors in…

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