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Feb. 24, 2020 / Gordon Price

Australia: Emergency? What Climate Emergency?

Gord Price will be in Australia for the next month.  Follow his coverage here and on Instagram (gordonpriceyvr). More evidence…
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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. 20, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Speaker List Released for South of Fraser Public Geo-Forums on Transit, Pedestrian and Mobility Issues

Students, staff, faculty and the general public are invited to join us at KPU Civic Plaza in February and March…
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Feb. 18, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Sidewalk Priority Slips With Lack of City of Vancouver Oversight

Last week Jill Bennett in this  Global News video story  talked about the state of disrepair of the public sidewalk…
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Feb. 17, 2020 / Gordon Price

What to do with underground parking

Ian Robertson found one solution in Paris.  From Euroactiv: In Paris, as in many European cities, the number of cars…
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Feb. 12, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver’s Chinatown, The CBC, and a Vastly Overrated Death

On Tuesday night CBC radio hosted a special broadcast of their feature program, The Current with Matt Galloway. Never a…
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Feb. 11, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Push to Globally Mandate 30 Km/h Speed for Cities

There’s been a lot of buzz on social media about the societal and cultural shifts  to make streets safer, more…
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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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Feb. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Province’s Intersection Safety Cameras Snap 7,000 Speeders

The Province of British Columbia has started rolling out their first tickets for the Intersection Safety Camera (ISC)  Program announced…
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Feb. 03, 2020 / Gordon Price

The Coupland Primer 3 – Changing Demographics

We asked stats-and-numbers guy Andy Coupland to do a backgrounder on The Grand Bargain and what Vancouverites (City and Metro)…
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Jan. 30, 2020 / Gordon Price

Sustainability Dialogues: Metro 2050

Metro Vaincouver is updating Metro 2040:, the regional growth strategy. This update, referred to as Metro 2050, will make it…
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Jan. 29, 2020 / Gordon Price

Surprising Stats: What’s happening in Squamish?

The North Shore News just reported on a release from BC Stats of its annual population change estimates.  No surprise…

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Sandy James Planner

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Sandy James Planner

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