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Jun. 04, 2013 / Gordon Price

Pete McMartin: 'Whistling past the graveyard'

Vancouver Sun columnist Pete McMartin is writing some provocative stuff on climate change.  Here’s a recent column based on the work…
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May. 13, 2013 / Gordon Price

Netherlands Diary – 1: What I'm wondering about

This is not about tulips.  Nor wooden shoes or windmills.  Not even about bicycles. Well, maybe a bit about bicycles.…
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May. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

New "Light Rail Links" coalition indicator of Surrey momentum

Surrey is getting serious: Surrey business and community groups are  launching a new campaign to get light-rail transit on track…
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May. 10, 2013 / Gordon Price

Vintage Vancouver: The West End, Kenneth Gardner and a vanished era

Vancity Buzz and the Vancouver Heritage Foundation have partnered on a new series – Vintage Vancouver – starting with, appropriately, the West…
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May. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

Climate change risk: How serious are our decision-makers?

Here’s a (self-described) polemic video by Ryan Cooper to set the mood (with a bit of printed language nsfw): . So…
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May. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

First-World Issues: Gentrifying the Gentry

Oh, the agony.  From College Humour (or, as Rachel Garrick labelled it, “Every #EastVan article ever”): I’ll never forget what…
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May. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Housing affordability: Auckland looks to Vancouver

In the New Zealand Herald, columnist Brian Rudman finds that when it comes to affordability, Auckland and Vancouver are “bizarrely alike”: Mayor…
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May. 08, 2013 / Gordon Price

Must-read: Dusting Demographia and the most-unaffordable-city myth

Jim Sutherland, in Vancouver Magazine, uncovers the origins of the distorted meme generated by a right-wing pundit … If (you’ve) heard once, (you’ve) heard a…
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May. 07, 2013 / Gordon Price

Falling densities in rising cities

Felix Salmon explores a phenomenon noted by Paul Krugman: why are urban population densities dropping in the States, even though…
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May. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

Climate Refugees: The first wave

Kerry Gold does a feature on the ‘Cold Harbour’ phenomenon:  a neighbourhood that seems empty because a high percentage of…
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May. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

Panel: Coach houses for West Vancouver? – May 8

From West Vancouver (click to enlarge):  …
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May. 06, 2013 / Gordon Price

California Milestone: The shift from single-family

Brent Toderian picked up this intriguing fact here: For the first time, the number of multifamily dwellings constructed in the…
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May. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Infographic: Is TransLink a good deal?

Daryl Dela Cruz, a one-man transit advocate for Surrey (why does South of the Fraser have so many young, passionate…
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May. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

Judy Graves recommends: A lecture by Trevor Hancock

Judy Graves has been working with the homeless since 1974,  and for much of that time, with politicians at City…

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