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Jun. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

Cascadia Scorecard

Are you better off? Cascadia Scorecard 2007 gives British Columbia its annual check-up. Sightline’s annual state-of-the-region report finds some big…
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Jun. 03, 2007 / Gordon Price

Sustainability as National Defence

 My Business in Vancouver column this week: Leaders need to view sustainability as a policy of national defence More than…
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May. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

Faith-based Transportation Policy

George Monbiot asks the question in The Guardian that we should be asking about Gateway: … it should be pretty obvious…
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May. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Worth Reading

I’ve often wondered what sort of worldview comes from being raised on Vancouver Island. Thomas Homer-Dixon is its most thoughtful…
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May. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Connection

It’s taken awhile, but finally some in the media have made the connection between climate change and the Gateway Project.   Saturday,…
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Apr. 29, 2007 / Gordon Price

TransLink: The Smell Test

No doubt the Minister of Transportation, Kevin Falcon, would like to thank all those who criticized TransLink for its failings…
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Apr. 27, 2007 / Gordon Price

TransLink: A Special Interest Group.

The Minister of Transportation is turning TransLink over to a special-interest group. One board member will be appointed by the…
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Apr. 16, 2007 / Gordon Price

American Wisdom

The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman talks and writes in sound bites: clever distillations of his thinking that, at…
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Apr. 13, 2007 / Gordon Price

The Three-Storey Story, Chapter Two

Last November, I wrote a post (here) on the dilemma of the three-storey walk-up, the plain stucco boxes that proliferated…
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Apr. 08, 2007 / Gordon Price

Water and oil

Speaking of convenience stores (below), here’s another take from Lisa Margonelli’s Oil on the Brain.  (There are some books you…
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Apr. 06, 2007 / Gordon Price

Foreign Ownership and Vacancy Rates

A Price Tags reader was reading Michael Geller’s blog entry on Australia’s Gold Coast, and one of the things that…
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Apr. 02, 2007 / Gordon Price

Something grand about going small

From the National Post   Brian Hutchinson National Post Monday, April 02, 2007 CREDIT: Steve Bosch, CanWest News Service A…
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Feb. 15, 2007 / Gordon Price

Look up: Eco-Density Infill?

I must have missed this: the 2006 winners of Best Practices in Affordable Housing, according to CMHC (they do so much…
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Feb. 14, 2007 / Gordon Price

Eco-Density Rolls Out

First up: a column by the Mayor in the National Post. It’s time to talk about urban density Tue 13…

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