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Oct. 02, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Losing Retail, One Store at A Time

Peter Ladner called it out on Twitter last week with the tweet posted below. City News has reported on the…
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Sep. 28, 2018 / Colin Stein

Public Hearing Moment: With Housing, Who Makes (and Receives) Room?

One of the more remarkable aspects of the housing affordability crisis in Vancouver is the endless bloviating about community amenity…
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Sep. 28, 2018 / Gordon Price

Is this the year of the Independent?

Mike Howell at the Courier does a feature piece on that very question.  He interviews Sandy Garossino, the former Crown prosecutor…
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Sep. 28, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Richmond City Council~Conflict of Interest and Code of Conduct now in the Same Sentence

  Back to the City of Richmond where the majority of City Councillors have been absolutely complicit in the dismantling…
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Sep. 27, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Ballot Assistance — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

Choosing which candidates to get your vote for mayor, council, park and school boards is hard enough, given the huge…
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Sep. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Whispers From the Dark Side — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

Thanks to Charlie Smith in the Straight for this pretty much humorous fiction imagining the Satan of Spin giving demonic…
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Sep. 26, 2018 / Gordon Price

Why traffic congestion is like the housing market

Traffic congestion on Georgia and Pender last night.  What could we possibly do about it?  Scott de Lange Boom provided…
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Sep. 25, 2018 / Colin Stein

Mayoral Exit Interview: Surrey (Part II)

There was a time when Surrey was the butt of jokes. No more. As we read in Part I of…
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Sep. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

DVBIA Mayoral Candidate Issues Forum – Oct 2

From the Downtown Vancouver BIA: Please join us for this exclusive breakfast event where you will have the opportunity to…
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Sep. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Panel: Middle-Missing Housing – Oct 11

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Sep. 25, 2018 / Gordon Price

Failure and Reform: BC’s Local Elections Campaign Financing Act – 4

This is the fourth posting of five about how the BC Local Elections Campaign Financing Act (LECFA) will impact the…
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Sep. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Stewart Speaks — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

Vancouver mayoral candidate Kennedy Stewart speaks to the Cambie Report. It’s another in a series of hour-or-so-long interviews by these…
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Sep. 24, 2018 / Colin Stein

Mayoral Exit Interview: Surrey (Part I)

This year, despite the oxygen taken up by Vancouver’s municipal election, Surrey’s race is just as interesting — highly partisan, complex…
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Sep. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Triple Tweets — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

On the emerging election issue of a subway to UBC, we have a few diverging opinions — within the same…

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