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Jan. 04, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Let's Do More of What Saves Money

Seems like the right thing to me, and perhaps a terrific New Year’s resolution. Wasting money on the most expensive…
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Jan. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Day Three of the 2016 Gordies-Award for Planning for Big Impact-Positive or Negative

On Wednesday we are awarding the  2016 Gordie for “Planning for Big Impact [Positive or Negative]” There were a lot…
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Jan. 02, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Port Metro Vancouver-Roberts Bank Expansion and Environmental Assessment

The year 2017 will be a telling one in Delta, with a development hat trick: the consideration of  Port Metro…
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Dec. 30, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Time for the Annual 2016 Gordies

The Price Tags Editorial Board has met at the secret undisclosed location near Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park to ponder…
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Dec. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge and the New Climate Pollution Accord

  Sometimes it is the details that make or break a project-and if you are the Province of British Columbia’s…
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Dec. 29, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

A Ring of Steel for London's Square Mile

In Europe horrendous incidents have occurred with large trucks used as weapons in cities where people are gathering and celebrating. In…
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Dec. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Port Metro Vancouver and continuing habitat losses to the Fraser River Estuary

The Globe and Mail newspaper reporter Mark Hume has just reviewed the Community Mapping Network (CMN) work which sampled the 151…
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Dec. 16, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Big Bad Burrard Bridge Barriers

In addition to Gord Price’s earlier post. Let the howling commence about these new additions to the Burrard Bridge. And…
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Dec. 16, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File-And Bill Gates' New Place

  “It took Gates seven years and $63 million to build his Medina, Washington, estate, named “Xanadu 2.0” after the…
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Dec. 13, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Radio Earth Broadcasts Begin

One of the coolest applications of technology is written about in this Atlantic Monthly article-the unveiling of Radio Garden. By looking…
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Dec. 09, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Friday File-Have a below grade storage space in NYC? Grow the Low Line.

Besides the High Line in New York City, this report from Wired describes the “Low Line” , the initiative from former Google…
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Dec. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

B.C.'s Climate Plan-What Climate Plan?

  It’s had the feel of a strange year. A good point was at the C40 meeting in Mexico City,…
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Dec. 02, 2016 / Gordon Price

Evergreen Preview

Yesterday Councillor George Affleck and Rob McDowell got a preview of Evergreen (formally, the Evergreen Extension of the Millennium Line)…
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Nov. 28, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Tunnel, Massey Bridge and Politics.

  In the recent  Delta Optimist, Doug Massey, son of George Massey has taken a look at the recent report by…

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