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Oct. 18, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Taking an Election Break — 5

Charleson Park, Saturday, while I escaped for a few hours from the steady drumbeat of 2018 civic election tweets, robocalls,…
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Oct. 16, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Taking an Election Break — 3

It looks like a carefully curated theme, but really, there are just so many families with kids out there in…
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Oct. 15, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Taking an Election Break – 2

On a break last Saturday from the 2018 civic election’s swirl of dueling slates, loopy publicity shots, sneaky snarly snark…
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Oct. 14, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Taking an Election Break

During these waning days of the Vancouver civic election, I took an afternoon pause to enjoy our wonderful city —…
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Oct. 11, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Failed Provincial Experiment: Faster Highway Speed Limits Double Road Deaths

There’s absolutely no way to sugar coat this: the previous Liberal provincial government’s 2014 decision to increase speed limits on…
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Oct. 10, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Getting that Separated Bike Lane Done on San Francisco’s Embarcadero

It’s one thing to say that you are going to build a world-class separated bikeway facility on San Francisco’s Embarcadero,…
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Oct. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Everything Old is New Again

But this time and place is different~here is Lady Florence Norman going to work in London in 1916, 100 years…
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Sep. 28, 2018 / Gordon Price

Friday Funny: A Heritage Moment

From Vancouver Glass via Ian Bushfield…
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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 / Gordon Price

Biennale: de Broin’s ‘Deviations’ – Sep 28

MICHEL DE BROIN’S ‘DEVIATIONS’ TO BE UNVEILED AT CHARLESON PARK ON SEPTEMBER 28, 2018 Vancouver is a city consumed with…
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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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Sep. 24, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Cycling Survey — 2018 Vancouver Civic Election

HERE‘s another terrific job being done by HUB, the cycling advocacy group, on behalf of its members and all people…
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Sep. 20, 2018 / Colin Stein

Pavement to Plaza: Vancouver’s 14th & Main (Video)

Any macchiatto tour of Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant hood must now begin (or end) at one of the most west coast…
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Sep. 19, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Bike Share — A New Generation

UBC’s Dropbike is in operation at the Point Grey campus. You can see the bright orange and white bikes rolling…

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