Get Your Own Jane Jacobs or I.M. Pei Doll, Support a Great CauseTrust the good folks behind the City of Toronto’s Jane’s Walk Festival to come up with the perfect way to…
Colin Stein on “Vanbikes” – Feb 24Join Colin Stein online as he explores the factors, individuals and movements that made Vancouver one of the best places…
How to kill Kingsway in order to save it – and why we can’tJohn Mackie is the Sun’s writer with an historic lens. He helps us see the shape of the future through…
Heritage Week in BC: ‘Altogether Inclusive’February 21-27 is Heritage Week in BC and across Canada. ‘Altogether Inclusive’ explores the many ways that heritage engagement needs…
“Settler” and Other Words – Ambiguous, Ominous and OtherwiseAm I a settler? Not by the dictionary definition: “a person who moves with a group of others to live…
Revising History with Sam Sullivan: The TEAM EraThe fourth and final video of Sam Sullivan’s four-part development history of Vancouver. Full playlist here. An Alternative Opinion…
100 Years Ago Vancouver Christmas Eve: Newspaper Discusses Mayor Or Alderman?I had a look at the Vancouver Province for Saturday December 24 1921, exactly 100 years ago today. I expected…
This Year’s WALL: ShowBoatThe WALL at CBC Plaza is a large format artists’ platform made possible through a unique partnership between VHF and…
Kluckner: On the Question of Racial Zoning in VancouverFurther to the comment made by historian Michael Kluckner to this post on racism and zoning in Vancouver, here is…
LA Revelations 3: Discovering the Missing MiddleIf there was a time when the California Dream seemed to match up with reality for most of its people,…
Racism, Vancouver Zoning & the Implications of the Great Molasses FloodGordon wrote last week about land use Zoning in British Columbia, and how his writing about zoning in this province…
Heritage Vancouver: The Filipino Food HubFrom Heritage Vancouver: Listening Room: The Filipino Community and food hub at Joyce-Collingwood A rezoning proposal for 5163-5187 Joyce…
The Flood of ’48 and the Lessons We LearnedWhat you can see from the flood coverage in the valley, at least in some of the images, is that…
The Canadian War Museum & the Story of KurtThe Canadian War Museum has been open for 16 years now and was designed by Moriyama and Teshima Architects. It…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner