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Apr. 22, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Get Your Own Jane Jacobs or I.M. Pei Doll, Support a Great Cause

Trust the good folks behind the City of Toronto’s Jane’s Walk Festival to come up with the perfect way to…
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Feb. 14, 2022 / Gordon Price

Colin Stein on “Vanbikes” – Feb 24

Join Colin Stein online as he explores the factors, individuals and movements that made Vancouver one of the best places…
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Feb. 11, 2022 / Gordon Price

How to kill Kingsway in order to save it – and why we can’t

John Mackie is the Sun’s writer with an historic lens.  He helps us see the shape of the future through…
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Feb. 11, 2022 / Gordon Price

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…
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Jan. 31, 2022 / Gordon Price

“Settler” and Other Words – Ambiguous, Ominous and Otherwise

Am I a settler? Not by the dictionary definition: “a person who moves with a group of others to live…
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Jan. 20, 2022 / Gordon Price

Revising History with Sam Sullivan: The TEAM Era

The fourth and final video of Sam Sullivan’s four-part development history of Vancouver.  Full playlist here.   An Alternative Opinion…
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Dec. 24, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

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…
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Dec. 17, 2021 / Gordon Price

This Year’s WALL: ShowBoat

The WALL at CBC Plaza is a large format artists’ platform made possible through a unique partnership between VHF and…
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Dec. 15, 2021 / Gordon Price

Kluckner: On the Question of Racial Zoning in Vancouver

Further to the comment made by historian Michael Kluckner to this post on racism and zoning in Vancouver, here is…
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Dec. 14, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 3: Discovering the Missing Middle

If there was a time when the California Dream seemed to match up with reality for most of its people,…
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Dec. 13, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Racism, Vancouver Zoning & the Implications of the Great Molasses Flood

Gordon wrote last week about land use Zoning in  British Columbia, and how his writing about zoning in this province…
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Nov. 29, 2021 / Gordon Price

Heritage Vancouver: The Filipino Food Hub

From Heritage Vancouver: Listening Room: The Filipino Community and food hub at Joyce-Collingwood   A rezoning proposal for 5163-5187 Joyce…
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Nov. 18, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Flood of ’48 and the Lessons We Learned

What you can see from the flood coverage in the valley, at least in some of the images, is that…
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Nov. 11, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

The Canadian War Museum & the Story of Kurt

The Canadian War Museum has been open for 16 years now and was designed by  Moriyama and Teshima Architects. It…

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