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Jul. 12, 2022 / Gordon Price

Michael Gordon: Making skateboarding legal

By Michael Gordon:   Skateboarding in Vancouver – try to make us illegal and we spring eternal     In…
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Jul. 06, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice Sidewalks: The West End, Images by Rob Grant

  Viewpoint Vancouver is asking readers to send in images of their favourite verdant summer sidewalks that transform the walking…
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Jul. 05, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Stanley Park’s Tally-Ho: Equine to Engine in 1906

The word “Tally-ho” used to refer to the cry of a huntsman chasing a fox on horseback, and also applied…
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Jul. 01, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice Sidewalks on Charles Street, Vancouver

We asked Viewpoint Vancouver readers to send in photos of their  favourite summer sidewalk  in our summer solstice post. Artist…
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Jun. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Mount Pleasant Park Board Pool Duels: City of Vancouver Says You Never Told Us

In the “You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up” department the City of Vancouver is deciding not to fund the…
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Jun. 27, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

A Vancouver Summer Sunday By Photographer Ken Ohrn

Ken Ohrn’s images never disappoint: In this image taken yesterday in Kitsilano he writes “Out again this morning on my…
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Jun. 24, 2022 / Gordon Price

Coffee In, Coffee Out – A New Kind of WC

Our favourite Toronto urbanist, Brandon Donnelly, loves these – the Lisbon cafe kiosk: Lisbon’s cafe kiosks are so wonderful. They…
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Jun. 21, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Summer Solstice: Where is Your Favourite Summer Sidewalk?

Throughout Vancouver there are some remarkable sidewalk vistas that completely embrace the fact this place was originally a rainforest. Take…
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Jun. 20, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Is It Time to Put Vancouver’s Park Board Out to Pasture?

  In Vancouver there’s a crowded starting line for Mayor, and many people running for Council and Park Board  that…
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Jun. 16, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Folsom City Fireworks Go Full Scale Modern: Why Can’t “Green” Vancouver?

Folsom California is a town of 80,454 people in Sacramento County, California. Intel moved here in 1992 and employs 6,100…
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Jun. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Why are We Still Talking About Public Fireworks in Vancouver in the 21st Century?

If you want to divide a room of people really fast, ask them whether they are for or against public…
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Jun. 06, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Allowing Axing of Private Property Trees Not Such a Greenest City Idea After All

It seemed kind of strange at the time.  You would think during a climate emergency and the need to speed…
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Jun. 03, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Hidden Gem in Industrial Area #3: The Truck Stop Cafe at Clark & Napier

At Viewpoint Vancouver we have been highlighting those wonderful eating places that are not necessarily where you think they would…
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May. 31, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Tree Crotch Dropping & Mount Pleasant’s The Davis Family: A Personal Story

I have written before about the remarkable Davis Family who bought up the derelict houses along the 100 block of…

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