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Jan. 23, 2019 / Gordon Price

Spending and Sending Messages on the 800-Block Robson

For all of Vancouver’s history, one thing has been invariably true: we prize our public spaces, our parks and waterfront…
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Jan. 23, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Daffodil Hill

Out today on a small errand, which took me through Vancouver’s Sunset Beach Park.  Daffodils bloom there, and their peak…
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Jan. 15, 2019 / Colin Stein

Urban Artist at Work: Solar System Labyrinth

From our local correspondents Michael and Dianna: Recently, in a break between rain squalls, Toronto transplant Himy Syed chalked an…
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Jan. 09, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

New York City’s High Line and Why It Matters

The January winter is always a time where people evaluate effectiveness and success, and looking at New York City’s High…
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Jan. 07, 2019 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Views, Entitled Homeowners and the Trees that Got in the Way

There is now a three part trilogy in Vancouver where a valued public resource~public trees~have been hacked or poisoned on…
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Jan. 03, 2019 / Ken Ohrn

Fun With Electrons and Trees

There’s a big lovely birch in Jericho Beach Park, and it seems to be lonely. So I’ve e-mailed it and…
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Dec. 31, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Year’s End 2018

Jericho Beach Park, one of my favourite places.  Extra attaboys to those finding the hammock and the beaver barrier in…
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Dec. 30, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Love Those Parks

At Sunset Beach Park is Daffodil Hill, where the Park Board has planted an early blooming variety.  It’s a sheltered…
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Dec. 28, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Ohrn Image — Sunset Beach Park

December 25, 2018…
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Dec. 27, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

On the Arbutus Greenway, December 25, 2018

The ancient CP railway track continues to change into one of Vancouver’s treasures. While there a few days ago, I…
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Dec. 26, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

It’s Where You Find It

The spirit of the season is where you find it.  And this Christmas Labyrinth was at Olympic Village, just north…
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Dec. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

The 1970s are Coming Down (Parkade Division) – 7

They came for the surface parking lots.  Then they came for the gas stations.  Now they’ve come for the parkades.…
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Dec. 11, 2018 / Gordon Price

Rain in the Lane

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Dec. 07, 2018 / Gordon Price

Manhattan’s Hottest Bachelor

Dianna, our Vancouver observer in NewYork, has become a Quackarassa.  She sends her own shot of the Mandarin duck (story…

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