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Dec. 28, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Snow on English Bay: by Photographer Ken Ohrn

Another great photo from Ken Ohrn. Here’s a party trick to impress your out of province visitors: can you tell…

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Dec. 27, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Christmas in Vancouver: Inukshuk, By Photographer Ken Ohrn

West End resident Ken Ohrn is a talented photographer. Here he perfectly captures Christmas this year, with the ominous changing…

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Dec. 25, 2021 / Gordon Price

Wishing You the Best of All Possible Holidays*

* Under the circumstances. All of us at Viewpoint Vancouver wish you the best for the season and the coming…

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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. 23, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

How A Neighbourhood Magazine Shop Was Saved By Social Media

News stories are not really talking a lot about community resiliency. There are many stories of how people are helping…

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Dec. 22, 2021 / VWPT Vancouver

What the hell happened to the NPA?!

CHATBOX is your chance to eavesdrop on Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner as they joust over our region’s features…

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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 / VWPT Vancouver

Taken to task: The Mayor’s Climate Emergency Action Levy

CHATBOX is your chance to eavesdrop on Gordon Price and Sandy James Planner as they joust over our region’s features…

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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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Dec. 09, 2021 / Gordon Price

Racism and Single-Family Zoning in BC

I admit it: I get a little thrill when seeing something I wrote being referenced elsewhere – even when the…

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Dec. 09, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver City Council Approves Climate Emergency Tax for Property Owners

It was in late November that Mayor Kennedy Stewart announced a climate emergency action levy that would be introduced…

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Dec. 06, 2021 / Gordon Price

LA Revelations 2: Wilshire Stories

To understand Los Angeles, it helps to understand Wilshire Boulevard. The boulevard is a 25-km east-west arterial that transects…

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