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Apr. 06, 2022 / Gordon Price

Uytae Lee is a Gem

Well, anyway, he’s on Gem – the CBC version:   We’ve posted Uytae’s videos as he’s produced them – insights…
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Apr. 05, 2022 / Gordon Price

Revising the Grand Bargain – with Rob Grant

If the Grand Bargain is going to be discarded or majorly revised, there needs to be a new bargain –…
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Apr. 01, 2022 / Gordon Price

The Grand Bargain Repeated

When I coined the term “Grand Bargain” in this post back in 2019, I wasn’t sure if it would be…
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Mar. 31, 2022 / Gordon Price

Puzzle Pic: Where is this?

Can you name the street?…
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Mar. 31, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

City of Vancouver Faster Permit Process Means Private Property Tree Axing

Yesterday in Viewpoint Vancouver Gordon Price wrote about the City of Vancouver “making progress” in clearing the backlog of home…
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Mar. 30, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Public Golf Courses: Are They Future Park Land Banks?

Golf courses have come over scrutiny in the last decade as large reservoirs of space that could be used for…
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Mar. 30, 2022 / Gordon Price

Housing Applications at City Hall: Some Extraordinary News

Every aspiring local politician promises to speed up the approval process at City Hall.  Critics identify delay and ‘red tape’…
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Mar. 28, 2022 / Gordon Price

An inspiration for the new Art Gallery design?

Palmas 555: From that hotbed of modernist design: Mexico in 1975,  By Juan Sordo Madaleno / José Adolfo Wiechers /…
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Mar. 24, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Want to Get Women Walking & On Public Transit? Address Safety

There’s a new research study from the Technical University of Dublin that shows that TransLink is going in the right…
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Mar. 18, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Update: Reconciliation, The Last Link of the Fraser River Trail Greenway & Marine Drive Golf Club Saying No

Earlier this week Viewpoint Vancouver reminded residents why you cannot traverse the entire Fraser River Trail Greenway despite the fact…
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Mar. 16, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

BC’s Roadmap Hopes to Reduce Vehicle Use by 25% by 2030

The Provincial Government introduced a Climate Change Plan in October 2021 that has a “Clean BC Roadmap” for 2030. The…
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Mar. 15, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

The Last Needed Link for Fraser River Trail Greenway: Private Golf Club Shuns Completion & Why a Locked Secret Historic Site should be the Showcase

There has been much discussion about golf courses in Vancouver. Along the Fraser River there is the Marine Drive Golf…
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Mar. 14, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Bed Peace with Yoko Ono & John Lennon at Vancouver Art Gallery

Maureen Nicholson posted this wonderful image on social media.   Kerry Sully captured the Vancouver Art Gallery facade which advertises an…
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Mar. 10, 2022 / Sandy James Planner

Post Pandemic, Where are those Much Needed Public Washrooms in Commercial Areas & along Transit Stations?

During the past two years it has been very obvious that access to clean, comfortable, monitored public washrooms was something…

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Human Rights and Cities – How Can Municipalities Do the Right Thing?

David Sadoway

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Dec. 21, 2022

Goodbye and Thanks!

Sandy James Planner

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