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Nov. 15, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Asim Waqif's "Salvage" at the Vancouver Art Gallery's Offsite Location

Price Tags Vancouver has previously written about the “Fight For Beauty” art exhibition hosted by Westbank  developments  at a downtown hotel. The…
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Nov. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Pedestrians and Vancouver's Active Transportation Update

  A report is going up to a City of Vancouver Committee this week developing a “spot” improvement program for…
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Nov. 06, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Uber Explores Driving that Box, Traffic Jams and Parking

  Love or hate the idea of Uber, this little gem of a YouTube video clearly outlines what we often…
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Nov. 06, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Parking Enforcement Officer Championing Toronto's Active Transportation has Twitter Silenced

“When I went to police college for social media training, they told me to find your  voice, find your community …
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Nov. 06, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

Amazon's HQ-Lite Motives

Why, oh why would Amazon want to put another 1,000 jobs into a big new building, right on the Dunsmuir…
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Nov. 03, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Mayor and Chief Planner to San Francisco~Vancouver wants to Collaborate on Housing Solutions

The Mayor of Vancouver and the Chief City Planner Gil Kelley have jointly submitted an editorial which has appeared in the San…
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Oct. 23, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

When is an Art Exhibition not just an Art Exhibition?

There’s a bit of a firestorm for a developer curated art exhibition at the Fairmont Pacific Rim in Coal Harbour…
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Oct. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A California School Crossing So Dangerous They Won't Hire a Safety Guard~and a Vancouver School Crossing They Won't Do Because it Slows Traffic.

This story from NBC San Diego shows how far motordom continues to dominate, even when there are youngsters trying to walk…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Twinning the Lions Gate Bridge

Eve Lazarus photo In one of those utterly cool moments The Richmond News reports that the historian of the North Vancouver Museum…
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Sep. 14, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Another day,Another document,Another Diatribe from the Liberals over Massey Bridge

You can feel the desperation of the Liberal party in this latest incident-someone in the defeated Liberal provincial party came…
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Sep. 13, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

No Democracy in Delta-MLA's Dual Role Approved to Prevent By-election

Price Tags Vancouver reported yesterday about the dual mandate or double jobbing of the new Rookie MLA from Delta who was also…
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Sep. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Most Walkable? Walk Score Says So

It is really no surprise that  Vancouver has been named the most walkable city in Canada by Walk Score which…
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Sep. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A New Relationship with Metro Mayors and Province~Transportation and the Region

Get a little bit of rain and everyone gets back to business in Vancouver where the The CBC reports on the…
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Sep. 06, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

A Tale of Two Cities~Should Kids Use Transit to Get to School?

The Daily Scot Bathgate reminds us that it is September and parents are wrangling their children back to school. At…

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