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Jan. 25, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Main Street Merchant Needs Intervention in Mayhem

Daphne Bramham on the weekend wrote in the Province that “the chaos and disorder” in the Downtown Eastside  is so …
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Jan. 19, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Making it Harder for Mr. Peanut to Run for Vancouver Mayor

  It’s no secret that when election ballots were alphabetized in the City of Vancouver that they seemed to favour…
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Jan. 12, 2021 / Gordon Price

The Working Person in 2021

(Click for full image) Imagine if you had seen this shot in 2019 and asked to provide an explanation.…
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Jan. 04, 2021 / Sandy James Planner

Staying Lit through the Long Metro Vancouver Winter?

The Duke of Data at Simon Fraser University’s City Program Andy Yan suggested it first: if you have Christmas lights…
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Dec. 22, 2020 / Gordon Price

A Lesser Known Quote from Jane Jacobs

A quote I don’t remember from “Death and Life of Great American Cities,” but, thanks to Farhad Manjoo at the…
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Nov. 26, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Dim Sum Predilections~ What will Happen Here by 11.20.2021?

  If ever there was a year that threw out most predictions, this is the one. On November 20, 2020,…
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Nov. 17, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Vancouver Through Two Plagues~Fundraising Webinar to Benefit Vancouver Archives

  If you have not been on a walking tour or an event and met Vancouver historian John Atkin, now…
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Nov. 10, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

The Family at 2825 Clark Street and their Great War Loss

In the last week I wrote about the house at 2825 Clark Drive and the family, Edith, Arthur and Willie…
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Nov. 06, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Coffee on the Go & the Pandemic “Fake Commuting” Phenomena

You have seen it in Vancouver~long lines of vehicles  in the drive-in lanes at McDonald’s in Kerrisdale when there’s no…
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Oct. 05, 2020 / Sandy James Planner

Covid Pandemic~Cruise Ships Being Docked & Destroyed

  Cruise ships have a life of thirty years before they need to be revamped. But in Liaga Turkey which…
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Sep. 01, 2020 / Gordon Price

How Vancouver expresses itself: One hour around False Creek

Some observations and commentary on these curious and conflicting times, as seen on a ride from Kits to the West…
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Aug. 26, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Abroad, Nelson

Compiled from a selection of Gord’s Instagram posts as he travels through the Okanagan. Almost at the end of a…
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Aug. 20, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Abroad Okanagan Edition PT1

Highway 1 to Hope, Highway 3 to Osoyoos. First impression: it hasn’t changed. Still the same fields of summer crops,…
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Aug. 15, 2020 / Gordon Price

Urbanist Abroad … in the Okanagan

PT: In May, I had a hunch. If Dr. Henry approved, this would be a great summer to take a…

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