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Oct. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

Reminder: City Conversations today (Oct 3) at 12:30

Please join us for a special edition of City Conversations, presented by SFU Public Square: Immigrant? Welcome to Canada! So you’re…
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Sep. 27, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Immigrants and Professional Barriers – Oct 3

City Conversations: Special Edition: Immigrant? Welcome to Canada! So you’re an engineer? You can drive a cab.   Time: 12:30-1:30pm…
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Sep. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Update on the ‘Corner Store’

The last City Conversation – “Should the corner store, and coffee house, return to residential neighbourhoods?” – provided a hook for…
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Sep. 16, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: “The End of Gay Culture?” – Sep 19

From SFU Public Square and the City Program: . The End of Gay Culture? Increasingly accepted, increasingly assimilated. Will a…
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Aug. 29, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Return of the Corner Store? – Sep 5

Should the corner store, and coffee house, return to residential neighbourhoods? Before the 1950’s, Mom & Pop grocery stores were…
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Aug. 09, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Is the ALR under attack? – Aug 15

A huge Tsawwassen Mall, larger than Metrotown’s. Expanded warehousing and staging for DeltaPort. Replacement of the George Massey Tunnel. Expansion…
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Jul. 30, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: Development, Density, Dollars – Aug 1

SFU / Public Square Presents CITY CONVERSATIONS Development, Density, Dollars: What do residents get? . A regularly-heard Vancouver refrain is that…
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Jul. 12, 2013 / Gordon Price

Once More Into the Bicycle Fray: Point Grey Road – 4, The Campbell Analysis

Richard Campbell weighs in on the Point Grey Road debate with his anaylsis of the alternatives, making the case that the…
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Jul. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

Once More Into the Bicycle Fray: Point Grey Road – 3, The City Conversation

Wanna talk about?  Come to the next City Conversation: The Point Grey – Cornwall controversy: Who is this road for?…
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Jun. 21, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Engagement in the Rain

In partnership with the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, SFU Public Square tried out an experiment in Lot 19, the…
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Jun. 14, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations Special: Engaged City, at Hornby Parkette – Jun 20

City Conversations Special Event! City to Citizens: We want a better connection with you ‘The city doesn’t listen to us’…
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Jun. 03, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversation: The Lost Pleasures of Food & Eating – June 6

CITY CONVERSATIONS: The Lost Pleasures of Food & Eating   Take-out lunches. “Fresh” peaches in December. Heat-and-eat meals. Restaurant dinners…
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Apr. 11, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations: Where is Big TOO Big? – Apr 18

If the post below this one provokes your interest, and you like to get into issues regarding development, scale and…
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Apr. 02, 2013 / Gordon Price

City Conversations – Democracy: Vote it or Lose it – Apr 4

Election day, May 14th. Following a long downward trend, it’s likely that fewer than half the eligible voters will vote.…

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