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Jun. 06, 2017 / Gordon Price

Ending the Referendum Requirement – 2

Bill Holmes added an important comment to the announcement post on the Price Tags Initiative to the End the Referendum…
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Jun. 05, 2017 / Gordon Price

A Price Tags Initiative: Ending the Referendum Requirement

  ENDING THE REFERENDUM REQUIREMENT IN METRO . The Mayors’ Council has released a “90-Day Action Plan for Metro Vancouver…
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May. 31, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Becoming Tunnelled Vision in New Provincial Alliance?

While the Mayor of Delta rues on CBC news that the unsustainable, overbuilt, multi-billion dollar Massey Bridge may not be constructed due…
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May. 26, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Port Says Deeper Fraser River not needed, time to Twin the Tunnel, Nix the Massey Bridge?

The timing of this announcement after the Provincial election is puzzling.As reported in the Surrey Leader the Vancouver Fraser Port…
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May. 23, 2017 / jamesavbligh

The Power Broker, a very late and incomplete book review.

Having just finished reading The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, I was struck by how…
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May. 17, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Are there 800,000 Empty Bedrooms in Metro Vancouver?

Metro News and reporter Jen St. Denis reports on Toronto economist Paul Smetanin who has ascertained that if an elderly couple…
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May. 12, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Provincial Government Versus Mayors Council-"Ethical Issues Chipped Away Credibility"

Rob Shaw’s article today in the Vancouver Sun does not pull any punches-and finally there is some truth-telling in the…
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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Province Part Two: “Compromise” on “Co-Promise”-A View from an Informed Reader

  Price Tags is blessed with an educated base of very informed readers, who richly  contribute to the comment section.…
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May. 11, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Election-Site C and LNG may be Done Deal-But Massey Tunnel Rethink/Reboot?

Some interesting comments from  CKNW’s Emily Lazatin who asked Helmut Pastrick the chief economist with Central 1 Credit Union about…
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May. 10, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The word "Compromise" means to "Co-Promise"-new era ahead at the Province?

The Provincial Election is over and the electorate gasps as results indicate that no one (yet) really has the reins…
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May. 08, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Sound of One Mayor Clapping Against Mayor's Council #CureCongestionGuide

In one of those puzzling moments, the Mayor of Delta has spoken out against the Mayor’s Council on Regional Transportation-which…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Massey Bridge Quadruples in Interest Costs to $12 Billion Dollars – Leaked Gov't Document

This just in from Business in Vancouver and Nelson Bennett, reporter. Documents leaked to and by the NDP Party show…
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May. 05, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

The Port Mann Bridge, the Massey Bridge and the French Connection

  If you go  through the Massey Tunnel, you’ve seen an increase in machinery and people wearing hard hats at…
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May. 04, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

How Can the Province Support a 3.5 Billion Dollar Sinking Massey Bridge?

. One of the great things about the readership of Price Tags is that the readers are a well-educated bunch who…

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