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Mar. 01, 2018 / Gordon Price

Sustainability Breakfast: Electrifying Our Region – Mar 14

  There are an estimated 8,000 electric vehicles in BC. These numbers may seem small compared with the millions of…
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Feb. 26, 2018 / michaelkluckner

Golfing and Sprawling in the Hazelmere

[Jenelle Schneider / PNG] Golf and country-residential go together like bears and garbage cans. The Morgan Creek development of recent…
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Feb. 23, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Bigger, Better TransLink

This morning’s TransLink announcement is most welcome to the vast numbers of people who use SkyTrain and Canada Line to…
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Feb. 22, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Environment Canada Expressing Habitat Concern with Deltaport's Proposed Expansion

Price Tags Vancouver has been reporting on the proposal for the Port of Vancouver’s two billion dollar container terminal expansion planned…
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Feb. 19, 2018 / Gordon Price

Cities of the Future

In science fiction, cities of the future have a common look: super-tall slender towers with angled crowns, all about the…
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Feb. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Family Day Here, Islander Day There

Today is Family Day in British Columbia, but it will be on another date next year. The Premier of British Columbia…
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Feb. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Rail to Where? Abbotsford!

  When Henry Braun, the Mayor of Abbotsford was 14 years old the Highway 1 freeway was built.  As he…
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Feb. 02, 2018 / Gordon Price

Doubling Taxes without Controversy: Who We Are and What We Value

Here’s an item you probably haven’t seen. From Metro Vancouver Update: Regional Parks land acquisition funds growth ​Metro Vancouver has…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Health & Planning Innovators~ Dr. John Blatherwick & Dr. Perry Kendall

    In the 1980’s health and planning were never discussed in the same sentence, seemingly separate silos with no…
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Jan. 31, 2018 / Gordon Price

Regional Funding for Transit: Where's the Enthusiasm?

Gord Price: Peter Ladner, on behalf of the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition, makes a plea for a a regional agreement on…
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Jan. 30, 2018 / Gordon Price

SFU Urban Studies Spring Events

Save the Date: Urban Challenges Forum Family friendly: What does it mean to build an inclusive city?  . Wednesday, Feb.…
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Jan. 29, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Richard Wozny, Real Estate Prices and "Mortgage Slaves"

In planning and real estate Richard Wozny is a local legend for his ability to capture the upside of real…
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Jan. 24, 2018 / Gordon Price

Metro Breakfast: Arts and Culture – Feb 14

Join us to learn about online tools such as MAXguide and SpaceFinderBC, Metro Vancouver’s Regional Projects Grants program, and hear about…
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Jan. 23, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

South of the Fraser River & the Industrialization of Delta~Agricultural Land: Going, going, gone

There has been a lot of back and forth about industrial development in Delta.  There is the MLA for Delta…

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