Strategic Avoidance: Ignoring the Big Issues of Housing and TransitThe reports keep coming in on the most important and least-addressed issue in Vancouver: housing. In addition to the usual…
Post-Referendum: How we screwed ourselves – and how we might move onFrom Business in Vancouver: Harper’s Surrey LRT pledge hinges on regional funding $700 million federal election campaign promise only part…
Transit: "Surrey should go first"Yup, that’s what I said at a Surrey Board of Trade Forum last week. Here’s the coverage from Novae Res…
Indictment of a Referendum: What was learnedIn December 2012, the SFU Centre for Dialogue – well before the referendum – brought together between 25 to 50…
The Damage Being Done: Density in a Post-Referendum Region It’s just a matter of time before those fighting the densification of their communities figure something out: When high-density…
The end of the Region as we know it – Round 2Don’t overlook this op-ed in the Vancouver Sun on August 10: the annual attack by Wendell Cox of Demographia on one…
Op-ed: Why the referendum defeat was a good thingAs Gabriel Metcalf notes in the post below, “San Francisco does not have a massive network of regional public transit…
The TransLink Dilemma: Punishment for PerfectionWhat do we do with TransLink? Since so many people justified a No vote on the referendum because they believed…
After the Referendum: What needs to be done?What actions do I think need to be agreed on after the referendum? No more referenda Reform of TransLink’s governance…
Morning Thought: Yes or No – What happens next?Word has it that the results of the referendum will be out on Thursday at 10am. Like a lot of…
McMartin: Why local government has to innovate (with some side commentary on ‘neoliberalism’)Sun columnist Pete McMartin is one tolerant guy. And not because he favours legalizing marijuana. He calls me up for…
Morning Thought: HITS for VancouverThis is boggling: From The Globe and Mail: Chinese envoy says lack of oversight behind Vancouver’s house-price crisis . The…
Referendum Post-Mortem: Tessa Holloway Price Tags will be posting a lot of post-referendum analysis. (We welcome your submissions!) It’s not too early to…
Dec. 19, 2022Vancouver’s “Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels” (DAFFS) Way Ahead of Their TimeSandy James Planner