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Jan. 19, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Back to the Massey Bridge-Out to Tender

That 3.5 billion dollar project that just seems to go ahead regardless of public input  from others in Metro Vancouver…
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Dec. 30, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Time for the Annual 2016 Gordies

The Price Tags Editorial Board has met at the secret undisclosed location near Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park to ponder…
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Dec. 19, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Port Metro Vancouver and continuing habitat losses to the Fraser River Estuary

The Globe and Mail newspaper reporter Mark Hume has just reviewed the Community Mapping Network (CMN) work which sampled the 151…
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Dec. 06, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

B.C.'s Climate Plan-What Climate Plan?

  It’s had the feel of a strange year. A good point was at the C40 meeting in Mexico City,…
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Oct. 05, 2016 / Sandy James Planner

Short List of Builders for the Ten Lane Massey Bridge Announced

In the “we just hoped this would go away” department, the Province’s ten lane bridge replacing the Massey Tunnel now…
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Sep. 22, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Dealing With Disruption

Here on Price Tags, we’ve published a few articles on pending disruption in the motor vehicle industry from autonomous vehicles.…
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Jan. 31, 2016 / Gordon Price

Stephen Rees: "The Case for Replacing the Massey Tunnel"

Michael Mortensen and others think this latest post from Stephen Rees must be posted on posted on Price Tags: .…
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Jan. 26, 2016 / Gordon Price

Dep't of Irony: Massey son wants tunnel, not bridge

A letter in today’s Sun: Let public in on tunnel alternative . As the son of the late George Massey…
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Nov. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Is Climate Change Consequential? – 2

So far the comments to the post below have been disappointing: ‘Comments not worth commenting on’ – the usual back-and-forth…
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Nov. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Is Climate Change Consequential?

The Prime Minister went to the Arctic for nine days and never spoke of climate change. The words didn’t cross his…
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Sep. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

A Phrase for Our Times: "Soft Denialism"

This is from Tom Athanasiou in, among other places, EcoEquity:  … we’ve been so long distracted by the hard denialists…
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Jul. 31, 2014 / Gordon Price

Bula on BC Transport: “How Vancouver’s traffic nightmares hurt all of B.C.”

Frances Bula examines the transportation issue with a province-wide perspective in B.C. Business: How Vancouver’s traffic nightmares hurt all of…
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Jul. 21, 2014 / Gordon Price

News Clip: Stranded Assets

SFU prof Anthony Perl has an op-ed in The Sun: Managing the risks of investing in coal exports The future…
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Mar. 11, 2014 / Gordon Price

Peter Hall explains the truckers’ strike

Peter Hall is asssociate professor of urban studies at Simon Fraser University – and a contributor to the goods-movement section…

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