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Aug. 24, 2011 / Gordon Price

Watching the Watchers Watching the Fireworks

The Dependent Magazine came up with a brilliant little idea: turn the camera around at the Fireworks:…
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Aug. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Paul Newman in ’86: “We have seen the future, and we do not care for it”

Another discovery by Scot Bathgate: In 1986, CIVITAS (in New York City) initiated a study, No More Tall Stories, which…
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Aug. 22, 2011 / Gordon Price

Goodbye to all this

What’s happening here?  Find out at Price Points.…
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Aug. 19, 2011 / Gordon Price

Amazing Grace

You might have missed it: the 25th anniversary of SkyTrain.  Four billion dollars invested so far, and a billion passengers…
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Aug. 19, 2011 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Heritage Foundation’s Fall Program

You can get all the details and register here. Vancouver Special Tour Get your tickets early! Sat. Sept 24th, noon…
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Aug. 18, 2011 / Gordon Price

Cool Sites

Another blog joining those in Vancouver exploring our (and other) urban scenes: This City Life In particular, check out the…
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Aug. 11, 2011 / Gordon Price

Fun with Data

Just discovered the maps that the Vancouver Sun has posted, graphically presenting a huge amount of data from the 2006…
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Aug. 08, 2011 / Gordon Price

Vancouver and Hamilton: So much alike, yet different somehow

Ex-Vancouverite, now Hamiltonian Nicholas Kevlahan compares the two Canadian cities: At first glance it might seem absurd to compare Vancouver and…
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Jul. 04, 2011 / Gordon Price

Livable versus Lovable

Financial Times writer Edwin Heathcote took a look at Vancouver’s liveablity status … and was bored silly: Vancouver (original name,…
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Jun. 23, 2011 / Gordon Price

An Authentic Sky

Ray LeBlond passed on a link to a Vancouver artist he admires: Tom Carter. And why Ray’s appreciation? I think…
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Jun. 16, 2011 / Gordon Price

The Thrill

Patrick Condon, in his response to the riot, articulates something that struck me while watching the unfolding events – but gives…
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Jun. 16, 2011 / Gordon Price

Tradition

Morning, June 15, 2011: Vancouver police say they don’t expect a repeat of ’94 . Evening, June 15, 2011: [Tijana…
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Jun. 13, 2011 / Gordon Price

Vancouver, the Song

There actually aren’t many songs explicitly about Vancouver.  Maybe it’s too hard to rhyme – at least in English. Veronique…
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Jun. 12, 2011 / Gordon Price

More Fun in the Cemetery

Mouintain View is doing its best to overcome the cultural bias against actually engaging with a place of the dead: Here’s…

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