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Jan. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Learning from LA: The Auckland Perspective

Further to the post below on the background to Los Angeles’s Measure R initiative, the transportblog in Auckland (a version…
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Jan. 30, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Stakes – and the Stories of Los Angeles

Measure R – the $40-billion initiative for transportation upgrades that passed in 2008 by a two-thirds majority in Los Angeles County – has…
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Jan. 28, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: What the public wants (or, Why Vaughn Palmer is indispensible)

When Vaughn Palmer, The Sun’s Victoria columnist, turns his attention to an issue, he provides both valuable information and the context into…
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Jan. 27, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The CKNW Roundtable

Here’s the Roundtable that Shane Woodford hosted on CKNW this Sunday, with Mayor Greg Moore, Eric Doherty and, oh yeah,…
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Jan. 24, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: False Equivalencies and Political Follies

After half a year of blogging on the transit referendum, I was wondering whether anyone really cared about it –…
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Jan. 22, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The ballsiest statement … so far

Frances Bula posted it: This just out from the Surrey Board of Trade, who don’t sound like happy campers The…
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Jan. 16, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The End of the Region as we know it – ctd

Lots of insights here in Jeff Nagel’s coverage: TransLink referendum could sway civic election outcomes The outcome of this fall’s civic…
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Jan. 15, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Pre-Debate Begins

A pre-debate is the debate about the referendum – not the actual initiative itself.  In other words, much of what this…
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Jan. 14, 2014 / Gordon Price

The ‘Let’s Wing It’ Referendum: Hijacking the local election

The latest from Frances Bula in The Globe and Mail: Why some B.C. mayors want local elections, transit referendum on…
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Jan. 13, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: Top Issue in Region This Year

That’s the take of Novae Res Urbis in its current issue: . Transportation referendum top issue This year brings municipal…
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Jan. 07, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Moral Dilemma

Will the failure of the transit referendum result in a moral dilemma – one that is particularly acute for the…
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Jan. 03, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: “No is not an option”

The thrust of the referendum campaign – even before the wording is chosen – must be: “No is not an…
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Jan. 02, 2014 / Gordon Price

Referendum: What shouldn’t ever be at stake

Regardless of the wording, the  campaign or the outcome of the referendum, the conclusion should not and cannot be ‘No more…
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Dec. 31, 2013 / Gordon Price

Referendum: The Posts of 2013

For those who would like to keep track of the unfolding story of the transit referendum in Price Tags, but…

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