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Jan. 16, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Making the Office Not Just Green, but Healthy for Humans Too

With the call for sustainability, why are we not seeing health benefits and energy reductions going hand in hand in…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Gordon Price

Gregor Robertson Interview on Global

Given the programming priorities of nightly TV news, (look, a car crash, a fire, a bear), political interviews don’t get the…
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Jan. 12, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Culture, Food Security and Development in Chinatown~

There’s an event at  Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre location with the principal author of the Hua Foundation’s Vancouver Chinatown Food…
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Jan. 11, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

MLA Sam Sullivan Weighs in on the "House Price Crisis"

  Sam Sullivan needs no introduction to Vancouver readers. For those outside of Vancouver this multi-faceted, well read, personable individual…
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Jan. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Seymour Street Hisses with the Mosquito Anti-Loitering Device

  If you have been walking on Seymour Street between Robson and Smithe you have probably heard it~kind of a…
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Jan. 09, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Gordie Award 2017~Moments of Courage~YIMBY Marpole

The last Gordie Award of 2017 goes to the people and youth of Vancouver that stood up to ensure that…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / michaelkluckner

SFU Philosophers' Café: What Are We Losing and What's Worth Saving?

Thursday January 11, 7 pm Vancouver Public Library, Joe Fortes Branch, 870 Denman Street Come and participate in a free…
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Jan. 08, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Gordie Awards 2017~Most Puzzling Planning Work and Process~Chinatown and Translation

The Gordie Award for the 2017 most puzzling planning work and process goes to the work occurring around Chinatown and…
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Jan. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

Instagram, a Gastown Parking Lot, and Christopher Cheung @lotspotting

Christopher Cheung has written a delightfully fun piece in the Tyee about his foray into the instagram world of people photographing~well, themselves.…
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Jan. 05, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Gordies 2017-Potentially Most Polarizing Planning Work~Amazon HQ2

A unanimous pick by the Price Tags editors for the most Potentially Polarizing Planning Work~The Amazon solicitation from cities right…
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Jan. 03, 2018 / Sandy James Planner

The Daily Durning: Millennials and the "Missing Middle" in Housing Form

Tom Durning of the Daily Durning sends this article from the Washington Post which quotes our very own City of Vancouver Planner,…
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Dec. 29, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Toronto's Bike Riding Parking Enforcement Officer Still Not Back to Work

As extraordinary as it seems, the City of Toronto do not have Kyle Ashley, the parking enforcement officer who was…
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Dec. 28, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

More Data Coming on Who is Who in the Metro Vancouver Market

Everyone was pretty excited when Statistics Canada and the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released a batch of data…
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Dec. 27, 2017 / Sandy James Planner

Those Mega Cruise Ships Looking for a Vancouver Parking Place

In the “bad ideas that just won’t go away” department both Port Metro Vancouver and the Delta Optimist are out in force…

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