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CityHallWatch
2019 Jun Opinion: Vancouver growth targets don’t add up (Elizabeth Murphy, Vancouver Sun, 7-Jun-2019) – Crucial motion coming June 12: Reprinted here, with permission. Elizabeth Murphy writes in a Vancouver Sun op ed challenges the City’s numbers. Excerpts: Vancouver’s housing strategy is based on population growth targets that are much higher than projections that census data would justify. City policies, programs and budget ar...
2019 Jun Residents in support of neighbourhood pools plan rally June 10 in front of City Hall: Notice received: Despite over 5000 combined signatures collected by the Templeton and Lord Byng Community to keep the Neighbourhood Pools open,  VanSplash in their  November, 2017, the final draft strategy, Park Board staff recommended “Moving away from a predominantly neighbourhood scale pool sy...
2019 Jun Development applications snapshot 1-Jun-2019: For an explanation of our monthly snapshots please visit this page:https://cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/city-hall/snapshots-rezoning-development-applications/ As a free public service CityHallWatch takes a monthly snapshot of the Rezoning Applications listed on the City of Vancouver website. The l...
2 22%
The Tyee
2019 Jun ‘We’re Pretty Proud of It’: BC’s First Indigenous-Owned Legal Pot Shop Opens (in News): Owners Carrie and Adam Mussell say the hard work was worth it.
2019 Jun Over 1,000 Tyee Readers Contribute to Election Reporting Fund (in Tyee News): Now, the work begins to dig into the questions you want answered. Thank you!  Related Stories Over 1,000 Tyee Readers Contribute to Election Reporting Fund (in Tyee News) Tyee Election Reporting Fund Passes Target with Days to Go (in Tyee News) Help Build Canada's Best Independent Election Repor...
2019 Jun Twerps, the Apocalypse, Pipelines and Vonnegut (in Opinion): Trudeau and Scheer share a ludicrous oil addiction. Where’s Kurt when you need him?  Related Stories Don’t Be Distracted by This Populist Sideshow (in Opinion) Canadian Politicians Are Playing a Dangerous Game on Migration (in Opinion) Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate (...
3 18%
Frances Bula - Vancouver city life and politics
2019 Jun Two-thirds say our housing crisis the result of “basic flaws of capitalism,” others say cheaters; critics say false choice: Okay, 361 people voted in my silly little poll asking if our housing crisis is the result of “basic flaws of capitalism” or cheaters taking advantages of a basically good system. And 64 per cent picked door number 1, although I have to note that a number of Twitter commenters said I was posing a ...
2019 May The Vancouver dilemma: How to build new apartments without displacing tenants.: I had a story in Tuesday’s Globe about a couple of old and very inexpensive apartment buildings on Oak Street in the heart of Marpole, which are up for redevelopment. (Full text of story after the break.) The owner wants to build 91 new units to replace the 1959 and 1964 buildings on site with 43...
4 12%
Stephen Rees's blog
2019 Jun Do we really want driverless buses?: A consortium has been formed of US transit agencies who want to try out driverless buses. The idea is that the cost of getting into this new technology will be lower if it is shared. I think the idea of a consortium to try out new technologies is a good one, and one that has a long history ...
2019 Jun The Bicycle Diaries: Episode 14: Yesterday we got the bikes tuned up by Velofix (they come to you, which makes things very convenient) and the old, sprung front fork was put back on to replace the solid one I needed to accomodate the electric wheel. I never heard back from the guy who bought the other one, so I do not know if h...
5 9%
Price Tags
2019 Jun Survey Says~We are Ready for Denser Neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s man with numbers Mario Canseco has his finger on the pulse of Vancouver and his latest survey in Business in Vancouver suggests we are moving towards inclusive ways to house and age in place in neighbourhoods, and that we still value neighbourhood character. Firstly around modular hou...
2019 Jun Panel Discussion: Creative Housing Options for North Shore Seniors – June 25: Can’t make the Price Talks event next Wednesday? On Tuesday, June 25th, a coalition of five North Shore community agencies are hosting a panel discussion on possible solutions for North Shore seniors experiencing the impacts of the housing crunch. Solutions to be discussed include the proposed a...
6 9%
The Vancouver Observer
2017 Oct A rising tide that swamps all boats: VIFF screens "Human Flow," Ai Weiwei's pilgrimage on the long refugee road to nowhereread more
2017 Oct Penelope Cruz sends up movie people and a bit of politics in The Queen of Spain, one of my VIFF picks: Also: Arty types get their due in The Square and Western finds today??s European colonialismread more
7 3%
The Mainlander
2019 Mar Stranger Than Kindness: Allyship Versus Support in the DTES: Over the last decade, the BC government has shifted to a model of “supportive” housing for low-income communities in Vancouver and across the province. There is a dissonance however between the stated intentions of support staff and the conditions that supportive housing reinforce for a large num...
2019 Mar Looking Ahead At 58 W Hastings: Photo Essay: What lies ahead for 58 and the people of the Downtown Eastside? If history has been any lesson, the vision of 58 West Hastings was born and fought for in the streets. Its future cannot be won otherwise.
8 3%
Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
2019 Jun CBC Musical Nooners Celebrates 10 Years of Free Lunchtime Concerts Downtown: CBC Vancouver is excited to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the CBC Musical Nooners series that showcases local performers and offers free concerts every weekday in July and August. The post CBC Musical Nooners Celebrates 10 Years of Free Lunchtime Concerts Downtown appeared first on Vancouver...
2019 Jun Fish, Hike, and Paddle in Crowsnest Pass: Fish, hike, and canoe the Crowsnest Pass area of Alberta in the Rocky Mountains. Check out my latest ZenSeekers assignment. The post Fish, Hike, and Paddle in Crowsnest Pass appeared first on Vancouver Blog Miss604.
9 2%
Geoff Meggs - Vancouver City Councillor
2017 Jun Rejection of 105 Keefer opened the door to new future for Chinatown, but will anyone walk through?: Yesterday??s 8-3 council vote to reject Beedie Group??s proposal to build a 12-story project at 105 Keefer ended the longest public hearing in a decade, a process that turned into a debate on the future of Chinatown. I voted with the majority in that vote and wrote down my comments ?? somethin...
2017 Jun Guichon, Clark and Reid, eminent women at centre of BC??s political crisis, play a striking role at Grace McCarthy??s funeral: Grace McCarthy With her sudden gasp, her struggle for composure and her faltering opening , BC Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon made it clear today that her contribution at Grace McCarthy??s state funeral was deeply personal. McCarthy, who died May 24 at 89, was one of the most important p...
10 0%
fraseropolis
2019 Jun Vancouver’s housing crash and the cost of living: A recent report estimates that B.C.’s housing price downturn, underway for the past year or more, has cost Metro Vancouver homeowners 89 billion dollars in notional home equity or almost $40,000 for every resident of the region. This number, which appears to originate with a couple of retired mi...
11 0%
VanRamblings
2019 Jun Music Sundays | Angus and Julia Stone | Sibling Folk: Julia Natasha Stone was born on the 13th of April 1984 in Sydney Australia. Julia's parents, Kim and John Stone, were both well-regarded Australian folk musicians who played locally. Two years later, on April 27th 1986, her brother Angus was born. At family gatherings, it was not unc...
12 0%
BobMackin.ca > Vancouver
2016 Jun Must read: How the Premier??s flunkies snubbed a citizen: In my story published by The Tyee on June 22, I reported on the outraged British Columbians who wrote to Premier Christy Clark this spring to express their anger at her $50,000-a-year BC Liberal fundraising bonus and the $10,000-a-head party fundraisers. One of the emails to Clark stood out. A...
13 0%
BetterParks for Vancouver
2019 Jun 'It's an emergency:' Vancouver park official alarmed by urban forest drought: Dave Demers wants to speed up plan to plant more drought tolerant species Chad Pawson · CBC News · Posted: Jun 21, 2019 A Vancouver Park Board commissioner wants to accelerate plans to protect Vancouver's urban forest from drought. Dave Demers, a landscaper who was elected in October as a Gr...
14 0%
Spacing Vancouver
2018 Mar Vancouver demographics: brief overview: With over 2,400,000+ population Vancouver is one of the largest cities in North America. It is also one of the cities which are regarded to be the cleanest ones in the world. The city has awesome demographics which mean that as compared to any other place this city consists of highly well-off peo...
15 0%
Vancity Buzz > News
2016 Jul 21 Pokemon GO Vancouver locations you need to get to right now: Pokémon GO is taking over our lives. Here??s the lowdown, and where you can find Pokemon GO Vancouver locations. What the hell is Pokémon GO? You remember the Pokémon games from the 1990s right? Well, this July, (like everything else we remember from our childhoods) it got a reboot, with t...
16 0%
Hummingbird604.com
2014 May In loving memory of Russ Benger: My good friend Russ Benger passed away a couple of days ago, and it breaks my heart that I am so many thousand kilometres away from Vancouver to have even had the opportunity to spend any more time with him, to say goodbye, to celebrate his life and to be able to support my good friend Gus Fosaro...
17 0%
Metro Vancouver's University Town
2019 Apr Ant Season - environmentally friendly ways to encourage them to leave: Every year the cries goes out - "Ants! They're everywhere." My partner and I have been noticing them swarming out of their underground homes on our morning walks.  Over by the Music Building we even saw a sign on the ground asking people to respect the ants and let them carry on. Gardners often b...
18 0%
Oldtown News
2014 Nov Mayor Roberston Appears to have no Ethics: November 9, 2014 Well this really pissed me off. Residents of the Seafield apartments on Pendrell Street in the West End were under threat of renoviction from developer landlord Gordon Nelson. Some elderly tenants received rent increases of 300 % and at that time the MLA for the riding Mr Chandra...
19 0%
Vancouverite: High speed news - powered from Vancouver
2019 Mar Second fatal crash forces Boeing to update software for diving 737 Max aircraft: Renton, Washington – The second fatal accident involving a Boeing 737 Max 8 in six months has prompted the manufacturer to release updated flight control software. In October, Lion Air Flight 610 dived into the Java Sea killing all 189 on board after the pilot asked to turn around. The plane flew...

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