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1 27%
Frances Bula - Vancouver city life and politics
Feb 1 City planner ousted because city wants someone who can help sell affordability initiative: And the latest chapter on this. Today’s story, which tries to get at what was really going on behind this abrupt ouster of city planning director Brent Toderian, along with his own observations. By the way, I have it on good authority that, despite what the mayor’s statement made it sound like, t...
Jan 31 Ballem’s internal note to staff re Toderian termination: From: City Managers Broadcast Account Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:45 PM To: All Staff (COV) – DL Cc: Corporate Management Team (COV) – DL Subject: COV Broadcast From City Manager:  City to Seek New Planning Director Today, as you have likely heard, Council has confirmed the decision ...
Jan 31 Vancouver city planner sees term ended by Vision council: My news of the day, which started circulating among developers and architects last week: city planning director Brent Toderian being told his contract is being terminated. Council is supposed to vote on it in camera today, but it’s widely known among those close to city hall. Here’s the profile I...
2 27%
The Tyee
Jan 19 What the Keystone Rejection Really Reveals (in Opinion): ENERGY & EQUITY: The ruthless, evolving nature of energy politics.
Jan 19 What Happened to The Tyee? (in News): Our server crashed for almost 12 hours yesterday. Here's why.
Jan 19 Harper's Former Schoolmate Now on His Enemies List (in News): 'Radical foreign' oil sands foe Bill McKibben attended Toronto elementary school with Stephen Harper.
3 12%
CityHallWatch
Feb 2 Job descriptions for Director of Planning, remuneration and reflections: The job description for the Director of Planning isn’t for the faint of heart. CityHallWatch last July reflected on the pivotal role of this position in the article: Most powerful job in Vancouver? Perhaps the City’s Director of Planning. Two FOI requests have returned the Job Description include...
Jan 31 Open House Feb 1: Wall Financial, 3 towers (10-12 storeys, 6.0 FSR) at 955 E. Hastings: OPEN HOUSE Wed, 1-Feb-2012, 4 – 7 pm (“drop-in” event) Ray-Cam Co-operative Centre 920 East Hastings Street Rezoning Application – 955 East Hastings Streethttp://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/planning/rezoning/applications/955ehastings/index.htm Excerpt:GBL Architects, on behalf of Wall Financial, has ap...
4 10%
CityCaucus.com - Vancouver Politics Blog
Feb 3 "Vancouver's director of planning didn't stand a chance," says Fontaine: Which Vision-friendly bureaucrat will occupy Planning Director's office in Vancouver?Vancouver’s director of planning didn’t stand a chance. With a majority of the city’s development community calling for his head, Mayor Gregor Robertson had little choice but to fire Brent Toderian this ...
Feb 3 Housing affordability discussed this week: A symposium on housing affordabilty begins Thursday afternoonThis afternoon the Canadian Home Builders Association is hosting a symposium on housing affordability. Details about the event are available at withinyourmeans.ca. CityCaucus.com will be in attendance Thursday afternoon and all...
5 9%
Geoff Meggs - Vancouver City Councillor
Feb 3 Translink audit just first round in struggle over new transit funding: The “value for money” audit of Translink by the Auditor General, demanded by the regional Mayor’s Council in their first post-election meeting Jan. 18, looks like the first salvo in the latest struggle over new sources of transportation funding. New funding is necessary if the region is to avoid ...
Feb 2 Class warfare, round 2: Wisconsin unions get off the mat to force recall of the governor, senators and others: He was a rampaging Republican governor who tore up contracts to crush Wisconsin’s public sector unions, triggering a massive occupation of the state legislature. His apparent victory helped drive the Tea Party movement into high gear just two years ago. Corporate executives across North America c...
6 3%
The Vancouver Observer
Dec 3 Getting over greed in the New Year: While most of us are wishing for crap, I try to remember that the most important thing is thinking of others.read more
Jan 2 Polar Bear Swim 2012 in Comox: video:
7 3%
Stephen Rees's blog
Feb 1 Smart Growth Debate: Nathan Pachal has asked me to post a press release from South Fraser OnTrax. They have invited Todd Litman to debate Smart Growth  with Randal O’Toole. Even if I was in town on that day, I would not be going. I have the greatest of respect for Todd but I have nothing but contempt for Randal O’Too...
Jan 26 The Airport and The Ferries: Two quite different modes – and the same issue. The BC Liberals are currently sitting on their hands about the Macatee report on BC Ferries – which ought to make Vaughan Palmer’s exit interview with David Hahn worth watching. (Voice of BC Shaw Cable only 8pm tonight). The policy has been for the ...
8 3%
Price Tags
Feb 3 Good words for Walker – and SkyTrain: Reviews and comments continue to come in for Jarrett Walker’s new book, Human Transit - for example, from the Washington Post’s transit columnist: It’s simply not possible to create routes that will take all of us exactly where we want to go and when we want to go. Much more doable is establishi...
Feb 2 What Works – Vancouver and the Insatiable Auto (9): More quotes from my InRoads article: What will work? Metering and tolling.  Road charging is likely necessary in any event as gas taxes diminish. Anticipated vehicle volumes on new toll bridges and tunnels have vastly overestimated demand, suggesting we might be reaching “peak car use.” Charging ...
9 3%
Spacing Vancouver
Feb 4 Spacing Saturday: Transit Planning, the Tall Building Century and Founding Spacington: Spacing Saturday highlights posts from across Spacing’s blog network in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, and the Atlantic region. A new city was founded this week, the city of Spacington . Spacing staffers will use Sim City to attempt to turn Spacington into a 21st century utopia over the...
Feb 3 Release: Granville Street Summer Activations: Five blocks of downtown Granville Street (400 to 800-Block) - near the Canada Line and SkyTrain stations - will be transformed into a dynamic pedestrian-only space every Saturday and Sunday this summer! Community-based and corporate groups interested in activating the street with recurring and o...
10 3%
OpenFile Vancouver
Feb 4 Saturday MorningFile: On Riot TV, Craigslist death threats and Vancouver's expanding Hollywood North: Blog Post by Carrie Swiggum All rise. Riot TV may soon be in session. Next week the Crown will make its first applications for a riot case proceedings to be broadcast publicy. The Globe and Mail reports that since 2000 when B.C. courts ruled it was okay to have cameras in the courtroom, there h...
Feb 3 Bonus Feature Friday: Vancouver in chalk, St. Paul's is haunted and thoughts on Little Mountain: Blog Post by Michael Aynsley It's the end of the work week, and that means it's time for another installment of Bonus Feature Friday! This week's roundup of news, notes, videos and photos include the dark side of the moon (the place not the album), what MacLean's Magazine called Vancouver's "do...
11 0%
Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
Feb 3 Monster Jam in Vancouver 2012: © 2004-2011 Rebecca Bollwitt - Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. This weekend, the monster trucks roll into Vancouver for a night of family fun as part of the Maple Leaf Monster Jam 2012 tour. I had the cha...
12 0%
Hummingbird604.com
Feb 1 “Fun 2 Cancer 0″ 2nd Annual Team in Training Rock Out and Beat Cancer Night: Speaking of cancer, my good friend Greg Mitchell is organizing his second annual fundraiser for Team In Training and the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. (Greg will be running a triathlon – an amazing feat for anyone who completes one – but he is doing this one inspired by friends of his ...
13 0%
David Eby - Blog
Feb 2 David Ho, sex workers, and the Vancouver Police Foundation: The David Ho case illuminates the challenges sex workers face in going to police, including during the period of the Pickton case, and well after. Well, it illuminates a lot of things actually, some of which raise serious questions that go beyond even the traditional barriers to sex worker report...
14 0%
Vancouver interviews on Filibuster cartoons
Nov 8 Interview with Gregor Robertson: A corporate CEO turned NDP member of the provincial legislature turned mayor, Gregor Robertson won his first term at city hall in the municipal election of 2008. Since then, his administration has been best known for implementing a number of high-profile initiatives relating to homelessness, tran...
15 0%
CivicScene.ca
2011 Jan In 2010, Vancouver had fewer than half the number of murders than it had in 2009.  There were nine homicides within Vancouver’s city limits, down from 19 killings the previous year.
16 0%
Alex G. Tsakumis - Rebel With A Clause
17 0%
paulhillsdon.com
Feb 1 UN calls for new paradigm on progress: Following up on the fascinating dialogues at Davos, where some of the world’s richest individuals discussed reforming capitalism for the 21st century, the UN is calling on the world to establish a new precedent for progress: sustainable development. Preceding the … Continue reading →
18 0%
VanRamblings
Dec 23 2011 Seasonal Holiday Film Capsule Reviews, Part 1: As we do each year at this time, Christmas presents under the tree, turkey and all the fixin's at the ready for Christmas Day, the pantry filled with Christmas goodies and the table laden with chocolates, heading into Boxing Week — the one busiest week at the cinema out of the 52 — we ...
19 0%
Beyond Robson | Vancouver blog
2011 Apr Bistro Pastis' Moroccan menu gets the rosé flowing: Spring is in full bloom in Vancouver. In wine terms, rosé season is here. One pop-up menu in town focuses on pairing earthy spices with this fruity and refreshing wine. Bistro Pastis is showcasing a Moroccan menu with hand-selected rosés, the drink of choice in the Mediterranean country's wa...
20 0%
Peter Ladner
Feb 3 Hey old people, plug in and step aside: “We’re just waiting for your generation to get out of the way so we can get onto what we know has to be done,” said my early 30-something relative in a heated rant last week. He was venting about stalling by older people “who still only use their phone for voice calls”. For his generation, the ne...

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