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1 24%
The Tyee
May 17 Chatting with Stursberg, My Ex-Boss and Arch-Nemesis (in Tyee Books): The former CBC boss shook up my work world, got fired and wrote a book. Time to catch up.
May 17 The Perfect Pop Song (in Arts and Culture): From 'Jessie's Girl' to 'Melody for Lovers,' we're still swooning.
May 16 The Big Download Whacks Cities (in News): As feds and province keep cutting, 86 BC mayors meet to share their pain.
2 16%
Frances Bula - Vancouver city life and politics
May 14 Mayor invited to Paris to talk about new-tech Vancouver: Another week, another conference about how to create new cities and improve old ones. Today, Mayor Gregor Robertson opened the New Cities Foundation conference in Paris, with top-rankedVancouver imaginer Doug Coupland also on board, to talk about the city as a frontier for new-tech solutions that...
May 14 Vancouver, Montreal, Portland, Minneapolis all get high “BikeScore” marks with new measuring tool: This just out from UBC University of British Columbia researchers are making bikeability research easily accessible to consumers and city planners by introducing bikeability “heat maps” in partnership with Seattle-based Walk Score® at www.walkscore.com/bike. Combining data on availability of cycl...
3 15%
David Eby - Blog
Apr 4 Will the Missing Women Inquiry have enough momentum to finish?: Brian Hutchinson needs a journalism award for his coverage of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry. The dogged journalist broke the story that many have been talking about in low whispers for the last few months, that disgruntled former staff at the Inquiry have some serious grievances. Despit...
Mar 9 Missing Women Commission lawyers still trash talking Gervais: The gang up at the Missing Women Commission is still after lawyer Robyn Gervais who told it like it is, and left the Inquiry. Yesterday morning Darrel Roberts, Q.C. went on the CBC Early Edition to say what a great job Robyn had done, but how she misunderstood the terms of reference and what a la...
4 15%
Price Tags
May 17 Annals of Cycling – 57: An occasional update on items from the Velo-city. ___________________________________________________________________ . HOT (BIKE) TIMES AT UBC You’ve no doubt heard of WalkScore’s latest: Bikescoring major cities.  But you may not be aware of the contribution Prof. Kay Teschke and a group at UBC...
May 17 Another helpful headline from The Vancouver Sun: This morning’s front-page lead, paper-version: . You can practically see them salivating down at Granville Square.  Fair and balanced, that’s our Sun. . Whereas Global TV’s online version: . And even The Sun’s version when they went online: . BTW, Global has a poll: Do you support the further ...
5 6%
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:
6 6%
Stephen Rees's blog
Apr 26 YouCity Innovation Contest: “Below the fold” is another Press Release. This one gets through my very fine sieve since it is actually relevant to the readers of this blog. Who knows, someone reading this might actually get a trip to Berlin out of it. If you do, please let me know. BUT – there’s always a “but” from the acerbi...
Apr 25 Book Review: Straphanger by Taras Grescoe: I was pleased to get an invitation to read a review copy of Straphanger by Taras Grescoe. I was even more pleased when I got it  straightaway as a download. The download I get, of course, has a limited life – but longer than the average library loan. On the other hand it does not permit me to co...
7 6%
Geoff Meggs - Vancouver City Councillor
May 16 TaxiSaver program dies as Translink cuts hit people with disabilities, seniors: Translink’s TaxiSaver program is headed for elimination as the beleaguered transit agency struggles to find “efficiencies” ordered by the Translink fare commissioner just weeks ago. That means funding formerly available to help seniors and people with disabilities, by giving them a 50 percent dis...
May 14 New rental incentive program builds housing affordability on STIR gains: The Secured Market Rental Policy program going before the city’s Finance and Budget Committee Tuesday opens the door to long-term expansion of the city’s rental housing stock by building on the success of last term’s Short Term Incentives for Rental program (STIR). The STIR program generated 1,64...
8 6%
fraseropolis
May 17 Hoping for the best in the Heights: The Heights village in Burnaby grew up along a streetcar line that was built during the Canadian land boom and crash of 1911-1912.  Great history, and some great little shops, some dating from the Italian immigration of the 1940s and 50s.  I’m sure people have fond memories of this place; I feel...
May 11 Winters in Vancouver can be dark: About 10 per cent of visitors to this site come from outside Canada.  Some must wonder at all the photos showing dull or threatening skies.  Why don’t I just wait for a sunny day? We can go for a month or more in this region without sunny days; Wikipedia, the summit of human intelligence, allows ...
9 6%
OpenFile Vancouver
May 17 Vancouver restaurants volunteer nutritional information for government health program: Blog Post by Michael Aynsley The B.C. government has launched its Informed Dining program, which has restaurants volunteering their nutritional information to customers as a way to promote healthy eating. According to the province, close to 300 restaurants are involved in the initiative includi...
May 17 Partial solar eclipse over Vancouver on Sunday evening: Blog Post by Michael Aynsley Sky worshipers in B.C. have had it good lately. Just two weeks ago they were able to enjoy a supermoon, and on Sunday (May 20), they will be treated to a partial eclipse of the sun (if the weather behaves, of course). While it’s just a partial eclipse in Western Can...
10 0%
CityHallWatch
May 17 New Director of Planning Job Post as General Manager, Planning & Development: The City of Vancouver has been without a Director of Planning since Brent Toderian was let go on January 31, 2012. Kent Munro has filled the position since February 29, 2012 on an Interim Basis. We’ve included the text of the new job posting further below. Please see the earlier articles for furt...
11 0%
CityCaucus.com - Vancouver Politics Blog
May 17 Dix, don’t count your chickens: Think today's polls can predict next May's election outcome? Think again. With less than a year until a provincial election, things are looking rather grim for Premier Christy Clark. The latest Angus Reid Public Opinion poll results indicate the BC NDP (50%) have significantly widened their lead ...
12 0%
Vancouver Blog Miss 604 by Rebecca Bollwitt
May 17 Vancouver Craft Beer Week 2012: Sisters of the Tap: © 2004-2012 Rebecca Bollwitt - Miss604.com. If you are not reading this via official Miss604 channels, this content is being reproduced without permission. Vancouver Craft Beer Week officially kicks off in just over 24 hours as over 60 BC breweries participate in this hop-filled celebration. One ...
13 0%
paulhillsdon.com
May 2 Vancouver is falling behind the urban curve: Welcome to 2012 – the first time Vancouver has failed to top any of the world’s livability surveys. It’s easy to dismiss them as subjective or irrelevant, but being the most livable city on Earth has made an indelible mark … Continue reading →
14 0%
New Media
May 13 Happy Mother’s Day!: Love you, Mom! Related posts: Thoughts On Love A good friend of mine is getting married soon. This... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
15 0%
Alex G. Tsakumis - Rebel With A Clause
16 0%
Spacing Vancouver
May 17 Video Vancouver: History of the West End neighbourhood in Vancouver, B.C.:
17 0%
Vancouver interviews on Filibuster cartoons
2011 Nov 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...
18 0%
Hummingbird604.com
May 17 Corporations in Our Heads (Headlines Theatre): I love experimental theatre, although it’s been a while since I have seen any that is similar to Headlines Theatre’s 2 Degrees of Fear and Desire. I was just informed that Headlines Theatre will be using a similar format in a new production “Corporations in our Heads”, which will attempt to evict...
19 0%
VanRamblings
Feb 10 Moby, 2009 release CD Wait for Me:
20 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.

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