I assume I must be one of the last people on the continent who will answer the phone when it’s an unknown number, which is why the Harris Decima phone banker with the heavily accented English was so joyful when he got a live body. As someone who works in media and who lives with […]

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Passing this on from the organizer’s of Jane’s Walk. Lots of interesting neighbourhoods in Vancouver not covered yet in walks. Invitation: Take a Jane’s Walk or Host a Jane’s Walk May 2 and 3 “No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at suburban garden cities, manipulation scale models, or inventing […]

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So many people came to Wendy’s memorial yesterday with memories and thoughts of her life, it was hard for us reporters to put it all in one story or to capture all of the emotion in the room, though we were trying. Here’s my story. My friend, Kelly Sinoski from the Vancouver Sun, also wrote […]

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A friend passed on this story to me in the NY Times, about the desperate measures that cities are turning to for money as budgets get squeezed. This reminds me of one of the most hilarious investigative stories I ever saw on television — an Arizona or New Mexico reporter in the late 80s (remember, […]

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I apologize that it’s taken me so long to put this up, but here, at last, are the campaign finance disclosures that mayoral candidates Raymond Louie and Allan DeGenova filed with Vision Vancouver. (My late-night struggles with blog technology are finally paying off.) They aren’t available at the city clerk’s office because the city clerk […]

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Some of the comments following a recent post showed me that people aren’t sure what these pre-fab housing units for the homeless will look like. People were asking whether there’d be bathrooms inside and so on, after I posted recently that the city is proposing to put almost 200 units on two city lots downtown. […]

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This just arrived on my doorstep, from a clearly unhappy city employee not thrilled with the removal of employee parking, which has been traded for bus passes et all. rom:   COV Broadcast Server Sent:   Wednesday, April 08, 2009 3:26 PM To:     City Hall Campus Staff – DL; Sustainability Group Staff – […]

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The city’s housing director came to council with a late report yesterday on a plan for interim housing — i.e. housing for the 500 or so people now in the emergency shelters the city set up in December and January that will give them a place to stay once the shelters shut down in June […]

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As Alex Tsakumis commented correctly here, there wasn’t much that came out of the RCMP news conference yesterday, as you can see from my story today. The lack of information is causing quite a few people, in and out of the media, to start to spin their own theories and pass around all kinds of […]

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For those following this story closely — and many are, feeling that it’s a turning point in the city’s sense of safety as well as a huge personal tragedy — Councillor Suzanne Anton plans to make a brief statement honouring Wendy and her contribution to the city at council today at 2. That should be […]

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