One more story from the mystifying world of contemporary economics, where everyone strives to attract new businesses and investors to their globally competitive cities, but no one is sure quite what works.

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Sadly for me, even though I had an invite, I didn’t get to participate in the special forum on sustainable urbanism that was held Saturday at SFU, where the highlight was an appearance by Prince Charles. (Pre-arranged birthday celebrations in other cities intervened — tragic, really.) But I heard it was inspirational, with the Prince […]

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The pre-construction fencing has been up around the Little Mountain site the last couple of weeks, but demolition only officially started on Friday. At that point, it sounded like protests would be minor. This notice below, though, went out on Saturday from protesters planning to camp out on site. The city and province have to […]

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Boy, I can’t believe what local politics are coming to. I hope that everyone out there has confessed to all childhood shoplifting incidents or the time they were overheard calling their office-cubicle neighbour “a dork.” Anyway, here’s the latest from park board commissioner Raj Hundal, via the constantly employed Ian Baillie. MEDIA RELEASE NOV. 6 […]

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This is a bit late, but here’s my story about the elaborate ceremony to hand over the Olympic athlete’s village to VANOC on Wednesday. (Sorry, was down for the count for part of yesterday so wasn’t keeping up to speed.) It was quite the event, with the life-size Olympics mascots dancing around and everything, to […]

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It was quite a bombshell when TransLink’s recently arrived CEO Tom Prendergast started telling people Wednesday that he was going to New York. Here‘s what people had to say.

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Vancouver’s former mayor, who was denied the chance to run again when his own party voted him out as a candidate, is back in the news again after a long silence. Sam Sullivan has been studiously unavailable for the last year, but he’s emerged this week to launch his newest project, covered here in the […]

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Vancouver’s new council desperately wants to create affordable rental and, to that end, it’s preparing to give developers extra density if they can come up with proposals for suites they’re prepared to rent out for at least 20 years and at rents in the neighbourhood of $2 a square foot. But, as NPA Councillor Suzanne […]

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That’s what various blog friends are emailing me in the latest. For those who don’t recall, the city passed a motion a couple of weeks ago to deal with restaurant hours, which will allow a bunch of restaurants to now stay open to 1 a.m. on weekdays, 2 a.m. on weekends. That meant a few […]

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A couple of people have alerted me to the fact that there appears to be another round of media stories appearing about vandalism to Paris’s bike-share system. A story from the New York Times that appeared last week repeats many of the same themes as one that appeared on the BBC a couple of weeks […]

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