SFU’s always-great City Program has another interesting lecture coming up, this one by Thomas Osdoba, the former sustainability manager in Vancouver. Those who think the recent firing of the city’s chief electrician was odd should refresh their memories about what happened with Osdoba, who was fired by then-city manager Judy Rogers after a lot of […]

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Charles Campbell over at the Tyee has an interesting take on the proposed new casino at BC Place, one that I haven’t heard before. To wit: the real problem with the current casino being planned is that it’s just another low-rent operation, not the kind that’s destined to attract the big spenders, but just another […]

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The city posted its report on who got tickets to the Olympics and my brain is working overtime to try to figure out what the pattern was behind some of these allocations: the oddest mix I’ve seen in a while. Nice to see Dave Rudberg, the city engineer who steered the city’s Olympics efforts for […]

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This interesting story unfolding in Victoria, news that Paragon Gaming told the B.C. government quite some time ago that it would be a “deal breaker” for any new development built by them if BC Place didn’t have a retractable roof. Sean Holman at publiceyeonline reporting on this here.

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Cities all over the Lower Mainland are falling over themselves these days to attract businesses, but Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts is the champ at delivering her message the loudest and clearest that the door is open in her city — complete with property tax holidays and fee breaks. Yet again, she gets lots of attention […]

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GUESS WHICH MAYOR GOT TO PLAY A GUEST TURN WITH THIS TOP EUROPEAN CLUB? There was a scary moment last week for sports fans when it looked like Vancouver wasn’t going to get the UFC. Now that seems to be on. And sports fans have something else to celebrate: We will be getting Manchester City […]

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