The Vancouver Art Gallery submitted its formal proposal for the Larwill Park site to the city in July and is waiting for their response. I haven’t seen the proposal and so don’t know if it’s the request to option the land for two years, with the intent to raise the money for the building during […]

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Anyone who covered urban issues for longer than a week inevitably ended up speaking at some point to Warren Gill, an urban geographer and someone who loved the city. In recent years, he had become SFU’s vice-president of university relations. He was always thoughtful in explaining the way cities work and he actually helped change […]

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Other blogs posted links to the Vancouver magazine story I did about Mike Magee Mayor Gregor Robertson’s chief of staff, back in August while I was on vacation. So you may have seen this already, but just in case, here it is. Magee is definitely the strongest, most go-to chief of staff I can remember […]

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As many know, Mayor Gregor Robertson announced last week that the city would hold off on proceeding for the moment with one of the tower applications for the West End. The community group that has been doggedly campaigning for a change to the city program that led to this tower application gave it cautious approval […]

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In keeping with my sense that the civic-election campaign has already started, more than a year from the election, here’s some news from the polling front. This poll from Barb Justason confirms that Vision and Gregor Robertson are still riding high with the public. But, in spite of that strength, she says there are signs […]

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Slowly, slowly getting my post-summer brain into gear this week as I re-enter the slipstream of Vancouver politics. I note that it feels like campaign time already, though the election is over a year away. This promises to be a tough fall. Those of you who don’t like fights should tune out now, because opposition […]

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