Comings and goings all the time among current and former city people. The latest: Former Sullivan chief of staff Daniel Fontaine, who was working at the innovation-boosting organization MITACS until recently, has moved on to become CEO of the B.C. Care Providers Association. Not sure if David Hurford, also formerly with Sam Sullivan as communications […]
Job changes: Former Sam Sullivan chief of staff moves on from MITACS, Van Economic Commission CEO moves to Alberta
January 7th, 2013 · 9 Comments
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Vancouver continues to “solve” its affordability problem by going littler and littler
January 4th, 2013 · 67 Comments
The little house, the little apartment — they’re all I’m hearing about these days. Laneway houses continue to be popular. At last count, there were 600 that had been processed at city hall. Micro-suites have come to Surrey. Coquitlam is letting people build multiple-units on single-family lots. Some of this is welcomed, I think. We’ve […]
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Welcome to 2013 at State of Vancouver: a year of peace, love, the end of the bike-car war, the end of the mindless anti-developer rhetoric, the end of treating all city residents like trolls
January 3rd, 2013 · 23 Comments
Okay, I’m back. Every piece of shortbread in our house got eaten, the pine needles have mostly been vacuumed up, the presents all exchanged. It’s time to get back to work. (Burp. Yawn.) I’ve still got too much Christmas brain to come up with some brilliant list of Trends I Foresee for 2013, but here’s […]
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Vancouver Archives works overtime to bring the past back to the future
January 2nd, 2013 · 10 Comments
For those who don’t know, the Globe does a wonderful thing every Christmas running stories about “things that work” in the city. That allows all of us reporters to rave on about things that we love in the city. (Rod Mickleburgh did the library, Mark Hume did Kits Pool.) I love the archives. (As a […]
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