Bad news always comes on Fridays in the media world, so there it was on Friday last week, the long-awaited decision from Victoria on whether to approve Metro Vancouver’s new bylaw 280. That was a measure designed to stop garbage trucks from taking waste out of the region to get it buried at cheaper landfills […]

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Council accepts Dunbar’s vision for neighbourhood: Planners said rejection of the report, which was opposed by some residents, would have undermined the future of the CityPlan.: [Final Edition] Ward, Doug. The Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, B.C] 11 Sep 1998: B4.

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CORE summary finds CityPlan `weak, vague’: [FINAL Edition] Bula, Frances. The Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, B.C] 31 May 1995: B.5. Turn on hit highlighting for speaking browsers by selecting the Enter button Hide highlighting Abstract (summary) Translate Abstract CityPlan: Vague, too general and weak? Or a broad vision of what people in Vancouver want that will […]

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Kinda scary, but apparently I was covering CityPlan 20 years ago. A look back in time at some of the real debates going on.   Reaction to city’s urban-village vision of the future not all neighborly: [FINAL C Edition] Bula, Frances. The Vancouver Sun [Vancouver, B.C] 06 Dec 1994: B3. Turn on hit highlighting for […]

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I know this story is going to bring out the hate mail. As well, the timing is weird, coming as it does in the middle of a frenzy of “All our young people are leaving town! There’s nothing for sale under two million!” But I’ve been intrigued by this for a while, ever since the […]

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Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association ramped up its game this week, with mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe announcing his party’s positions on housing and the city economy. My Globe story here makes it pretty clear that the party will go into the election championing Vancouver as a home to LNG, mining, forestry, and so on. On housing, LaPointe […]

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I wrote a little essay on this and the computer ate it. So here is my story from the Globe on this topic, all by itself, although there are lots of other interesting aspects and side issues to this.

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Suddenly, the energy level has ramped up in the campaign and lots to do and cover the last two days. Things started off Wednesday with duelling newsers from Vision and the NPA, where Vision announced its “family-friendly” (you’d think in this province, they’d be wary of that phrase, but whatever) affordability platform, emphasizing their commitment […]

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All of a sudden, after nine years of relative calm, Surrey seems like a very unhappy place. The report issued today will add to that. SurreyCares, in partnership with the Surrey Board of Trade, released the results of Surrey’s first Vital Signs study this morning. The report investigated updated statistical data as well as public […]

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Time for all of us to get up to speed here, as First Nations bands around the Lower Mainland and elsewhere are getting increasingly savvy about operating businesses, negotiating deals, and doing development on land they own or have a claim to. In the wake of the announcement last week about an agreement among the […]

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