Here’s the latest from city hall, from those of you not already in the loop from the twitterings, blogs, news flashes and what all emanating from the media horde there. More later on some of the interesting Q and A at the council meeting, but I’m at work on other projects right now. STATEMENT FROM […]

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I’m at fabulavancouver. I’m going to try not to be irritating with banal posts.

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I have a story in today’s Globe about a resolution from the Health Officers Council of BC that calls for supervised-injection sites in all B.C. communities that need them. The most interesting part of doing that story, for me, was talking to Dr. David Bowering in Prince George and hearing about the escalating drug problem […]

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Allen Garr at the Courier is always the first person to spot the soft underbelly of new mayors, in my experience. He was the first to write a column back in the early days of COPE’s term noting that Larry Campbell appeared to have undergone a transformation, shortly after being elected, from crusading coroner to […]

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That’s the latest fun news from city hall, as per this report that just got put up on the city’s website. The cost of the 250 housing units has soared from the original estimate of $65 million to $110 million. Now the city is facing the question of what to do — put in millions […]

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Monte Paulsen at the Tyee has one of the most succinct and incisive analyses of affordable housing that I’ve seen in 10 years of reporting on this topic. You can see it here. He challenges the myth that supply alone with create affordable housing. He also challenges the one that says the government should build […]

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Vancouver’s defining neighbourhood has been in the limelight this past month, with two media outlets (the Province and the Globe and Mail) running extensive series on how to fix the neighbourhood, while police chief Jim Chu put out his own report on what to do. The unspoken message behind all of this is, “Yikes, the […]

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And here’s the memo from city manager, as promised earlier this week From:   COV Broadcast Server Sent:   Friday, February 13, 2009 3:27 PM To:     All Staff (COV) – DL Subject:        COV Broadcast – Memorandum from City Manager – Human Resource Measures MEMORANDUM FROM THE CITY MANAGER – Human […]

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It was one year to the Olympics yesterday, but for the city and the Olympic village developers, the deadline is much closer: Oct. 31 to be exact, except for a couple of buildings that are going to be delivered Nov. 30. The city is still working on finalizing its financing, and it’s also taking extreme […]

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Vancouver police brought out their 2009 business plan a few weeks ago, which was unusual in the numbers it attached to some of its efforts. Among them, police set a target of increasing ticketing for bylaw infractions in the Downtown Eastside by 20 per cent, ticketing for Safe Streets Act offences by 10 per cent, […]

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