LOCAL
• NDP plans to create more low-cost housing but it won’t be the subsidized social housing of the Harcourt/Clark years [State of Vancouver]
• Waldorf Hotel merits heritage ranking, expert says [Vancouver Sun]
• Don Cayo: Contradictory tax rulings puzzle Vancouver laneway home builders [Vancouver Sun]
• West Vancouver considers allowing coach houses [Vancouver Sun]
• My Nominee for the Worst Road in BC [New Westminster In My Backyard]
• Sweeney Cooperage [Changing Vancouver]
• Tale of two cities bizarrely alike [The New Zealand Herald]
• Parks Department: We’re No. 3! [Price Tags]
CASCADIA
• Site work for Victoria’s new Johnson Street Bridge starts in June [Victoria Times Colonist]
• Kinder Morgan’s Coal Export Scheme Bites the Dust [Sightline Daily]
CANADA
• How well do you know your city? (Hint: it’s changed more than you think) [Globe and Mail]
• Markham is Canada’s most diverse community, according to Statistics Canada [Toronto Star]
INTERNATIONAL
• Everybody Lives in Asia [Slate]
• There Are Few Trees in Louisville, America’s Fastest Warming City [Next City]
• How You Cross the Street Largely Depends on Where You’re From [The Atlantic Cities]