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  • Release: City of Surrey Call to Artists – Street Banner Design

    Call to Artists – Street Banner Design City of Surrey Deadline for Submissions: December 12, 2011, 4 pm. Award to Selected Artist: $2,500 Open to all BC...

  • Neighbourhood Watch

    A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Four months after Brenda Patterson first approached Port Alberni City Council about...

  • November 17, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Surrey mayor wants more dredging to facilitate the Fraser as a marine highway [Vancouver Sun] • Numbers: Metro responds [Price Tags] • Carline...

  • November 16, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Vancouver’s Top Election Issues, if not Pre-Occupied [The Tyee] • Interactive map explores Vancouver’s history with images, videos and...

  • Release: CoV cultural spaces networking + discussion + tour

    Cultural spaces are at the heart of a vibrant, liveable, creative and caring city. Often, however, they face issues of affordability, functionality...

  • Book Review – From The Stacks: Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape

    Author: Brian Hayes (W.W.Norton & Company, 2006) Infrastructure is the unsung hero behind all cities – large and small.  It is every-present...

  • November 15, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Municipal spending grows four times faster than population [Vancouver Sun] • Schools of the Future, Today [The Tyee] • Pattullo Bridge rebuild...

  • November 14, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Transit reports on CTV Morning Live [The Buzzer Blog] • INTERVIEW | Neighbourhoods for a Sustainable Vancouver’s Randy Helten [The Mainlander...

  • November 13, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Civic election reporting mistakes to avoid [State of Vancouver] INTERNATIONAL • These are Five of the Smallest Rental Apartments in America [Curbed]

  • November 12, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Five basic things you need to know about the Vancouver civic election [The Mainlander] • Mayors reflect who we are, or aspire to be [Globe and...

  • November 11, 2011 Headlines

    LOCAL • Poetry for Remembrance [The Tyee] • Creative Financing [Canadian Architect] • Park crime riles Vancouver neighbourhood residents [Vancouver...

  • Neighbourhood Watch

    A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Bad news for marijuana growers in the Valley as the Abbotsford Police launch a new...