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Event – Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage? Conversation #1, May 21st
Shaping Vancouver 2019: What’s the Use of Heritage? Conversation #1: Reshaping Local Places Tuesday, May 21st, 2019: 7-9 PM Admission is free...
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Release: Past/current drug users share experience and insights on addiction and overdose crisis, May 14th
WHAT: Past/current drug users share experience and insights on addiction and overdose crisis WHERE: 312 Main St (Main and Cordova) WHEN: Tuesday, May...
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Release: HUB Cycling, Bike to School Week Coming to a School in Your Neighbourhood
Schools across Metro Vancouver are recognizing the impacts of active travel on students’ health, academic performance, and safety in school zones. From...
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Release: Jane’s Walk Vancouver Events!
Only one week away! We are super excited about all the new and returning walks we have this year – check our the full list below! 35 WALKS are...
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Release: Bike to Work Week 2019 Launches with a New Bike to Shop Component
In less than a month, Bike to Work Week presented by Jump kicks off, motivating thousands of people to try cycling to work for the very first time! This...
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Chinatown in Colour, Before Condos and Coffee Bars
From sausage makers to seamstresses, a set of recently digitized photographs by Paul Yee reveal life in Vancouver’s Chinatown before the neighbourhood...
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Designing streets for a new kind of delivery vehicle
E-commerce is driving the growth of the last-mile delivery industry, the step of delivery from distribution center to customer. Last-mile delivery is...
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Am I the Last Voice against the SkyTrain to UBC?
I must apologize to the poor soul who casually mentioned to me Vancouver city council may soon endorse running the proposed Broadway SkyTrain all the way...
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The Value of Small Businesses – Discussions at RAIC + MOV Built City Speaker Series
As part of their popular Built City Speaker Series, the Metro Vancouver chapter of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, in partnership with the...
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Why Vancouver Needs an ‘Affordability Bank’
Vancouver needs an Affordability Bank. Here’s what that would be: A new policy that allows people choosing to build new single-family residences to pay a...
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Book Review – Dreamers and Designers: The Shaping of West Vancouver
Author: Francis Mansbridge (Harbour Publishing, 2018) The always-insightful Rebecca Solnit once wrote “A city always contains more than any inhabitant can...
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A Renegade Book Exchange, and Other Acts of ‘Urban Intervention’
On the southwest corner of Salsbury and Napier Streets, a block from Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, Penny Street and Stephen Holmes set up a bench and a...
By Christopher Cheung