Politics
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EVENT: Heritage Vancouver Society -Conversation #2: Change in Living Communities – False Creek South, Oct 11th
Shaping Vancouver 2018: Contested Places Conversation #2: Change in Living Communities – False Creek South WHEN: Thursday, October 11, 2018 –...
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Release: Get Out the Vote for a Women-friendly City!
Dear sisters and allies, With election day less than a month away it is time to start pressing our candidates and parties to make sure that Vancouver is a...
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Your Local Government Elections are Coming! Get Informed
With many local mayors not seeking re-election, numerous independent candidates, and a referendum on electoral reform, this year’s civic elections on...
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Event: CCPA-BC Rosenbluth lecture 2018 – Mark Jacobson, Oct. 25th
CCPA-BC’s annual Rosenbluth lecture is Thursday, October 25 and this year features Stanford’s Mark Jacobson—7pm-9pm at the SFU Segal Graduate...
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Release: Vancouver women support Yazidi women and girls in Canada
In Vancouver, a group of women have formed the Women Refugees Advocacy Project after reading about the suffering of the Yazidi survivors in Canada in...
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Evictions mar legacy of Vancouver landlord dedicated to affordable housing
The story of socially conscious landlord Eric Pierce was a rare good news story in a housing market too often rife with tales of greed. Mr. Pierce, who...
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Hard Questions about Vancouver’s New Affordability Approach
Guest authors: Patrick Condon & Scot Hein [Editor’s note: UBC Professor of Urban Design Patrick Condon dropped his candidacy for mayor on July 13 for...
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Book Review: The Urban Revolution
Author: Henri Lefebvre, foreword by Neil Smith, Translated by Robert Bononno (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) The concept of the utopian city is...
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Writing Vancouver – Smashed Egg Syndrome
SMASHED EGG SYNDROME or How to Make an Omelette If you want to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs. — City of Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan...
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Writing Vancouver – A Long Story this …
A Long Story this … It was at Quebec and Terminal in 1973, as a young immigrant hitch-hiker, I arrived at the Pacific...
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Release: Reform the Motor Vehicle Act to save lives, HUB Cycling
Local cycling charitable organization HUB Cycling – along with dozens of other stakeholders including Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health...
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Lore Krill – A Tale of Two Co-operative Housing Projects
Housing co-ops can encompass the closest form to a successful and authentic mixed-income concept. Co-ops allow the creation of high quality affordable...
By Ulduz Maschaykh