Politics
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EVENT: Women Transforming Cities’ 21st Café, October 16th
Looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses may smooth over the rough spots but in a city that isn’t working well for women and girls that isn’t...
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RELEASE: Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods – Municipal Parties Endorse Coalition’s Collaborative Approach to Planning
The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods is proud to announce that the NPA, COPE, Vancouver Greens, OneCity, Cedar Party, and independent Bob Kasting...
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Event: SCARP/ Vancouver Sun Councillor Candidates’ Debate on Housing, Oct. 23rd
Affordable Vancouver? Debate: Thursday, October 23 7:00 – 9:00 PM UBC Robson Square Theatre The UBC School of Community & Regional Planning and...
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Events: Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods, All-Party Pre-Election Meeting, Oct 15th
The Coalition of Vancouver Neighbourhoods has confirmed details for a pre-election meeting to which all municipal parties have been invited. ”We are...
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Building the Bicycle Culture We Want
Make no mistake, Vancouver has made some tremendous strides as a cycling city in the past five years: the Burrard Bridge, Dunsmuir Cycle Track, Hornby...
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RELEASE: OCOP! – Grandview Woodlands Citizens not happy with City planning process
“Our Community, Our Plan!” (OCOP!) Residents’ Group members are concerned that the City wants to build dozens of high-end condo towers across the East...
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Generation Rent: San Francisco’s Citizen Tenants
[Editor’s note: Beautiful, eclectic, iconic, Pacific harbour towns: the words describe both Vancouver and San Francisco. Yet the two cities have...
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Cities of Renters: While Vancouver worships homeowners, San Francisco tenants are first-class citizens. First in a series.
Click to see full Infographic: Cities of Renters, Vancouver vs. San Francisco By Jackie Wong, Tyee Solutions Society [Editor’s note: Beautiful...
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March on City Hall! Community Rally 9/24 and Meeting 9/25
We — residents of Grandview, Marpole, the West End, and probably many other neighbourhoods — are going to rally at City Hall to help the folks there...
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Metro-ification of American politics favours democrats
In the last federal American election, the democrats won 11 of the largest 15 cities across the States. Urban density played a key role: Obama’s...
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TODERIAN: Canada needs a federal ministry of cities
Richard Florida called last week for President Obama to create a national US department of cities. When the author of The Rise of the Creative Class and...
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City of Vancouver Block 51 survey is now live
The Block 51 survey is now live…pass the word along! We used the illustrations created by the Co-Design artists and participants to the October 15...
By Erick Villagomez