Politics
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Community Centres…and The Costs We Don’t See
On a weekday afternoon, a community centre in Vancouver hums in a way that rarely makes it into policy announcements. A seniors’ exercise class wraps up...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #93: Value for Money – Vancouver-Style
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #92: If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Special...
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UCS #91 – Vancouver’s New Needy #2
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: UCS #84...
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Caste, Cities, and the Hidden Architecture of Inequality
Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents offers one of the most compelling reframings of inequality in recent public discourse. Rather...
By Erick Villagomez -
To the Dogs
As far as pet owners are concerned, the big news that broke in 2025 is that there are now four times more pets in Canada than children under the age of...
By mariastanborough -
UCS #87: Selective Illumination
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: ABC...
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UCS #86: Godzilla over Seabus terminal…
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings...
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Reconciliation as Development Strategy
In recent years, Indigenous histories, place names, and knowledge systems have moved from the margins of urban development into its foreground. Land...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #84: Vancouver’s New Needy
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Rethinking Housing Economics
“The edifice of economic theory constructed over the last two centuries, to an extent in the shadow of physics, has been refuted time and again.” ...
By Erick Villagomez -
UCS #83: Your Tax Dollars at Work
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: City of...
By Urban Cartoon Syndicate