Politics
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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.” ...
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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...
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21st Century Road Allowances
Yvonne was in her early 40s, with short brown hair and a solid build. She was taller than my 5’ 5” frame, but when I met her she was seated on the steps...
By mariastanborough -
UCS #82: Welcome to the New Year!
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Related Readings: Square 1 ...
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UCS #81: Twas the Night Before Christmas
See our Launch and Introduction about the launch of the © Urban Cartoon Syndicate and the announcement by CityHallWatch. *** Twas the night before...
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UCS #80: ABCD Vancouver logo
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