{"id":5533,"date":"2012-01-19T11:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingvancouver.ca\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2013-01-21T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T15:17:48","slug":"neighbourhood-watch-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbourhood Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5534\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5534\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/danfairchildphotography\/6721505435\/in\/pool-644084@N23\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5534\" title=\"VancouverDucks\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/VancouverDucks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A selected image from the Spacing Vancouver Flickr pool. Image courtesy of Here in Vancouver.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2360\" title=\"NeighbourhoodWatch_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/network\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/NeighbourhoodWatch_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p><em>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not a transit accountant, but was there ever really a doubt that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/Gondola+would+save+time+more+expensive+than+buses+study\/5985515\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gondola to SFU would be less expensive than a maintaining and expanding the existing buses<\/a>? I wonder how much was spent on creating the study?<\/p>\n<p>Wonderful news for the Comox art community as council passed two motions to r<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bclocalnews.com\/news\/137225033.html\" target=\"_blank\">enovate and restore the St. John the Baptist Church on Comox Avenue<\/a> into an arts community centre.<\/p>\n<p>An interview with Matthew Stuart, of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burnabynow.com\/technology\/Working+build+greener+Burnaby\/5990738\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Burnaby Transition Network<\/a> &#8211; a group of a people who want to Transition is move communities away from their dependence on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed design for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/137287613.html\" target=\"_blank\">Delta&#8217;s new\u00a0$2.81 million animal shelter<\/a> has been revealed and Council is expected to decide Monday, January 16th who to award the contract to.<\/p>\n<p>The dismantling of Metro Vancouver&#8217;s Labour Relations Bureau is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/137494253.html\" target=\"_blank\">under fire<\/a> as civic labour unions are heading back to the bargaining table to demand pay hikes for their members.<\/p>\n<p>The union representing postal workers is up in arms at the City of Surrey for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/137520238.html\" target=\"_blank\">offering &#8220;no admail&#8221; stickers with its calendar for waste pick up<\/a>. To my mind, the act solidly secured a re-election for all municipal officials who advocated for it. And is anybody else a little scared that peoples the idea that many postal workers&#8217; jobs are solely dependent on admail?<\/p>\n<p>Metro Vancouver mayors are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surreyleader.com\/news\/137625493.html\" target=\"_blank\">again demanding the provincial government name an auditor to probe TransLink<\/a> and ensure taxpayers aren&#8217;t getting ripped off by getting the new Auditor General for Local Government (AGLG) office running and focusing on performance audits for cities and regional districts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. Now I&#8217;m not a transit accountant, but was there ever really a doubt that a Gondola to SFU would be less expensive than a maintaining and expanding the existing buses? I wonder how much was spent on creating the study? Wonderful news for the Comox<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-17\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Neighbourhood Watch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11232],"tags":[6771,6852,3461,6853,6854,337,973,350,6851,1210,214],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-auditor","tag-auditor-general","tag-baptist-church","tag-matthew-stuart","tag-metro-vancouvers-labour-relations-bureau","tag-neighbourhood-watch","tag-provincial-government","tag-surrey","tag-transit-accountant","tag-usd","tag-vancouver-2"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/vancouver\/2012\/01\/19\/neighbourhood-watch-17\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Neighbourhood Watch - Spacing Vancouver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. 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