better late than never its time for our open topic discussion post.a here are a few stories ive noticed this week bring on the real estate crash bc expected to barely avoid recession bc economic stimulus package an extra 70 for you scotiabank canadian housing market slide overstated canadian banks longest profit slide in two decades you can still get a ......
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local great expectations the vancouver courier citys upcoming open houses to target canada line parking the vancouver courier farming just first step of local food system in metro van the tyee hook canada line foe leaving cambie street the vancouver sun protesters vow to be heard during 2010 games globe and mail sun shining on b.c. economy des......
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interesting stuff from the mediasphere should newspapers become online ad brokers for local businesses why wouldnt i like this idea after all i wrote about a similar idea a year ago. looking back at that post based on the lack of comments and trackbacks it seems no one paid any attention to me. random musings on the discussions about journalism . a compendium of thou......
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local great expectations the vancouver courier residents rally around east side park space the vancouver courier npa all but swept out of parks the vancouver courier vision members praise leader the vancouver courier youthful exuberance propels cope resurgence the vancouver courier civic results carry a message for both ndp and liberals the vancouver sun ndp leader......
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local politics election apathy plagues many communities the vancouver sun homeless pledge a real challenge the globe and mail vancouvers mayorelect promises hearing on olympic village deal cbc estelle los resignation confirmed the vancouver sun gregor peddles new attitude the province bc politics carbontax revolt is losing steam minister says the g......
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post from adult add strengths social media and seo scorecard for the vancouver civic election a photo credits dogsbody and brent granby gregor robertson vs. peter ladner my 9 slides have an attributio nnoncomme rcialshar ealike creative commons license so feel free to share and remix them just give me credit and a link. after the slides are a comparison chart with.....
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the following are a few good books relating to some combination of architecture planning urbanism and identity to help keep you warm this fall and winter. earlier 1 2 the public chance new urban landscapes by aurora fernandez per and javier arpa. the public chance a new publication of at is a remarkable collection of 30 public realm design projects from a......
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local cha nge wins in vancouver the tyee vancouvers new mayor faces daunting olympic hurdles the globe and mail sla ughtered 8217 npa desperately needs a remake the globe and mail theres a surprising gulf between who we are and who represents us the vancouver sun homelessness key to vision win the vancouver sun ladner says npa needs to......
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local vision vancouver wins landslide victory the hook the tyee robertson makes homelessness his first priority as vancouver mayor cbc jon ferry robertsons victory proves emotion wins elections the province most mayors hung on to their seats the province voters ok vancouver borrowing the province voting results from around b.c. the province meet the other ......
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i havent found the homelessness issue in vancouver to be all blackandwhite. in fact im a bit reluctant to weigh in on tomorrows election because i know that there are many sides to every storyand my knowledge on this one or on our civic parties is certainly not complete. but let me throw caution to the wind. when a working man paying 800 a month to live in a dive......
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the national post a rightwing mouthpiece which has yet to make it into the black pitches the leak of the proposed 100million taxpayer bailout to millenium to build 1.2billion olympic village condos as dirty tricks in vancouver mayoral race . ok so who are the candidates in this dirty tricks race according to napo the choice is either a leftleaning juice and......
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okay people this may be a little incoherent because ive had a few glasses of wine its all you can do under these conditions. but really arent you finding this olympicloan huntfortheleaker saga is all really like a tom wolfe novel we have the mass media in full hyena mode im one of them so im allowed to say that irresolvable mysteri......
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aa a a million dollars these days seems such a trivial amount.a even a billion dollars seems small change when you read of the trillions being thrown at mismanaged companies.a in the mining or rather postmining world half a billion buys you almost nothing ontario says it needs 500 million to clean up mine sites abandoned by developers.a the giant mine remediation is estimate......
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local gordon campbells 400 million power line bet the tyee the straight slate for municipal elections in vancouver and the burbs the georgia straight are broken olympic promises illegal the georgia straight vancouver council candidates demand release of olympic village documents the globe and mail councillors ready to take lie detector test over leaked loan document......
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greg dembicki pens a profile of surrey mayor dianne watts in the tyee.a hes impressed. watts has bigger goals in mind though than pointing out the overlooked beauty of an urban centre thats often viewed as a second tier community on the fringes of vancouver. with surreys population set to meet or surpass vancouvers by 2040 and a largescale revitalization of the......
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local campbell pushes feds for housing money the vancouver sun harper premiers agree to boost infrastructure cash the province surrey goes up against the sprawl the tyee npa floats portable housing idea to aid homeless the vancouver sun ladners document lea ked the vancouver sun whos got peter ladners back the vancouve......
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an election night in paris post i wrote for the tyee a couple of days ago last week on the metro a group of young black boys in their early teens poured into my car in high spirits. one of them a gangly kid resplendent in his adidas track suit while staring out the window at nothing in particular interrupted their chatter with a sudden chant obama obama obama his friends t......
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lorrie goldstein of the sun papers describes the mobs role in canada greetings fellow journalists and welcome to the founding meeting of the canadian chapter of the media of obama. or as we like to call ourselves the mob canada. as you know the mob canada will be operating as a subsidiary of its american parent the media of obama usa the mob usa for the foreseea......
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i saw brian jungens jordan totem poles fusing sport and pop culture with that of traditional native american at the vancouver art gallery a while back but forgot his name.a so im putting him up on thescrapbook as a reminder......
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other theni am overjoyed obama won.but that said what can americansindeed the worldexpect now on that question the tyee writes.. obamas no radical but hes been empowered by his fellow citizens to do big things obama will radically improve the american image in the world and a reinvigorated unites states will inspire other people even canadians who are not that easily i......
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antiharper so this is something i feel strongly about as i voted for the new democratic party in our latest federal election in october. there are just too many issues that canada and the rest of the world has of course i voted for ndp. i will tell you this 100 million people voted yesterday in the presidential election and congrats obama i hope there will be many positive cha......
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by monte paulsen the tyee mayoral candidate peter ladner claims vancouver will gain 3813 nonmarket social housing units in the fiveyear period from 2005 when his nonpartisan association returned to power through 2010. more 823041 ......
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excerpted from meeting friends at health show at canada place i cant help but mentioning more buses now this campaign organized by the transit drivers union is holding the government to their promises of more buses not just new buses to replace the aging fleet but a significant increase in the total buses to encourage ridership and stop the overcrowdi......
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arthur erickson the brand an article from the tyee on the state of celebrity architecture in vancouver. via limeness ......
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i hope everyone had a great halloween this weeks treats in our boxes russett potatoes carrots sweet corn cauliflower broccoli apples and green cabbage. calling all boxes we are gathering boxes in anticipation of the last delivery on monday nov. 24th. please return all boxes that you may have. also it will make things a lot easier if all participants bring a bag to the pic......
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