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Entries from January 2016

Architect takes up city’s new mini-suites policy

August 10th, 2009 · 8 Comments

It will be interesting to see, in five years, how much new housing is created by some of the city’s “gentle densification” policies, as they call them: laneway houses and lock-off suites inside condos. As other media reported last month, almost two dozen people lined up to apply to build laneway houses as soon as […]

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More depressing news for Vancouver gripers: Others love us

August 6th, 2009 · 16 Comments

This column from San Diego is quickly making the rounds here (thanks to Gordon Price’s blog for alerting some of us to it), thanks to its lavish praise for all we do. Just when I thought the complacency might loosen its grip. For those who can’t stand reading about how great Vancouver is — and […]

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The ignored world of Vancouver’s male sex-trade workers

August 5th, 2009 · 3 Comments

A fascinating story here in Street Roots by a former student of mine at Kwantlen, Steve Smysnuik, who has done a solid job of reporting on the sex-trade problem that no one has paid much attention to for a few decades in this city. (I don’t claim to have taught Steve any of his reporting […]

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Second HEAT shelter now closed

August 5th, 2009 · 13 Comments

This just out from city hall, where apparently some poor wretch is still employed to put out news releases while everyone else is on holiday. Howe Street shelter closes two days early The Howe Street shelter has closed two days ahead of schedule thanks to the availability and acceptance of alternate housing by shelter residents, […]

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Commercial Drive struggles to find formula for weekly car-free days

August 3rd, 2009 · 28 Comments

As anyone who reads this blog even passingly knows, I love markets and street stuff in cities. So I’ve been watching with interest to see how the city’s car-free Sundays, aka Summer Spaces program, is going. I went down to Commercial Drive yesterday, where they had their first non-car-free day of the summer (Main also […]

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