Every new news bulletin from England seems more unbelievable — not to mention the news flashes from Philadelphia and Chicago about curfews being imposed there to prevent rioting. As I read the latest comprehensive story, I can’t help thinking of comparisons with Vancouver: the media fascination with the Twitter/Blackberry-led revolutions; the immediate jump to all [...]

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The city’s 35-page housing plan is rich with tantalizing one-liners about new things that are going to be tried to create affordable housing for working people squeezed out of the market and homeless people just squeezed. I’m working my way through, line by line, and came across one on page 31 that said five neighbourhoods [...]

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The New Yorker has a good round-up review of the latest spurt of books about cities, a popular topic these days as more and more writers weight on how cities should work in the future, are working now, didn’t work in the past and so on. One of the constant themes I’m struck by when [...]

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We the media tend to focus on pedestrians killed or injured in Vancouver, except for rare, dramatic cases. But the reality is that, year after year, more pedestrians are killed and injured outside Vancouver proper, a point that I made in looking at the region’s record in a Globe feature on the weekend. I also took [...]

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The latest Justason poll is out. My story is here, but there is already all kinds of mad spinning going on. City hall’s Kevin Quinlan has tweeted out that Mayor Robertson has risen in popularity as the main news, while CityCaucus’s headline is that the NPA is in a statistical dead heat with Vision. Vision [...]

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