We don’t get many prominent non-Vancouver architects doing business in this city. Our best-known ones — Arthur Erickson, Bing Thom, James Cheng, Peter Busby, Gregory and Richard Henriquez — have generated a lot of star power on their own. But the city is about to see a radically new element in its downtown fabric, with [...]

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Our yesterday’s tributes to Jim Green, who made an indelible mark on Vancouver. My story and Tom Hawthorn’s lovely obituary. Many more tributes in numerous places elsewhere.

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Night two of the public hearing got through about 50 people on the speakers list. Only two or three were in support, the rest opposed for reasons that ranged from reasonable to conspiratorial. I heard, at various points, that the Mount Pleasant Community Plan was no longer a valid document, because it was the result [...]

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In response to a request from another poster, Joe Just Joe has done heroic work in digging up some numbers for people to compare to the Rize project. They’re buried in a string, so I’m re-posting here. 298 East 11th Avenue (2725 Sophia) 8 stories, 3.0FSR. 350 Kingsway 13 stories (126ft), 3.0 FSR 96 East [...]

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A quick resume of last night’s festivities at the first stage of the public hearing for the Rize project at Kingsway and Broadway, which includes five buildings altogether, one of them a 19-storey tower. This is a hearing that many think historic for a lot of reasons. This hearing will set the stage for how [...]

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Another year, less lawn-cutting, more tiny cuts. My story on what was being considered by park board. Latest update is that they did not go through with elimination of lifeguard positions.

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Monday night, council will start hearing speakers on the proposed new tower at Kingsway and Broadway, one that promises to be a landmark and precedent (or, some say, eyesore and negative force) for the booming Mount Pleasant area. The project has also given birth to an extremely vocal and effective opposition group that says the [...]

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I’ve been reading the coverage in the Ottawa Citizen about phone calls that were made during the federal election that appeared to be trying to suppress the Liberal vote, either by having the caller pretend to be with the Liberal candidate’s campaign and making harassing calls or through other tactics. That put me in mind [...]

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My story on a conversation with Jim as he looks back on a life that he filled to the brim.

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Do any of those TransLink fare-evading bums ever pay their fines? And would Vancouver consider setting up its own power company? Enjoy.

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