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20/01/13: Mayor’s bailout of Waldorf unsustainable; real problem is city’s onerous building rules
19/01/13: Want walkable neighbourhoods? Then you must take responsibility for litter
15/01/13: What Can We Learn From the #Waldorf Hotel Affair?
21/12/12: Green Party’s Andrew Weaver Case Reveals Twitter as New Battlefront of B.C. Politics
27/11/12: Ten ideas to re-engage Vancouver’s reluctant municipal voters
22/11/12: #BCNDP, #BCLib Nominations Reveal Tale Of Two Parties
16/11/12: Courier Community Correspondent: Give Neighbourhoods the Tools for Change
01/11/12: How #BCL12′s Social Media Changed B.C. Political Coverage Forever
24/10/12: Who else is “secretly glad” Meggs lost in Vancouver-Fairview?
13/10/12: Can a streetcar solve Vancouver’s Broadway corridor conundrum?
12/10/12: Vision Vancouver’s public engagement paradox
08/10/12: Not running for office
03/10/12: It’s your choice to be alone in Vancouver
11/09/12: Why the BC Liberals will win the next election
02/09/12: Re-think Robson Square, but without closing it permanently
02/08/12: Vancouver Sun op-ed: U.S. stands between Canadian oil and Asian market
25/07/12: Five Hole for Food — great event, great cause!
06/07/12: City Caucus wrap-up report by Vancouver Courier
04/07/12: Media coverage on retirement of City Caucus
11/05/12: “Don’t slam the door on trade” — my latest Vancouver Sun op/ed
10/05/12: Fraser Street Stories media coverage
14/04/12: Happy Vaisahki, Vancouver!
07/04/12: Chag Pesach Sameach and Happy Easter!
12/02/12: Notes from the newcomers
07/02/12: Newcomers’ views of Vancouver
25/12/11: Merry Christmas - my fire log video
20/12/11: Happy Hanukkah!
13/12/11: Election wrap up: letter to the editor
03/11/11: A safe, green, clean, and fun Vancouver for all
29/09/11: Shana Tova Umetukah
16/07/11: Why I’m running for Vancouver city council
02/06/11: Where to Be for Free Guide Back for Stanley Cup!
03/05/11: Will you support my bid for a Vancouver city council seat?
14/04/11: An out of the ordinary evening with the Foo Fighters
05/04/11: Signs of Spring 2011
28/03/11: The Fox, as it once rocked
28/09/10: VO’s Linda Solomon & Vision crony involved in another hatchet job
02/09/10: In response to the recent smear about me
18/12/09: Catching up: my recent 24 Hours columns, plus two interviews
03/12/09: My hernia operation: just another Canadian health care story
27/10/09: Liberal nod for Rebagliati a sign of party disarray
14/10/09: Joseph Planta interviews everyone (and me) at thecommentary.ca
18/07/09: Bumble bees take a break in my yard
08/06/09: Independent Power “news” not newsworthy
05/05/09: When really good people run for public office
03/04/09: The Home Page is going to be awesome
18/02/09: Do you bother to go to big concerts anymore?
17/02/09: Krall, Costello, EJ…How cool is that, Vancouver?
15/02/09: Looking forward to the new Morrissey record
08/02/09: The parents must face justice too
06/02/09: Costco Parking Lot
04/02/09: Merkel: you go, girl!
24/01/09: Another great story on Fowler disappearance
22/01/09: Read my Country Lane story at re:place Magazine
22/01/09: Black and white and green
14/01/09: Where I’m blogging (and not)
14/01/09: Diplomat’s disappearance a strange story
02/01/09: The kid, the computer, and the gore
20/12/08: Lemonheads: It’s a Shame About Ray
09/12/08: Gmail and other Google services melting down today
29/11/08: Need to innovate? Turn your head 90 degrees
28/11/08: Hell hath frozen over: Vancouver gets a decent modern music station
25/11/08: Letter to Province: Aga Khan on pluralism
25/11/08: The Hand Dryer
16/11/08: Letter to Vancouver Sun: Polling-station rule banning campaign buttons is fair
16/11/08: Vancouver votes from its heart
12/11/08: Campaigns that understand Vancouver’s multicultural mix
28/10/08: What is up?
24/10/08: America needs more sh*tty jobs
24/10/08: Say NO to Silverdale (Sprawl)
22/10/08: When political campaigns go negative…
20/10/08: Vancouver civic candidates court ethnic voters
17/10/08: The Hair Apparent
12/10/08: Arbutus Line red abandoned shopping cart
12/10/08: Urban sprawl threatens BC’s grasslands
12/10/08: Top of Mt. Seymour
12/10/08: Olympic Village (under construction)
11/10/08: It’s a transport nightmare, it’s an energy nightmare. It is absolutely bloody terrifying.
04/10/08: Cambie decaffeinated
04/10/08: It’s time to take down the BowMac sign
03/10/08: Let’s schtick to the issues
02/10/08: A bit like burning books
02/10/08: Photo: Handicap Parking at a Liquor Store
30/09/08: Online newspapers need a lesson in usability
27/09/08: Paul Newman R.I.P.
27/09/08: Google’s Golden Decade
18/09/08: Giving Molson some BIG blog love
17/09/08: Drink the cool, cool water (but from a tap)
16/09/08: Adapting Vancouver’s buildings and public spaces for future uses
16/09/08: Blog filler: Ace Frehley guitar solo, Japan 1977
24/08/08: Boris Johnson: The Olympics are coming home to Britain
24/08/08: Only in Vancouver
19/08/08: Canadians seeing changes to police culture
18/08/08: The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon
13/08/08: Can’t Beet It
13/08/08: The innocents of Georgia
12/08/08: Frances is back
10/08/08: Vancouver’s East Side suffers from The Mohawk
10/08/08: The recipe for civility is close to home
10/08/08: Agassiz Slow Food Bike Tour delivers
21/07/08: Fireworks at the Nat
19/07/08: Battle of the Star Chambers
17/07/08: Some thoughts on Tour de Gastown
16/07/08: Life is a bowl of raspberries
14/07/08: How green is my shed?
14/07/08: No Cabbage Patch: Notes on the Rogers iPhone Debacle
11/07/08: iPhoned
06/07/08: What are we doing to our planet?
05/07/08: The Canadian iPhone Conundrum
05/07/08: Daniel Yergin on the reasons for oil price increases
02/07/08: Vancouver Sun’s Frances Bula resigns
23/06/08: Goog-411 finds way to Canada
10/06/08: How’s this for compact living?
08/06/08: Quote of the Day goes to Kobe
02/06/08: Vancouver is accessible, but is it enlightened?
02/06/08: You call him Zimmy
26/05/08: Vancouver loses two of its best in May
22/05/08: R.E.M. at Gooseshit Lake
22/05/08: Bettie Serveert – Ray Ray Rain
14/05/08: The Andromeda Strain trailer
14/05/08: Forgive me, but this is very funny
08/05/08: The Saskatchewan Strain
16/04/08: Letter to Vancouver Sun re: Phone Books
09/04/08: Way to go, Walter!
07/04/08: Microsoft Flickr?
03/04/08: Anatomy of a Block Party
01/04/08: Taylor Effin Hawkins on the Drums!
01/04/08: Happy April Fool’s Day
29/03/08: Earth Hour: I will…
29/03/08: Worth a look while I figure out how to blog again
16/03/08: Talent, programming spiked at Seattle’s The End
24/02/08: What if you had an Oscar Party and nobody showed up?
22/02/08: Northern Voice 2008: MooseCamp
22/02/08: Vancouver Blogger: I get the bronze!
17/02/08: Aerosmith on 7th Avenue, 1987
13/02/08: Congratulations, Jay Triano!
13/02/08: Jim Kunstler’s opinion on Obama
12/02/08: Echoes
11/02/08: This gives me gas
04/02/08: Singing with Obama
04/02/08: Could better park design have prevented a tragedy?
31/01/08: Beijing Games’ ultimate performance enhancer
30/01/08: Vancouver Blogger: The War is Over?
29/01/08: Vancouver Blogger Smackdown: Day Two
29/01/08: Bad Clams
28/01/08: It’s a Google-off!!
28/01/08: Taking the Vancouver Blogger Challenge
27/01/08: Obama ‘rout’ in South Carolina
27/01/08: BC Hydro to raise rates, and we complain??
20/01/08: Email bankruptcy and other modern conditions
14/01/08: Change This and a familiar topic
08/01/08: Give Bindi a break
08/01/08: Greetings 2008, and goodbye to all that
24/12/07: A salute to small pleasures
17/12/07: Raise Brian and temperatures rise
17/12/07: Congratulations, Sunset Community!
15/12/07: “They’re bloodsuckers”
15/12/07: Ever been to Bruges?
13/12/07: The $85,000 bill from Bell
29/11/07: Separated at Birth? Sinclair and Quatchi
28/11/07: Memo to TV writers on strike
28/11/07: Rant about Yahoo MyBlogLog
24/11/07: Taking the Bluebox Express
21/11/07: Window on our digital world
17/11/07: Dubai Creek
14/11/07: Robert Liberty on the politics of sustainability
12/11/07: Font Fights
10/11/07: Ian King on UVic vote
10/11/07: This sounds familiar
08/11/07: Expensive real estate killing industry in West: BIV
08/11/07: Michael Geller back home with a message
05/11/07: (Un)Real Estate Speculations
05/11/07: Google weighing in on wireless
03/11/07: Dam this idea?
30/10/07: A great way to solve disputes
29/10/07: Check out 200 Central Street
25/10/07: Urban sprawl fuels California wildfires?
22/10/07: The Onion: Poll reveals the top issue for voters
15/10/07: 33rd Avenue Sidewalk
15/10/07: A different electric car story
03/10/07: Mother of Pete, this is good stuff
03/10/07: A way to improve iTunes Cover Flow
24/09/07: Can I write on your wall?
23/09/07: Clever activism creates instant parks
12/09/07: Crime in Vancouver — who knew??
12/09/07: CTVglobemedia + Windows Media sucks
10/09/07: This year’s tomato harvest
29/08/07: Modernettes: Barbra
26/08/07: Rapunzel meets Leonidas
24/08/07: Get Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
23/08/07: “I will be sweet… with you”
17/08/07: Why not funky corporate names for your kid?
17/08/07: Breaking the MSFT shackles
16/08/07: Plug for CityFarmBoy
15/08/07: Eyesore of the Month: March Edition
12/08/07: OK, cinephiles, this one’s for you
12/08/07: The “$100 Computer” coming to life
26/07/07: Announcing BC Wine Lover
13/07/07: My music of summer
12/07/07: Props for Price Tags
11/07/07: Hot in Vancouver
11/07/07: Dear CRTC, it’s time to put this regulation on ice
10/07/07: Separated at birth, Italian style
07/07/07: People forget that Microsoft used to be in Vancouver
05/07/07: Whaa? Avril doesn’t write her songs!?
28/05/07: Charles Nelson Reilly, R.I.P.
13/05/07: DOXA Festival
12/05/07: Vancouver crawls out of its soggy sleeping bag
06/05/07: Seal: The Deal
02/05/07: Vancouver streets teeming with life
30/03/07: Vancouver’s traffic reporters: big polluters?
17/03/07: Scoble assails Microsoft
17/03/07: You haven’t found a nose, have you?
17/03/07: We need RSS for TV
17/03/07: A final thought on local protesters
16/03/07: More yellow pages?? Time to ban these books.
13/03/07: Olympic protestors manage to offend everybody
07/03/07: 2006: a busy mofo
06/03/07: Protesters steal & tear Olympic flag at City Hall
23/02/07: Groan
23/02/07: Northern Voice meet-up: Wow!
17/02/07: Stormriding, the new extreme sport
15/02/07: What an idiot
13/02/07: Tim Bray nails it
02/02/07: Narvey: our little slice of shopping heaven
02/02/07: Maybe it’s better to switch than fight (Vista)
02/02/07: Kedrosky: Zune Flop Watch
27/01/07: The Vista Debacle
24/01/07: Oscar picks by Rope of Silicon
22/01/07: Spam: A new low
21/01/07: Close Vancouver bars at 2am
19/01/07: Not what Wii intended
19/01/07: North Shore Search & Rescue: Local Heroes
18/01/07: Videogames as teaching tools
17/01/07: Amen to that: Canadian ads bite
16/01/07: Not like Toshi needs anymore hype, but…
14/01/07: iPhone unvarnished
12/01/07: Seth Godin’s Hard Work
11/01/07: Remembering Laura
09/01/07: What’s new: May 1995
09/01/07: The Controlled Deflation of BC Place
07/01/07: The Global Warming Olympics
07/01/07: Bob Hoover flying
07/01/07: An antidote to “earth tones”
03/01/07: Pointed Sticks!
03/01/07: Experience true 3D on your computer!
02/01/07: Over two years to finish playing Half-Life 2!
02/01/07: Why’s the airport downtown?
27/12/06: HotWired retrospected
27/12/06: George Carlin has us all dead to rights
23/12/06: Trustee triggers political waves
13/12/06: 10 Canadian films I will never see
07/12/06: Rick Mercer’s Chubby White Guys
03/12/06: The Unbearable Burden of Spam
26/11/06: PS3: The New Betamax?
26/11/06: RSS Feeds as ‘Social Glue’: Jeffrey Veen
22/11/06: More Vista venting
22/11/06: Grace under pressure
19/11/06: Surprise! Zune is incompatible with Vista
19/11/06: When Yellow Meets Blue
19/11/06: Led Zeppelin fans take note
28/10/06: The Best CBC TV Program Ever
26/10/06: The Modernettes: Vancouver music greats
15/10/06: The needless decline of a Vancouver community
14/10/06: Mount Seymour, a view from the top
06/10/06: Loving Vancouver at film festival time
03/10/06: Sadness
29/09/06: Young Canadians – Hawaii
19/09/06: Vancouver’s radio morning show void
12/09/06: September 12th
28/08/06: The Telus blues
28/06/06: Lynn Canyon & the 90-foot pool
24/06/06: My battle with blacktop
15/06/06: Netscape deserves a proper burial
08/06/06: Bad times ahead for Sony?
07/06/06: Doubt me? Ask Google
04/06/06: The Coolest Canadian: Young or Shatner?
03/06/06: Harper and media on the Hill
02/06/06: PDF as open standard: why not?
02/06/06: Your MOJO ain’t workin’
01/06/06: Linksys: AARRRRRRGGG!
08/05/06: Steve Nash: All-Canadian Hero
06/01/06: Partridge Family Values
28/12/05: Radio: creative talent need not apply
27/12/05: Oh, Google Cache, what would we do without ye?
19/10/05: My Zeitgeist
10/07/05: Professional baseball players = roid monkeys
19/02/05: Northern Voice: The Lunch
19/02/05: Northern Voice the Third
19/02/05: Northern Voice Deux
19/02/05: Northern Voice Conference, Numero Uno
17/02/05: Teen tossed by GG for treasonous chatter
23/01/05: Spinning the young voter
20/01/05: Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’, keep those links a movin’
14/01/05: Environics pollster comes a callin’
13/01/05: Tears Are Not Enough, Part Deux: The Rage of Terry
04/01/05: Busy Blogosphere Gets Hype, Not Readers
30/12/04: Help Asian disaster victims: donate to relief organizations
29/12/04: Contrasting comfort with catastrophe
29/12/04: Ouch! Reviewer gets nasty with Spacey
24/12/04: Demise of community television sticks in my craw
18/12/04: China crowns first ‘Miss Plastic Surgery’
17/12/04: The End’s Alternative Declaration
17/12/04: Radio ratings in Vancouver reveal public frustration with mediocrity
17/12/04: Frank Magazine R.I.P.
06/12/04: What kind of time do you have for your community?
01/10/01: Confessions of a 9-11 Addict
04/09/01: Vancouver’s Media Makeover
04/04/97: Cookies and Corporate Monsters
07/03/96: diarrhea.com
07/01/96: J.B. Shayne: A Radio Talent Tuned Out
07/12/95: The Pros and Cons of Hot Talk
21/09/95: Mainstream Hip
03/08/95: Terminal City Redux
09/07/95: Interview with Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen
04/05/95: Sarah’s Celebrity Makeover
16/02/95: Coral & Rust: Notes from Hawaii
09/01/95: I’m glad you told me that, man
24/11/94: Pre-teen, Prime Time Dreaming
23/11/94: The New Seats
20/09/94: The Cinephile
20/09/94: The Videomatica Test
08/06/94: Invasion of the Brain Snatchers
01/04/94: English Bay Monster Truck Pull (April Fool’s Prank)
08/01/94: Young, Gifted & Out of Patience
23/11/93: The All-Canadian Walk of Fame
01/11/93: Fest-O-Vision Too Opening
01/11/93: The Film Festival Schmoozer
02/10/93: The Honey Party (political ad)
28/09/93: Fest-O-Vision Promo
10/06/93: The Three Coreys
20/05/93: Marty Eisler Exposed
06/05/93: Emergency VCR Repair
23/02/93: Hollywood North Report Bloopers
30/10/92: Vancouver Magazine Cover, Pt. 2
23/10/92: Vancouver Magazine Cover, Pt. 1
06/08/92: The Aaron Spelling Museum
04/08/92: The Hug Clinic
23/07/92: Kino’s Power Viewing Session
24/06/92: Movie Magic Disaster
23/04/92: The Grassy Meadow
12/04/92: Shayne’s Oscar Night Party
07/12/91: Graffiti and the Legend of Little Mountain Sound
15/11/90: The Sprout Farm Song
15/10/90: Understanding Stairway to Heaven
08/09/90: Rat Control
07/01/89: The Laurie Partridge Diaries

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