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Mayor’s bailout of Waldorf unsustainable; real problem is city’s onerous building rules
Originally published in the Vancouver Sun. Waldorf Tiki Bar photo by Les Bazso, PNG. Losing the Waldorf Hotel is a setback for Vancouver’s arts, music and culture scene, and many people are rightly disappointed about this. ...
Want walkable neighbourhoods? Then you must take responsibility for litter
Originally published in Vancouver Courier. Photo by Dan Toulgoet. The weather on New Year’s Day in Vancouver was crisp and gloriously bright — the perfect conditions for outdoor chores like taking down Christmas lights. Or, ...
What Can We Learn From the #Waldorf Hotel Affair?
Originally published on Huffington Post BC. The news of the demise of the Waldorf Hotel was described by one Vancouver journalist as being like a “small neutron bomb” going off. At least with real neutron bombs the buildings ...
Green Party’s Andrew Weaver Case Reveals Twitter as New Battlefront of B.C. Politics
Originally published at Huffington Post BC. “The NDP are portraying themselves as sugar-coated candy, but I’m finding that below the surface there’s some real ugliness.” — Green Party candidate Andrew Weaver in the Vancouver Sun Welcome to ...
Ten ideas to re-engage Vancouver’s reluctant municipal voters
The worst complaint? Voting doesn’t matter The following article was originally published in the Vancouver Sun. Image c/o Postmedia. As Mayor Gregor Robertson marks the end of his first year of his second mandate, I ...
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