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Courier Community Correspondent: Give Neighbourhoods the Tools for Change

November 16, 2012 6:31 am /Vancouver /1 Comment
This article was published originally in the Vancouver Courier newspaper as part of their Community Correspondent series. Soon my wife and daughter will mark ten years since we have resided a half-block off Fraser Street. ...

How #BCL12′s Social Media Changed B.C. Political Coverage Forever

November 1, 2012 6:30 am /Soapbox /Comments Off
BC Liberals 2012 Convention — photo: Jonathan Hayward , CP Originally published on Huffington Post BC. Last Friday evening, Sharon White, the BC Liberal Party’s good-natured volunteer president, was smiling like a kid who just ...

Who else is “secretly glad” Meggs lost in Vancouver-Fairview?

October 24, 2012 1:35 pm /Soapbox, Vancouver /Comments Off
George Heyman (Photo: Emily Jackson, Vancouver Metro) Originally published at Huffington Post BC. If you are a B.C. political junkie, there was plenty to keep you engaged over the weekend — whether it was the ...

Can a streetcar solve Vancouver’s Broadway corridor conundrum?

October 13, 2012 12:54 pm /Soapbox, Vancouver /7 Comments
This post was featured earlier in Vancity Buzz. Image above sourced from Price Tags blog. Now that the wraps have been taken off the design plans for Evergreen Line stations the reality is setting in ...

Vision Vancouver’s public engagement paradox

October 12, 2012 11:46 am /Soapbox /Comments Off
GlobalTV News Hour reports on new housing density coming to Vancouver neighbourhoods This post ran originally at Huffington Post BC, and after that ran in The Province (see also on their paywall free blog). Vision's brazen ...

Not running for office

October 8, 2012 9:20 am /Zeitgeist /Comments Off
You hear the rumour once or twice, you can shrug it off. But now that I’ve heard it more than a half dozen times – even from people who are close to me – I ...
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