Published originally in Vancouver Courier, July 12, 2013. It follows a fine National Post feature on the Country Lane by Brian Hutchinson. A two and a half-page report titled “Country Lanes Demonstration Project” from Engineering Services to city council, dated July 9, 2002, is buried on the website archive known as former.vancouver.ca. It is a […]
No one sings O Canada louder these days than Vancouver hockey fans – see video NPA City Council Candidate Mike Klassen has resurrected the popular Where to be for Free guide. Klassen encouraged blogger Daniel Fontaine to resurrect the guide, originally created for the 2010 Winter Olympics, for the Stanley Cup Finals. The Where to […]
My friend Walter Schultz is a community leader in South Vancouver who, for a variety of reasons got it in his head that the Sunset neighbourhood where he lives deserved a new, state of the art, community centre. A very nice celebration took place where the Premier, Vancouver’s Mayor and a variety of public officials […]
Less than 24 hours before 15-year-old Deward Ponte was stabbed to death at the edge of Grays Park it was a bitterly cold Saturday morning – about as cold as Vancouver gets in winter. A temperature of minus 2 degrees Celcius and the forecast calling for snow. I stood beside Grays Park Hall on St. […]
There's lots of hand-wringing lately about clamshell roofs and Arthur Erickson's legacy. Erickson without question has firmly established himself as Vancouver's preeminent architect. I'm not sure if we should love everything he's done, however. Even he must have had a V8-style moment, slapping his forehead and crying, what the hell was I thinking? There's the […]
On the False Creek Flats is an industrial area of Vancouver that is like the land that time forgot. All around you see shiny new buildings, but in this little patch near the train/bus station on Terminal Avenue the old warehouses still stand. Central Street, which runs only one block in Vancouver, is not the […]