Over the past two weeks, driving in Metro Vancouver has been the way I remember it used to be. Getting around to appointments or shopping destinations, or even up to the North Shore mountains for some recreation, has been a breeze. I have often arrived ahead of schedule. Even though the Christmas break usually ends […]
The City of Vancouver just announced another public consultation process accompanied by the usual social media hashtags and online surveys on the future of the plaza at 800 Robson St., also known as Robson Square. If I sound a little skeptical it is not because I believe we should shut out the public in planning […]
On our usual Sunday morning distance run in late July, a small group of us plotted a route that would cut across from the East Side through the leafy Shaughnessy neighbourhood, then back. Just about at the halfway mark we arrived at Arbutus Street and spotted the newly paved pathway along the old railway corridor. We were […]
Originally published in Vancouver Courier It is easy to understand why politicians want to label their own constituencies as the very best at something. It conjures local pride and invariably a little competition among other jurisdictions. In Vancouver’s case, those running city hall aspire for us to become the world’s “greenest” city by the year […]
Last month my wife Stacey rode her bike to Seattle for the second time on the BC Ride to Conquer Cancer. And just like when we visited in 2009 we turned the occasion into a short family vacation. I wrote a short post about the trip, where I used super-sized menu portions in U.S. eateries […]