This came recently from our highly effective local non-profit, HUB Cycling. It’s a good way to help Arno’s work to continue and to double the impact of your donation.
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A convenience now available at some 330 malls in North America. With thanks to CBC.ca.
From the New York Times Canada Letter:
When a senior American cabinet secretary shows up for an interview, it usually involves a motorcade of sleek, black cars complete with a “security package,” as they euphemistically call the guys with guns.
When Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister, showed up this week for our public discussion at the University of Toronto, she came by bicycle.
Through the snow.
She didn’t seem to think much of it. This is Canada, after all.
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We at Price Tags are having a great time with our new podcast, PriceTalks. So we appreciate the opportunity to be invited to other podcasts that are exploring our city and its issues – like that time on Cambie Reports with Sandy James, Gord Price and the three Cambie Reporters.
When Adam and Matt Scalena asked Gord to appear on their Vancouver Real Estate News podcast, the answer was an immediate yes. The results have just been posted:
Has 2018 been a good year for Vancouver? The time to take stock is now. Former City Councillor & Founder of the influential “Price Tags” website Gordon Price sits down with Adam & Matt to discuss the present, the past, and the future of Vancouver in one of the most wide-reaching conversations to date. Tune in to hear Gordon’s take on all things Vancouver, including his unique insider account of local politics, why building permits ought to take as long as they do, and his surprising predictions for the next neighborhoods set for redevelopment. Oh, yeah, and we also cover the coming apocalypse. This is not to be missed!
One of the great features of their blog is the Episode Summary – a detailed encapsulation of the conversation. Though it must take a lot of time to do, it’s a great way to get a sense of the content before tuning in, or to find a particular topic right away. Great work, guys.
(As per the post below, Gordon guarantees that the Price is not always right.) Click here for podcast.
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Well, it really didn’t take too long for the floodgates to open, now that Canada has struck down its blasphemy libel laws. Is anything to remain sacred now?
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Peter delivered this talk at the Get Inspired Talks, on October 20, 2018.
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For decades Peter Ladner has been trying out better ways to get around Vancouver than driving alone at a huge cost. In this video, Peter describes how we can move around Vancouver using ways that are easier, healthier, cheaper and more convenient. Peter is chair of the David Suzuki Foundation board and the Better Transit and Transportation Coalition. He is a former Vancouver City Councillor, TransLink board member, business owner and journalist.(Click for video.) Read more »
Another parkade that has already bit the dust (or, rather, turned into dust) is historically on a site that was the first thing a visitor would see after arriving by train (whether CPR or SkyTrain) and exiting Waterfront Station. The corner of Cordova and Granville is documented, of course, by Changing Vancouver:
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The parkade in the 700-block Seymour served the Vancouver Centre complex anchored by the Scotia Tower at Georgia and Granville, surely one of the most boring buildings on one of the best locations in Canada.
When it replaced the much-loved Birks Building in 1974, it helped provoke the heritage movement in the city, and eventually the provincial legislation which preserved our best landmarks. (Think of it as the Pennsylvania Station of Vancouver. Penn Station was a magnificent neoclassical rail terminal in New York, the demolition of which led to the American National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.)
The worst part of Vancouver Centre is the mediocre low-rise element at the southeast corner of our most important downtown intersection.
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As public transit for a major city we have been wondering why TransLink does not have continuous public internet along the system, and why there are no washrooms, because it is a human need and everyone needs access to washrooms. We have been exploring those issues for some time in Price Tags.
TransLink has now announced that free access to internet service is coming, and will be offered on SkyTrain, the SeaBus and on transit.
As the Vancouver Sun noted, there had been cut and paste internet service offered at SeaBus terminals and on the SeaBus, but service was not extended beyond these locations. Working with Shaw the idea is to provide uniform service across the transit network, with the proviso that such coverage will take six years to be completely implemented. And yes, you will be able to access the internet even if you are not a Shaw customer. Trials will start next year, and the complete internet coverage of the public transportation system is said to the first in Canada.
And to make matters even more comfortable and convenient, the TransLink Board has approved the development of a strategy to provide washrooms on the system “over the longer term”.
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This fall, we launched Price Talks, our new podcast series. Price Talks are conversations with past, current, and emerging leaders in urbanist thought across Vancouver and BC’s South Coast — in academia, advocacy, business, media, politics, and urban planning and development.
You can subscribe to Price Talks via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify or Stitcher – scroll down to see an episode listing and descriptions below.
We’re having fun with some fascinating guests, and we’ll close out 2018 with a dozen long-form conversations on the year’s top issues, and looking ahead to the new year.
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