Guide to the Inconveniences of Public Transit
June 30, 2008
Photo courtesy of YosemiteDonn
Public transit is invariably less convenient than a private automobile. While its frequency, reliability, and usability can be improved, travelling by bus or train will always have certain inconveniences associated it, especially for those who use their cars for most trips. Read more
Release Vancouver Design Nerds Present CUBE LIVING: A New Way of Thinking About Space
June 30, 2008
Cube is an exciting new product that brings locative social web technologies into the world of real estate development.
Rising Tides: Metro Vancouver Flood Map
June 30, 2008
By Richard Balfour, Metro Vancouver Planning Coalition
Map by R. Balfour (edited by Erick Villagomez)
In the SSP Manual: A Civil Defense Manual for Cultural Survival (Balfour & Keenan, Old City Foundation Press), a map of the Lower Mainland of BC is shown with a projected tide rise of 6m which would wipe out the Fraser River floodplain, one of the most precious farmland areas on the planet. This was projected from data available at the time, not a certainty if we change our wasteful habits in carbon fuels. Read more
Canada Day festivities offer high energy fun [Vancouver Sun]
June 30, 2008
Canada Day festivities offer high energy fun [Vancouver Sun]
Hundreds flock to Commercial Drive for Euro Cup final [Vancouver Sun]
June 30, 2008
Hundreds flock to Commercial Drive for Euro Cup final [Vancouver Sun]
The CO2 tax — it’s more painful for Premier Campbell than you [Vancouver Sun]
June 30, 2008
The CO2 tax — it’s more painful for Premier Campbell than you [Vancouver Sun]
Rubber eyed for city hall quake fix [Vancouver Sun]
June 30, 2008
Rubber eyed for city hall quake fix [Vancouver Sun]
Report card says Canada’s standing slipping [Vancouver Sun]
June 30, 2008
Report card says Canada’s standing slipping [Vancouver Sun]
High gas prices fuel gov’t windfall [The Province]
June 30, 2008
High gas prices fuel gov’t windfall [The Province]
Vancouver’s Nine O’Clock Gun
June 30, 2008
By Chuck Davis, The History of Metropolitan Vancouver
Photo by Maurice Jassak
It’s been hit by lightning, plugged with rocks, short-circuited, silenced by work stoppages and even (briefly) stolen but Vancouver’s famed old Nine O’Clock Gun has—as faithfully as circumstances have allowed—boomed out the time of day from its home in Stanley Park for 107 years now.
