November 30, 2008 Headlines
November 30, 2008
LOCAL
Valley rail advocates say enough with the studies [The Province]
New player ready with Whistler housing plan [CTV]
People lucky enough to get tickets to 2010 Olympics now face hotel hurdle [The Canadian Press]
CANADA
City council approves transit plan [Centretown News, Ontario]
Walking the green walk [Financial Post]
INTERNATIONAL
Daring Tualatin project hinges on zoning change [The Oregonian]
Closing time: Local retail landscape is changing as chains shrink - and it’s not over yet [Boston Globe]
re:connect just a few days away
November 29, 2008
re:place magazine’s networking and idea-sharing event, re:connect, takes place this Wednesday, December 3. We are finalizing our list of speakers and have managed to put together a diverse group of people who will discuss a variety of issues that concern all Metro Vancouverites. Read the story »
re:connect just a few days away
November 29, 2008
re:place magazine’s networking and idea-sharing event, re:connect, takes place this Wednesday, December 3. We are finalizing our list of speakers and have managed to put together a diverse group of people who will discuss a variety of issues that concern all Metro Vancouverites.
Re:connect will give these speakers five minutes to talk about personal or group initiatives/ideas/concepts/plans to spread the word as a means of gaining momentum and forging (hopefully unexpected) partnerships.
These speakers will include Vancouver writer and historian Chuck Davis, who contributes weekly to re:place with his fascinating look at our city’s history in A Year in Five Minutes, and David Beers, editor of The Tyee. Check back in a couple days when we will announce the full line-up of speakers.
Re:connect will take place at The End Cafe (2360 Commercial Drive, just a couple blocks north from the Broadway/Commercial Drive SkyTrain station) on December 3rd at 7pm. Our list of speakers is all full, but we still invite anyone interested to come and listen and perhaps contribute to the ideas being shared at this informal and informative event. Admission is free, but we would like to get an idea of numbers so we ask anyone interested in attending to please RSVP to contributors@regardingplace.com. Or, feel free to let us know you want to join us via our facebook page, where you can find re:connect under the events heading.
Please also feel free to contact us if you have any questions about this event or anything else we are doing at re:place magazine.
We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you at re:connect - hopefully the first of many such events.
November 29, 2008 Headlines
November 29, 2008
VANCOUVER
Larry Beasley’s Simple Plan [Vancouver Magazine]
2010
Analysis: 2010 Security Threat Assessment and Reality [The Vancouver Observer]
Security Breach [Vancouver Magazine]
Are getting cold feet and backpedalling also Olympic events? [The Vancouver Sun]
Vancouver CFO’s severance deal hints at hidden story [The Globe and Mail]
ENVIRONMENT
Environmentalist turns to online campaign to protect B.C. forest [CBC]
Plug ‘n Play (electric cars in Vancouver) [Granville Magazine]
CANADA
Visions for the city [The Gazette, Montreal]
City looks at upping density downtown [The Hamilton Spectator]
Making short work out of a tall order [Calgary Herald]
For best results stick to the plan [New Brunswick Business Journal]
November 28, 2008 Headlines
November 28, 2008
LOCAL
Ghost World (Little Mountain Housing Project) [The Tyee]
B.C. funds commuter rail studies [BC Local News]
Longtime parks commissioner exits stage right [The Vancouver Courier]
Union kingpin attacks NPA parks commissioners [The Vancouver Courier]
2009 Pemberton Festival in jeopardy, organizer says [The Globe and Mail]
B.C. NDP leader woos union delegates with election promises [CBC]
It’s full steam ahead for Port of Vancouver expansion [CBC]
Leaked documents inquiry hits unexplored territory [CTV BC]
More Mobile
November 27, 2008
Editor: Jennifer Siegal (Princeton Architectural Press, 2008)
More Mobile is the little book that roared. About the size of a stack of old 6”x 9” photos (remember those), this modest 145-page book could’ve been much bigger, but then it itself wouldn’t had been very ‘mobile’, representing the inside joke which is very much characteristic of the work found between its covers. Read more
November 27, 2008 Headlines
November 27, 2008
MUNICIPAL POLITICS
Outgoing NPA councillors have mixed feelings about election loss [The Vancouver Courier]
Is our voting system racist? [The Georgia Straight]
City halls as paragons of virtue? [The Vancouver Sun]
BC POLITICS
Will the ’90s haunt the New Democrats in 2009? [The Globe and Mail]
Liberals look to hold the line, all right — with watchdogs first [The Vancouver Sun]
NDP blowing chance to hold Liberal gov’t to fire [The Province]
Private bingo donations to B.C. Liberals suspected [24 Hours]
2010
VANOC accused of pressing communities for millions in cash [The Globe and Mail]
Controversy rocks lead-up to 2010 Olympics [The Real News Network]
OTHER LOCAL NEWS
Suburban mayor says Transit Line at risk [The Georgia Straight]
Little Mountain Housing showdown looms [The Georgia Straight]
Residents wary of proposed neighbourhood centre [The Vancouver Courier]
CANADA
Now is the time to reshape our cities [The Globe and Mail]
New Centre Mall Locks In Sprawl Development [Raise The Hammer, Hamilton]
Transit debate has lost its way [Ottawa Citizen]
USA
Land War [The Stranger, Seattle]
In the Hall: The Great Wall [The Stranger, Seattle]
November 26, 2008 Headlines
November 26, 2008
MUNICIPAL POLITICS
Peter Ladner Submits Motion Asking for Investigation [The Vancouver Observer]
Council talks taxes [The Province]
NPA councillor leery of U.S. donations [The Vancouver Sun]
BC POLITICS
Campbell & Co. have yet to get around to any ‘reining-in’ of spending [The Vancouver Sun]
B.C. gov’t to legislate lower emissions [The Province]
2010
Will There be a Riot During the Olympic Games? [The Vancouver Observer]
As Games security tightens, traffic restrictions widen [The Globe and Mail]
OTHER LOCAL NEWS
The Fraser’s Fragile Forests [The Tyee]
Vancouver Council gives Ballet BC boost of one-time, $85,000 payment [The Globe and Mail]
B.C. looking to make major changes to trail management [The Vancouver Sun]
November 25, 2008 Headlines
November 25, 2008
LOCAL
Olympic organizers finding Whistler too rich [The Province]
No doom and gloom from Campbell’s Liberals [The Province]
CANADA
Flaherty’s plan: Bridges, hospitals and more [The Vancouver Sun]
INTERNATIONAL
The menace of urban sprawl [The Guardian, UK]
Downtown Historic Railway kickstarts the Vancouver rail renaissance (Part 2)
November 25, 2008
In order to turn his idea of converting the old CPR tracks running parallel to 6th Avenue St into a historic streetcar line, Dale Laird first needed some historic streetcars. And Laird knew of a couple of interurban cars that had recently returned to Vancouver after a long journey. Read more
