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I have lost count of the number of times recently I have had to take avoiding action because of the behaviour of other drivers. Some of it of course is simply because of aggressive driving the sort of people who overtake on the wrong side, cut in f...

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I am sorry to be banging on once again about what I used to do once. But there was a time, not long after I arrived in Canada, when I first got involved in environmental assessment. It was a departure for me, since up until that time I had done eco...

topics: business, election, environment, environmental, health-care

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It is on cbc.ca and it is headed Vancouver parking rates not so bad: survey . It is in the same league as those surveys that compare cities around the world and then say Vancouver is the most livable. It may or may not be true I am not at all sure...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, downtown, employment, olympics

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A rather catty little piece from the Toronto Star (Florida of course writes for the competition).Honeymoons, typically, are short. For Florida, who arrived in Toronto just over two years ago to head the Martin Prosperity Institute, a University of To...

topics: economy, planning, urban-planning

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I really do not have much to say about this. It came over one of the list serves without any comment and I read it with a growing sense of recognition. It is the first time I have heard of it it is apparently British in origin but apparently ha...

topics: climate-change, environment, environmentalism, greenhouse-gas

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This week s events in Washington were shocking and are also very hard to understand.To put the apalling death toll in the subway train crash into perspective here is the death rate by mode in the US, courtesy of Todd LittmanThe Washington subway wo...

topics: federal-government, skytrain, transit, transportation

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Vancouver CourierOnce again the headline writer misleads probably intentionally. It is not the community that is bashing it is Charles Gauthier executive director of the Downtown Business Improvement Association who does not represent everyone ...

topics: business, developers, downtown, environment, maple-ridge

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BC Rail 4606 photo by Stephen ReesThe Globe and Mail is going to be my source for this news but of course it is all over the media today. And so it should be. The facts are that four years of B.C. cabinet e-mails were erased. The defense says tha...

topics: bc-rail, election, liberal, liberals, political

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Yesterday while riding my bike I came across the following sceneThe no parking at any time sign is clear and incontrovertible. Nearly the whole of Williams Road is laid out like this three traffic lanes one in each direction, and a centre bidir...

topics: realtor, richmond

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The GuardianAlright. I will admit it. I came across this story in the Guardian minutes ago and wanted to blog about it just because I had got to it before Richard Campbell or Ron Richings had told me about it and all the others on the various lis...

topics: business, technology