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Celebration of Light Leaving English Bay for Coal Harbour?
From CTVbc.ca --
Saturday's fireworks performance is getting good reviews from visitors.
Everyone was just so well behaved. Unbelievable, o...
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Shane_B |
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Loden Vancouver Debut
Vancouver's newest boutique hotel, the Loden, which is located on Melville Street close to Coal Harbour, held their launch party on Wednesday evening....
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Joe Urban's View of Vancouver
Minneapolis writer Sam Newberg calls himself Joe Urban. For good reason: he loves looking at cities and making observations (kinda like a lot...
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Price Tags |
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Honey Harvest at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel
The Fairmont Waterfront Hotel obtained two queen bees in June and have subsequently set up a couple hives on their third-floor terrace. The result? Th...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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FUSE Wine event at LIFT
Ray Signorello Jr. and partners launched a new wine brand, FUSE, on Thursday afternoon at LIFT in Coal Harbour. With amazing weather and a great vi...
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Urban Mixer Blog |
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Vancouver Dog Snatchers
Attention residents of Small Dog Land, ie Coal Harbour/Gastown/Yaletown. There is a couple out there snatching yr poodlez! My friend Damian recently ...
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Beyond Robson |
active:13 weeks 5 days ago |
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Dreams of green
Don't judge a book by its cover is a popular proverb that I've never been able to get behind. It's a reckless concept, never mind an insult to ...
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condohype |
active:15 weeks 1 day ago |
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Square watermelons: for when you have too much money
So you're thinking that not only are you not eating enough fruit these days, you're not spending enough on fruit either. Well have no fear thanks to...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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We've got a boatload of new authors but you can still climb aboad the good ship Vancouver Metblogs
As you might have noticed we've added one new blogger since my last advert pleading for new authors to come help out at Metroblogging Vancouver [mbv]...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Test post and a battleship
I'm just testing a few things out and trying to see how the offline blogging editor Ecto lets me post to WordPress. Please ignore all of this, unless ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
active:18 weeks 6 days ago |
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Vancouver Geomancy
View Larger MapSomething I've been toying with as I wander these streets in July is the idea, as new-agey as it sounds, that the physical environment ...
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Beyond Robson |
active:19 weeks 19 hours ago |
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Canada Day 2008: Fireworks from Lion's Gate Bridge + Chinatown Celebrations
Canada Day is winding down. I saw simultaneously watched fireworks at Vancouver's Coal Harbour, and West Vancouver's Ambleside Park. Okay... it's ...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
active:20 weeks 1 day ago |
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Happy Canada Day: fireworks information
So it's Canada Day. Hopefully you all have a great day. If I were back in Kelowna I might make a note about boat safety, since basically all anyon...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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No Quick Fixes
My column in the current Business in Vancouver:No quick or easy fix for affordable housing policyWhen it comes to the cost of housing in Vancouver, th...
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Price Tags |
active:21 weeks 1 day ago |
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Back on Monday
Off to the Planning Institute of B.C.'s conference in Prince George.In the meantime, some shots of Glen Patterson's extraordinary roof-top garden at ...
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Price Tags |
active:23 weeks 16 hours ago |
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The Big Mass
I didn't have high expectations for the new Convention Centre. It was never intended to be a dynamic piece of architecture, partly because it was no...
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active:23 weeks 3 days ago |
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Six-metre art harms condos, deported to Calgary
If you were to take the sterility and coldness of a walk-in clinic and apply it to community design, the result would be Coal Harbour. Situated in Van...
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condohype |
active:24 weeks 1 day ago |
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EP Workshop a Huge Success
On Sunday May 25 approximately 65 Coal Harbour and West End Residents attended a workshop on Emergency Preparedness. Lt. Michael Smith from Vancouver ...
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Vancouver Sun: Dragon boats about to set sail - will dragon boat festival leave False Creek?
When will a boat house be built in East False Creek for dragon boats?Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team paddles into South East False Creek dock ...
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GungHaggisFatChoy |
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Triangle West Comes of Age
Triangle West is Coal Harbour Slopes - the blocks above farthest West Hastings Street, from Thurlow to the pointy end, where Pender and Georgia meet. ...
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Price Tags |
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Leaving money on the table
This bit of pavement doesn't rank as New Stuff quite yet: it's the southern end of the Carrall Street Greenway (design here) - a critical link b...
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Price Tags |
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Rooting out controversial art
Device to Root Out Evil, a controversial Coal Harbour sculpture, may be getting the boot. It's on a hit list of public art installations heading for t...
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Live at Five |
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Brio not so Grande
If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, does it make a sound? This is a classic philosophical riddle that you've probably pondered at one ...
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condohype |
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WERA calls on the provincial government to study disaster-response implications of relocating St. Pauls Hospital
In the event of an earthquake residents should be prepared to survive on their own for 72 hours. Everyone should have enough water and food and medica...
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Southward Bound
Sun writer Frances Bula has a blog - City States - where she can put pieces that don't make it into the paper. (Which raises the question, why not? In...
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“Urban Melt Down”
You have to be impressed with a city councillor who can actually write a book: in this case, Clive Doucet, the author of Urban Melt Down: Cities, Cl...
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“Challenges of Today's Vancouver”
Last year, Sun columnist Miro Cernetig did a piece on the new convention centre expansion.From a design perspective, the convention centre is esthetic...
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SFU City |
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Last year, Sun columnist Miro Cernetig did a piece
Last year, Sun columnist Miro Cernetig did a piece on the new convention centre expansion.From a design perspective, the convention centre is esthetic...
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Expectations
I was thinking about expectations today, and I'm starting to think one way to have real success is to set up people to have relatively low expectation...
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Aerial photos of the new Sunset Community Centre.
These are aerial photos of the new Sunset Community Centre, located at 6810 Main Street between 51st ave & 53rd ave. They were taken in the past mont...
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Walter Schultz |
active:49 weeks 1 day ago |
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Forecast 2008: Vancouver area home prices to rise 8-10%
CIV - Vancouver real estate will see another year of price hike in 2008, with an estimated jump of 8-10% depending on housing types, CMHC forecasts.Pr...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
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Morning Brew: November First
I think I figured out why the comments aren't working; they all get sent into the spam folder so all I have to do is go in there and un-spam them. Go ...
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Beyond Robson |
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Morning Brew: October 30th
B.C. to sign carbon trading deal. I wonder how many carbon credits we'll get for Gateway. Adding lanes reduces gridlock which buys us, what, 3 years b...
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Beyond Robson |
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The Leaning Towers of Coal Harbour
For those who complain that Vancouver doesn't have enough interesting architecture, we can add another new building to our rebuttal (along with the Ri...
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Pacific Metropolis |
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Urban Fare in Coal Harbour
So a second Urban Fare store has now opened in Vancouver - this time at the other end of the city's axis of affluence, Coal Harbour. Specifically, it'...
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Pacific Metropolis |
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The Day to Stop Gateway
The Day to Stop GatewaySaturday, September 29th, 2007http://www.stopgateway.ca/3 Events: Non-stop Inspiration and EntertainmentSend a strong message t...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
active:1 year 7 weeks ago |
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Wedding Worth Remembering
Granville Island, beautiful fall skies and a wedding to remember. Start with a small group of family and friends (18 to be exact), invite them to jo...
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Morning Brew: September 17th
We're fucked. Happy Monday morning. Sigh. Mediators Selected. Ready?Say this next headline in Chief Wiggam's voice: We need to get tough with street...
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Beyond Robson |
active:1 year 9 weeks ago |
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Triangle West Gets Centred
Next Saturday, the character of Vancouver is going to change - just a little. In the neighbourhood of Triangle West, it's going to change a lot.Tria...
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Price Tags |
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Vancouver luxury homes snapped up, prices surge
Greater Vancouver AreaUpper-End Price Point $2mUpper-End MARKET TRENDS 2007 by ReMax - Demand for upscale homes in the Greater Vancouver Area con...
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Chinese in Vancouver |
active:1 year 10 weeks ago |
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Paradise Making
The following Op-Ed ran in the Vancouver Sun:'Making paradiseThe village on the edge of the rainforest' didn't become one of the world's most liv...
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SFU City |
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Paradise Making in the Sun
Thanks to the Vancouver Sun for running my op-ed today:Making paradiseThe village on the edge of the rainforest' didn't become one of the world's m...
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Price Tags |
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Seattle in Vancouver
While searching for an image on Vancouver in Google, I came across this:It was used in the campaign to convince Seattle voters not to support a rebuil...
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Price Tags |
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things I read
One of my favourite reads is The Republic of East Vancouver. I pulled a couple of excerpts from it that are vaguely pertinent. Emphasis is mine.The fi...
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vancouver (un)real estate |
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Beaches Are Open But Community Centre and Library Closed.
August 2, 2007The beaches of the West End are open and safe to use after Wednesday nights fireworks. In an impressive act of civic responsibility and ...
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Filmed in Vancouver: MacGyver
Jeffery Simpson: Super Happy Dev House - What would MacGyver do? Image701 Originally uploaded by roland. Over the next while I will be looking ...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
active:1 year 16 weeks ago |
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How to survive the fireworks
Jeffery Simpson: Symphony of Fire 2006 Originally uploaded by BastArd StarFiSh. The HSBC Symphony of Light is about to get underway for another...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
active:1 year 17 weeks ago |
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Vancouver's 7 'Burbs: Port Moody
Maktaaq:New Westminster may have once been BC's capital, but Port Moody was almost Vancouver.This was back in the early 1880s, when the CPR terminus w...
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Metroblogging Vancouver |
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Fine Art Camps
SUMMER 2007withD'HERCY DANCE CO.D'Hercy Dance Company is proud to invite you to do Dance, Drama and Visual Art in itsFINE ARTS INTEGRATIONAL SUMMER CA...
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Commercial Drive Live! |
active:1 year 18 weeks ago |
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The address you always wanted
Forget Robson Street. Forget Main Street. Forget West 1st. For maximum address envy, choose Lakeshore Drive in Penticton. Yes, Penticton.Introduc...
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condohype |
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