I’ve been staying out of the whole complicated issue of what is behind the termination of Vancouver’s chief electrical officer Ark Tsisserev just before the Olympics. These kinds of stories, where neither side is willing to speak publicly or clearly about what is going on, are problematic to wade into, as there are often all […]
Entries from January 2016
A messy termination keeps generating questions
March 16th, 2010 · 23 Comments
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Casino partner found for BC Place reno?
March 16th, 2010 · 10 Comments
In the always interesting case of the plans for Northeast False Creek — that chunk of territory between BC Place and Science World, owned by four heavy hitters in the development world — there has been persistent talk of the current casino at the Plaza of Nations moving over to a new complex attached to […]
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Province pushes to get Lower Mainland residents to pay more taxes for transit
March 13th, 2010 · 117 Comments
Talking to all the parties involved in trying to resolve TransLink’s financial mess is starting to remind me of sitting at the dinner table every night with your about-to-divorce parents. They keep insisting everything is fine and they’re having long constructive talks about some differences they’ve been having. But then you overhear them exchanging bitter […]
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Vancouver engineering head retires
March 12th, 2010 · 11 Comments
I’ve been hearing about Tom Timm’s impending retirement for a year, one of the names that kept popping up on the list of “people most likely to get fed up and quit after Vision and Penny Ballem took over.” Then I also heard that he’d been saying even before that he was only going to […]
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Data junkies alert: More info now available from Vancouver data sources
March 11th, 2010 · 11 Comments
The city just sent out a memo saying it has added more to its list of “open” data sources available to the geek-prone public. Here’s the site for what’s available: http://data.vancouver.ca/
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Olympics bid a bad idea, 40 per cent in B.C. still say
March 11th, 2010 · 23 Comments
Here’s a news item that will cheer up some on this site: B.C. continues to lead the way, even in post-Games euphoria, in disapproving of hosting the Olympics.
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Art gallery under the gun to get new site and fast, says board
March 10th, 2010 · 59 Comments
The Vancouver Art Gallery’s efforts to move to a new site, with a landmark building double the size of where it is now, are going to be a fascinating show of its own in the next few months. This is one of those epic stories that happen to cities only every so often, as one […]
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City councillor knocked off bike, in hospital
March 10th, 2010 · 52 Comments
You knew this had to happen someday, with so many city politicians commuting by bike these days, but scary nevertheless.
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Tofino council looks at banning chain stores
March 9th, 2010 · 30 Comments
Just spotted this item (by brilliant Langara journalism grad!!) on the Sun’s website, about Tofino looking at disallowing chains like Tim Horton’s, Starbucks and McD’s. I’ve been wondering when some town in B.C. would do that. One of my favourite places that I’ve visited in my travels the last few years is Telluride, because they […]
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Vancouver business elite discovers how messy solving homelessness is
March 8th, 2010 · 14 Comments
For years, I’ve heard that business leaders in the city are itching to give millions to solve homelessness and, related to that, the problems of the Downtown Eastside. And many have tried to tap into that. Former mayor Philip Owen and others started a fund through the Vancouver Foundation to try to encourage donations for […]
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