Lots of interesting info from the presentation on housing and homelessness yesterday, currently only in PP form, no report.
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For housing wonks: The housing/homelessness powerpoint for Vancouver
February 2nd, 2011 · 66 Comments
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Vancouver, Whistler, Surrey named top employers
February 2nd, 2011 · 9 Comments
I’ve been getting news releases from some organizations that were just named to the top-employer list, so thought I’d add another twig to the smouldering employee-relations debate here by posting this. Also paid for by your tax dollars on the list: Coast Mountain Bus. You can go to the link here, click on the organization […]
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While council prepares to give Vancouver Art Gallery a shot at empty block, potshots exchange
February 1st, 2011 · 56 Comments
There’s almost zero chance council won’t endorse staff’s long-awaited report suggesting the Vancouver Art Gallery should get two years to develop a financial plan to build a new facility on the empty block next to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. But the back and forth between VAG board member David Aisenstat, union president Paul Faoro, and […]
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City needs another major push to eliminate street homelessness by 2015
February 1st, 2011 · 10 Comments
The city and province have spent hundreds of millions to create supportive housing for the chronically homeless. But the homelessness conveyor belt isn’t stopping. So, in spite of a the big push of the past few years, the city is projecting that homeless numbers will dip over the next two years but then start to […]
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Turnover skyrocketing at Vancouver city hall? Um, no
February 1st, 2011 · 25 Comments
There’s been a lot of reporting on staff departures at Vancouver city hall in the past two years, partly because the new Vision team has made a point of cleaning house, partly because some of the departures have been so high profile, and partly because the city’s former political staffers at Citycaucus have done an […]
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