The election season was so much fun that now I need to sleep somewhere for a solid week. So here I am, living in a campsite yurt on the beach in north Oahu, surrounded by feral chickens and a limited selection of local surfers who have hunted out this little gem, a perfect, building-free cove […]
Entries from January 2016
Fabulaworld on vacation: Open forum on city issues
December 7th, 2011 · 65 Comments
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Challenge to creating low-cost housing: who benefits?
December 7th, 2011 · 99 Comments
One of the priorities that Mayor Gregor Robertson set out for this term is to explore new ways to create affordable housing in Vancouver. That will be one of this administration’s toughest challenges. The other goals he has — promoting a Vancouver economy, pushing to become “the greenest city,” and more — are relatively easy […]
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Rising ocean forces city, developers to build up land, dikes, and more
December 4th, 2011 · 210 Comments
Talk of rising sea levels always sounds so far away, Al Gore-ishly distant. But in the last few months, it’s come right to home for people all around the province as they’re coming to terms with new provincial guidelines that now set projected future levels significantly higher than past projections did. My story on what […]
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Parking department comes up with more ways to extract money from our wallets
December 3rd, 2011 · 107 Comments
This is what some might call abusing your role as a public commentator and others might say is courageous investigative reporting, but I just have to gripe momentarily about annoying policies — some new, some old — in the city’s money-making parking department. One is: Have you noticed that the city has shortened up its […]
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Shelter tug of war ends for another year with the 160 beds city asked for
December 3rd, 2011 · 4 Comments
It’s painful to watch the strange argument that erupts every fall as the city and ministry can’t seem to agree on funding new winter shelter beds. It ended Friday, with Housing Minister Rich Coleman’s announcement that he’s funding two new shelters (as well as announcing the eventual phasing out of the sometimes controversial First United […]
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