I went to a meeting organized by the Residents Association of Mount Pleasant just before Christmas to talk about issues related to the transitional housing complex that’s about to be opened at the old Biltmore hotel, Kingsway and 12th in Mount Pleasant. Unlike a city-roganized meeting a couple of weeks earlier, concerning the transitional housing […]
Entries from July 2015
Mount Pleasant public meetings on transitional housing at Biltmore Jan. 8 and 11 — who will be there?
January 8th, 2014 · 14 Comments
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Vancouver condo prices: flat as a board these days
January 8th, 2014 · 16 Comments
I still run into people who assume that Vancouver condos are all just a speculative game being played by offshore investors. Perhaps it still is, but it’s a long game these days. As recent B.C. Assessment Authority numbers showed, as they issued their 2014 assessments, condos are by and large not appreciating and values are, […]
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Most surreal political story of the year: The COPE internal battles
January 2nd, 2014 · 5 Comments
I wrote a story before Christmas about some of the dissent going on within COPE. But I have to say, my story was very milquetoast compared to this story reported by Carlito Pablo at the Georgia Straight. It reads like something taken directly from the pages of the Statement of the International Committee of the […]
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The mystery of Vancouver’s lopsided houses and lumpy streets in Mount Pleasant — it’s all because of the Tea Swamp
January 2nd, 2014 · 8 Comments
I’ve been wanting to do a feature for 20 years on this strange chunk of the city known as the Tea Swamp, ever since I first started the city beat. Sadly, I missed the opportunity to photograph and write about the crazy house (on Prince Edward, on the north side of the lane between 16th […]
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Vancouver’s Canada Post secret tunnel — a technology mistake that lasted 50 years and is now about to vanish
January 2nd, 2014 · 6 Comments
Yes, sorry, I’ve been slacking off over the Christmas holidays. But the rumballs are all gone — can’t have those for breakfast any more — and it’s time to begin tackling 2014. To get all of you warmed up, as you’re slowly dragging your butts back into work, I’ll post a couple of the features […]
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