February 14, 2013
On Thursday, February 14, Business in Vancouver ran a story detailing how the editor of a high-profile blog was being paid by a real estate marketing company to write about living in Vancouver’s pricey Olympic Village, without disclosing the fact to readers.
February 12, 2013
Photo by Dan Toulgoet , Vancouver Courier – Elvy Del Bianco presents rare films shot in Vancouver between 1964 and 1988 at the Waldorf Hotel in 2011.
February 2, 2013
The following CBC article confirms what we’ve always known: sports stadiums simply do not deliver on their extravagant economic promises. Just as with casinos, the millionaire proponents of stadiums always claim that these big arenas will make a city rich.
January 31, 2013
From my friend Jonathan, who posted this Google Maps screenshot along with the assessment “No comment.”
It would please me to blame this sudden proliferation of sports bars on the damn Vancouver 2010 Olympics.
January 9, 2013
This is a disaster. Vision Vancouver, are you really going to allow more speculative condo development to take out one of the last good mixed cultural venues in the city?
I guess it’s becoming evident that I watch a lot of Scandinavian television. The Bridge (or Bron/Broen as it’s know in Scandinavia, meaning “bridge” in Swedish and Danish) follows a long murder investigation launched when a body—or, as it turns out, parts of two bodies assembled as one—is found in the middle of the Øresund Bridge that links Sweden and Denmark.
Borgen is a Danish political drama sent in Copenhagen. Despite being a subtitled Danish show loosely based on complicated domestic Danish political events, it grew to unexpected popularity throughout Europe.
December 30, 2012
Well it’s the last day of 2012, the end of another alarming year in a string of alarming years. These are not times to be proud of in Vancouver, in British Columbia or especially in Canada.
November 17, 2012
Very nice map of surveillance cameras in downtown Vancouver, by the Vancouver Public Space Network.
Disturbing content aside, it’s a very attractive map.
November 15, 2012
Vancouver, is that your motto?
Out with the old, in with the new?
Meanwhile, this questionable object will replace The Ridge Theatre, one of Vancouver’s few historic repertory cinemas:
Apparently this passed a City of Vancouver design panel.
