aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 2010 is not just the year of the Vancouver Winter Olympics but also the International Year of Biodiversity. Therefore, I propose a challenge for our North Shore Mayors...

topics: ecological, environment, environmental, olympics

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Public Meetings across the Lower Mainland [sic] on the latest draft of the Regional Growth Strategy Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping Our Future resume here in North Vancouver next week.Public input into the draft plan (November 2009) is being received u...

topics: climate-change, environment, north-vancouver, planning, transportation

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

From the Georgia Straight:Delta mayor Lois Jackson has been reelected as the chair of the Metro Vancouver board of directors, fending off a challenge from District of North Vancouver mayor Richard Walton.Jackson and Walton were the only candidates fo...

topics: councillor, delta, elected, election, environment

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

There have been a number of potentially hot issue stories about the North Shore in the news recently. I thought I would combine them into one post for (polite, thoughtful) discussion purposes.1) The Canexus propane plant in the District will be temp...

topics: burnaby, environment, mayor, new-westminster, north-vancouver

aggregated from: VanRamblings

With just three days to the end of the 28th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, Mr. Know-It-All and 'Showbiz' Shayne are hard at it, catching as many of the remaining VIFF films as is humanly possible. Your dynamic duo managed to...

topics: activist, documentary, environment, environmental, film-festival

aggregated from: Price Tags

My current Business in Vancouver article:The bets are in. The stakes are high. With billions on the table for the Canada Line and the Gateway project, we have two very different visions for our region.The first, transit-oriented; the second, auto-dep...

topics: business, city-of-vancouver, coal-harbour, density, design

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

While government programs and unnecessary expenses were being chopped, the head of the British Columbia Liquor Distribution Branch took a six-day, $8,155 business trip to Bordeaux and London. But the government has said that trip, during which Jay Ch...

topics: business, environment, housing

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Vancouver SunFederal money in Canada does not come easily. It comes with conditions and a timetable. In this case infrastructure spending intended to boost the economy was authorised for only shovel ready projects that could start straight away...

topics: economy, election, environment, gateway, liberal

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Jeff Nagel BC Local News Don t diss the Dace was one of the slogans we toyed with at the Livable Region Coalition, since the Nooksack Dace was one of the creatures ignored by the Highway #1 expansion Environmental Assessment. We didn t use it of c...

topics: delta, environment, environmental, fish-farming, gateway

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

A senior children and family development bureaucrat suspected quazi (sic) job action was one of the reasons why the ministry's employees were slow to participate in this year's annual government-wide work environment survey. With six days left to c...

topics: environment, union