aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HK s response to Harper s China visit (released to CIV on Dec 6):Andrew Work of Canadian Chamber of Commerce in HKCanadians doing business in China hold similar values to Canadians in Canada. Where there may be a diffe...

topics: business, economy, investment, olympic-games, premier

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].During the last provincial election, the BC Liberal Party stated in black and white that ...

topics: bc-government, bc-rail, business, candidate, concert

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: B.C. Policy Perspectives

Well, I am not running for office, I am not an apologist for any political party, so I can say what I think. The federal government's insistence on cutting sales taxes is not a great idea.In the short run, insisting on GST cuts merely makes a recor...

topics: federal-government, investment, liberal, ndp, political

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Friends of the Earth U.S. released a new report today calling the use of international carbon offsets a dangerous distraction” that could lead to climate disaster if relied upon too heavily as the U.S. Senate returns to debate energy and climat...

topics: economy, emissions, global-warming, greenhouse-gas, investment

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Exxon.jpg We Really, Really Hope SoIt was hard, at first, to know whether the Forbes headline was tongue-in-cheek: ExxonMobil: Green Company of the Year.But the story seemed sincere. Exxon is finally...

topics: emissions, investment, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: Paying attention

From inside the budget lockup, six things you should know about the Liberals' latest effort.First, the February budget has been revealed as bogus. The deficit is now forecast at $2.8 billion, not the $495 million Premier Gordon Campbell promised duri...

topics: business, economy, election, environment, investment

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I said that I would not get on the Canada Line to-day, simply because I dislike crowds. I also do not much enjoy waiting in line and if I had tried to ride the Canada Line today, that is what would have happened. In somewhat the same vein as the op...

topics: carbon-footprint, coquitlam, density, eco-density, gateway

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

This is an opinion piece from Rob Williams published by the Guardian. He compares the method of raising funds for public transport (what we call transit) in Britain and France.In Britain, he notes, public transport funding is now uncertain partly d...

topics: business, ecological, environment, investment, planning

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Lots of good coverage on the upcoming launch of the Canada Line, here in the Sun and the Globe and Mail. But you didn t have to wait until Monday to experience a piece of the line: the new bike bridge on the Fraser River crossing gots its grand op...

topics: councillor, investment, transit