aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, translink, vanoc

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

An Olympic disaster? Complete rubbishWherein official sponsor of the 2010 Winter Games takes on those grumpy brits at The Guardian. If you're going to say the Vancouver Games cost $6-billion, have the decency to note $4-billion is for infrastructure...

topics: 2010-winter-games, tax, taxes, translink, vanoc

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: Beyond Robson

HST may spell the end for B.C. Premier. Of course, because of a tax. Not for having the lowest minimum wage in Canada, not for tearing up contracts, not for drunk driving, not for selling off rivers, not for mismanaging the economy and lying about a ...

topics: bc-rail, economy, mla, premier, tax

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Hey remember when I said that Vancouver wasn't a cool city? Thanks for proving me right. Best Bar: Roxy. Best band: Nickelback. This is me, resting my case. Giant billboards a blight on region's landscape. But draping every building, bridge, and sign...

topics: bar, beach, downtown, olympic-venues, tax

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: Chinese in Vancouver

After two weeks of intense election-no-election drama in Ottawa, it s obviously by now that we will not have a fall election.Ignatieff has shown he s a gambler, and he has strategically changed the ecological environment in Ottawa. Now after years of...

topics: economy, election, employment, federal-government, health-care

aggregated from: B.C. Policy Perspectives

Bill Tieleman's criticism of my previous column makes me wonder if I don't try too hard to read the broader public interest in my academic tea leaves, perhaps because I wish to avoid the uncomfortable truth that much of what Campbell's Liberals d...

topics: liberals, politics, tax, taxes

aggregated from: Paying attention

The last NDP government blew up in spectacular fashion, tossed out in 2001 for a long list of sins. Two were critical. The public decided the New Democrats were both untrustworthy and incompetent. (Rightly, I would add.)It's early days, but the Libe...

topics: election, liberal, liberals, ndp, new-democrats