Category Archives: Law and Order
Vancouver Province column: City must address theft, safety issues before peddling bike rental program
September 15, 2008 Peter Ladner, the Non-Partisan Association mayoral candidate in the upcoming Vancouver municipal election, has a transportation vision for the Lower Mainland that goes beyond public transit and private vehicles. Ladner, a long-time cycling advocate, would like to … Continue reading
Vancouver Province column: Resourceful dumpster divers are important part of our city’s fabric
October 29, 2008 Richard Florida, the high-profile University of Toronto professor, recently spoke to a receptive crowd at a Vancouver Board of Trade cities conference. Florida, author of the best-selling book The Rise of Creative Class, postulates that cities with … Continue reading
Filed under Academia, Crime, Entertainment, Environment, Industry, Law and Order, Vancouver, Vancouver Province Columns
Vancouver Province column: It’s time we paid more attention to the troubling side of two-wheeling
Monday, August 18, 2008 Forget about beach yoga, kiteboarding or the Grouse Grind. The hippest outdoor activity in Metro Vancouver this summer is riding a bike. The weekend warriors and the tourist hordes are, of course, a regular sight along … Continue reading
Vancouver Province column: Why plague people with trash talk when they’ve got worries enough?
Forget about manicured front lawns, white picket fences and the sound of children at play. According to a growing legion of pundits and “peak oil” theorists, the tidy suburbs of today are the forsaken slums of tomorrow. A recent article … Continue reading
Filed under Architecture, Commuting, Environment, Green Space, Health, Immigration, Law and Order, Media, Neighbourhoods, Politics, Real Estate
Province column: Let’s hope this brave new experiment in public toilets is no busted flush
Monday, April 14, 2008 Last week, I came across one of the splashiest new additions to downtown Vancouver’s urban landscape: A high-tech, self-cleaning public lavatory at the corner of Main Street and Terminal Avenue, at the edge of the Downtown … Continue reading
Filed under Law and Order, Urban Planning
Vancouver Province column: Turnstiles are needed to turn transit into a better environment for travel
January 14, 2008 Ever since Kevin Falcon announced his desire to install turnstiles at SkyTrain stations across the Lower Mainland, the B.C. transportation minister has been on the receiving end of a predictably hot-headed response from some vocal adversaries. Falcon’s … Continue reading
Filed under Hong Kong, Law and Order, Los Angeles, Transportation, Vancouver, Vancouver Province Columns
The L.A. turnstiles debate
The downtown L.A. blog Angelenic takes an emotional stand in favour of bringing turnstiles to the city’s subway and light rail stations — an issue that has also been debated in Vancouver in recent memory: Has anyone considered the new … Continue reading
Filed under Law and Order, Los Angeles, Transportation
Vancouver Province column: City leaders must take strong stand against this downtown lawlessness
A friend who moved to the edge of the rough-and-tumble Downtown Eastside last year was recently on the receiving end of a 4 a.m. emergency alarm — forcing him to evacuate his highrise condo until firefighters arrived. It turns out … Continue reading
Vancouver Province column: Ditch those downtown bins that are giving Vancouver a bad name
The Province November 19, 2007 Dan Rather, the former CBS news anchor, recently finished a whirlwind tour of Canada’s poorest postal code to report on the dark side of our urban paradise. The legendary broadcaster got an eyeful of street … Continue reading
Vancouver Province column: Royal City mayor on a downtown clean-up mission
Hard-headed Royal City mayor is on a downtown clean-up mission Derek Moscato Special to The Province Tuesday, November 13, 2007 On an otherwise pleasant morning earlier this fall, I was on the receiving end of a rude awakening — … Continue reading
Filed under Architecture, Heritage, Law and Order, Politics, Vancouver
