Vancouver City Councillor
At the 2016 Green Party of Canada policy convention in Quebec City a policy to formalize a position of Boycott, Divest and Sanction of Israel was proposed and enacted.
I explain why I opposed this policy, which was later and ultimately overturned.
At long last, the City of Vancouver has hired a Chief Planner, Mr. Gil Kelley. Kelley comes with a solid background of West Coast urban planning experience: two years as head planner in San Francisco, fourteen years as director of planning for Berkley, and ten years as the lead in Portland. I’ll admit, as a …
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pressingly long, and given the role that the real estate industry can play in that equation — you might be surprised to learn that the City of Vancouver have absolutely no rules or regulations to govern the licensing of realtors doing business in the City of Vancouver.
The incredulity that greeted last week’s announcement that residential-build-focused Concord paid over three times the assessed value for the protected industrially-zoned Molson Brewery site at the southeast end of the Burrard Bridge needs a bit of circumspection. You don’t get to be one of BC’s largest new home developers by making cavalier and reckless business moves, so at the request of Vancouver Green councillor Adriane Carr, I looked a little deeper.
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