Baker on Vancouver

Housing affordability is becoming the major campaign issue in the local election. In an article yesterday on the topic, the Georgia Straight...

Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, the Power of Thinking Without Thinking is about the remarkable accuracy of intuition. He explains how th...

Harry Rankin was the founder of the  Committee of Progressive Electors (COPE) . He ran 12 years in a row before finally getting elected  in...

The bitter laments of young developers at an Urban Development Institute panel discussion,  to the effect that old folks in walkers were giv...

Vancouver has been able to avoid buying the CPR right of way because 8 years ago the City got lawyered up and won its expropriation case. [...

Everyone wants an apology. The CBC ran a story last Thursday about an association of street workers  who were demanding an apology from ...

There are lots of lessons to be learned from Vancouver's enormously successful redevelopment of Granville Island.  One is that projects ...