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Old Posted Feb 12, 2017, 6:36 AM
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Many people back in Toronto must be snickering at our winter weather. I'm sure it makes them feel vindicated. Hopefully, however, this will be a freakishly rare winter for Vancouver.
1) You live in France.

2) We're still warmer than Toronto.

3) People in Toronto never think about Vancouver.
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2017, 10:35 AM
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I've never been stuck overnight in my car. But where I drive to work in winter is pretty bad in winter which lasts from october to april, or when it decides to snow into may. Without winter tires and 4x4 i couldn't imagine doing it, but I see smaller cars bombing down the highway, i get too whiteknuckled to go past the speed limit, only in winter. A decent road can turn to ice before you realize and start sliding, passing a few cars who weren't as lucky. I do a lot of the trips in the dark, like I just got home for the night. I left work it was fairly windy but warm like +2 compared to yesterdays -26, crazy. So the highway was pretty decent and the full moon does really help the driving easier. It remained +1 pretty much all the way to High Level, when it suddenly dropped -13. That poor town is always way colder than anywhere within 15 minutes, everytime I go there it will be a steady temp up until about 15 minutes south of HL then it will drop like 10 degrees, and then 15 minutes west of HL the temp goes back up 10 degrees, lol its crazy. So I leave HL and the first few minutes it goes from -13 to -11, then about 15 minutes south it jumps to -3 and then about 60 minutes south it was +2. So The roads were great. So just north of Manning, the wind was crazy, there forecasted 60 km to 90 km winds, so the snow would blow across the road and the road would become completely unseeable and you can't really figure out where the road is but you;ve driven it so many times you know every bump, twist and turn so you just plow on through. Good times. And then there are animals...
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Old Posted Feb 12, 2017, 8:40 PM
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Did anyone else head out of town yesterday and get stuck in weather? We left town at 1:30pm to beat the traffic and maybe make it out of Lower Mainland. It didn't look good, as on Friday morning ALL four highways between Lower Mainland and rest of Canada were closed due to heavy snowfall. So effectively, Lower Mainland was cut from rest of Canada for hours.


Last year Todd Stone and Christy Clark spent somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000 organizing a media event to install a plaque that no one will notice, for something everyone knows they had nothing to do with.

When managers are trying to cover their ass, there is a communication breakdown for wanting to limit the publicity damage, which just makes the problem larger.

The only thing this government has ever had going for it was being media savvy, and its leadership has been drowning in shallow waters lately. Hopefully the ambitious are well on their way to organizing support for replacing Clark and her flunky brother.

No word on the highway maintenance contractors, nor the Canada Line operators, on paying contractual fines.

The one good thing about the extraordinary shutdown of highways for 2 consecutive days ahead of a long weekend is that additional electronic signs might be budgeted for, so traffic can get off the highway before it's too late.
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Many people back in Toronto must be snickering at our winter weather. I'm sure it makes them feel vindicated. Hopefully, however, this will be a freakishly rare winter for Vancouver.
Toronto? When their snow got out of control, they called the f**king ARMY in to help them. They're the last people that get to judge Vancouver.
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Old Posted Feb 13, 2017, 1:43 AM
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Last year Todd Stone and Christy Clark spent somewhere between $200,000 and $300,000 organizing a media event to install a plaque that no one will notice, for something everyone knows they had nothing to do with.
Hey, at least they came up with some nice photos and it looks like everyone had good time at the unveiling, so what else can we ask for? Spending $300,000 to actually make the highway safer? Nah, ain't nobody got interest for that.

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Old Posted Feb 13, 2017, 2:23 AM
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Anytime I have passed this place I have never really seen anyone inside dining, perhaps there is a key time to go there? or well to have gone there

Vancouver strata blocks Moby Dick franchise from opening over 'offensive' name, lawsuit alleges

Fish and chips restaurant named for famous novel says strata council deemed branding and signage inappropriate
By Matt Meuse, CBC News Posted: Jan 18, 2017 12:53 PM PT Last Updated: Jan 18, 2017 1:42 PM PT







http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/britis...uver-1.3941244
Strata councils in BC have way to much authority over personal property rights. The owner of commercial space should be able to use the space for commercial purposes. What right does the strata council have to decide on the name, company logo or use.

When I was in Saskatchewan I was on a condo board and there was always an element that want to put in place rules on restricting retails, or minimum age etc. The feedback from the property management company was it was pointless to propose such buy laws, when filled with the provincial government, those types of bylaws are always declared illegal and rejected.
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How is Moby Dick's blocked, but Dick's Lumber has been flourishing for decades?
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i flew in yesterday. We flew i guess over the sunshine coast, then out over the water, right over UBC, then pretty much followed 12th and grandview highway, I got a great view of the south, metrotown etc. Then we flew over sapperton and turned around just above the hospital and down the river and over the casino and richmond. It was a cool fly over of the city. Nice clear night. Couldnt really take any decent pictures though.
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Old Posted Feb 13, 2017, 10:11 PM
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How is Moby Dick's blocked, but Dick's Lumber has been flourishing for decades?
Front the news reports it sounds like the strata council has some weird authority to decide what the business is called.
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Old Posted Feb 14, 2017, 8:31 AM
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Maybe I am behind the times but I sure don't remember google 3d for Vancouver.

It looks pretty cool.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.21006.../data=!3m1!1e3

https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.28219.../data=!3m1!1e3

Also like this one...Not Vancouver but fun to play with and move through out the city.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@-23.6576.../data=!3m1!1e3

Amazing stuff.
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Just another week in Vancouver: 3 people still in hospital after being stabbed by some random crazy; another unprovoked attack this time on a UBC prof on Main and King Ed.

Am I the only one sick of not seeing any follow up on stories like this? A couple years another DTES nutbar went on a random stabbing spree doubtlessly altering forever the lives of the three he senselessly attacked. It's time we stopped coddling the crazies who commit these acts. No allowances for being a drugged out nutcase. Name and shame.
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Like I've brought it up before, the 4 pillar approach was well received and recognized as being a possible solution to the problems of the dtes. The city seems to be so concerned about harm reduction (for the users) Prevention,Treatment, and Enforcement seem like they've been forgotten about. You need all 4. The city should stop pressing upper governments for more harm reduction and focus on the other 3 where they are likely to get more $upport.

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Off onto another tagent...

What do people think of the current design scene or renovation of things like malls going all white with bland minimal colours. Do you think this "white" look will age well?

malls renovated in the 00's seemed to go from 90's greys and blues to woods and muted tones like blues or greens. Lougheed Mall and Metropolis and parts of Pacific Centre for instance looks very 00's. They don't look too bad but they do look like a certain time period. Mall renos of the 90's look really old now, such as Coquitlam Centre or The Bay Centre in Victoria.

how long before this current trand looks dated? It seems like it could last a while because its just so bland but does look pretty good.

Some examples of current or recently renovated malls from around the world.

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nydailynews


vancouversun


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chrisnielsen.albertandpcaucus.ca


buchan.com.au


moneyweb.co.za


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I think a lot of the mall renos I've seen pics of in Toronto look too generic.

You need to create a sense of place for each mall - and if they are all the same, it doesn't work.

Locally, many lower mainland malls have distinct features:
- Brentwood's tents
- Coquitlam Centre's peaked roofs
- Guildford's space frames
- Park Royal South's space frame pyramids

- Barrel vaulted skylights at Oakridge, Lougheed and Metropolis (Eaton Centre) were all similar. Were they all Ivanhoe Cambridge malls when renovated / built with the barrel vaults?
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I think a lot of the mall renos I've seen pics of in Toronto look too generic.
As is every ultra-generic new downtown office building in Toronto. Land of the bland.
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Old Posted Apr 11, 2017, 4:23 AM
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Howe Sound and the surrounding North Shore Mountains.



Avalance on Mount Harvey (on left, behind The Lions) kills 5 snowshoers on this past weekend.

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bodie...vey-april-2017
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Hmmmm... looks like the 420 smoke-in/toke-in whatever it's called is still being promoted to be at Sunset Beach. I thought the city had expressly not issued a permit for it. Might be even more interesting to attend if the city or police try to shut anything down.



April 13 '17, my pic
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More info from this Vancouver Sun article.

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Pot rally will go on, permit or not: Organizers will adjust for last year's growing pains

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Published on: March 7, 2017 | Last Updated: March 7, 2017 7:20 PM PDT

An annual pot rally will keep on rolling, even after the Vancouver park board denied organizers a special permit for the event.
“We’re going to keep asking for permits and we’re going to keep getting more and more entrenched,” said Dana Larsen, marijuana advocate and member of the Vancouver 4/20 Events Society. “We didn’t get a permit this year, probably won’t get one next year, but I predict that within five years, we’ll be permitted and one day, we’ll have the mayor of Vancouver down there.”
The society had applied for a permit to host this year’s rally at Sunset Beach, and a staff report had suggested allowing a special permit for this year’s smoke-in. A permit would allow organizers to obtain event insurance, and for the park board to bill organizers for partial costs, which this year are estimated at $155,000.
The park board, however, voted down that application Monday evening, citing concerns that granting the permit for the April 20 event would set a precedent for other smoking events at parks and beaches.

Smoking goes against the park board’s bylaws and its mandate of promoting health. Allowing the permit for a marijuana protest that’s also widely considered a commercial event, with vendors selling marijuana and edibles, could harm the park board’s reputation, as it could be seen as condoning the sale and consumption of an illegal product, said a staff report.

“I’m very concerned we, as commissioners, could actually suspend our own bylaws for one group for one event,” said commissioner John Coupar, who expressed skepticism organizers could regulate the event properly or prevent access of marijuana by minors.
The 4/20 rallies were held outside the Vancouver Art Gallery from 1995 until last year, when the city put up fences around the plaza for construction, forcing organizers to move to Sunset Beach — a move that essentially “downloaded” the event to the park board, said Coupar. 
Last year’s rally drew an estimated 25,000 to the beach and came with a price tag of $148,000, including policing costs of about $100,000.

Sgt. Randy Fincham wouldn’t comment on the park board’s decision, but reiterated that public safety remained the Vancouver Police Department’s top priority.
“We police hundreds of events each year and do our best to facilitate an individual’s right to have their voice heard, while working to ensure that their rights don’t infringe on the use and enjoyment of another person,” said Fincham, adding more information would be available closer to April 20.
Larsen acknowledged there were some “growing pains” in moving the massive event to a new location, but said organizers were already working to improve upon logistics, such as the “grid system” used to locate and treat individuals in need of medical treatment. Efforts were also being put toward ensuring there is no confusion this year over when garbage is picked up.
“We learn from experience and we’re going to fix a lot of those little issues that will make it go smoothly and a lot more safe than last year,” he said.

source: http://vancouversun.com/news/local-n...-growing-pains
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Old Posted Apr 14, 2017, 7:23 AM
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Weed doesn't smell bad to me. But, that's a taste thing. I wonder what would happen if a fictional group of the same size gathered to burn some non-noxious but foul smelling thing, producing smoke in equal quantities. (And weed is noxious.) In fact, it would be an interesting counterpoint to see what would happen if tobacco smokers held an identical event.

Things like loud music, light (fireworks, though they also produce smoke) are forms of impingement - but these people are asking the West End to accept marijuana smoke into their bodies; young, old, asthmatic or otherwise. Legal progress is coming, but this event is wrong when done in this way.
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