Translink Musing About New Pattullo Bridge by 2015

Just a quicky this morning; Translink is publicly musing about having a replacement for the 74 year old Pattullo Bridge completed by 2015 or 16. The estimated cost of the replacement structure is around a billion dollars. You have to wonder where Translink is going to find a billion dollars to build another bridge when [...]

Heavy Burden for Police or Community?

Today’s post is from our frequent contributor, the prolific Mr William Perry; Most Police services in BC are weathering budget cuts yet departments like Vic PD are asking for more money and staff, even though they have a lower caseload than the RCMP in communities of a comparable population. Before the City of Victoria’s appointment [...]

Mayor Gregor Robertson on Waste Management

Mayor Gregor Robertson wrote a guest column for the Province newspaper this morning. Here is an excerpt of that guest column. Also, to read the rest of Mayor Gregor’s guest column, you can visit the Province paper. A single waste to energy facility is proposed to deal with our garbage. Mass incineration, the most common form, [...]

Port Coquitlam Mayor and Council Vote Themselves Hefty Pay Increase

Pretty sweet deal when you can tell your boss that the fact that you have not given yourself a pay increase recently is reason enough to vote yourself a 27% increase in pay. At a meeting Monday night, Port Coquitlam council voted in favour of a 27 per cent increase for the mayor, which would raise [...]

Metro Vancouver Waste Incineration Plan

The proposal for incinerating waste in Metro Vancouver appears to be gathering steam, no pun intended. However, there are a number of concerns that are not being addressed in this plan, or at least only being paid lip service. For example, the number one problem with waste incineration is that you are essentially creating a demand for [...]

Our Guest Ponders the Question; What is the Value of Summer School?

The following is a post by a guest contributor who we refer to as our Concerned Taxpayer. What, I ask, is the educational value of offering summer school to elementary school-age children these days?    When I was growing up, summer school was reserved for those kids who had failed a specific course needed for graduation. These students hated [...]

Minister MacDiarmid Vs Patti Bacchus in UFC BC-Style

UFC 115 has come and gone from Vancouver and all reports are that the Ultimate Fighting Championship spectacle was a raging success. Of course if you are (were) a Chuck Liddell fan, the weekend did not end so well. It looks like his career as a MMA fighter is essentially over. Now before you question [...]

Report on the Vancouver School Board

Ouch. That must have been the collective response from the Vancouver School Board of Trustees after the Minister of Education appointed trustee issued her report on how the VSB is managing. The conclusion of the executive summary is perhaps the most stinging in its criticism of the board of trustees; “The Vancouver School Board’s current financial circumstances could [...]

My Robert Lee YMCA Grand Opening Observations

Last Friday I attended the grand opening of the shiny new Robert Lee YMCA building on Burrard Street in Vancouver. In hindsight, I realize I should have done my homework before attending this event; Friday was the V.I.P. opening and it was a veritable who’s-who from Vancouver society. And then there was me standing there in my faded Levis with a [...]

Vision Vancouver 2010 AGM

7pm I am just settling in at the downtown Vancouver campus of BCIT for the Vision Vancouver AGM. I will be live-blogging the event as much as I can. Pretty neat to have Mayor Gregor himself welcome me to the AGM meeting room. Oddly enough, they have no table or area set aside for bloggers [...]

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