Photos from the Parade
From the West End Planning Team: Exciting news! A West End Community Plan pilot project is launching on Tuesday, July 30th. We are creating a new ‘heart of Davie Village’ plaza, partnering with the West End BIA with support from Qmunity and local businesses. The plaza will be on Bute Street between Davie Street […]
Vancouver City Council today approved the rezoning of 1600 Beach Avenue with a stipulation that the starting rents be regulated by contract in a “Housing agreement” between the city and the owner of building. Cl. Stevenson moved the motion from the staff report recommending that Council approved the rezoning and seemed to take the point […]
More X-mas decorations
Vancouver needs a form of development that is appropriate for the communities where the projects are being built. I have previously written about the idea of inclusionary zoning and bench marking a certain amount of units to the median income of a community as a method of ensuring that there is a tangible and real […]
Just in from Stopcoal.ca For Immediate Release: May 3 2012 Mark Jaccard, Canada’s leading energy-environment economist, released the following public statement today in support of the citizen action to stop BNSF coal trains at White Rock BC this Saturday, May 5. Full details on this act of civil disobedience at stopcoal.ca/Action Dr Jaccard is a […]
To: Brothers and Sisters in the NDP Burnaby-Douglas Riding Association: Re: Endorsement of Alnoor Gova for his nomination in Burnaby-Douglas I first met Alnoor during the Vancouver municipal election in 2008. I was immediately struck by his open and friendly manner, which instantly instilled a sense of the warmth of his personality. In the many […]
Alden Habacon at a dinner at the YMCA Robert Lee Building on Tuesday November 23 was awarded the Power of Peace medal. Alden Habacon is described in in his nomination for the Local and International Peacemaker award in the following way: “Alden is a peacemaker in the most active sense of the term. He engages […]
husband, father, citizen, community organizer, , artist and always re-defining myself.
Brent, his wife Anita, and their daughters Safrin and Mallika are long-time residents of the West End.
