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 [...]
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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 [...]
There’s no getting around it, the richer one is – the bigger the carbon footprint. Wealth inextricably leads to consumption, which in turn increases one’s ecological impact on the planet. The rich live in bigger houses, drive bigger cars, consume more goods and travel more frequently than those less wealthy. A recent study by the [...]
Way back on January 23, on a Saturday afternoon, I attended a community forum at the Dunbar Community Centre about co-existing with coyotes in urban environments. The community dialogue was hosted by the Vancouver Park Board and The Ecological Society of Stanley Park. Park Board Commissioner Loretta Woodcock organized the forum to educate community members [...]
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.
