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Meals on wheels, and red tape

Sunday, September 26th, 2010

Derek and Michael Ip spent their Monday baking ice cream-filled croissants out of a bright yellow school bus. The entrepreneurial brothers, 22 and 20, respectively, are part of a new street food pilot program that runs until April 2011 and is intended to cook up some international alternatives to Vancouver’s much-maligned street menu of hotdogs […]

If you build it, they will come?

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

The marketing relaunch of Olympic Village scheduled for Sept. 25 has been delayed until sometime next month, highlighting the rental and occupation problems that continue to plague the city’s former haven of international activity. “If you’re looking for the lineup, it’s going to be a few months,” said Joseph Ciborowski, one of several painters wielding […]

Boystown in Yaletown

Tuesday, September 21st, 2010

The fedora on Dem Deane’s head nested a single white feather in its crown. Dripping from the rain still misting down, its brim overshadowed a face bracketed by two glass earring studs. Its plaid pattern matched that of the closed umbrella—an antique Burberry—he gripped as a cane in his hand. Despite displaying the trappings of […]

The Bulldozer of Change

Sunday, September 19th, 2010

The larger-than-life sculpture unveiled to the public this week on city-owned lands awaiting development is itself a tool of construction. Or destruction, depending on who you ask. Whether the fate of southeast False Creek lives up to its artwork’s symbolism is another story. Adjoining the paved path that rims the inlet, a monolithic brown bulldozer […]

Participatory Filmmaking: Productive or Fruitless?

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

A film panel presentation focussing on the plight of marginalized Latin American communities shed light yesterday on urban development issues, while simultaneously casting doubt on the effectiveness of footage in helping resolve them. The omniscient voice of a Canadian narrator rippled intermittently from in-ceiling speakers. Beneath them sat roughly 100 local audience members sporting thick-rimmed […]

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