Bikes and Vancouver
Posted: June 4, 2012 Filed under: Essays, Opinion | Tags: bicycles, bike lanes, bike license, bikes, commercial drive, gregor robertson, mayor gregor robertson, permits, riding culture, vancouver, vancouver bike lanes, vancouver bikes 2 Comments
Vancouver’s love-hate relationship with bicycles might be, to the outside observer, strange. We’re a people that pride ourselves on our healthiness and our green attitudes, whether it be backyard chicken coops or office composting. We have a great recycling system in most outlying cities in Metro Vancouver, not to mention the city itself. We have pretty decent air, beautiful water, majestic mountains — Vancouver’s natural beauty and it’s obsession with green makes a lot of sense, really.
City of Vancouver Reveals Plan to Do Nothing to Prevent a 2012 Stanley Cup Riot
Posted: March 30, 2012 Filed under: News, Opinion | Tags: alcohol, ban, boston, boston bruins, canucks, cops, drinking, gold medal, gregor robertson, mayor gregor robertson, nhl, olympics, police, prohibition, prosecution, riot, riot act, riots, stanley cup, stanley cup 2011, stanley cup 2012, stanley cup riots, vancouver, vancouver 2012, vancouver canucks, vancouver riots, vpd 2 CommentsFollowing the 2011 Stanley Cup Riots and the arrest and prosecution of several of the thousands of rioters, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has announced a bold new plan to keep the same thing from happening again: no more “big” celebrations. Robertson’s message? Read the rest of this entry »
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