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August 4, 2010 If all goes according to plan, the Canucks could be practising on a new sheet of ice in downtown Vancouver.
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July 30, 2010 A respect-your-neighbours campaign is in the works to help make the neighbourhood around Rogers Arena a safer place. |
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July 28, 2010 The Olympic Village’s $36-million Creekside Community Recreation Centre sits silent, barely used, as the people it was designed to serve have yet to move in to the neighbourhood |
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July 25, 2010 Even on the hottest summer day, most locals would be loath to dip a toe into Vancouver's False Creek for fear of picking up a dreadful infection. But contrary to widespread public opinion, it's safe to swim in the inlet, a health official says. |
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July 21, 2010 Science World has begun a $35-million renovation to showcase B.C. technology and innovation, making the space-age geodesic dome the third False Creek landmark to undergo a facelift in either name or design this summer.
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July 5, 2010 The strata council president of the building outside of where a gay couple was beaten in June recommends the suspects’ sentence include picking up garbage during the Pride Parade.
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June 19, 2010 Vancouver Mayor Robertson and Police Chief Jim Chu stood side-by-side with representatives of the gay community Friday to announce their solidarity in fighting hate crimes in the city.
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June 14, 2010 Two men say they were punched repeatedly by two assailants who shouted anti-gay slurs at them on the doorstep of their downtown Vancouver condo building Saturday night.
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May 13, 2010 GlobalTV's Ron Bencze looks at the controversy brewing over Concord Pacific's seemingly low tax bill for the Northeast False Creek property and the potential conflict of interest of political donations to Vancouver City Councillors. |
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May 12, 2010 The property, owned by mega-developer Concord Pacific, sits empty and covered in asphalt between Carrall Street and the Telus World of Science. Concord collects big money leasing the land to companies such as Molson and Cirque du Soleil. |
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May 7, 2010 Robertson said an appeal to B.C. Assessment over the value of the land between Carrall Street and the Telus World of Science parking lot would likely end up costing the city money in a court battle. |
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May 6, 2010 Is the reason city politicians didn't question the surprisingly low assessed value of a waterfront property in Northeast False Creek tied to their financial relationships with the owner of the land? |
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May 5, 2010 The city will review why a nine-acre waterfront property in Northeast False Creek has been assessed at surprisingly low values for almost a decade. |
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May 5, 2010 Someone who has doggedly followed the activities at the NE False Creek property is Patsy McMillan. I called Patsy this afternoon for her response to the Mayor's comments. |
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April 30, 2010 A nine-acre waterfront property on False Creek, owned by mega-developer Concord Pacific, is assessed at a surprising $400,000. Why so low? The answer is complicated, and not even city politicians can explain why. |
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April 20, 2010 Vancouver city council is being asked to inject another $32.1 million into affordable housing program in its new Southeast False Creek neighborhood. |
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April 10, 2010 Council votes to ban donations from corporations and unions |
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April 10, 2010 A new resort and casino may be built between B.C. Place and the Cambie Street Bridge. |
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March 29, 2010 City Council and Staff make a difficult decision to disallow the return of the construction material storage yard in Northeast False Creek. |
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March 29, 2010 Letter from Patsy McMillan, Co-chair of False Creek Residents Association to City Council and Staff |
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March 26, 2010 The B.C. government confirmed all the rumours Friday, announcing a $450-million entertainment complex will be attached to BC Place Stadium, anchored by a 110,000-square-foot, 24-hour casino. |
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March 23, 2010 Vancouver city councillors are bracing for a furious debate about a plan to put a major Las Vegas-style resort casino downtown.
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March 17, 2010 Now that the Olympics are over and Lot #6C is being cleared off, we still have yet to hear anything from you of the fate of that site. I can only hope that you are not waiting for Concord to do the right thing on their own which would be to NOT bring the junk back. We all know from Concord's track record that they will indeed try to get away with whatever they can. |
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March 12, 2010 Lid blowing off plans for B.C. Place: Casino to anchor mega-complex? |
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March 4, 2010 Vision Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs has ruled out pressuring developer Concord Pacific about its long-promised extension of Creekside Park, located north of Science World, to the northeastern side of False Creek. |
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February 5, 2010 Council voted Jan. 26 to affirm its view protection guidelines and to reject four tall buildings proposed for downtown that would have marred protected views.
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January 27, 2010 “The Water Beneath Our Feet: Mapping the Spirit of the False Creek Watershed” is a creative community mapping event whose end results of both individual and composite maps which will be offered for viewing by the public. In a population dense area of the city of Vancouver, this project brings a cultural layer to the process of mapmaking by engaging the creative heart of our citizens to help them visualize their “home place”. It offers an opportunity to map the way participants feel about the land they live, play and work on. |
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November 5, 2009 Your Worship and City Councillors:
After spending hours at consultative group meetings and having done considerable research into the report before you, I would like to remind you of the numbers involved and the history of the situation ... |
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November 4, 2009 Twenty years ago, Concord Pacific won the privilege of building out the entire EXPO lands as one contiguous development, subject to delivery of a number of public amenities, including Creekside Park and a continuous 35′ wide seawall. And they did an amazing job of most of that development, creating an award-winning community in the process.
But as we are looking at a new proposal from the same developers today, it’s worth remembering that their original plan for the EXPO lands would have created many separate enclaves of balkanized private lagoons cut off from the downtown and from each other. |
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