Blogroll checks in with BC bloggers this week to investigate the recent parity of the Canuck and US dollars; how to solve the drug problem in Vancouver's Lower East Side; whether to measure success by gross or net; and whether to buy a condo in Mount Pleasant. more...
Enamoured with high-rise living and glossy downtown lifestyles, Vancouver politicians and city planners have neglected the city’s industrial needs for years in favour of condo development and live-work space. Developers are aggressively assembling land and flipping property to create sites for future townhouses, while prostitutes, drug addicts and squatters infiltrate abandoned warehouses awaiting redevelopment. Welcome to post-industrial Vancouver. more...
