Think City Minute Archive

By Think City Staff

British Columbians have spoken loud and clear to demand campaign finance reform at the municipal level according to a Think City survey of almost 3,700 citizens conducted online from Feb. 22 to April 12.

By Maureen Bader, Anthony Hodgson and Neil Monckton
[Special to the Vancouver Sun, March 20, 2010]

Almost seventeen years have passed since laws governing B.C.'s local elections were updated.

By Think City Staff

Do major industries need a break on their property tax? Gordon Campbell's BC Liberals think they do.

That's why they've established a process called the Industrial Property Taxation Review that could dramatically restrict the ability of local government to tax big business.

By Darlene Marzari

I am no longer accustomed to throwing in my two cents on civic issues, except around dinner tables and in canoes on distant lakes. But I am ready to join those who are concerned about the Vancouver Art Gallery's (VAG) decision to move to Larwill Park (aka, the old bus station site at Cambie and Dunsmuir).

By Think City Staff

The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are still the talk of the town. But many of the most important discussions will be on transportation and the lessons learned.

By Annabel Vaughan

"The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any once place is always replete with new improvisations."
- Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities

By Think City Staff