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• May 2013
  • Hadfield the real McCoy when it comes to Canadian space heroes
  • Iron curtain across scientific communication an insult to voters
  • A master of the Arts of urban and financial planning
• April 2013
  • The race to win bigger share of urban marathon money heats up
  • Preventing chronic disease is key to debt reduction in B.C.
  • Transportation planning needs to be co-ordinated, accountable
  • Helping sow the seeds of social enterprise in B.C. business
  • Increase carbon tax, not corporate income tax
• March 2013
  • City’s communication breakdown frustrating open-government fans
  • Cultivating resourcefulness in an age of overprotective parenting
  • City's dysfunctional licensing, permitting process needs fixing
  • Business can help build a better, more diverse Downtown Eastside
• February 2013
  • Fiscal reality continues to elude Vancouver real estate market
  • Cultivating the social and environmental benefits of local food production
• January 2013
  • More with Les on the global climate change front
  • Income inequality erodes business growth and social mobility
  • Dissecting and debating divergent economic world views in 2013
  • Outlook 2013: Looking backward, forward and inward
• December 2012
  • The social and business case for collaborative consumption
  • Corporate and community building in the new Las Vegas
  • Tory attack campaign tarnishing federal government integrity
• November 2012
  • Temporary foreign workers threaten lasting damage to economy
  • Why building SAFERhomes makes sense for buyers and sellers
  • Cars driving up the costs of health care in British Columbia
• October 2012
  • Canadians must adopt ownership stake in energy development
  • Time to find the right affordable housing formula for Vancouver
  • Physicist aims to launch a new high-tech industry for Canada
  • Apply brakes now to B.C.’s transportation funding double standard
  • Road improvements are paving the way to the end of the ALR
• September 2012
  • Gauging business impact of the new “global sharing economy”
  • Politicians need to support transit tipping point
  • Tories’ assault on science is bad for nature and the economy
  • The new measure of West Coast man: a Lululemon love affair
• August 2012
  • Urban farming becoming a viable business proposition in B.C.
  • Dishing up food-miles debate in the Locavore’s Dilemma
  • Recalculating the costs and consequences of fish farms in B.C.
• July 2012
  • Toronto transit on the right road; Vancouver’s hits dead end
  • Some fitting new city hall attire: politicians’ sponsorship suits
  • Group seeks business support for ending marijuana prohibitions
  • Enbridge’s economic upside numbers not adding up for B.C.
• June 2012
  • Sexy V-pole quest is not a municipal broadband strategy
  • Unsightly solutions to removing wrong-headed restrictions
• May 2012
  • American oil company conspiracy theory doesn’t hold water
  • Helmet laws doing more harm than good for city cycling
  • Building big business for the long term rather than the fast buck
  • Negotiation, not legislation, key to closing public-private pay gap
  • Pipeline will siphon off economic opportunities
• April 2012
  • Calculating housing’s high costs to our future economy
  • The business case for sharing deep thoughts
  • City needs civic election contribution controls now
  • TransLink audit missing the bus on transit funding
• March 2012
  • Business leadership on climate change needed
  • Terror and trauma in wake of revenue agency raid
  • Digesting solutions to food industry challenges
  • Seeking housing affordability without a market crash
• February 2012
  • Consumer demand directs Havana facelift
  • B.C.’s immigrant enterprise heritage
  • Planner a victim of politics and city land-use pressures
• January 2012
  • We need more homes for people, fewer for investors
  • Get smart: The 21st century's new mobile business realities
  • Enbridge arguments need energy alternatives
  • Urban transportation options accelerating
  • A smorgasbord of column topics for 2012 consideration
• December 2011
  • Time to address our compassion shortage
  • Applause for U.S. funds aimed at improving our environment
  • Cannabis prohibition costly and counterproductive
• November 2011
  • NPA falls on its own sword of tired tactics
  • Unions not doing their part to curb corporate greed
  • Developers need community amenity contributions clarity
  • Regional economic development stalled
• October 2011
  • Businessman sold on power of pedalling
  • Questions about affordable housing need answers now
  • How to fix Vancouver’s affordable housing deficit
  • Laneway housing roadblocks hurting city’s neighbourhoods
• September 2011
  • How we can eliminate local income inequality
  • Economic toll from income inequality keeps adding up
  • Urban farming’s growing political power
• August 2011
  • A viaduct no longer runs through it