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Those stress fractures in the solidarity of the Lower Mainland taxi brotherhood recently uncovered by Business in Vancouver points to several cab industry issues worth revisiting.

Those quality-of-life lists can get quickly silly when we take them too seriously. Vancouver dropped to third place on the Economist Intelligence Unit?s Most Livable Cities list earlier this year, with Melbourne and Vienna moving up to first and second. That hurt.

I remember sitting in a productivity seminar in an Entrepreneurs? Organization Conference in Chicago a few years ago when the speaker asked a series of interesting questions.

Some developers say that when they were negotiating with former City of Vancouver chief planner Larry Beasley, he made them feel like he was making love. Only after it was over did they realize they?d been screwed.

Second base

Some experts figure that for developed countries, innovation is the most important ingredient for assuring that standard of living and quality of life don?t decline, either in real or relative terms, compared with developing countries.

Tricor invests in Avison Young

I hear the visit to Surrey by former U.S. presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton was a great event. The media weren?t allowed in, but that?s what people who were there told me. I did read coverage in the Surrey paper rating the presidents on their jokes, self-deprecating humour and one-upmanship.

As a homeowner, if I needed a plumber in years past, I might open the Yellow Pages, scroll through the couple of pages of ads and listings and pick one, more or less at random.

A ?best-of-times? and ?times-could-be-lot-better? tale of two arenas.