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A Tale of Two Rails: Canadian Pacific Railway LTD vs. Gardeners Along the Arbutus Corridor

These past weeks what we’ve been dreading has come to pass.  The gardens, so lovingly built and tended, so integral to the community gardening legacy of Vancouver, have been ripped out.  These gardens, built over several decades going back to WWII Victory Gardens, were allowed by CPR from 1952-2001 – the entire time it ran […]

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The Transportation Vote: Exploring Opportunities and Concerns

A SPEC hosted forum on March 26th Between March 16 and May 29, 2015, Metro Vancouverites will be facing one of the most important regional decisions affecting our and future generations: whether to approve or reject a 0.5 per cent increase in the provincial sales tax (PST) to support the implementation of multiple transit projects throughout Metro Vancouver.  Increasing the

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