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Vancouver makes $100M bailout to Olympic Village developer

Submitted by RA on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 20:10

Vancouver taxpayers are on the hook for an additional $100 million to help cover the costs of completing the Olympic village now that Millennium Development Corp., the U.S. company that (over)bid to build the 1,100 unit village was hit by the credit crunch.

Vancouver House Prices Predicted To Drop

Submitted by RA on Sun, 10/05/2008 - 00:20

A report looking at house prices in Canada's nine major cities has found that property markets are overpriced. Using data from the second quarter 2008, researchers at the UBC Centre for Urban Economics and Real Estate predicts Vancouver house prices are likely to fall by 11%.

Profits and Prophesies

Submitted by RA on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 16:49

This article, published four years ago yesterday in the Vancouver Courier, was a forewarning of the economic meltdown that is taking place right now. However, not all of it has come to pass as far as we in Vancouver are concerned... at least, not yet.

Profile of Ecological Footprint inventor William Rees

Submitted by RA on Fri, 10/27/2006 - 16:00

As a boy working on his grandparents' farm in eastern Ontario, William Rees found his vocation in life. Rees, a professor at the UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning, calls it his epiphany. It was also the root of his now famous "ecological footprint" that has been adopted by individuals, organizations and policy makers across the globe as a tool for understanding the impact we as humans are having on our environment.

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