Category: Economy
Posted on May 12, 2016
Working Waterfront captures history of New Westminster’s economic engine
Before condominiums and a farmers’ market dominated the rail lines of New Westminster’s waterfront, the Royal City’s economic engine was driven by the work of countless women and men working in fish plants, longshoring and heavy industry. That important… Read More
Posted on December 4, 2015
Seattle’s proposal to allow unionization of Uber drivers highlights tough realities of “sharing” economy
The upcoming Seattle debate on a proposal to allow unionization of Uber drivers highlights all the contradictions of the so-called “sharing” economy. When you get right down to it, what’s being “shared” is a job, divvied up into… Read More
Updated on August 3, 2015
The fight to “save” industrial land is really all about jobs, that forgotten priority of “city-building”
Suddenly, after months and years of obsessive coverage of Metro Vancouver’s red-hot housing market, we get two in-depth probes of the region’s dwindling industrial land base, that forgotten step-sister of the affordable housing debate, one with a Vancouver… Read More
Updated on July 3, 2015
An outside expert’s opinion: the next “transit” debate must really be a “transportation” debate
Jarrett Walker’s lengthy but very constructive reflection on the outcome of Metro’s tranportation and transit referendum has everything you would expect from an expert with such wide international experience and Translink-specific local knowledge: sound insights, calm conclusions and… Read More
