While Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside has provided the backdrop for many of Vancouver’s saddest moments, it’s also a neighbourhood that has also inspired some people to do their best work. Bonnie Fournier I met Bonnie Fournier in 1998 while working at the WISH Drop-in Centre on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, a block up from the open drug…

The story of Vancouver’s Missing Women is a big one.  It spans several decades, multiple police jurisdictions and involves over sixty women. Sadly, I knew twenty women who went missing from the streets of the Downtown Eastside.  I met them while I worked at WISH (1998 – 2001) a drop-in centre for sex trade workers,…

Vancouver’s City Hall

Acquiring new customers can be expensive and time-consuming.  In fact, research shows that it is 5 times more expensive to find new customers than it is to keep existing ones. Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC) are the costs related to acquiring new customers. CAC are the key business metrics commonly used with…

In the 1920’s Vancouver residents were adamant that building a bridge across the Burrard Inlet would negatively impact Stanley Park.  It was a topic that garnered much attention and was widely covered by the press.  Vancouverites were even asked to vote on the building of a bridge in a plebiscite vote in 1927.  Vancouverites defeated…

Stanley Park, created in 1887, is an iconic Vancouver landmark and is one of Canada’s largest urban parks.  Circling its outer edges is an 8.8 km long seawall that is surrounded by Coal Harbour, the Burrard Inlet and English Bay.  The seawall’s construction began in 1914 and took more than 50 years to complete.  Stanely…

Rolling Truck Age Program Given that 2021 was an exceptionally tough year for the province, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority announced it will not enact its Rolling Truck Age Program — an initiative that would prohibit older, more polluting diesel trucks from entering its facilities. Designed in 2015 The Port Authority’s Rolling Truck Age Program,…

Statistics show that in 2021 China’s birthrate was only slightly higher than its death rate.  China’s declining birthrate is occurring amidst a backdrop of everchanging government policy.  In 2015 China announced it was raising the number of children that married couples could have from one to two.  More recently the Chinese government has increased this…

Market Cap Commonly referred to as “market caps” market capitalization is a term used to refer to the total value of a company’s shares of stock.  A company’s “market cap” is achieved by multiplying the price of a stock by the number of its outstanding shares.  Hence, if a company had 20 million shares that…