Base Logic Part One: Introductions

Tuesday, 11. 23. 2010  –  Matt Chambers  –  Featured, News and Features

The Dependent gets integrated with some of the Downtown Eastside’s biggest drug dealers.
First in a four-part series.

The New Media Void

Thursday, 10. 21. 2010  –  Walker Morrow  –  Featured, Opinion

Newspaper may be dying, but there’s still a large demand for good journalism, and faux-web journalists are not meeting that demand.

The Great Vancouver Bike Debate Rolls On

Thursday, 10. 7. 2010  –  William Dunn  –  Featured, Opinion

The City’s decision to re-appropriate public streets for the creation of a protected cycling track has been one of the most divisive civic issues in memory.

Leaks, Traps and Politics Gone Awry

Friday, 09. 3. 2010  –  Matt Chambers  –  Featured, Opinion

The next civic election is still fifteen months away, but already the political landscape is caked with slung mud.

Aboard the Barge at the Celebration of Light

Friday, 07. 30. 2010  –  Matt Chambers  –  Featured, News and Features

“From the sound and the vibrations, we know if it’s going well or not,” Furtado explains. “If there’s an explosion inside the mortars it’s a very different sound and feeling.”

BC Flirts with Direct Democracy

Friday, 07. 23. 2010  –  Matt Chambers  –  Featured, News and Features

Bill Vander Zalm’s Fight HST campaign has mobilized and invigorated the most apathetic electorate in British Columbian history.

“IT’S A FILTHY, PERVERTED PAPER”: A History of The Georgia Straight

Tuesday, 07. 13. 2010  –  Jesse Donaldson  –  Featured, News and Features

“As any advertising executive knows, any publicity is good publicity.”

A City of Villages?

Tuesday, 07. 6. 2010  –  Matt Cavers  –  Featured, News and Features

Here we are, fifteen of us, on the lawn of an upscale Dunbar home, and we’re listening as Southland Farm’s Jordan Maynard introduces us to the ancient craft of raising chickens for eggs.

Street Talk, Part Two: No. 1 and Moncton

Monday, 07. 5. 2010  –  William Dunn  –  Opinion

No. 1 Road, tucked away south of Moncton, is a New Urbanist’s wet dream. Second in a series reconnecting us with the built environment.

Gordon Price on Gateway, Choice and the Volatility of Oil

Wednesday, 06. 23. 2010  –  Matt Chambers  –  Featured, Opinion, People You Should Know

Gordon Price is one of Vancouver’s foremost authorities on the built environment. Here, he discusses our historical context and uncertain future.