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Canucks Pushed to Eighth in Western Conference

Blogging for the Canucks Hockey Blog, hoopsjunkey reviews the Canucks’ loss to Kings on Saturday, “their third consecutive loss and fifth in their last six games,” which has pushed them “to fourth place in the Northwest Division and eighth place in the Western Conference.” The last time the Canucks lost three games in a row was 13 months ago. They are currently five points ahead of the St. Louis Blues, which makes for a big game on Wednesday.

Naslund had his 1,000th career game last week, and Vancouver gave him “a classy tribute on Saturday night.” The fans gave him a standing ovation “and stayed standing up for about ten minutes while the Canucks gave him some goodies and played a video highlighting his career and his work in the community.” Ohlund was back after missing 11 games, “but in what seems like the year of cursed Canucks d-men, Willie Mitchell was scratched due to back spasms” and may not be back “until after the All-Star break” reports our blogger in his post.

Is Vancouver Complacent About its Prosperity?

Peter Ladner reveals in a recent post that Vancouver may be “too complacent about our own prosperity.” Last year City Council asked the Vancouver Economic Development Commission “to come up with an economic development strategy for Vancouver,” the first phase of which was “to make recommendations on how to improve Vancouver’s business climate.” The VEDC assembled a council of business leaders to “build on earlier CEO surveys on municipal business issues.” The council was “quick to agree with the VEDC’s ongoing concerns that we are far too complacent,” and that we need to make this region more “business-friendly,” or we will have “no resiliency when the economy inevitably moves into a down cycle.”

According to the post, “the VEDC is determined that Vancouver be known around the world as much for the excellence of its business climate as for its quality of life.” A “to-do list” to achieve that was already recommender by previous survey. Items include to “streamline regulations, make more commercial and industrial space available, reduce crime, ease traffic congestion, make housing more affordable and reduce business property taxes.” The new council also pointed out that business “doesn’t get enough respect” in this city and often feel “their contribution to the City’s success is not fully recognized and appreciated.”

Translink Board’s Arrogance Should Not be Ignored

In a recent post on Pricetags, Gordon Price laments both the Translink’s new “no media” policy and the public’s lukewarm response. Recently it was announced that the new chair of the Translink BOD has banned media access into regular board meetings and says “the most effective process for developing strategic plans is without the public or media present.” Price calls this “arrogance” breath-taking. However, “so is the passivity of the response.”

Price states in his post that “some who believed the previous incarnation of TransLink was too messy, too parochial and too political point to the YVR Board as an effective example of administration.” But there’s a big difference between “the landlord of a single-use, self-contained facility” and a board that “effectively controls the shape of this region.” TransLink’s decisions “affect our future, personally and directly.” It is naïve and presumptuous to think “they can do strategic planning in private, announce their conclusions and expect us all to acquiesce.” 

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