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Originally Posted by AlexYVR
maybe I should compare them to SFU and UBC. Two different institutions, and UBC will always come out 'better' in global rankings - but for quality of teaching and individual education, SFU is by far the better school. Either way, great places to be if very, very different.
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I've always heard that UBC is an Engineering/Medical school, SFU a Business/Comp Sci. school and BCIT a Technology / Computing school.
It'd be hard to state that one school is vastly superior to the other. They seem to serve different purposes.
The same is with cities. Different cities offer different things. Even a "lower-tier" city can attract top-notch clients.
For example. Many local employers will choose someone who's graduated from a 2-year Diploma program at BCIT over a 4-year Comp. Sci. grad from UBC. Why? Because it's got a reputation for being a very hard program to pass and the students usually have more job-ready skills.
In the same vein, an industry could choose a smaller less-established city like Vancouver over a larger more established one if we create a reputation for being leaders in the field.
Film studios are a great example. The industry, though fraught with ups and downs, is well established here, but it took provincial scale investment and tax breaks to get here.
I don't know if "Green Capital" will work but it's something. It should be more of a "Metro Vancouver" initiative. Perhaps we need a regional mayor. Then we could start to consolidate certain non-controversial services (like garbage pickup... no one cares if it's regionally managed).
Unifying the region under one banner, whatever it is, is a great way to bring world attention to Vancouver. And we don't need to be labeled world class to do it.