Vancouver General Discussion Thread

[flipper316]

Delighted Instagrammers? Holy shit vain millenials get off the damn phone and internet once in a while.

[Vin]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

cause they aren't using the farmland

Well, you don't know that. Even with small homes, how positive are you that they use the farm lands?

I think Lower Mainland folks are just very prone to jealousy, that's all. If your house next to mine is bigger, I PROTEST, never mind that mine was bigger than my next door neighbour's when it was built.

[whatnext]

Originally Posted by Vin

Well, you don't know that. Even with small homes, how positive are you that they use the farm lands?

I think Lower Mainland folks are just very prone to jealousy, that's all. If your house next to mine is bigger, I PROTEST, never mind that mine was bigger than my next door neighbour's when it was built.

Your bias is showing. Once these properties have been turned into lots for tacky mansions they will never be economical as farms again.

[SpongeG]

a video on the free wifi in vancouver

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[SpongeG]

A first look at the 130-metre Whistler-Blackcomb suspension bridge is not for the faint of heart

By Jon Azpiri
Online News Producer

Crews are making progress on a new attraction at Whistler/Blackcomb that may not be for everyone.

The Whistler-Blackcomb suspension bridge will be 130 metres long with an elevation of about 2,000 metres.

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https://globalnews.ca/news/4273401/whist...edium=Facebook&utm_source=GlobalOkanagan

[Migrant_Coconut]

They should make it free and have it open during snow season.

"If you've already purchased a Day Ticket, you can upgrade to a PEAK 2 PEAK 360 Season Pass and just pay the difference... or you can take your chances on Galloping Gertie here."

[SpongeG]

An actual shark was spotted swimming in shallow water near Kits Beach
By Bob Kronbauer - June 21, 2018



https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2018/06/21/shark-spotted-vancouver/

[SpongeG]

You can check out interactive pics at the link/source

Google Street View images capture Metro Vancouver's homeless crisis

HARRISON MOONEY Updated: June 23, 2018


Tents lined up on 135A Street in Surrey, June 17, 2018. NICK PROCAYLO / PNG

Local not-for-profit RainCity Housing has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of the need for affordable and social housing in Vancouver.

A new interactive website, vancouverstreetview.ca, allows users to toggle between Google Street View images taken in the last four years and, by juxtaposing snapshots from then and now, see how the homeless population has grown across Metro Vancouver.

Statistics from Metro Vancouver show a 30 per cent increase in homelessness between 2014 and 2017, and in the City of Vancouver, there has been a 21 per cent increase over that same timeframe.

“The Google Street View images in our campaign, much like the homeless counts, are just snapshots in time of a much larger issue,” said Aaron Munro, Associate Director at RainCity Housing. “The campaign images show homelessness in the Greater Vancouver Area is changing our cities, but that there is a solution in providing affordable and social housing, and we need to show our support around it.”

RainCity’s initiative launched this week, just as modular housing becomes available at 135A Street in Surrey, one of the campaign’s highlighted areas.

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http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/...capture-metro-vancouvers-homeless-crisis

[SpongeG]

I remember these from the 80s, good to see the event back on this side.

Bathtub races return to Vancouver for the first time since 1996

From the Hub City to Van City, it’s tubbing time

John Kurucz / Vancouver Courier
JUNE 7, 2018

It’s not often you see Vancouver nick ideas from our neighbours to the west, but if there’s one thing Nanaimoites know, it’s bathtubs.

Indeed, fibre glass tubs and small outboard motors won’t be confined to the other side of Georgia Strait for the first time in 22 years when bathtub races return to Vancouver waters in mid-August.

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The races will be the centrepiece of KitsFest, which runs Aug. 10 to 12. The one-mile race will see upwards of 30 tubbers speeding around an L shaped circuit near the waters off Kits Beach.

The races ran from Nanaimo to Vancouver from 1967 to 1996 and now continue off the east coast of Vancouver Island.


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http://www.vancourier.com/news/bathtub-r...for-the-first-time-since-1996-1.23329074

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[SpongeG]

Did anyone go? they stayed open till 11 pm monday, pics i've seen show long long lines all day to get in, this will only flower for 48 hours and does so once a decade...

Rare ‘Uncle Fester’ corpse flower unfurls in Vancouver with a not-so-rancid stench

By MELANIE GREEN StarMetro Vancouver

Mon., July 16, 2018


The now nearly two-metre tall corpse flower produces a smell and a deep-red flesh colour inside the open petal in order to attract pollinator insects like carrion beetles and flesh flies that feed on dead animals. (CORY MORSE / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2018/0...rpse-flower-compared-to-hot-garbage.html

[MIPS]

Did someone say dead bodies?

Woman's death in Vancouver clothing donation bin sparks calls for safer design

The Vancouver Police Department and the B.C. Ambulance Service were called to a “sudden death” in the parking lot of the West Point Grey Community Centre just after 4 a.m.

The woman, in her 30s, was found dead in the donation bin at the scene, prompting an investigation by the coroner’s office.

“It was an unfortunate loss of life in the clothing bin,” said Assistant Fire Chief David Boone, whose department was called in to assist in the body’s extraction. “She climbed to get clothing and got hung up and succumbed to her injuries.”

Fire crews cut the lock on the panel in order to retrieve the woman’s body.

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Deaths in clothing donation bins have been recorded across Metro Vancouver and cities across the country. Wolsak said she was surprised to learn of incidents around the world.

“It just seemed like an obvious bad design; no one should be crushed in a donation bin, particularly one put out by a charity,” Wolsak said. “It doesn’t matter if someone is diving, trying to get clothes from a donation bin, they don’t deserve to be harmed.”

In March 2016, a 20-year-old man was killed after becoming trapped inside a Surrey donation bin.

In September 2015, Anita Hauck, a homeless advocate, died in a Pitt Meadows donation bin as she was trying to get a blanket and jacket for someone who had lost their possessions.

In June of that same year, fire crews in New Westminster used the Jaws of Life to free a man trapped inside a clothing donation bin.

Just last month in Calgary, a man in his 30s was sent to hospital in critical condition after being found trapped inside a bin.

Derek Weiss from Vancouver’s Union Gospel Mission said the incidents often involve those in destitution, and that there have been calls from some homeless advocates to make the bins safer.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news...nation-bin-sparks-calls-for-safer-design

I mean, if you put it down to it, the whole purpose they are designed like they are now is to stop people stealing out of the bins because, I dunno, there's already countless other places to get clean clothes if you don't have money much less a roof over your head? The only reason I can think of that you are trying to fish stuff out of a bin is you want to find trinkets that you can sell or you are far too stubborn to go and ask at the local shelter.

[Cypherus]

Noticed Google Earth has updated the Vancouver skyline. Notable differences are the inclusion of Trump Tower, the Exchange, and the MNP Tower.

[jollyburger]

Unfinished Charleson and half built Vancouver House

[misher]

Originally Posted by MIPS

Did someone say dead bodies?



I mean, if you put it down to it, the whole purpose they are designed like they are now is to stop people stealing out of the bins because, I dunno, there's already countless other places to get clean clothes if you don't have money much less a roof over your head? The only reason I can think of that you are trying to fish stuff out of a bin is you want to find trinkets that you can sell or you are far too stubborn to go and ask at the local shelter.

I know alot of people resell the stuff from the bins.

Its a shame someone died but common sense should also apply, if someone dies stealing something the fault should lie with the thief not the victim, we should feel sad but not guilty. If we can affordably upgrade bins so they are harder to steal from/enter I support this, but lets not go crazy.

[SpongeG]

this looks interestingm has anyone gone?

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[SpongeG]

Dota 2 is on. My cousin came all the way from Australia to watch this at the arena

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[Vin]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

this looks interestingm has anyone gone?

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Where is this?

[SpongeG]

it looks like its in Richmond near the home depot maybe

[SpongeG]

ft langley concept

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[SpongeG]

Will the Fraser Valley get its own version of the Sea to Sky Gondola?

Company is looking at building a gondola in the Bridal Falls area of Chilliwack below Mount Cheam
CBC News · Posted: Sep 02, 2018

There's a reason why the trail that leads to the stunning peak of Mount Cheam isn't nearly as crowded as many other hikes around the Lower Mainland.

Paul Kubik says the views from the Fraser Valley peak are spectacular — but you have to put your vehicle through a terrible beating to get to the trailhead.

"It's basically a very rough road that comes up from the Chilliwack Valley that's full of potholes," said Kubik, cabins and trails development director for the B.C. Mountaineering Club.

"It takes a long time to drive up there, even if you've got a four-wheel-drive vehicle."

But in the future, there could be a new way to access the peak without making a long and treacherous drive: a gondola rising from the Fraser Valley, similar to the one that recently began operating above the Sea to Sky Highway near Squamish.

A company called Bridal Falls Gondola Corporation is now considering the project.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bridal-falls-gondola-proposal-1.4804846