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Article for REW.ca: Five Great Things About Living In … Downtown East Vancouver
Downtown East Vancouver is a neighbourhood of contrasts. It's a historic neighbourhood in which heritage buildings house hip new cocktail bars, and where hot young chefs are taking advantage of lower rents to open up innovative restaurants. The MLS-defined boundaries of Main and Carrall to the east and west and the waterfront and Pacific Boulevard to the north and south create a slice of town that incorporates the eastern parts Chinatown and Gastown along with a small corner of Railtown – all neighbourhoods that are changing fast. This area has plenty of challenges, including crippling urban poverty in the Downtown Eastside, and it's not for everyone. But those who live here love their neighbourhood…
Article for PAXnewsWest: Governments of Canada, B.C. announce strong tourism growth for 2014
The Canadian and British Columbian Ministers of State for Small Business and Tourism held a joint press conference in Vancouver yesterday to announce that 2014 was a strong year for tourism, with year-over-year visitor increases both nationally and provincially.
"We are here today to tell Canadians what a great year 2014 was for the tourism industry,†said Maxime Bernier, Canada's Minister of State for Small Business and Tourism…
Article for REW.ca: Five Great Things About Living in … Yaletown
With its unique combination of heritage brick buildings, modern boutiques and cocktail bars, cobblestone streets and sparkling waterfront, what's not to love about this trendy enclave of downtown?
1. Walk to Work (and Everywhere Else)
Yaletown is home to many creative and high-tech enterprises, a good number of law and medical/dental offices, and plenty of shops and restaurants, meaning there are professional and service sector jobs right in the neighbourhood…
Article for PAXnewsWest.com: Air France toasts inaugural YVR flight
Last night, Air France continued the celebration of its inaugural flight from Paris to Vancouver by welcoming more than 200 guests – including a number of dignitaries and VIPs – to a cocktail party at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Jean-Noël Rault, Vice-President and General Manager Canada, Air France KLM, served as the evening's MC…
Article for PAXnewsWest.com: Adventure Canada brings the heart of the Arctic to Vancouver
Adventure Canada welcomed a group of past guests, local art gallery owners and others involved in the Inuit art scene to Vancouver's famed Tojo's Restaurant this past weekend for an information session about the company's Heart of the Arctic voyage…
Recent work for REW.ca
I’ve just wrapped up a couple of weeks providing regular news coverage for REW.ca to cover a staff vacation. Here’s what I got up to:
- Real Estate Transactions Increasing As Spring Approaches: BC Notaries
- Buildex Vancouver at The Vancouver Convention Centre This Week
- BC Housing Market To See Gains in 2015: Conference Board of Canada
- BC Residential Construction Up 11.3%: StatCan
- Axing BC Property Transfer Tax is Long-Term Plan: Premier
- Three Things to Plant in Your Garden This Weekend
- Retirement Savings Better Choice Than Paying Down Mortgage Debt: CIBC
- BC Designers Compete for Title of Western Canada's Next Home Stylist
- BC Housing Starts to Fall 2.7% in 2015: BC Budget
- City of Vancouver Draft 2015 Budget Includes 2.4% Property Tax Increase
- BC Home Sales See Strongest January in Five Years: BCREA
- New Home Prices in Vancouver Drop for Second Consecutive Month: StatCan
REW.ca is the online arm of the largest real estate market newspaper in the Lower Mainland: Real Estate Weekly.
New article for PAXnewsWest.com: Agents spend a night in Europe with Transat
Transat Holidays welcomed 130 travel agents to the Coast Coal Harbour Hotel last night for its 2015 Europe Training Academy.
The big change for Transat's Western Canadian offering this year are the new connector flights to Toronto. The weekly YVR-YYZ flight connects Vancouver passengers with Transat flights to four new destinations: Dublin, Rome, Venice, and Barcelona. It also increases the number of weekly flights available for Western Canadians flying to Paris, Glasgow, and Manchester…
Read the rest at PAXnewsWest.com
New article for PAXnewsWest.com: Air Canada marks the Year of the Ram in Vancouver
On Feb. 13, Air Canada hosted 80 travel agency partners, media guests, and staff from its various divisions for dinner at Vancouver’s Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel to celebrate Chinese New Year.
Rocky Lo, Air Canada's general manager of business development – Asia, who organized the event, told PAX the airline embraces the Chinese tradition of "getting the family together†once a year before the festival…
New article for REW.ca: RED Talks Give ‘TED Talks’ Treatment to Vancouver Real Estate
In a city that loves to talk about real estate – especially how much it costs – real estate marketer Cam Good felt there was a gap in the conversation and that the perspective was focused inward rather than considering Vancouver in the broader context of a global real estate market. To fill that gap, Good, president of the Key Group of Companies, launched RED Talks (for Real Estate and Development Talks), a speaker series designed to bring an international perspective to the Vancouver real estate conversation…