We here at Land Use Profs are big fans of the annual meeting of the Association of Law, Property and Society (ALPS). In fact, I beleive it was the one place you could find all our permanent bloggers in one
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Building Code Bans Door Knobs
The new building code in Vancouver has banned the traditional doorknob in favor of the easier-to-use lever handle.The change has crept up on us silently and without fanfare. Look at any new condo building. Any new office door. Any door…
Joe Canada!
When innovation meets the law, the results are often surprising. We in Seattle are confronting this as ride services like Lyft compete with a regulated taxi industry. Now consider Pirate Joe’s, a business located in the upscale Kitsilano…
ALPS Call For Papers. See you all in Vancouver in May!
It was recently pointed out to me that ALPS call for papers was recently released but the blogs have been slow to pick up the news. Here is my attempt to remedy that. We here at Land Use Profs are…
Association for Law, Property, & Society (ALPS) Call for Papers
By propertyprof
Is Land Use Planning Any Different in Canada?
By propertyprof
The Vancouver Sun takes a look. The take-home point:In most Canadian cities, the vast majority of growth from 2006 to 2011 was in auto-dependent suburbs. Even in Metro Vancouver, where there was significant population growth in the high-density condos…
Volendam Norovirus Outbreak Sickens HAL Cruise Passengers
By Jim Walker
A Canadian news source, CBC News, reports that cruise passengers on a 31-day Holland America Line (HAL) cruise returning to Vancouver suffered from the ill effects of a norovirus outbreak.
The outbreak involved HAL’s Volendam. The cruise line, which…
The Case That Makes You Go “Ewww”
A Washington Supreme Court decision, Bylsma v Burger King Corp., has decided that in Washington, under the Products Liability Act, an individual who claims damages for emotional distress in the absence of having actually consumed a product may bring a…
Plain Language Association International Conference in Vancouver this October
The Plain Language Association InterNational will hold its ninth conference and its 20th anniversary celebration in Vancouver, Canada from October 10-13, 2013. The conference coincides with International Plain Language Day, which is of course a major holiday celebrated by this…
MRSP in urban rats
By Scott Weese
A year or two ago, I received an email from Dr. Chelsea Himsworth, who was doing some interesting work looking at different bacteria found in rats in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. This is an impoverished urban neighbourhood with lots of homeless people,…