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	<title>Richmond's Garden City Lands &#187; News</title>
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		<title>Win-win for ALR and winery?</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2010/01/05/win-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 04:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post about the Lulu Island Winery and its ALR implications, I ended with a note of optimism: &#8220;Personally, I wish continued success to both the Lulu Island Wineries and the ALR. That will require imaginative win-win solutions. It is still very possible.&#8221;
With that in mind, I emailed a four-page memo in PDF to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1943&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MPs &#8211; update about action</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/mps-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, Nov. 14, four directors of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society met with Alice Wong, MP for the Richmond riding. That evening, John Cummins, MP for Delta-Richmond East, phoned me. In each case, the topic was federal help in saving the Garden City Lands, and the conversation was thorough.
In previous years, Mr. Cummins [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1890&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Peschisolido clarifies his support</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/joe-peschisolido/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Directors of the Garden City Lands Coalition meet with Richmond’s federal MPs and provincial MLAs when the MPs/MLAs are interested. (So far that’s been one to three people representing the coalition at a time.) Until recently, we have not met with nominated MP/MLA candidates. On Thursday, however, we met with Joe Peschisolido at his request.
Some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1793&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community input to council</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/input/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The directors of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society made a thorough printed submission to Richmond council on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. The purpose was to provide expert community input into the Garden City Lands MOU contingency process, the stage that the City of Richmond and other Parties are now engaged in.
The main item was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1780&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community to Canada Lands I</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/community-to-clc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Richmond News letter of July 3, 2009, and in other ways, I urged citizens to ask Canada Lands Company, the federal land disposer, to keep the Garden City lands green forever. Soon, a stream of people—exactly fifty at last count—had let the Garden City Lands Coalition know (usually via cc) that they’d acted. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1685&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Climate action news release</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/climate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Garden City Lands is a way for the community to take local action on some of the most important issues of our time. One of them is climate action. We can take action locally to achieve impact provincially, federally, and globally by saving our best-known carbon sink, the Lulu Island Bog. There is both functional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1679&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition to Canada Lands II</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/clc-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent the following on July 16, 2009, as a Garden City Lands Coalition Society message to the president of Canada Lands Company, cc-ing the usual parties and more, as I had done a few days earlier. (That message is an earlier post in this blog.)
Dear Mark Laroche, President and CEO, Canada Lands Company:
This morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1816&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barn-raising AGM</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/barn-ag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Michael Wolfe, the minutes of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society&#8217;s 2009 annual general meeting are now available.
The minutes tell part of the story, but you really had to be there to fully appreciate it. The Barn at Terra Nova Rural Park was an inspired choice of venue (thanks, Mary Gazetas!). The participation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1689&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coalition to Canada Lands I</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/gclcs-to-clc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent the following this morning as a Garden City Lands Coalition Society message to the president of Canada Lands Company, cc-ing the usual parties and more.
Dear Mark Laroche, President and CEO, Canada Lands Company:
You will soon receive a couriered petition from the Garden City Lands Coalition Society. The 1,962 signatories want to keep the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1672&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See you at The Barn?</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/barn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
At Terra Nova, the northwest tip of Lulu Island, the City of Richmond got things wrong two decades ago but then recovered to some extent before it was too late. The good result was the Terra Nova Rural Park, along with the Terra Nova Natural Area. The park is in a spectacular location, and the City is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1598&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Results of surprise council meeting</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 06:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up to the &#8220;Surprise council meeting . . .&#8221; post. Here&#8217;s what happened.
Citizens De Whelan, Jessica Lai, Olga Tkatcheva, and I all made brief presentations to council on the agenda item related to the City&#8217;s input on Metro Vancouver&#8217;s Regional Growth Strategy. In different ways, we all advocated that the City of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1528&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprise council meeting, Mon., May 11, 4 p.m.</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/surprise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 23:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A surprise meeting of the General Purposes Committee of Richmond Council has just been called for 4 p.m. on Monday, May 11, in the Anderson Room at Richmond City Hall, 6911 No. 3 Road (2nd floor).
The mayor and city staff will try to get their ideas about Metro Vancouver’s Regional Growth Strategy (RGS) past council [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1518&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petition—sign please—useful again!</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 06:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition is likely to present the Garden City Lands petition again soon. We have already presented it, with good effect, to the Agricultural Land Commission and the Government of Canada. However, it may soon be useful to send it to Canada Lands Company, which is the government’s land disposal arm, and to other decision-makers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1512&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MLA candidates &#8211; May 5 update</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/mla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is an updated version of an earlier post.
This blog does not endorse any provincial election candidates, but it does aim to identify candidates in the three Richmond constituencies who are likely to take &#8220;Save Garden City&#8221; action as MLAs if elected on May 12. 
·        Michael Wolfe, Green Party Candidate in Richmond Centre, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1424&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Earth Day to you! Happy Earth Day to . . .</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/earth-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 23:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Thanks to eco-guide Michael Wolfe and the twenty eco-enthusiasts who participated with him, the Earth Day tour was another big success. In true Earth Day style, the group even picked up several bags of litter on its travels.
From Wednesday, April 22, to Saturday, April 25, 2009, the Garden City Lands Coalition is celebrating Earth Day.
Join [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1391&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting the patient lands</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Last Sunday’s eco-tour found the Garden City Lands still looking battered, since the lush vegetation was mowed down last fall. Despite that, the setting was somehow still beautiful, as you may sense from the above photo. Whatever stage the lands are in, there are always advantages to it.
On this occasion, it was much easier than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1201&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update &#8211; January 20, 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Garden City Lands story has paused for over a month. At the end of 2008, the future of that 136-acre green space in Richmond Centre took a turn for the better with the expiry of a bad agreement that would have put high-density construction on that fertile wetland. Judging from a Richmond Council vote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=1035&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consensus reached, decision requested</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is the content of a message that I sent, as president of the Garden City Lands Coalition Society, to the Agricultural Land Commission on Dec. 17, 2008.
The Garden City Lands Coalition requests you to announce a decision soon on the 2008 re-application to exclude Richmond&#8217;s Garden City Lands from the Agricultural Land Reserve.
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		<title>Bulletin &#8211; Dec 8 results</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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This is about a win that is important for the future of the Agricultural Land Reserve, as well as for Richmond.
It is essentially certain that Richmond’s Garden City Lands will remain in the ALR. On Monday afternoon, by a 6-3 vote, the general purposes committee of Richmond council voted down a proposal that would have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=846&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bulletin &#8211; Monday, Dec. 8, council meetings</title>
		<link>http://gardencitylands.wordpress.com/2008/12/06/bulletin-dec8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Dec. 8, at 4 p.m., Richmond Council&#8217;s General Purposes Committee will hold a special meeting in the Anderson Room to make a crucial decision. It is related to the Garden City Lands recommendations in this staff report. The report is the topic of several posts in this blog.  A good way to start learning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=819&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chief Ernie Campbell re-elected</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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The Musqueam Indian Band has elected Ernie Campbell for another two-year term beginning January 5, 2009.
At the Garden City Lands public hearing in March 2008, lawyer Keith Clarke emphasized the importance of thinking of the band and Canada Lands Companies as businesses that the City of Richmond is dealing with on Garden City Lands matters. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=777&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking on the bright side</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Need a break from the seamier side of the Garden City Lands? How about two weeks of sustainable-food immersion with Save Garden City advocate Wendy Holm, P. Ag.? In Cuba!

Wendy invites you to join her Farm Tour of Cuba, Feb. 9–23, 2009, if you’re a farmer or farm/food professional. Alternatively, share the invitation with someone who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gardencitylands.wordpress.com&blog=2175132&post=739&subd=gardencitylands&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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