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		<title>Reimagining the Light: Luminara in the future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Luminara 2010 not happening in July, Luminara host organization the Inter-Cultural Association,  have organized a series visioning sessions to gather ideas for the future, of which the first was held a few Saturday&#8217;s ago. Attended by about twenty people, there was a good mix of volunteers, staff and representatives of various community groups [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/reimagining-the-light-luminara-in-the-future/</link>
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		<title>An Olympic experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of a good friend, a bunch of us went over on the weekend to see Canada&#8217;s Women Hockey Team play Slovakia. It was the game where the poor Slovakians lost 18-0 and were outshot 67-9.
To start off, I have to give massive credit to the Slovakian goalie, who really did try. She made some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/an-olympic-experience/</link>
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		<title>CRD plans next Regional Pedestrian &amp; Bicycle Master Plan event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The CRD Regional Pedestrian &#38; Bicycle Master Plan (PCMP) is having its next public event on March 11. The event will cover the completed first phase of the plan, including the unveiling of the Bikeway Inventory Map. The plan, which launched last year, has already gone through some initial collection of public input. As has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/crd-plans-next-regional-pedestrian-bicycle-master-plan-event/</link>
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		<title>What exactly did the reporter mean?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest Times Colonist article about fares going up, there is this line (emphasis mine):
The commission is facing major capital expenditures in coming years, including bus replacement and development of rapid transit involving buses.
And here I was thinking that the decision on mode type hadn&#8217;t been made yet. Silly me.
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		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/what-exactly-did-the-reporter-mean/</link>
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		<title>Why merit pay for teachers makes no sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, full disclosure. I come from a family of teachers. My mother was a teacher, my maternal grandfather went from school principal to deputy minister in the Dept. of Education here in BC, both my maternal grandmother and aunt taught nursing and my father has taught university biology classes. Suffice it to say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/why-merit-pay-for-teachers-makes-no-sense/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside makes the Beeb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of the Olympics, right on the front page of BBC News is a story about Vancouver&#8217;s Downtown Eastside. The story is lovingly titled Vancouver: &#8216;Drug Central&#8217; of North America and recounts many of the horrors of the DTES including rampant drug use, homelessness, and prostitution. It also brings in the gang wars [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/vancouvers-downtown-eastside-makes-the-beeb/</link>
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		<title>Rethinking the Shelbourne Corridor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saanich has recently launched a project to rethink the Shelbourne corridor, or at least the section from the Victoria border to Feltham Rd. in Gordon Head. The project is partial update to the venerable Shelbourne Local Area Plan, last changed in 1997. To kick off the whole thing off, Saanich held an open house to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/rethinking-the-shelbourne-corridor/</link>
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		<title>Just how bad are the transit cuts?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I have mentioned here many times, BC Transit is one of the few transit agencies in North America not currently cutting service. How bad are those cuts? Here is a map of US transit cuts compiled by Transportation for America:
View United States of Transit Cutbacks in a larger map
What about Canada? Calgary is cutting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/02/just-how-bad-are-the-transit-cuts/</link>
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		<title>The future of Oak Bay allotment gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oak Bay&#8217;s allotment gardens are expanding. With the recent clearing of the land on the south side of Bowker Creek, space was created for a dozen new garden plots. Given the expansion, Oak Bay Parks and Rec thought it would be a good time to talk about the future of the allotment gardens with many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/01/the-future-of-oak-bay-allotment-gardens/</link>
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		<title>More on the empty 7th transit commission seat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After I reported that the seventh seat was empty, I emailed Joanna Morton, who works for BC Transit in media relations. When asked about the seat, she replied that:
BC Transit hasn&#8217;t heard if a seventh commission member would be added to the Victoria Regional Transit Commission. Members of the Commission are appointed by the Lieutenant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.coreyburger.ca/2010/01/more-on-the-empty-7th-transit-commission-seat/</link>
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