From S.L. | Sheraton Wall Center (31st Floor) | Vancouver, BC | 9:36m | SHARE YOUR VIEW

“I was staying at the hotel, even though I live in Burnaby, as part of working for a hackers conference that was being held there (but they don’t really like to call it that). I forget a lot of the times how beautiful Vancouver is. Then it reminds me with something like this.”

We love posting the photographs that reveal the views from our reader’s windows. Whether it’s a back alley in the fall or a sandy beach in high summer, we’re always stoked to see what you see from home, work or while on the road. Some of our all-time favourite reader submissions below…

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by Andrew Morrison | Oh noes. I’ve only just learned that Van Mag’s editor, Gary Stephen Ross, and the publisher, Kim Peacock, were let go the other day. According to a leaked internal memo, interim leadership has fallen to TC Media group publisher Caroline Andrews.

The memo didn’t mention why they were dumped (the consequence of a “well thought-out restructuring”), but I can’t imagine it was an easy run for either of them. Like other leaders of long-established print outfits in recent years, they had to deal with the advent of social media, the recession, the skepticism of increasingly empowered advertisers, and the whittling impact of a local blogosphere of occasional quality and influence (aka The Four Horsemen of the Old Media Apocalypse). I thought they’d done as good a job as could be expected under such freakishly unprecedented circumstances but, alas, via Malcolm Parry:

Western Living and Vancouver magazines’ publisher Kim Peacock and editorial director Gary Ross arrived at their offices Monday and were promptly shown the door. Transcontinental Media senior VP Pierre Marcoux’s subsequent memo noted the two “have been instrumental in developing and transforming our Western brands and have both been great contributors to the team. I wish to thank them for their contribution and hard work over the past years.”

Gary and Kim had been running the magazine since 2006, right when I came on board as a judge at their restaurant awards and began making occasional contributions to the magazine. Gary taught me a few things and made several of my stories better (he is as gifted an editor as he is a writer), and Kim kindly tolerated my occasionally fatuous, self-important bone-picking about food coverage, online presence, the awards, you name it. They made a big impact on my career, and I’m eternally grateful for that. I hope that they both go well and land lucratively, wherever that may be.

From R.J.R | East Hastings (Hastings-Sunrise) | Vancouver, BC | 6:15pm | SHARE YOUR VIEW

Some of the buildings across the street came down today to make room for a London Drugs expansion. Lo and behold… another ghost sign emerges: “Coast Dry Cleaners – Phone High. 6063″

We love posting the photographs that reveal the views from our reader’s windows. Whether it’s a back alley in the fall or a sandy beach in high summer, we’re always stoked to see what you see from home, work or while on the road. Some of our all-time favourite reader submissions below…

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As we’ve noted before, locals Erin Sinclair and Rob Forbes are busily making a second book to follow up on the success of This Is East Van. The new one is again based on photos submitted by community members keen to share their individual visions of East Vancouver. You can follow their progress on Twitter and Instagram, but we’ve asked them to keep us updated with captioned images, too (without giving too much of the finished product away). Here are the newest 14 shots that they’ve sent our way…

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From S.S. | Dunsmuir St. | Vancouver, BC | 6:30am | SHARE YOUR VIEW

We love posting the photographs that reveal the views from our reader’s windows. Whether it’s a back alley in the fall or a sandy beach in high summer, we’re always stoked to see what you see from home, work or while on the road. Some of our all-time favourite reader submissions below…

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