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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If A Fleet Of Bicycling Barkeeps Delivered Drinks

While Vancouverites are having UBER deliver puppies to their offices today, its hurts our eyeballs knowing that Seattle office workers had cocktails delivered to their offices by bicycling bartenders instead last week. Yes, St-Germain French Elderflower Liqueur and Uber partnered up for BIKETENDER, which saw local bartenders – good ones, mind (eg. Logan Chinn, Jana Howard, Kevin Orbis, among other) – preparing the perfect summer afternoon aperitif inside the offices of our neighbours.

The custom-built, vintage-style bikes were inspired by the French tri-pourteur beauties, rides that date back to the mid-1800s and are still used to transport the delicate, freshly-picked elderflowers that create St-Germain liqueur in France today. Watch the clip of what could have made Vancouver a whole lot cooler. Instead, puppies. WTF?

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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If We Had More Safe Indoor Spaces for Skateboarding

Its vaulted ceilings may have once carried the tenors and altos of Catholic choirboys, but nowadays the acoustics of the abandoned St. Liborius Church have been repurposed to carry the screeches and echoes characteristic of a DIY Skatepark. We think Vancouver would be cooler if we had an all-inclusive indoor community skatepark of our own...

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Massive Floating Housing Project at the Port

Imagine a colourful, mixed-used, housing complex like Amsterdam's Silodam floating at the foot of Victoria Drive.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had Floating Camp Sites in False Creek

Imagine Belgium's Vlot Kamp - essentially eight floating campsites accessed from the shore by canoe - next to Olympic Village.

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Had a Cocktail Bar Hidden in a Skytrain Station

This 15-seat speakeasy-style bar is located behind a nondescript door in New York City's 28th Street subway station.