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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If North Vancouver

Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It Didn’t Occasionally Scare the Living Daylights Out of Us

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With its rising and falling pitch, the drone-like air raid siren emerged in the 20th century as one of the world’s most terrifying sounds, striking fear in the hearts of all who heard it during World War II, the Cold War, even now. Right here at home the spooky device and its sound have persisted as audible facets of civil defence drills, warning of imminent doom in the nuclear age. All of that is to say it was a resoundingly stupid choice for an elevator alarm at the north shore’s Cargill Grain Terminal. As residents are keenly aware, the dumb thing occasionally goes off without warning, explanation or apology (most recently on April 18, 2019). Vancouver would be cooler if they changed it. Might we suggest this equally annoying (but less scary) alternative?

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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...
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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 False Creek

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.
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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.

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