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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If YVR Airport Invited Skateboarders To Ride

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(via) Airports – both their interiors and exteriors – represent some of the most forbidding terrain for skateboarders. They offer an endless array of modular obstacles, rails, transitions and smooth open spaces, but they are as off-limits as military installations and zoos. Which is why it’s pretty damn dreamy that – as part of an open-minded branding exercise – a group of world class skateboarders were invited by Finn Air to fly into Helsinki Airport and rip it up for two days last month — hangars, runways, blast fences, ticket kiosks, baggage claim carousels, and all. Take a look…

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Vancouver Would Be Cooler If It was Included on ‘The Wasted “World” Tour’

Copenhagen-based food waste initiative, Eat Wasted, is currently on the road, working with a bunch of cool chefs to feed folks their up-cycled “Bread Waste Pasta” at pop-ups and food festivals in cities around Europe and North America (but not Vancouver?!)

Vancouver (and the World) Would be Cooler If Our Housing Crisis Was Solved Via Video Games

There is nothing special about Vancouver's lack of affordable housing...but what is special about Dublin, Ireland’s housing crisis, is that it's the catalyst and subject matter of a new 16-bit "anti-landlordist" video game, called Mega Dreoilín.

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.