The Split Record
Vik Khanna’s own reading of the public record on Vancouver’s school lands. It is a column, so it argues, and the argument is his rather than the company’s. Every claim in it still traces to a source, and where the record is unfinished the column says so instead of smoothing it over.
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A recommendation has no execution date
The Board approved the closure of Queen Elizabeth Annex on 6 June 2022 and declared the site surplus on 11 April 2023, recommending a transfer to the francophone school authority.
The inventory that was spent
A district’s spare buildings are its ability to absorb change. Spent one at a time, for good reasons each time, they stop being an inventory and become a set of decisions nobody made together.
To Be Decided
In 2019 the board put seven projects in a table. Six of them got a decision. The seventh got the words to be decided, and then the province changed the law around it.