Comments on: Million Dollar Condo Lessees Complain About Site of Research Hospice

By: Annie

Annie — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 23:45:40 +0000

@Beno
Yep, Gordon Campbell does live in the Promontory.

By: Les

Les — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:13:33 +0000

@Jack Li
I find your comments very idiotic,simplistic & groundless needless to say. Please read the B.C. Strata Property Act before posting…

By: Beno

Beno — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:43:10 +0000

Are you sure Gordon Campbell lives in this complex-he actually lives at Hampton Place.

By: Hillson

Hillson — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:55:40 +0000

Please don’t lump all asians together in the believe of superstitious nonsense. If Janet is afraid of “ghosts” and “dead people” in her backyard, I suggest her strata hire a full time exorcist as a nightwatch.

By: Jack Li

Jack Li — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 08:52:40 +0000

There are pros and cons and the best approach to handle this is to hold a referendum. Each and every strata holder of Hawthorn Place is entitled to vote and this is really the Canadian spirit. Comments from people who are not Hawthorn Place owners are not appropriate and they carry the attitude of Schadenfreude. It is none of their business.

By: craig

craig — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 05:50:16 +0000

Any replies Alex, @Shauna?
Enough said..

By: Alex Lougheed

Alex Lougheed — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:55:27 +0000

@Shauna

1) It doesn’t have to be built on one of the most expensive lands around. It should be built on one of the most expensive lands around, though. Hospices are a relatively new creation in the health sector. UBC, as a progressive, research-intensive institution, ought to foster modern developments in the health sciences and study them. If campus planning at UBC was dictated by property values, the Buchanan building would be torn down tomorrow.

2) These people are property owners in the sense that in 93 years they lose their property. These buildings are on 99-year leases. Further, when you buy a lease in an area zoned as “research”, you lose your ability to complain about research buildings popping up. Caveat emptor.

We’re not angry at you expressing your freedom of speech. We’re simply exercising /our/ freedom of speech to let you know we think you should carefully reconsider your actions.

By: shauna liu

shauna liu — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:28:40 +0000

1) From a purely economic perspective, why must the hospice be built on one of the most expensive lands around? Why can’t be move it somewhere else like…Langley and Abby?

2) These pple paid around $1million for their property, that’s a lot of money. And they would not have purchased it had the hospice been there in the 1st place…

My concern is WHY the Canadian public(comments via popular media outlets)is SO ANGRY when immigrants practice their freedom of speech and expression like any other Canadian.

By: Alex Lougheed

Alex Lougheed — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:41:56 +0000

@Menzies Students were fine with having a hospice near a graduate student residence. Hell, I recall advocating for it. The objection to a mixed community of 18-year-olds, newly released from parental shackles, and those seeking idyllic refuge wasn’t so much NIMBYist, as it was advocacy for good mixed-urban planning. Young undergrads make crappy neighbours for those who aren’t young undergrads. Just ask Greenwood Commons.

I wholeheartedly agree with the need to remove the tabooization of death.

By: Nicholas FitzGerald

Nicholas FitzGerald — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:35:26 +0000

Someone should tell them that every person they live next to is a dying person.