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Best of the City 2017: City Life

Best Addition/Change to City Life 1. Improved bike lanes 2. New Evergreen Line 3. New Mobi Bike Share Honourable mention: "My baby bunny rabbit" Best Bathroom in the City 1. Cactus Club Café cactusclubcafe.com 2. Fairmont Hotels fairmont.
BOTC2017 City Life Winners

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Best Addition/Change to City Life

1. Improved bike lanes

2. New Evergreen Line

3. New Mobi Bike Share

Honourable mention: "My baby bunny rabbit"

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Best Bathroom in the City

1. Cactus Club Café

2. Fairmont Hotels

3. Starbucks

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Best Beach

1. Kitsilano

2. Wreck

3. Spanish Banks

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Best Building

1. Marine Building
355 Burrard St.

2. Dominion Building
207 W. Hastings St.

3. Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
900 W. Georgia St.

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Best Bus Route

1. 99, Commercial/Broadway/UNC

2. 3, Main/Downtown

3. 20, Victoria/Downtown

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Best Charity

1. Food Bank of Greater Vancouver

2. Union Gospel Mission

3. Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­SPCA

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Best Green/Eco-friendly Company

T-1. MEC
130 W. Broadway

T-1. Mattress Recycling
11571 Twigg Pl., Richmond

2. The Soap Dispensary
3718 Main St.

3. Lush
Various locations

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Best College/University

1. University of British Columbia

2. Simon Fraser University

3. Langara College

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Best Community Centre

1. Roundhouse
181 Roundhouse Mews

2. Hillcrest
4575 Clancy Loranger Way

3. Trout Lake
3360 Victoria Dr.

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Best Company to Work For

1. MEC

2. Vancity

T-3. Hootsuite

T-3. JQ Clothing

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Best Day Trip From the City

1. Whistler

2. Squamish

3. Bowen Island

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Best Free Public Event

1. Honda Celebration of Light

2. Car Free Day

3. Pride Parade

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Hidden Gem: Business

1. Attic Thrift Store
1019 Broughton St.

2. JQ Clothing
2120 Commercial Dr.

3. Strategies Games
3878 Main St.

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Hidden Gem: Place

1. Crab Park

2. Pacific Spirit Park

3. Wreck Beach

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Best High School

1. Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­Technical Secondary School
2600 E. Broadway

2. Lord Byng Secondary School
3939 W. 16th Ave.

T-3. Pattison High School
981 Nelson St.

T-3. Kitsilano Secondary School
2706 Trafalgar St.

T-3. Eric Hamber Secondary School
5025 Willow St.

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Best Hotel

1. Fairmont Pacific Rim
1038 Canada Place

2. Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
900 W. Georgia St.

3. Rosewood Hotel Georgia
801 W. Georgia St.

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Best Local Ski Mountain

1. Cypress

2. Grouse

3. Seymour

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Best Neighbourhood to Hang Out In

1. Main Street/Mount Pleasant

2. Commercial Drive

3. English Bay/West End

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Biggest Local News Story of 2016

1. Donald Trump/US election

2. Real estate/15% foreign buyers’ tax

3. "Snowpocalypse"

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Best Park

1. Stanley Park

2. Queen Elizabeth Park

3. Dude Chilling Park

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Best Place to Go on a First Date

1. Granville Island

2. Stanley Park seawall

3. English Bay

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Best Place to Hike

1. Grouse Grind

2. Anywhere on the North Shore

3. The Chief

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Best Place to Watch the Sunset

1. English Bay

2. Jericho Beach

T-3. Sunset Beach

T-3. Third Beach

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Best Public Pool

1. Kits Pool

2. Hillcrest

3. 2nd Beach

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Best Public Gathering Place

1. Art Gallery Steps/Robson Square

2. Jack Poole Plaza/Âé¶¹´«Ã½Ó³»­Convention Centre

3. Canada Place

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Best Skate Park

1. Hastings Skate Park
175 Renfrew St.

2. Plaza Skate Park (under Georgia Viaduct)

3. Leeside Tunnel (under Cassiar Street Connector)

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Best SkyTrain Station

1. Waterfront

2. Broadway-City Hall

3. Commercial-Broadway

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Best Parade

1. Pride

2. Santa Claus Parade

T-3. Parade of Lost Souls

T-3. Chinese New Year

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Best Street/Viewpoint to Instagram

1. Cambie Street Bridge looking north

2. Gastown/Water Street

3. Granville Street

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Best Tourist Attraction

1. Stanley Park

2. Granville Island

3. Grouse Mountain

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Best Unique/Quirky Business

1. Storm Crow Alehouse
1619 W. Broadway

2. Regional Assembly of Text
3934 Main St.

T-3. Welks
3511 Main St.

T-3. CatféÌý
2035-88 W. Pender St.

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Best Weekend Escape

1. Whistler

2. Tofino

3. Victoria

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Vancouver’s Coolest Company/Brand

1. Lululemon

2. Herschel Supply

3. Hootsuite

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