The Work

The North Shore with Jeremy Cato

Four years of digging into North Vancouver, in plain language. Free and open — no ticket, no paywall.

For four years I've investigated North Vancouver's biggest decisions.

More than 170,000 and counting have watched these videos.

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I have been doing this work because I care deeply about our community. There is a great need to tell our stories and storytelling is a skill I’ve spent a career developing.

Featured: Housing

What CNV built — and what it could have built.

A fair, fact-based look at the Timberline / Neighbourhood House redevelopment: what “below-market” really means, the true public value committed, and how a diversified strategy could have reached thousands more residents.

The Videos

Read Deeper

For the full arguments and the numbers behind them, I write longer pieces — like my work on the Parks and Public Space Plan and on the City’s debt.

A Substack sample: Here's what comes up every day in conversations across this city: what about traffic?

The daily gridlock keeps getting worse. Part of that is growth, and growth is not necessarily a bad thing by itself — but we've added tens of thousands of people to a North Shore served by the same two bridges we had in 1960.

The other part is what people see happening to the roads themselves, and much of it is set out in the City of North Vancouver's Parks and Public Space Plan…

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