Five things we learned from Vancouver’s Amazon HQ2 proposal

Vancouver will not be home to Amazon’s HQ2, but it’s not for lack of effort. 
The Vancouver Economic Commission has released its bid to become “Amazon’s home away from home,” as the proposal states, and though the bid failed — Vancouver was not one of the 20 cities shortlisted for the online retailer’s second headquarters — it’s hard to blame the co-ordinating agency. They delivered a strong pitch.
It wasn’t without its quirks, how