People have been watching carefully to see where moderates/federal Liberals who were with Vision Vancouver are going in the wake of Peter Ladner’s takeover of the Non-Partisan Association from (the more Conservative affiliated) Sam Sullivan, combined with Allan DeGenova’s subsequent resounding defeat to become a mayoral candidate for Vision.
Ian Baillie, who had previously worked with [...]

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I hear rumours that Allan DeGenova may be considering a run as an independent councillor. DeGenova has acknowledged to me over the past few weeks that it’s hard for him to contemplate the thought of not doing public service as he has for almost two decades.
But it would be hard for him to pick a [...]

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A multi-political crowd came out for a nice little evening party in Douglas Park last night to launch Sarah Blyth’s candidacy for a Vision park-board nomination, with cake out on the playing field. The DeGenova family (Allan, Wendy, Melissa) was there to support her, even though Melissa is now running for the Non-Partisan Association park-board [...]

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Skateboarder advocate Sarah Blyth is going to announce her candidacy for a Vision Vancouver park board slot tomorrow at the Douglas Park community centre. For more about Sarah and her interesting bio, go to her blog. An interesting tweak to all this is that she’s going to be intro’d by Allan DeGenova, the would-be Vision [...]

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