Vancouver police brought out their 2009 business plan a few weeks ago, which was unusual in the numbers it attached to some of its efforts. Among them, police set a target of increasing ticketing for bylaw infractions in the Downtown Eastside by 20 per cent, ticketing for Safe Streets Act offences by 10 per cent, [...]

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In case you haven’t seen it on the other blogs, the recount came in and there were no big shifts in the Kashmir Dhaliwal/David Eby and Ken Clement/Stepan Vdovine recounts. This note from Stepan Vdovine went out today.
STEPAN VDOVINE STATEMENT
SEPTEMBER 23
For Immediate Release
Friends, supporters:
After a recount, lasting 8 hours and ending at 1:30 am this [...]

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Vision council candidate David Eby disappeared quickly last night, after the voting results from the day showed that had, for the moment, lost to Kashmir Dhaliwal by only 17 votes for the eighth and final spot on the slate.
Since then, I’ve had any number of comments from his diehard supporters saying they can’t believe Vision [...]

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Council
3746 Raymond Louie
3704 Heather Deal
3271 Tim Stevenson
3248 George Chow
2988 Andrea Reimer
2951 Geoff Meggs
2387 Kerry Jang
2240 Kashmir Dhaliwal
2223 David Eby
2034 Heather Harrison
1717 Catherine Evans
1217 Rey Umlas
1127 Ray Lam
1094 Demitri Douzenis
1031 Vaune Adams Kobler
724 Doug Bencze
SCHOOL BOARD
2969 Sharon Gregson
2177 Mike Lombardi
2053 Patti Bacchus
1962 Ken Clement
1954 Stepan Vdovine
1881 Narinder Chhina
1846 Helesia Luke
1574 Anastasia Mirras
PARK BOARD
2602 Sarah Blyth
2242 Constance [...]

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People are dragging their exhausted butts down here to Science World, where the results of today’s vote are expected to be announced around 9. It’s pretty low-key right now, with some fairly soothing jazzy singing going on and people standing around in small groups recovering. (Hey, it’s Patsy Cline’s Crazy right now — cool.) Total [...]

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It’s still a steady stream, along with a few busloads from the Indo-Canadian community, which were welcomed with relief by some candidates and disgruntlement by others.
There had been some anxiety among those slates being supported by the Indo-Canadian community about their light appearance throughout the morning and early afternoon. Apparently there were a lot of [...]

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About 2,400 people had voted as of 20 minutes ago but no one can predict which way anything is going to go — even for high-profile current councillors. The crowd is just too hard to read at this point, with no one group dominating. It pretty much looks like the PNE (if the PNE served [...]

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Just over 1,300 people had voted by 1 p.m., so the numbers are continuing to be diluted by the rain. In spite of that, there’s a fairly jolly atmosphere down here in the parking lot and streets around Tupper secondary as people stream in to vote, volunteers hold mini-tailgate parties nearby and all kinds of [...]

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Here I am, back again. Sorry to all my faithful readers for the three-day absence, but I was in Washington D.C. More on that later. For the moment, here I am, straight from the airport, briefly sheltered from the rain outside Tupper secondary school in Vancouver while Vision voters come in at a steady trickle.
It [...]

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I didn’t go to the presentations this week by the Vision candidates for the three slates, but I read and heard a fair bit about them.
It was a relief to have people talking about the issues, I sensed, instead of the jostling for votes and slate inclusion that has dominated for the past while. But [...]

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