Police announced this morning that they won’t be laying any charges in connection with the Olympic village documents that went missing last fall. They say it’s partly because some councillors declined to take a polygraphy test.
As far as I can determine, that includes all the Vision councillors at the time — Raymond Louie, Tim Stevenson, [...]

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Mike Howell, the hardest-working reporter on the civic beat and someone who makes me feel tired whenever I look at the volume of stuff he produces on a weekly basis, has been keeping on top of the city hall investigation into the leaked document on the village’s finances last fall. His story is here.

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I really think there should have been a sports commentator at today’s first meeting of the new Vision-controlled council. Or several really, to handle the various rounds that ensued as council proceeded through the many motions put forward to kickstart the Vision agenda.
We could have started with one of those hushed-voice golf types for the [...]

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As I’ve written in years past, there are two big “leftie” parties in Vancouver that have a certain gravitational pull on the social scene here. The first one, usually the first weekend in December, is organized by one group and tends to bring out a few more union/standard NDP types.
The other is organized by the [...]

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The agenda for Monday’s meeting is up and the new council has put out its recommendations for who will sit on which boards and committees, which you can go through here if you’re that kind of detail-obsessed person.
Interesting things of note: Gregor and the most senior members of the Vision team are going en masse [...]

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In what seems to be a determined effort by Vision Vancouver to reprise 2002 but do it better, the team has decided to have its inaugural ceremony at Bing Thom’s beautiful new Sunset Community Centre.
For those with short memories, i.e. most of us, the winning COPE crew in 2002 decided to take government out to [...]

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Finally, some Vancouver council candidates in this year’s election got a chance to tell the public a bit about themselves on Friday when the Shaughnessy Heights Property Owners Association had their local campaign get-together. Three councillors from each party, along with the mayoral candidates, got to have a say, along with one independent who made [...]

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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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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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As I hinted yesterday, Vision Vancouver councillor George Chow is going to make a “special announcement” with Gregor Robertson tomorrow. Just got this in by carrier pigeon.

GREGOR ROBERTSON, GEORGE CHOW TO MAKE SPECIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT

(VANCOUVER) Vision Vancouver Mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson will be making a special announcement with Councillor George Chow about the [...]

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