The situation is ugly and tense, according to just about everyone I’m talking to, as Vision Vancouver members and candidates head towards the Sept. 20 vote for their slates. People are threatening to quit; Vision women are demanding a meeting with Vision leader Gregor Robertson; and there’s just a lot of unhappiness. What’s going on?
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Here’s the latest of the collective efforts to try to give certain groups of people a push at what is going to be a very confusing vote on Sept. 20 for Vision candidates: A lobby group urging members to vote for women.
Steven Tannock, a park-board candidate, has been promoting that idea altruistically on his [...]

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Everyone owes me a drink for this labour of something or another: The complete list of candidates. I started to compile it because I realized that I was completely losing track of all the people popping on and off the list. As well, I wanted to get a handle on just how many Vision candidates [...]

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Will you endorse me/support me/help me in any way? That seems to be the cry these days among Vancouver’s civic candidates, who are all looking for ways to get votes for their nomination meetings.
The whole issue of how to campaign is a difficult one for both sides. As both Vision and NPA candidates have told [...]

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Lots has happened on this front in the five weeks that I’ve been off, with more council (and school board and park board) candidates coming out for Vision than anyone knows what to do with. I heard there was a candidates’ meeting at mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson’s house that was so packed it was standing [...]

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