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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Many many Vision people, in the midst of celebrating last night, were talking about how disappointing it was  for them that the only one of their council candidates not to be elected was Ross Temple president Kashmir Dhaliwal.
Andrea Reimer called it a “heartache” that is a sign of a submerged problem in city politics. Mike [...]

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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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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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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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This is today’s headline grabber from the Vision Team of Three — a catchy one, considering how popular the car-free days have become since they were started on Commercial Drive in 2005 by locals Matt Hern and Carmen Mills.
Vancouver, BC – Andrea Reimer, Kerry Jang and Kashmir Dhaliwal joined forces today to call for a [...]

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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?
1. [...]

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