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Internal war breaks out among Vision candidates

September 8th, 2008 · 10 Comments

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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The master list of would-be candidates for the Vancouver civic election

August 27th, 2008 · 9 Comments

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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A Vision candidate gets support from DeGenova

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: 2008 Vancouver Civic Election