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Thoughts from Mayor Sam

August 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

For those who haven’t picked up on it yet, I am doing some civic-political coverage for the Globe and Mail.
I had a story in last week with the mayor’s thoughts about his recent defeat and his future. It’s not on their website because of a technical glitch so I’ll post it here. (Sorry, I should [...]

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One more NPA council candidate; one more Vision

August 12th, 2008 · No Comments

I’ve just had it confirmed that David Lee, a retired HSBC vice-president, will be running for the NPA council slate. Lee had been considering running strongly enough that he went out with NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner to some functions on Saturday but hadn’t decided at that point. But now he’s in. Still no word [...]

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The Vancouver city council candidate count

August 11th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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