This election has to be setting records for wild and wacky things the candidates are willing to try in order to generate noticeably scarce media coverage of the civic election. David Cadman’s YouTube “Vote Beard” video (posted earlier on this blog) is probably the prize-winner so far. David says that the viral success of this […]
The Geller and Ladner kids invite you to a party in the Downtown Eastside
November 4th, 2008 · 11 Comments
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Possibly the funniest civic-election ad ever in Vancouver history
October 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The question on my mind after watching this video: When is David Cadman’s campaign to elect only people wearing garish and bizarre ties going to start?
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Shaughnessy residents grill Ladner and the NPA
October 26th, 2008 · 17 Comments
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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Peter Ladner the most house-rich mayoral candidate
October 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
This election campaign in Vancouver is a treasure trove for research junkies, since the candidates’ full financial disclosures are listed online — sorry to all of you whose privacy feels violated. (Go to the section where the election information is kept and there’s a link in the top right to their nomination and financial-disclosure forms.) […]
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How did Tim Louis come so close to winning?
September 28th, 2008 · 11 Comments
That was the question in a lot of people’s minds when he came within six votes of being the second COPE candidate along with David Cadman. Louis’s camp had not seemed that strong two weeks ago, when there was a vote on whether to accept the deal with Vision to give that breakaway party over […]
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Tim Louis loses by a whisker
September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It took three rounds of voting to finalize the results, but in the end, David Cadman and Ellen Woodsworth, who have championed the conciliation efforts with Vision Vancouver, will be COPE’s two council candidates. Woodsworth edged out Louis by only six votes. More in a moment.
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COPE goes to runoff with Cadman, Louis in lead
September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
The 322 voters here just heard the results of the first round. No one has got the required 162 votes needed to win. David Cadman has 161. Tim Louis has 157. Ellen Woodsworth has 126. Meena Wong, 118. Terry Martin, who had 82, has now been dropped and the second round is underway.
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COPE rules for voting today
September 28th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ll be down at the Coalition of Progressive Electors meeting this afternoon to get the results of voting for their part of the slate that’s been agreed to with Vision. The toughest race and the one everyone’s watching is, of course, for the two city-council spots. At the moment, there are five people competing for […]
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COPE members overwhelmingly endorse deal
September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It wasn’t even close, which some people thought it might be. Nope, the huge majority of the 400 Coalition of Progressive Electors members voted in favour of the Vision-COPE-Green non-aggression pact. Even Tim Louis, when I talked to him afterwards, acknowledged that the vote was “strongly in favour.” So you know it’s true. We in […]
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The offical Vision-COPE non-aggression pact
September 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Here it is, the agreement reached by the two parties’ executives. The only question now is: Will the COPE members pass this at their policy meeting on Sunday (the 14th) or will there be a revolutionary movement to blow this arrangement up? I understand that COPE board member Tim Louis voted against this. FOR IMMEDIATE […]