The judgment came down in the lawsuit between Downtown Eastside Residents Association guy Kim Kerr and former councillor Peter Ladner over Peter’s claim that Kim had made a threatening remark about Elizabeth Ball. I won’t repeat all the details — they’re here in the lawsuit, which you can read here.
Judge believes Elizabeth Ball, B.C. Lee — not Kim Kerr
March 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments
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NPA spends $1.3 million or so; Vision Vancouver rumoured $1.5
March 10th, 2009 · 9 Comments
That most exciting point in the three-year cycle of any civic reporter approaches, as the deadline for disclosing campaign finance donations for all candidates and parties in the last fall’s election draws nigh. I know that the folks at Beyond Robson will mock me again for beating them repeatedly with long lists of numbers, but […]
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Many fresh faces on new NPA executive
February 26th, 2009 · 3 Comments
This post is a little belated, since NPA types told me early last week that a new executive was going to be chosen and on Thursday, just on schedule, the list of new names came out, which you can read, along with new president Michael Davis’s message, here. It’s interesting that the new executive is […]
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Police still on the trail of The Missing Olympic Village Document
February 24th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Mike Howell, the hardest-working reporter on the civic beat and someone who makes me feel tired whenever I look at the volume of stuff he produces on a weekly basis, has been keeping on top of the city hall investigation into the leaked document on the village’s finances last fall. His story is here.
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Pennsylvania Hotel opens supportive housing
January 8th, 2009 · 5 Comments
It was quite the party scene in the Downtown Eastside today, as the Who’s Who of the neighbourhood and the province’s social-housing mafia gathered on Carrall Street to celebrate the opening of the new Pennsylvania Hotel with 44 housing units. Much oohing and ahing over the lovely new rooms, refurbished lobby and the restored ancient […]
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The Mayor Sam Sullivan non-roast roast
December 2nd, 2008 · 9 Comments
It was a strange event, befitting a strange term of government. And the tribute to Mayor Sam Sullivan, attended by about 400 in a banquet room at the Westin Bayshore, also felt kind of sad. Although several people said many nice things about Sam, mostly about his personal courage in overcoming his disability, the ashes […]
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What good will a city inquiry into the leak do?
November 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments
I called up my various friends and acquaintances who work in investigative reporting across the land, as well as checking with some local media lawyers on this issue. I’ve posted the good bits from what I found on my CTV blog here.
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Social media rankings for the candidates
November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Pete Quily did this fascinating analysis of how well Peter Ladner and Gregor Robertson campaigns did in using social media. You can read about it here. I’m supposed to be giving a talk on YouTube politics next week, which will be easy because it was so noticeable how much more people were using YouTube, Facebook, […]
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Who will the winners be? The campaign organizers say this
November 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I talked to a couple of people from both campaigns mid-morning and this is what they had to say. Vision will win. Early this morning, the NPA was hoping to hang on to at least two council seats — Suzanne Anton the likeliest survivor, Kim Capri and Michael Geller shortly behind. “I’d be ecstatic if […]
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Mid-day from the Vancouver civic election
November 15th, 2008 · 4 Comments
It’s a lovely, rain-free day, warm enough for people to walk around with light jackets. That’s good news for voter turnout here, which is always seen as a crucial element in who wins. Last time, 132,000 people voted. In 2002, it was about 140,000 — a high that hadn’t been seen since the 1980s. What’s […]
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