If the Non-Partisan Association was hoping that a debate over changing its name would draw attention and crowds, that strategy didn’t totally work. A grand total of 42 people appeared at the Vancouver Museum last night to vote on whether to change the name to Vancouver First. (I don’t think attracting crowds was the strategy, […]
Details on the NPA’s no-name-change vote
June 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments
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No pool yet for Mount Pleasant park
June 22nd, 2010 · 31 Comments
According to this item from CKNW, it sounds like there is planning going on for the park where the Mount Pleasant pool used to sit but there doesn’t seem to be any real effort to figure out how to create a pool. From what I’ve heard from various people, the community is being told that […]
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Vancouver election brings out 86 candidates and Nude Garden Party
October 10th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Here’s the full list of candidates, all, for those of you not in direct communication with city hall. As you’ll see, it looks like it will be a relatively clean election, since there is no “Pete Ladner” or “Gregory Robertson” in there to muddy the waters. I’ll skip the boring parts (“two parties with exciting […]
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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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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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“There could be some surprises”: Vision president
September 20th, 2008 · No Comments
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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The NPA tried to entice me over, says council candidate
September 20th, 2008 · No Comments
There have been a few rumours floating around this week that the Non-Partisan Association approached several Vision candidates in previous weeks and asked them to consider switching parties, since they’d be guaranteed to get a slate spot. I tracked down everyone whose name I heard mentioned in connection with that story here today and this […]
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Green Party endorses Vision/COPE/Green municipal deal
September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s not officially out yet, but the Green Party of Vancouver unanimously endorsed the co-operation agreement among the three parties, aimed at ensuring they don’t compete with each other in civic-election campaign. The Green Party candidate for school board has even withdrawn his name, in order to abide the the letter and spirit of the […]
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The tailgate party at Vision: Part 2
September 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Just over 1,300 people had voted by 1 p.m., so the numbers are continuing to be diluted by the rain. In spite of that, there’s a fairly jolly atmosphere down here in the parking lot and streets around Tupper secondary as people stream in to vote, volunteers hold mini-tailgate parties nearby and all kinds of […]
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Vision voters turn out in the rain
September 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Here I am, back again. Sorry to all my faithful readers for the three-day absence, but I was in Washington D.C. More on that later. For the moment, here I am, straight from the airport, briefly sheltered from the rain outside Tupper secondary school in Vancouver while Vision voters come in at a steady trickle. […]
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