A few people have emailed to ask me how many school-board candidates the Non-Partisan Association is actually running. It’s a bit confusing, since the news release that went out this afternoon listed newcomer Joanne Pulis as the party’s seventh candidate. That’s in addition to veterans Clarence Hansen, Carol Gibson, and Ken Denike, along with first-timers […]
How many NPA school-board candidates?
September 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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Why one COPE member disagrees with Tim Louis
September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
At the risk of bringing a shitstorm of furious debate onto Bill Bargeman’s head, I’m posting his comments here for those who don’t think to click on the comments section: My first venture into the blogsphere: The question of whether or not COPE should run a mayoral candidate and the number of council, school and […]
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Sorting out the Vision candidates
September 12th, 2008 · No Comments
I didn’t go to the presentations this week by the Vision candidates for the three slates, but I read and heard a fair bit about them. It was a relief to have people talking about the issues, I sensed, instead of the jostling for votes and slate inclusion that has dominated for the past while. […]
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Report from Vision school candidates debate
September 10th, 2008 · 3 Comments
I wasn’t able to attend this event last night, but a couple of people have sent me a link to a summary from an audience member.
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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 […]
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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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NPA likely to vote only on park board slate
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments
I dropped by the Non-Partisan Association’s campaign-office opening tonight on Broadway, a lovely — okay, functional — spot above a row of Asian/Indian/Italian restaurants just west of Cambie. (I highly recommend Shalin Noodles, folks — hand-made noodles, excellent green beans and garlic — to carry you through those late-night strategy sessions.) All the usual suspects […]
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It’s not a rumour: Heather Holden is running for school board
August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I got a lot of response to my efforts to come up with a complete list of council, park and school board candidates for all the parties, which I posted last night (and am now correcting, thanks to all the input). Among the messages I got back, Heather Holden emailed to let me know that […]
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The COPE/Vision negotiations
August 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments
The deadline has come and gone for the possibility of having Gregor Robertson listed as a COPE/Vision mayoral candidate on the Nov. 15 ballot, something that COPE has talked about wistfully as a possibility early in the summer. And it’s not clear if the two parties are even talking about trying to have any semblance […]
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Two more not-your-usual candidates for Vision
August 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Two more candidates are apparently about to jump into the rough waters of civic politics — one of them literally. Freelance journalist Hadani Ditmars is apparently going to launch her candidacy for a Vision Vancouver park board spot tomorrow with an open water swim at Kits at 4 p.m. As well, Thomas Lockhart is also […]