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A first look at some of the Non-Partisan Association candidates

May 26th, 2011 · 16 Comments

The NPA is undoubtedly going to get some new people onto Vancouver city council this November, as Vancouver voters swing away from the big Vision sweep of 2008. But which ones? While some voters will likely vote a straight NPA ticket, others I know will be looking for a mix of councillors who they judge will do the best job.

So which of the NPA candidates to pick? That will be the question. There will likely be a little more MSM information forthcoming as the campaign progresses on all of them, but, in the meantime, one energetic reporter went down to the NPA’s pub night this week and actually interviewed some of them about their burning issues. You can start gathering your information for voting here.

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  • Sandy Garossino

    What year is it again? George Affleck says he wants to reach out to the “normal guy”.

    I wonder how the NPA plans to reach out to the 51% of “normal” Vancouver voters who aren’t guys.

    As a voter, I’m still waiting for some party, any party, to be more representative. Where are the South Asian candidates? Where are the crackerjack Asian women?

  • Max

    I attended the event last night and had the pleasure of meeting many of the new candidates.

    I found Francis Wong very interesting, with obvious strong family values and strong ties to the Chinese community.

    It was a good mix, a good cross section of Vancouverites: family persons and business persons.

    Equally interesting were the people who have signed on to help support and campaing for certain candidates.

  • Dan Cooper

    Helpful link. Only so much one can put in an article like this (and of course filtered through the reporter), but I liked what Dave Pasin had to say.

  • Glissando Remmy

    The Thought of The Day

    ‘Many moons come. Many moons go… until one day, when all that you see, that belonged to our Ancestors and it is rightfully Ours… will be Theirs.’ said the Red Chief to his son The Morning Migraine , pointing towards the approaching Armadas. ‘Do you want my Son, to know what our problem is? We never sat down with our Elders, to draw a clear Immigration Policy!’

    If there would be a name for The Comedic Mind it would be called ‘Sandy Garossino’.

    Yeah, Sandy #1 what about the First Nations, Inuit, and Metis? What about them? You forgot? Nice try though.

    Whoever votes for a candidate (white, black, green, or yellow) belonging to a party (NPA, VISION, GREEN, WORK LESS…), votes in fact for a handful of friends and acquaintances, with common vested party interests, with time and resources on their hands and with a prearranged agenda in mind. You can bet on it.

    You may check, analyze, or dissect their promises and platforms all you want before the election. It’s nothing but fluff and more fluff. CH4. Methane. Gas. Cause for global warming. An exercise in futility.

    Let me put it in perspective for you. Take the past Point Grey by-election.

    39.8% Voter Turnout.

    Christy Clark of the BC Liberal Party won with 7,757 votes for, or 48.73%. David Eby of the BC NDP and… many other joints, lost with 7,193 votes or 45.19%.

    So…7,757 people from Point Grey, out of 39,995 eligible voters (that amounts to 19.4% of the popular vote), or one fifth of the eligible voters, or 1 in 5, voted in office one of the most untrustworthy woman in Vancouver, BC, a woman with a lesser credibility even than that of Penny Ballem of Vision fame.
    Meow!
    They all voted for the BC Liberals. Christy Clark could have been… Mulan, Pocahantas and Rapunzel all in one. They would have voted for regardless!

    So, now I’m asking you, Sandy, does it matter if the one you are looking for is a member of the Circus or not, when you in fact everyone is voting on a party line rooted deep in a ‘Hollyhock Emporium’ of sorts, of which you may be part of …or not?

    I’ll take a wild guess here, you are one of those ones in favor of Cantonese and Mandarin Immersion programs throughout our Public School system as well, am I right?

    Why don’t you come up with Punjabi or Tagalog for Italian Mother In-laws on your next stunt on the Petition Circuit? I don’t see them represented either!

    We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.

  • Sandy Garossino

    @ Glissando Remy–

    Now you are being a chalaque…

  • JS

    @ Sandy Garossino:

    Is that Italian for “dinosaur”?

  • Everyman

    @ Sandy Garossino #1
    Well, the NPA does have female mayoralty candidate.

    Of course Vision would have had an Asian mayoralty candidiate, had Gregor not parachuted in from his lacklustre turn as an MLA in Victoria.

  • Max

    @Everyman #7

    Forgive Sandy Garossino.

    Afterall, she hasn’t yet figured out that her choice of neon light bright lipstick is of a past era.

    I wore that color back in the 80’s.

  • Glissando Remmy

    The Thought of The Night

    ‘I was called ‘Chalant’ and ‘Nonchalant’, ‘Sherlock’ and ‘Shellac’, ‘Le Chiffre’ and ‘Chifon’, ‘Chaperone’ and ‘Saffron’, and many, many more names, but no one called me ‘Chalaque’ before.’

    I loved it, Sandy!
    ‘Now let’s go celebrate the independence of our nation by blowing up a small part of it!’ – Apu

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqfxmWbelcQ

    We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Meow, Max.

    Oh, but I doubt it was anywhere NEAR bright enuff to cover that big mouth of yours…while working Vegas? Or was it Reno?

    But, I suppose “The Chairman of the Board” dug that, just the same? Do tell…

    ‘Rat’ Pack. Indeed.

    You stay classy, Max!

    😉

  • Chris Keam

    “I wore that color back in the 80′s.”

    The 80s are back. Black leggings, big sweaters, bright neon colours, heck I saw some hipster in desert boots the other day.

  • Sandy Garossino

    You’re a good sport, Gliss!

    Tho’ it looks I’ve been taking something of a chalaquing here myself… which is fair enough.
    The NPA have put up a slate of really good people who did not deserve a broad brush criticism.

    My fashion tip of the night for us old dames (which if you are old enough you already know this, but maybe you forgot) is not to throw out any of your old stuff–wait long enough and that “past era” will be tomorrow’s next big thing. We won’t ever be young again, but being wistful is a harmless enough pastime…

  • Dan Cooper

    @naika tillikum Glissando R.:

    No no, once you throw the purple and green people into the mix, you’ve gone too far.

    http://www.buzzle.com/showImage.asp?image=20348

  • Ned

    LMAO, Glissando.
    That Homer-Apu was hilarious!
    …follow mee… 🙂
    Sandy, you are a good sport too, apparently.
    Dan Cooper @13
    “naika tillikum” I honestly don’t know what it means. Could you…?

  • Adele Chow

    Nobody knows the NPA candidates. There’s nothing there to tell the voters about. No talent; no ideas. The NPA would move Vancouver backwards. They would be Vancouver’s answer to Rob Ford of Toronto. No thank you!

  • Dan Cooper

    Ned #14:

    Hmm…I can’t google it as such either. Anyway, naika tillikum (or tillicum) means “my friend” in Chinook Jargon, not too long ago a widely spoken language throughout the region. Now, as things go, mainly only seen in remnant place names (e.g. Tillikum or Tillicum = friend, Memaloose = death or burial place, Siwash = native, Skookumchuk = fast waters…), except around Grande Ronde in Oregon.

    See: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001591