@Michael Geller #48
I like your suggestions. Also, since y9u were touting Chicago (incredible city), how do we get developers to do more interesting architecture in Vancouver (our city is embarassingly lacking in interesting architecture) and how do we get developers to support public art on their developments, as they do in Chicago?

Mira, honey, sorry for not including you with the others but you are truly in a category of your own as your racist postings on the What is a true Vancouverite demonstrate.
I would not want to tarnish the others reputations (such as they are) by including someone like you with them.

It was very nice to walk passed the old Pantages theatre site last night and see the new slum lord in town finally cleaned up his pile of rubble. At least that pile of crap is gone. I hope he took his rats home with him.

I classify Mr. Williams as a slum lord because he left HIS property full of garbage for well over a year. He allowed rats to live on HIS property and in turn those rats went over to the Sahota slum lord’s building, the Regent Hotel……..He is a slum lord. You say it’s unfair of me to characterize him this way but what he did to the residents was unfair. What city hall did to the residents was unfair. If that was Kerrisdale or Coal Harbour, that site would have been cleaned up within the week. I’m sorry, you can’t change my mind on this one. Mr. Williams lost me as a potential buyer for any and all of his properties. I agree with your comment about the poverty pimps. I’m not one of them, FYI.

Dirt is green. Get used to it.

Speaking of garbage and the DTES, what’s up with the sidewalks and streets down there? They’re so dusty and full of CRAP, CRAP, I say! I’d hate to say it but we need some more rain to wash that crap away! Where’s the city crews for the DTE$?

CRAP!

One-, I say one-dimensional??? I can’t help it. I AM a cartoon figure.

F.H. Leghorn:

Well played, sir!

“no wonder that the former City caucus heckler have become the Frances Bula’s gate keeper!”
Noticed that, TerryM! What’s new?
“What now Frances? deleting posts?”
BTW, you talking about post#41 or $42?

Foghorn, leghorn, I did not ask for your post to be removed so I fail to see how I cannot take it. At the same time, I cannot say that I am displeased that it is gone. It had no claim to humour, just to a sick and disgusting mind.
Terry M, you seem to believe that this site is reserved for the rabid looney right, the refugees from City Caucus. Hate to tell you, but just judging by the last vote, there are more of us of the political persuasion that you hate.
And Terry M, would you care to show me where my “namecalling” is the qualitative equivalent of the spewings of Foghorn Leghornor his ilk.
And talk about a scary thought police, the rabid right seems to police back on any thread to notice a deleted post.
Actually I thought it was one of you (Foghorn Leghorn, Michelle, Terry M on Tuesday on the Bill Good Show when a female caller said the city paid for 30 people to go to the Olympics on a trade mission. When Bula pointed out that it was 7, the woman said she didn’t believe her. It certainly sounded like something a City Caucus refugee “don’t bother me with facts” brigage would say or think.

@West End Gil
Just like annoying pesky mosquitoes, the looney right is all in a dither because the sick posting of one of their number was deleted. Like mosquitoes, they are definitely annoying but ultimately of no consequence.
Gil, your post doesn’t even make sense but what else is new.

Its kind of funny waltsyss rants about CityCaucus refugees, when he was posting there first. On the other hand its completely possible he has an advanced degree in sock puppetry.

London! I hate spell check on my ipad

teririch #79

It was interesting to see the tweets that came out of that trip. It was an exercise in trying to justify why they were there.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Vancouver+spend+send+seven+including+mayor+Olympics+lure+London+investors/7026198/story.html

@Silly Season #81:

I would hope that the MSM does attempt to disect the costs, but then, you have to also hope that they don’t get one of those ‘sanitized’ versions from the CoV – you know, the ones where the big black marker is used to ‘black out’ anything they don’t want the little people to see.

Teririch… you are missing something – Robertson is not the mayor – Magee is.

Well, Ned, be still your beating heart, you can read what I have to say.
Reading you guys (the haters of the rabid looney right) is entertaining in that one of you makes something up and then the others run with it as fact and build it into something totally unrelated to anything else except your nut wing hatemongering.
Let me explain:
If one looks on the VEC site or any news articles about the issue, it has always put forward as $100,000 for 7 , people funded by the City of Vancouver to go.
@Julia (acknowledged Vision hater and technophobe) says at post #77 that [she] “recalls” that was for 3-4 people and then through a perversion of deductive reasoning suggests the cost was much more. No evidence, just a “recollection” that magically becomes a conclusion.
Not to be outdone, @teririch, another Vision hater and acknowledged oiland mining industry apologist simplistically divides $100,000 by 7 and asserts that if she were to claim that for going out and apologizing for gas and oil, she would be shot.
Of course, neither I nor she knows what the claim is made up of. It is possible, but unlikely that she is right. We know the Mayor, City Manager and the Mayor’s chief of staff were there for 3 days while VEC people were there longer. We do not know what the $100,000 was comprised of and whether it includes payment for displays, rental space or just plane fares, lodging and meals for 7 people.
From the articles, we are told that the Mayor and his Chief of Staff shared a room. We are told from the article that $10,000 of the $100,000 was contributed by the Mayor’s office budget so we could just as easily conclude that the Mayor, his Chief of Staff and even possibly the City Manager attended for a total cost of $10,000, which anyone who knows anything about international travel at this level would consider a bargain. Having senior elected officials there is good for selling the business whether the mayor or premier’s political persuasion [And by the way, I did not hear you haters beating yourselves into a froth over the premier’s trip, even though she is clearly unqualified for anything weightier than a soundbite, but that’s another topic)
I am not saying that it is what the $100,000 reperesents, my point is simply neither I nor you haters know; however, you haters are prepared to speculate and make things up and then beat yourselves into a self righteous indignation screaming as though your speculation is fact.
teririch then, well accustomed to making things up as an oil industry apologist, assserts that we will get a sanitized version of any expenses under FOI. Again, I know real information is pointless and is not the object of the exercise, but section 22 (4)(h) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act makes it clear that “expenses incurred by the third party while travelling at the expense of a public body” which is to say the expenses of the Mayor, his Chief of Staff, or the City Manager travelling at City expense are not exempt from disclosure under FOIPPA. Again, I know that making such an application would make your lips sore and would wear out your crayons. My point is simply that the actual information (not the made up stuff) is there if you really want it.
I appreciate that the object of the exercise is to spew your bile and to sling mud, not to debate at to whether the trip was a useful use of the taxpayers’ money, wouldn’t a few facts help?
I appreciate that fairness has no place in it, but most fairminded people who know anything about travel particularly long distance travel, would not consider a three day round trip across 8 time zones to be a desirable “junket”; they would consider it work and even nightmarish.
However, this is pointless because the point of your bilge is not honest debate or facts, it is to spew hate. I get it; i really too. I am simply baying at the moon for being what it is.
And Ned, like the rest of your ilk, you are wrong. I am not the Mayor, I am the Walrus. and it is not kaching, but koo koo ka choo.

@waltyss #86″

Ahhh, still clinging onto you need for me to be involved with oil and gas, and as I have stated numerous times, I am attached to neither. I am not employed by now, nor have worked for that industry in the past, nor have any investment in.

But, by your reasoning, if someone states that an article on the industry is ‘balanced’ then automatically that person is employed by oil/gas.

Talk about a hater – turn that mirror on yourself.

That is all you spew.

And it is boring.

@teririch: I know that actually reading something in the English language is difficult for you. But let me try. I never said that you worked for the oil and gas industry; I said you were an apologist for them. I stand by that.
@Mira, sorry, but debating with racists is pointless and so I have nothing to say to you.

@Mira#90: Nothing wrong with Armani suits. I own three.

Heh heh heh. Just LOVED reading that list of companies the vec represents. Also LOVED the part regarding the high commissioner…picturing him and Gregor rubbing elbows (let’s go for a three-peat!) Is unsurprising to say the least. Regarding garbages; let’s be realistic about them, not idealistic. I visited the Olympic village, finally. I wanted to dislike it, but….i couldn’t. At twelve thirty at night no one else is around. I thought, here’s where all the public art is! Dog poops… No walking around for ages trying to finda garbage before stuffing it (ew) into a locked dumpster (sorry!), nope, they have big belly solar powered trash compacting garbage cans here, within eyesight at all times, pretty lights, little bridges, how easy it must be to live,walk and bike around this well lit, presentation center style village, look over at the viaducts and think…ew. Those are really ugly, it’s ruining my view, and my property value and…..UGH…are those weeds?? This is unacceptable! Weeds! In our village! Our habitat if you will…we’re doing OUR part, why can’t they??

Meanwhile…..small garbage cans disappear from bus stops around the city. The message seems to be…take your garbage on the bus with you. Hold it in your hand, or your pocket or purse, then hope you find one when you get off. It’s all part of making transit more appealing, of course, adding a little garbage to the picture seems delightfully apt. (given the general cleanliness of buses) geniuses also removed for a. time the containers that the garbage goes into so it was piled up in cages on the east side, spilling into the street. I’ve mentioned before that some areas i walk at night seem to be crazy dark..is it the streetlights, or an increase in the dead silence and darkness of unoccupied homes?
My last observation: those reflective bumps on the road serve a purpose, so when visibility is poor, one can still see what lane they are in. Newly installed on prior….six inches away from the line? Am i the only one who is irritated by this? It’s the yellow line, and it’s at it’s worst where the road s curves and people already take liberties with opposing traffic. Is there something i am missing here?