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Vancouver mayor’s thoughts on the year: One big regret is “effing hacks”

December 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments

Yes, I suddenly disappeared for a week. Baking, hunting down obscure gifts, knitting, and conducting my own private Alfred Hitchcock film festival took precedence briefly over other activities. Won’t happen again for a while (though next week could be a bit slow).

But here is one enduring piece that I didn’t manage to post before I stepped into the time tunnel: Mayor Gregor Robertson’s thoughts on his year.

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  • Glissando Remmy

    The Thought of the Night

    “The Robertson Interview reads like the ‘Travels Of Baron Munchausen’…over a bottle.”

    And one more thing Frances…wrong title.
    The Right title:
    “Vancouver mayor’s thoughts on the year: One big regret is getting caught saying “effing hacks”
    Emphasis on…getting caught.

    Poor Baron, he would have been a mere apprentice at the Court of Vision Vancouver.

    ‘Some years before my beard announced approaching manhood, or, in other words, when I was neither man nor boy, but between both, I expressed in repeated conversations a strong desire of seeing the world, from which I was discouraged by my parents, though my father had been no inconsiderable traveller himself, as will appear before I have reached the end of my singular, and, I may add, interesting adventures.’

    So…Happy 2011!?

    We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.

  • Sean Bickerton

    The Mayor’s claim to have reduced ‘street’ homelessness is at best an admission of failure.

    While he has been successful in convincing the Province to fund temporary shelters, they’re only open during the coldest months of the year.

    As soon as the cold weather disappears, so do the Mayor’s temporary shelters, and the residents find themselves thrown out onto the streets again. Where are the programs connecting shelter residents to permanent housing?

    And if this is the Mayor’s top priority, why hasn’t his administration formed the partnerships necessary to get any new permanent social housing built?

    Incredibly, with his decision to reduce social housing at the Olympic Village, this Mayor may well oversee a net loss of social housing during his administration.

    The last administration, under Sam Sullivan, provided land, buildings, zoning, funding, a new foundation and an innovative partnership with the province to produce more than 2400 units of permanent social housing. That’s a social housing record to be proud of.

  • Bobbie Bees

    Aw, come one. I thought the F&$king NPA hacks bit was brilliant.
    I live in the west end and listening to the likes of Randy Helten running his mouth off does get a little tiring after a while.
    This guy needs to get a F&^king life.
    I’m surprised I haven’t seen Randy riding around the west end on a little donkey tilting at windmills. The guy really is a buffoon.