The deadline for signing up Non-Partisan Association members is tonight at midnight (ignore the time stamp on this post, it’s wrong and not midnight yet by my clock). For COPE members, it’s Thursday. And for Vision, it’s a week from today. So, while not achieving the frenzy of the sign-ups for mayoral races in May, […]

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Okay, this is totally frivolous but I just had to pass it on. A friend of mine was on the ferry to Mayne Island on the weekend when a voice came over the public address system: “Will the person who is smoking the illegal substance near the air-intake system please stop. Tourists are complaining about […]

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There’s a fascinating historical account by local historian Lani Russwurm on drugs and the Downtown Eastside at the Tyee today. Russworm has dug up some great old material from past decades, including the supposedly golden pre-drug era of the 40s,, 50s, and 60s, about people wringing their hands over the drug problem in Vancouver and […]

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Skateboarder advocate Sarah Blyth is going to announce her candidacy for a Vision Vancouver park board slot tomorrow at the Douglas Park community centre. For more about Sarah and her interesting bio, go to her blog. An interesting tweak to all this is that she’s going to be intro’d by Allan DeGenova, the would-be Vision […]

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For those who haven’t picked up on it yet, I am doing some civic-political coverage for the Globe and Mail. I had a story in last week with the mayor’s thoughts about his recent defeat and his future. It’s not on their website because of a technical glitch so I’ll post it here. (Sorry, I […]

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I’ve just had it confirmed that David Lee, a retired HSBC vice-president, will be running for the NPA council slate. Lee had been considering running strongly enough that he went out with NPA mayoral candidate Peter Ladner to some functions on Saturday but hadn’t decided at that point. But now he’s in. Still no word […]

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Lots has happened on this front in the five weeks that I’ve been off, with more council (and school board and park board) candidates coming out for Vision than anyone knows what to do with. I heard there was a candidates’ meeting at mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson’s house that was so packed it was standing […]

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In the last episode of this ongoing story, I had given all of you the history of the mythical 18,000 empty condos in Vancouver — a factoid that keeps going around and around. (A blog reader pointed out to me that COPE Coun. David Cadman, as reported at a recent meeting, even said the 18,000 […]

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