The Christmas party season kicked off last night with a bang. I was invited to, ran into or heard about six Christmas parties just in my own circle — everyone trying to get a jump on the main Christmas season, I guess. One of the more amusing double-events of the night was the B.C. Federation […]

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In my ongoing efforts to make sure everyone knows where everyone is on the chess board, I am pleased to inform you all that Ian Baillie is moving on from media-wrangling at the Vision campaign to being B.C. manager for the Bob Rae campaign for the Liberal leadership. This ought to help with the ongoing […]

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I’ve heard some people fretting that the province may be stalling on construction of all its fancy new social housing projects, specifically the 12 fast-tracked ones in Vancouver. But, au contraire, it seems as though they’re just working out a better deal. As the construction industry crashes in B.C., it’s not all bleak news, it […]

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Someone sent me a link to this New York Times article extolling the virtues of Vancouver as a second-home base for non-Canadians. Hmm, I guess the world economy isn’t dead yet. And how nice to see this early indication of the Olympics sell.

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The agenda for Monday’s meeting is up and the new council has put out its recommendations for who will sit on which boards and committees, which you can go through here if you’re that kind of detail-obsessed person. Interesting things of note: Gregor and the most senior members of the Vision team are going en […]

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The gorgeous new Peter Busby-designed building at Broadway and Cambie is nearing completion, with London Drugs already in one portion of the street-level space and Whole Foods due to move in first (thereby guaranteeing that the last of our disposable income will disappear in short order). Lululemon was supposed to be moving its headquarters into […]

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This just in from city hall, folks, as leaks continue to sprout at city hall. (For those who don’t realize the intricacies, the Globe’s Saturday story about chief financial officer Estelle Lo’s severance pay was information that came from, yes, yet another in-camera meeting. I’m beginning to wonder when we’re all just going to get […]

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It’s always so thrilling for us media types to find out who the new administration is going to bring in as support staff. The only thing that’s possibly more fun is looking at poll-by-poll data of elections going back 30 years. Anyway, Gregor Robertson’s team seems to be unusually reluctant to make any permanent appointments […]

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The wheels are starting to turn with Vision Vancouver’s big homelessness plan. As part of that, mayor-to-be Gregor Robertson, Councillor Raymond Louie and Housing Minister Rich Coleman had a meeting on the weekend to talk about what’s possible and what’s not. You can read my Globe story here.

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One of my alert readers noticed this little story up on the Vancouver Sun website this afternoon, about the city suing an engineering firm connected with the Olympic village construction. I should point out that the lawsuit is over a part of the project that is the city’s responsibility, nothing to do with Millennium. The […]

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