It was the Non-Partisan Association’s annual fundraising dinner tonight, even though that fact went unrecorded by all media but me as far as I can tell. Time was it was a routine item for coverage. (Remember three years ago when Sam Sullivan apologized to the banquet crowd for his misjudgment in letting a drug user […]

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Those of you passionately interested in this story may have found it already in print or online, but for those of you who didn’t, here’s my follow-up story on the Southeast False Creek/Millennium/Olympic village story that was in the Globe and Mail.

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It’s faded out of the news now, but the downtown district around BC Place and GM Place is still going through intense talks as the four property owners and city staff talk about what that new neighbourhood is going to look like. If you’ll recall, it burst into the headlines in the spring, when Premier […]

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There has been a lot of excitement around town over what appears to be trouble with the Millennium project to build the Olympic athletes’ village at Southeast False Creek and it’s hard to sort out good information from bad because there are so many people with powerful agendas piling on. The Olympics critics are happy […]

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My longtime colleague Gary Mason had a story today in the Globe and Mail about financing troubles for the developer building the $1-billion Olympic athletes’ village. It set the political circles here into a tizzy, since clearly this could become an election issue. I’ll have a follow-up story tomorrow, after talking to developer Shahram Malek […]

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The city’s civic parties aren’t spending a lot of money on advertising at the moment — not much point when all the noise of the federal election is going on. “We can barely get the attention of the local media,” NPA campaign manager Paul Wilson told me. “There’s a lot of clutter out there. It […]

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It’s hard to believe some people chose to go to a hockey game tonight when they could have been sitting with all of us at the Vancouver Public Library talking about municipal policy. A loss for them of 90 minutes of action-packed excitement, but fun for the 300 or so of us there. Okay, kidding […]

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It’s been somewhat quiet the last couple of weeks as everyone recovers from various nomination meetings and candidates do their background work to prepare for the all-out campaign. The first public debate between the Non-Partisan Association’s Peter Ladner and Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson is tonight, 7:30, at the Vancouver Public Library. Sponsored by Langara College, […]

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I know I’m just asking to be flamed by posting this but I’m going to go ahead anyway and ask if it’s possible for the cyclists in town to not treat car drivers as though they are evil incarnate. I’m a nice person (except when I’m tired and overworked, but we won’t get into that). […]

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I didn’t have a chance to go to the laneway-housing public open houses last week (and from the sound of it, a lot of people on council didn’t either because they were recovering from Vision meetings or up at the UBCM in Penticton or whatever). But I got a report on the two meetings that […]

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