There’s five minutes left to vote here and the place has started to feel lively after all. Clearly, more people showed up than even the NPA expected, since the sandwiches and desserts ordered for lunch were scarfed up instantly, leaving some people with nothing but empty plates. It seems more like about 400-500 people have […]

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The last time I and my little media buddies were at the Croatian Cultural Centre was June 15, when thousands of people lined up to vote for a Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate. It’s not quite the same scene this morning. The parking lot here is full, but partly because there’s a computer swap, a Kumon […]

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I posted last night that I was wondering if the Non-Partisan Association would bring its 10th candidate up to scratch by this morning. They did, but not the retired police officer I’d been hearing rumours about. Instead, we got the news as we came into the NPA nomination meeting this morning that the the new […]

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My new, non-Vancouver Sun blog has been up for a month now and I’ve had just over 20,000 visits/hits/page views/whatever in that time, which is quite a testament to the passion of civic-politics junkies to read something, anything even in the dead heat of summer. But one disturbing thing I’m noticing. My webalizer stats give […]

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The Non-Partisan Association is heading into its nomination/acclamation meeting tomorrow with one spot still open on the council slate and three on school board. It will be interesting to see whether any of those spots are filled by tomorrow morning. I’ve heard that a certain retired police officer is being heavily courted to run in […]

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I didn’t go to the presentations this week by the Vision candidates for the three slates, but I read and heard a fair bit about them. It was a relief to have people talking about the issues, I sensed, instead of the jostling for votes and slate inclusion that has dominated for the past while. […]

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I hear there’s quite a debate going on about how much prominence to give the EcoDensity initiative — something that is closely associated with outgoing Mayor Sam Sullivan — in the NPA campaign. The brand name and initiative often attract notice and admiration from cities elsewhere, with their focus on efforts to make environmental concerns […]

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For those of you who don’t have “Tim Louis” and “YouTube” on Google Alert, here’s a link to Tim’s argument for voting no against the proposed agreement on splitting the slate spots among Vision, COPE and Green for the Nov. 15 civic election. Essentially, he’s saying he’s not against an agreement but that this is […]

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I wasn’t able to attend this event last night, but a couple of people have sent me a link to a summary from an audience member.

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In case anyone had any doubts, The Tyee has extensive quotes from Tim Louis about how and why he’s going to try to negate the “co-operative agreement” that the parties have reached on slate-splitting. The interesting part of this news is the way Louis identifies what is the almost the only issue that the two […]

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