The Non-Partisan Association council is going to announce imminently that it will put the $20 milliion for a new Trout Lake community centre back into the capital plan for 2009-2011. That’s coming as a great relief to community centre presidents, who got alarmed when all money for community centres got dropped from the capital plan […]

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Here it is, the agreement reached by the two parties’ executives. The only question now is: Will the COPE members pass this at their policy meeting on Sunday (the 14th) or will there be a revolutionary movement to blow this arrangement up? I understand that COPE board member Tim Louis voted against this. FOR IMMEDIATE […]

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This is today’s headline grabber from the Vision Team of Three — a catchy one, considering how popular the car-free days have become since they were started on Commercial Drive in 2005 by locals Matt Hern and Carmen Mills. Vancouver, BC – Andrea Reimer, Kerry Jang and Kashmir Dhaliwal joined forces today to call for […]

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Andrew Dewberry, the man who became famous across the country for his fight with the city over a treehouse he built, showed up on Friday afternoon and threw his name in the ring to try to get on the Vision Vancouver council slate. That makes him number 17 in the very competitive race that is […]

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The situation is ugly and tense, according to just about everyone I’m talking to, as Vision Vancouver members and candidates head towards the Sept. 20 vote for their slates. People are threatening to quit; Vision women are demanding a meeting with Vision leader Gregor Robertson; and there’s just a lot of unhappiness. What’s going on? […]

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I’m not really trying to be the Mount Pleasant Daily Gleaner here, but it is my neighbourhood — and the neighbourhood of the 2010 Olympics, I’ll thank you to remember — so I am compelled to report the latest cool thing here. Which is: The arrival of Les Faux Bourgeois at the corner of Fraser […]

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Here’s the latest of the collective efforts to try to give certain groups of people a push at what is going to be a very confusing vote on Sept. 20 for Vision candidates: A lobby group urging members to vote for women. Steven Tannock, a park-board candidate, has been promoting that idea altruistically on his […]

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My updated list of city council, school board, and park-board candidates now appears as a permanent feature on the left side of this blog page. To forestall the usual critics, please note that I have not listed any independent candidates for mayor because I do not have any candidates for mayor listed, even from the […]

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People have been watching carefully to see where moderates/federal Liberals who were with Vision Vancouver are going in the wake of Peter Ladner’s takeover of the Non-Partisan Association from (the more Conservative affiliated) Sam Sullivan, combined with Allan DeGenova’s subsequent resounding defeat to become a mayoral candidate for Vision. Ian Baillie, who had previously worked […]

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I dropped by the Non-Partisan Association’s campaign-office opening tonight on Broadway, a lovely — okay, functional — spot above a row of Asian/Indian/Italian restaurants just west of Cambie. (I highly recommend Shalin Noodles, folks — hand-made noodles, excellent green beans and garlic — to carry you through those late-night strategy sessions.) All the usual suspects […]

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