For some weird reason, when I posted recently about Boy Wonder Kevin Quinlan’s ascension to the mayor’s office, my blog labelled the post as “Comments Off” and wouldn’t allow anyone to deposit any remarks. In order for Kevin’s friends and enemies to have a full and frank discussion of his capabilities, I am creating this […]

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I wish I were a more serious person, really I do. But I can only do so much politics and, since it’s midnight and I see the blog-readers and their comments are still rolling in, here’s a little taste break for all of you. So, I posted a couple of weeks ago that I was […]

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The first raft of motions from the new council just hit the decks. Enjoy your holidays, city hall staffers, because you’ll be scrambling when you get back to come up with answers and options for your new bosses. What the new council is asking for” – a staff report on options for the Burrard Street […]

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Yahoo! People are starting to get interested in civic government, as the popularity of city-oriented blogs is showing. The latest entry in the field is www.citycaucus.com, which is being developed and tested right now by local civic-politics aficionadoes Mike Klassen (who has done work for former mayor Sam Sullivan and at least one Liberal constituency […]

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For those of you who don’t scrutinize the comments section on this blog, there’s an interesting discussion going on about homelessness and solutions under one of my posts (which, oddly, had nothing to do about homelessness — the one about the Olympic village and finding the perfect mayor from a couple of days ago). It’s […]

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The city’s venerable Non-Partisan Association got quite a trouncing in the recent election, even worse, in some ways, than the one it got in 2002. Then, at least it had two councillors elected. This time, only one. As well, then, the NPA knew there was trouble ahead because people throughout the province were reacting to […]

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Links here to my Globe story on what’s up for the first week with the new Vision council (Olympic village and homelessness the big priorities), plus my Maureen Dowdish analysis of our desperate search for a datable mayor on my CTV blog

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I’m allowed to break the news this morning that Kevin Quinlan, the young man who was Vision’s mainstay staffer during the lean years and the researcher/reality-check operative during the campaign, is going to be the fourth staffer in the mayor’s office. Quinlan, who has a poli sci degree from UBC and was doing the urban […]

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It feels wrong to cover civic politics in Vancouver these days without mentioning that someone somewhere, at least once an hour, claims to have inside information that city manager Judy Rogers is going to be canned by the incoming crew. Some of the rumours seem to have originated in the city works yard and then […]

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It’s inauguration day for the new council and everyone’s preparing for it, including a couple of protesters outside city hall. One man has a sign proclaiming “I’m still looking for the leak … but all I see is a total lack of respect for the citizens of Vancouver.” Between the time I passed at 9, […]

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