So little time, so many questions to answer for the incoming Vision team. As you can imagine, people inside and outside city hall are in a tizzy of wondering what that Vision team is going to do on any number of fronts. I couldn’t possibly go into all the permutations but here’s a brief rundown […]

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In case other readers haven’t spotted it, there’s a fascinating and thoughtful (well, mostly) discussion going on in the comments section under my post from Sunday about Kashmir Dhaliwal’s defeat. To understand the complexities of race, party and civic politics in Vancouver, go read the back and forth

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City staff hadn’t even finished counting the votes when I heard people wondering whether the Coalition of Progressive Electors, that longstanding traditional left party that Vision split away from, was now going to become the official opposition at city hall. That’s because Vision has enough councillors to carry any vote at city hall, so COPE […]

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My latest column in Vancouver magazine looks at the way cities around the world are trying to reproduce Vancouver — some of them right down to the street names and hand railings, others in a more nuanced way.

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Pete Quily did this fascinating analysis of how well Peter Ladner and Gregor Robertson campaigns did in using social media. You can read about it here. I’m supposed to be giving a talk on YouTube politics next week, which will be easy because it was so noticeable how much more people were using YouTube, Facebook, […]

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This just in from the emails at city hall, messages from both city manager Judy Rogers and Estelle Lo about the chief financial officer’s resignation. From: Lo, Estelle To: Sullivan, Sam; Anton, Suzanne; Ball, Elizabeth; Cadman, David; Capri, Kim; Chow, George; Deal, Heather; Ladner, Peter; Lee, B.C.; Louie, Raymond; Stevenson, Tim Cc: Hurford, David Sent: […]

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Many many Vision people, in the midst of celebrating last night, were talking about how disappointing it was  for them that the only one of their council candidates not to be elected was Ross Temple president Kashmir Dhaliwal. Andrea Reimer called it a “heartache” that is a sign of a submerged problem in city politics. […]

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Just got home at 3 a.m. because I’m a quitter, leaving many Visionistas behind me either dancing up a storm or analyzing the intricacies of the Olympic athletes’ village project, down at the Shark Club. (Yes, that’s where this bunch of alleged lefties repaired to after dancing til midnight at the Hotel Vancouver.) I’m not […]

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While people were wringing their hands over potentially mediocre voter turnout, Vancouver’s downtown was packed tonight! I had to drive downtown to get to CKNW for our two-hour show, where I’m now sitting with the full team of pundits and reporters. The streets were filled with people leaving the hockey game and it felt like […]

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To get straight to the CTV election results site, click here.

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