Aha, the Visionistas have decided to strategically give out their latest poll on Gregor Robertson’s popularity. The highlights here in the Vancouver Sun. Would have been nice to see all of the questions in the poll — maybe a PDF? I’ll let all of you do the analysis.

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This memo concerning Robin Adair went out yesterday at city hall, which didn’t come as much of a surprise to me. I’d heard a rumbling a couple of weeks ago that things were not going well in the last while. They’d started out rosy but something happened in the last while. Although I know Vision […]

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People are unhappy when their parks get closed. We heard about it with Oppenheimer Park last year (now opened with grand new design) and now we’re hearing it a Grandview Park. Here’s the news release from one group. Not sure what the counter-arguments are from others in the area, but perhaps posters can enlighten us […]

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There isn’t a growing community in North America that isn’t at least a little bit concerned about how to create lower-cost housing and how to create denser communities with less environmental impact. Even so, it will probably surprise some to hear that West Van is one of those communities. The city has negotiated with British […]

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As I noted in a previous post, I’m living the hard life in the backwoods of Oahu. I didn’t realize how hard until I discovered that I had left my only novel behind at my hotel the first night and was trapped in the wilderness without anything to read. I’d frankly rather go without water […]

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The big push to sell the remaining 500 Olympic village condos starts this Saturday. As I noted previously, the city’s financial statement for last year says the city is hoping to see $200 million in deposits come in from these condo sales. In the meantime, CBC has a story about one disgruntled condo buyer there […]

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I wasn’t at the day cruise/TransLink AGM (see previous post) but others were. Here are the reports from two pretty dedicated TransLink watchers, Frank Luba at the Province and Vancouver city councillor Geoff Meggs.

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Here I am surrounded by all the usual problems. The city is strapped for money and is proposing that all city employees take unpaid vacation one day out of every two weeks. The schools are also struggling and have been scheduling unpaid days off as well for teachers. Affordable housing is desperately needed but a […]

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My colleague (and, I note, fellow why-don’t-we-read-lists-of-corporate-donations-in-our-free-time type person) Sean Holman put up this thoughtful post today, thinking aloud about the ways that corporations and unions will be able to get around any new limits on political donations. I do tend to agree with one of his posters, that it’s very unlikely that a company […]

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The social season seems to be in full swing. These two notices here today.  MEETING NUMBER ONE: VPD PUBLIC FORUM   The Vancouver Police Department is inviting the public and the media  to an open community forum to explain and discuss the VPD’s planned move this fall  to the Vanoc building at 3585 Graveley.   […]

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