If you want to get a sense of what Vision Vancouver is evolving into, note that the party just chose Ian Baillie as its new executive director over, I’m told, Stephen Learey. Baillie, one-time assistant to Liberal MP Sophia Leung, has worked on various federal Liberal Party campaigns and became the communications chair for the […]

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Sorry for the skimpy posts this week, but I had some big projects on the go and was hunkered down working on them. However, I have transported myself to another city, so reports to come on that.

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I wasn’t quite sure what the procedure would have to be on this, so I checked and, yes, the casino being planned for BC Place, even if it’s just transferring over from Edgewater, will have to be approved by council after public hearings and a rezoning. It will be interesting to see how much public […]

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I’ve been staying out of the whole complicated issue of what is behind the termination of Vancouver’s chief electrical officer Ark Tsisserev just before the Olympics. These kinds of stories, where neither side is willing to speak publicly or clearly about what is going on, are problematic to wade into, as there are often all […]

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In the always interesting case of the plans for Northeast False Creek — that chunk of territory between BC Place and Science World, owned by four heavy hitters in the development world — there has been persistent talk of the current casino at the Plaza of Nations moving over to a new complex attached to […]

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Talking to all the parties involved in trying to resolve TransLink’s financial mess is starting to remind me of sitting at the dinner table every night with your about-to-divorce parents. They keep insisting everything is fine and they’re having long constructive talks about some differences they’ve been having. But then you overhear them exchanging bitter […]

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I’ve been hearing about Tom Timm’s impending retirement for a year, one of the names that kept popping up on the list of “people most likely to get fed up and quit after Vision and Penny Ballem took over.” Then I also heard that he’d been saying even before that he was only going to […]

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The city just sent out a memo saying it has added more to its list of “open” data sources available to the geek-prone public. Here’s the site for what’s available: http://data.vancouver.ca/

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Here’s a news item that will cheer up some on this site: B.C. continues to lead the way, even in post-Games euphoria, in disapproving of hosting the Olympics.

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The Vancouver Art Gallery’s efforts to move to a new site, with a landmark building double the size of where it is now, are going to be a fascinating show of its own in the next few months. This is one of those epic stories that happen to cities only every so often, as one […]

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