Yahoo, just got a call from a polling firm. Can’t believe I haven’t been contacted before, with all the polling that’s been going on in town. But today got the robo-call from Forum Research with only a key few questions. That’s the same firm that did a Canada-wide poll on mayors recently and came up […]

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What a craaazy night at St. Andrew’s-Wesley, for a night that included threats of a riot inside the church, hymn-singing, multiple requests to people to PLEASE STOP YELLING, and some actual information about what the two main candidates have to say about homelessness and affordable housing in the city. The tweetreporting by my various colleagues […]

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Gordon Campbell had to deal with a protest camp on the Vancouver Art Gallery Plaza. It took him a month to get rid of it. Then it moved to city hall. That was just one interesting historical factoid that I discovered when I looked at the city’s past history of getting injunctions to clear protest […]

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This is Survivor Civic Election like we’ve never seen before. As I’ve been saying here and there, we get to watch the politicians react to new developments every day and decide whether they’re reflecting our values. That has made this election unlike anything I can remember. Bob Ransford, who’s been watching politics for a long […]

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One was at the Bayshore. The other was at the Greek community centre. In the old days, the first fundraiser would have been the Non-Partisan Association’s, the second would have been COPE’s (except it would have been held in a community centre of some eastern European nationality). But the tables have turned and it was […]

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Newser at city hall at the tail end of a day that started with a heroin overdose at the Occupy camp. The fire chief, John McKearney, said protesters are being told they need to get rid of unoccupied tents, clear out garbage, space tents further apart, and get rid of tarps that are spread out […]

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People love to say Surrey is going to be bigger than Vancouver within 10 years. (And that all the businesses and developers are moving there, as well.) Stats nerds know that’s not true and frequently tell me so. Now, blogger Gordon Price has nicely laid out the numbers. This break from stupid election stories brought […]

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News release from the VPD makes it sound like there will be more mayhem downtown on the weekend. As I noted to the protesters who came to city council yesterday, they’re running a very large risk that their tactics will alienate many of the 99 per cent who they claim to represent. Can’t help but […]

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There was a lot of hissing and scratching at council today, but there were also some delightful moments (I got to hear about the advantages of brine over rock salt as city staff explained their winter snow-removal plan.) One of the nicer ones was the prayer from Councillor Geoff Meggs, at this administration’s last council […]

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The last council meeting of the Vision administration became the site for a round of political theatre Tuesday, after the Vision council pulled in staff to explain what’s going on down at the Occupy site. The explanations were fine, but then Vision politicians couldn’t resist driving in a nail with a jackhammer, by asking all […]

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