People keep sending me this change to the Riley Park community centre bylaws, which I note, among other things, will require anyone elected to the board to be approved by the other directors. Not sure how that will work. Anyway, lots of buzz about this. RILEYPARKAMENDMENTS  

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It really takes a full-time national reporter to stay on top of the bike-share thing, with all the various news events. Among them in the past month: – Montreal got four offers for the international arm of Bixi recently, but decided none were good enough. – The City of Montreal will provide enough money ($4.3 […]

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Housing and service groups in Vancouver have been facing a tough question from the public, ever since an audit released three weeks ago showed that PHS Community Services was spending its money in all kinds of unexpected ways. That question: How do we know you are any more trustworthy? After all, many people would think, […]

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All of us who care about politics in the city are waiting to see which of the potential Vision challengers will mount the most effective, publicly appealing option for those wishing to park their votes somewhere besides with the ruling party. The two parties on what some would describe as the left were in action […]

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Developer Ian Gillespie is much in the news these days. He launched his Gesamtkunstwerk exhibit a week ago as part of the build-up to Vancouver House, the Bjarke Ingels-designed tower that will be blooming flower-like (thin stalk, showy bee-attracting thing on top) next to the Granville Bridge. Here’s a recent feature I did on him […]

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Okay, we all needed a break from the heavy stuff of the week. Here it is, the saga of the horse-and-carriage terminal at Stanley Park. Please excuse the terrible pun in the headline, but it was irresistible. (Thank you, Stan Dellarocca at the Globe’s editing desk, for the suggestion.)

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A lot of different octopus legs to follow on this PHS story. Here’s mine for today, a look at what got the province interested in examining the PHS books more closely — deficits caused, in part, by subsidies to the organization’s many social enterprises and its real-estate ventures, which were aimed at acquiring bits of […]

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I’ve received this now from a few people so, since people are so anxious to pass it on, here you are. Sent to all PHS from Faye Wightman > Good morning everyone, >   > As Chair of the interim Board of Directors for PHS, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all staff […]

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Apparently people don’t have all the names yet. Here they are. Interesting to see there Ida Goodreau, the former president of Vancouver Coastal Health, who was very supportive of PHS in her time there, and Jim O’Dea, a PHS board member in the early days who was appointed by the NDP to be head of […]

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There’s so much to ponder in the audit reports on PHS Community Services, but one paragraph that stood out for me was the response from board members when asked if they knew and approved of the fact that the top five managers were making far more than their contracts stipulated. The salaries for those five […]

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