At the risk of setting off a 350-comment mudfight, I feel obliged to note that there are a couple of picnics on today that seem destined to inspire people to party where their politics are. The pro-bikeway/greenway Point Grey Road festivities are outlined here: http://vancouverpublicspace.ca/dev/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/poster-map.jpg The Save Hadden Park, triumph over the bike lane, group […]

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At least there’s a chance that these readers won’t be staying around forever. VANCOUVER, BC (July 2, 2014): The results are in: Vancouver is officially Canada’s top travel destination, according to readers of prestigious travel magazine Travel + Leisure. Travel + Leisure’s annual World’s Best Awards survey asks readers to evaluate cities on five characteristics: […]

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Mayors decided yesterday that holding it at the same time as the November election is just too early and would likely sideline a crucial group of voters — university and college students. Story here.

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It is going to be a crazy election fight this year in Surrey if Barinder Rasode keeps going with her bid for mayor. She has got some heavyweights with her, including Mark Marissen (very experienced hand at rounding up the Indo vote for the federal Liberals), Jatinder Rai and, I hear, a veteran Conservative campaigner […]

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Oh dear. Things not going well. Here’s the notice from one of the members Riley Park Hillcrest Community Association Extraordinary General Meeting 7 pm June 26 Hillcrest Centre Room 328 Agenda: Special Resolution 1: Removal of current Board of Directors from office for cause: • No financial statements issued since 2012 AGM • No minutes […]

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I dropped by the voting and the announcement yesterday of the winner’s in Vision Vancouver’s run-off for park-board and school-board candidates on this fall’s slate. Obviously, Vision is touting this as a huge sign of democracy in action, with 1,650 voters out, and critics seeing it as a triumph of slate voting for a group […]

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Another NPA board meeting, another raft of news Vancouver, B.C. (June 17, 2014) – The NPA Vancouver Board of Directors has voted to support the recent expulsion of school trustees Ken Denike and Sophia Woo from the NPA Caucus. The Board also decided that Denike and Woo will not receive the party’s endorsement as candidates […]

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While everyone awaits the announcement on June 19 that Councillor Linda Hepner will be the candidate for Surrey First, breakaway councillor Barinder Rasode is out and running. Her strategy of using her rented office space as a place for community events is kind of interesting — I haven’t seen that one before. And she seems […]

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Holy cow, this is a bombshell. NPA Caucus Expels Denike and Woo Vancouver, B.C. (June 13, 2014) — The NPA Caucus announced this afternoon that Ken Denike and Sophia Woo have been formally expelled from Caucus. The decision to expel Denike and Woo was necessary given that the two have chosen to follow their own […]

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Word from various sources, including @VancouverInsider, that two more senior staff have departed Vancouver city hall: senior engineer Karyn Magnusson, the person who nobly provided her back yard for the mayor’s demonstration of the new organic-composting system last year, off to UBC, and Dennis Carr, assistant director in housing, gone back to Canada’s mysterious east. […]

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