Many many Vision people, in the midst of celebrating last night, were talking about how disappointing it was  for them that the only one of their council candidates not to be elected was Ross Temple president Kashmir Dhaliwal. Andrea Reimer called it a “heartache” that is a sign of a submerged problem in city politics. […]

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Just got home at 3 a.m. because I’m a quitter, leaving many Visionistas behind me either dancing up a storm or analyzing the intricacies of the Olympic athletes’ village project, down at the Shark Club. (Yes, that’s where this bunch of alleged lefties repaired to after dancing til midnight at the Hotel Vancouver.) I’m not […]

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While people were wringing their hands over potentially mediocre voter turnout, Vancouver’s downtown was packed tonight! I had to drive downtown to get to CKNW for our two-hour show, where I’m now sitting with the full team of pundits and reporters. The streets were filled with people leaving the hockey game and it felt like […]

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To get straight to the CTV election results site, click here.

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I talked to a couple of people from both campaigns mid-morning and this is what they had to say. Vision will win. Early this morning, the NPA was hoping to hang on to at least two council seats — Suzanne Anton the likeliest survivor, Kim Capri and Michael Geller shortly behind. “I’d be ecstatic if […]

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For those wondering where the parties are partying tonight, Vision Vancouver has gone upscale and is camping out at Hotel Vancouver for the night, which is ironically where the NPA celebrated in 2005. The Non-Partisan Association picked the Ramada Renaissance, 1133 West Hastings Street — a somewhat unfortunate choice. I guess no one there remember […]

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As I detail on my CTV blog here.

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Unverified at this point, but there’s reports of exit polling showing that Vision’s Gregor Robertson is getting about 55 per cent and the NPA’s Peter Ladner is getting 39 per cent of the vote.

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Campaign workers for the Non-Partisan Association were spending their last hours today tearing down posters in Chinatown that put up alleged quotes made by Peter Ladner’s grandfather in the 20s. The posters, hand-lettered in Chinese, were headlined “Enemy of the Chinese” and had quotes attributed to “LJ Ladner, 1923, Vancouver South” saying things like “The […]

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Non-Partisan Association mayoral candidate always seems to have a swarm of family members around helping out, between his umpteen brothers, sisters, inlaws, and children. But Gregor Robertson got some extra help on E-Day, when his wife’s parents came up from Indiana to watch the festivities. I asked Amy if they’d been inspired by Barack Obama’s […]

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