While the focus so far this week has been on Millennium Developments and its current problems with cost overruns and financing, there’s another story in this city about what’s happening with development generally. As many people told me over the last two days, it’s been disastrous the last few weeks since the financial crisis started. […]

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So the Peter fans really liked Peter and the Gregor fans really liked Gregor, but the middle of the road seemed to be that there weren’t strong or detailed answers from either candidate at this point. See the comments attached to my previous post to get a flavour. Monte Paulsen also has an excellent summary […]

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Sorry, folks, couldn’t make it to tonight’s Peter Ladner-Gregor Robertson No. 2 debate in the debate-a-thon that this campaign has turned into. Your thoughts and impressions welcome, although I think we’ve all come to realize that it’s like people are living in parallel universes when it comes to judging the candidates. I’ve found it quite […]

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Those of you passionately interested in this story may have found it already in print or online, but for those of you who didn’t, here’s my follow-up story on the Southeast False Creek/Millennium/Olympic village story that was in the Globe and Mail.

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It’s faded out of the news now, but the downtown district around BC Place and GM Place is still going through intense talks as the four property owners and city staff talk about what that new neighbourhood is going to look like. If you’ll recall, it burst into the headlines in the spring, when Premier […]

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There has been a lot of excitement around town over what appears to be trouble with the Millennium project to build the Olympic athletes’ village at Southeast False Creek and it’s hard to sort out good information from bad because there are so many people with powerful agendas piling on. The Olympics critics are happy […]

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My longtime colleague Gary Mason had a story today in the Globe and Mail about financing troubles for the developer building the $1-billion Olympic athletes’ village. It set the political circles here into a tizzy, since clearly this could become an election issue. I’ll have a follow-up story tomorrow, after talking to developer Shahram Malek […]

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It’s hard to believe some people chose to go to a hockey game tonight when they could have been sitting with all of us at the Vancouver Public Library talking about municipal policy. A loss for them of 90 minutes of action-packed excitement, but fun for the 300 or so of us there. Okay, kidding […]

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It’s been somewhat quiet the last couple of weeks as everyone recovers from various nomination meetings and candidates do their background work to prepare for the all-out campaign. The first public debate between the Non-Partisan Association’s Peter Ladner and Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson is tonight, 7:30, at the Vancouver Public Library. Sponsored by Langara College, […]

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I know I’m just asking to be flamed by posting this but I’m going to go ahead anyway and ask if it’s possible for the cyclists in town to not treat car drivers as though they are evil incarnate. I’m a nice person (except when I’m tired and overworked, but we won’t get into that). […]

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