Other new candidates for city council may still be enjoying the last of their summer holidays, but a few are out there campaigning like crazy. Vision Vancouver’s Geoff Meggs has been one of the more energetic ones, along with Kerry Jang and Andrea Reimer. The latest from Meggs and Jang is this statement, calling on […]

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There was, fortunately in the eyes of many, no clamshell to pass judgment on. That idea, emanating from Victoria, got deep-sixed early on for this landmark site in Vancouver, the below-street ice rink that is part of Arthur Erickson’s famous Law Courts. But Vancouver’s urban design panel, this city’s unique process for having major buildings […]

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Everyone owes me a drink for this labour of something or another: The complete list of candidates. I started to compile it because I realized that I was completely losing track of all the people popping on and off the list. As well, I wanted to get a handle on just how many Vision candidates […]

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After I posted my little vignette about the trauma of renting my basement suite (hundreds of calls from desperate people), I got a couple of comments from people who went through similar experiences recently, at either end of the rental trauma. I also got this question from regular correspondent RossK: “Sure would be interested in […]

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Three years ago at this time, the one-time Downtown Eastside housing activist was getting ready for what looked like, at last, a successful campaign to be Vancouver’s mayor at the head of the gosling Vision Vancouver party. As everyone knows, he ended up losing to Sam Sullivan by about 4,000 votes. There was a lot […]

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I write a lot about housing, affordable housing, homelessness and the rest, something I got interested in ten years ago when it was a blip on most people’s radar out here. So I think I know what the situation is. However, every so often, something happens that drives it home to me what’s really going […]

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The deadline has come and gone for the possibility of having Gregor Robertson listed as a COPE/Vision mayoral candidate on the Nov. 15 ballot, something that COPE has talked about wistfully as a possibility early in the summer. And it’s not clear if the two parties are even talking about trying to have any semblance […]

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The September issue of Vancouver magazine, one of the pillars of my new journalism life, is now out with my feature story on our two would-be mayors, Peter Ladner and Gregor Robertson. We’re going to learn a lot more about these two candidates in the next three months (yes, folks, less than three months to […]

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I have a story in Saturday’s Globe and Mail about the current scuffle going on between Arthur Erickson, Vancouver’s and Canada’s best-known architect, and the Architectural Institute of B.C. over what kind of work Arthur is actually doing on recent buildings he’s been associated with. I discovered after I wrote this that it also affects […]

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Will you endorse me/support me/help me in any way? That seems to be the cry these days among Vancouver’s civic candidates, who are all looking for ways to get votes for their nomination meetings. The whole issue of how to campaign is a difficult one for both sides. As both Vision and NPA candidates have […]

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