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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That was one fact that emerged from the presentation by general manager of planning Brian Jackson yesterday, in advance of today’s council vote supporting new policies that are an attempt to slow down the demolitions. More details in Jackson’s Power Point here and my story here. By the way, I popped over the the inquiries […]

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Well, at last, someone willing to talk about what he wants to do if he does end up running.

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Gotta say, the NPA’s strategy or non-strategy when it comes to picking (and publicizing) their choices for mayoralty candidate is increasingly mysterious. There has been a steady dribble of leaks from various board members about who the candidates are. First name leaked was Kirk LaPointe’s, my former boss at the Vancouver Sun and currently a […]

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Omg, those of us in civic politics reporting circles have been working feverishly the last few days trying to find out exactly wwhat went down at the six-hour board meeting the Non-Partisan Association held last Thursday. Jeff Lee at the Sun and I both had stories out in the he last 24 hours, with whatever […]

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Great excitement this week when Mike Howell at the Vancouver Courier was first up to publish news about the rumours that former Vancouver Sun editor, former CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe is being considered by the NPA as a mayoral candidate. Mike actually got a live interview with LaPointe that confirmed there’s some kind of negotiation […]

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