Vision council candidate David Eby disappeared quickly last night, after the voting results from the day showed that had, for the moment, lost to Kashmir Dhaliwal by only 17 votes for the eighth and final spot on the slate. Since then, I’ve had any number of comments from his diehard supporters saying they can’t believe […]

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Council 3746 Raymond Louie 3704 Heather Deal 3271 Tim Stevenson 3248 George Chow 2988 Andrea Reimer 2951 Geoff Meggs 2387 Kerry Jang 2240 Kashmir Dhaliwal 2223 David Eby 2034 Heather Harrison 1717 Catherine Evans 1217 Rey Umlas 1127 Ray Lam 1094 Demitri Douzenis 1031 Vaune Adams Kobler 724 Doug Bencze SCHOOL BOARD 2969 Sharon Gregson […]

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It’s still a steady stream, along with a few busloads from the Indo-Canadian community, which were welcomed with relief by some candidates and disgruntlement by others. There had been some anxiety among those slates being supported by the Indo-Canadian community about their light appearance throughout the morning and early afternoon. Apparently there were a lot […]

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I didn’t go to the presentations this week by the Vision candidates for the three slates, but I read and heard a fair bit about them. It was a relief to have people talking about the issues, I sensed, instead of the jostling for votes and slate inclusion that has dominated for the past while. […]

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Here’s the latest of the collective efforts to try to give certain groups of people a push at what is going to be a very confusing vote on Sept. 20 for Vision candidates: A lobby group urging members to vote for women. Steven Tannock, a park-board candidate, has been promoting that idea altruistically on his […]

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I hear rumours that Allan DeGenova may be considering a run as an independent councillor. DeGenova has acknowledged to me over the past few weeks that it’s hard for him to contemplate the thought of not doing public service as he has for almost two decades. But it would be hard for him to pick […]

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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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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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Lots has happened on this front in the five weeks that I’ve been off, with more council (and school board and park board) candidates coming out for Vision than anyone knows what to do with. I heard there was a candidates’ meeting at mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson’s house that was so packed it was standing […]

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