Mayor Sullivan’s former chief of staff, Daniel Fontaine, is happily ensconced at the top of Burnaby Mountain working on something to do with math education as of August and now the second the mayor’s three staffers is moving on. Anna Lucarino sent out a message today saying she will be leaving Sept. 29 to go […]

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This is a bit late, but since I spent four hours of my short time here on earth listening to this stuff, you should at least get the benefit. As all you political junkies know, the NPA acclaimed most of the final set of candidates on Saturday and had a vote-off among the four park-board […]

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There’s five minutes left to vote here and the place has started to feel lively after all. Clearly, more people showed up than even the NPA expected, since the sandwiches and desserts ordered for lunch were scarfed up instantly, leaving some people with nothing but empty plates. It seems more like about 400-500 people have […]

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The city, port and Tourism Vancouver are pushing the province’s regulatory body to give more taxi licences for the city of Vancouver. But, as my Globe and Mail story today notes, cab owners are saying they can’t get the drivers these days to fill the jobs. It takes three drivers (three shifts of round the […]

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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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The deadline for signing up Non-Partisan Association members is tonight at midnight (ignore the time stamp on this post, it’s wrong and not midnight yet by my clock). For COPE members, it’s Thursday. And for Vision, it’s a week from today. So, while not achieving the frenzy of the sign-ups for mayoral races in May, […]

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For those who haven’t picked up on it yet, I am doing some civic-political coverage for the Globe and Mail. I had a story in last week with the mayor’s thoughts about his recent defeat and his future. It’s not on their website because of a technical glitch so I’ll post it here. (Sorry, I […]

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