For reasons not clear to me, Vision has decided to put out updated figures on its campaign contributions since the legally required financial disclosure date of March 2009. Below is the news release summarizing the figures and I’ve got a complete copy of the donors attached. I’ve given this a quick look and, yes, lots […]

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Dropped by the Vision Vancouver fundraiser Wednesday night, held at the Coast Plaza — just down the street from the St. John’s church site whose proposed redevelopment is causing such an uproar. There’s going into the heart of the dragon’s den or something. West End Neighbours, the new impromptu group that has sprung up to […]

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Aha, the Visionistas have decided to strategically give out their latest poll on Gregor Robertson’s popularity. The highlights here in the Vancouver Sun. Would have been nice to see all of the questions in the poll — maybe a PDF? I’ll let all of you do the analysis.

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My assignment: Compare and contrast the annual general meetings of Vancouver’s two major political parties, the Non-Partisan Association, once all-powerful, now hunting for its way forward, and Vision Vancouver, the new ecocapitalist party, still riding high on its 2008 win. (Someone once said being a journalist is like having homework the rest of your life. […]

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On the off chance that you’ve decided that you’d rather be inside a small room with a bunch of diehard political junkies talking about party governance  than channel-surfing, tonight (Wednesday, April 28) is your lucky night. Both of the two main civic parties in Vancouver are holding their annual general meetings. The Non-Partisan Association, which […]

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This just got posted on the city’s internal wire, news that Sue Harvey, who was the city’s cultural services director for years and recently ran the city’s live sites during the Olympics, is not going to go back to that director post. She doesn’t seem to be quite retiring, as she talks about doing other […]

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If you want to get a sense of what Vision Vancouver is evolving into, note that the party just chose Ian Baillie as its new executive director over, I’m told, Stephen Learey. Baillie, one-time assistant to Liberal MP Sophia Leung, has worked on various federal Liberal Party campaigns and became the communications chair for the […]

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Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association sent out a notice late last week saying it plans to lower its membership fee from $20 to $10 a year, in an apparent move to compete with Vision Vancouver’s successful membership drive that brought in 17,000 new members last year at as low as $5 apiece. This seems to be part […]

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Well, all I can say is Yikes. One more city manager bails, Kevin Ramsay, the recently hired head of HR. He’d replaced Mike Zora, who had become the object of union unhappiness, and from what I had heard, was doing a good job and managing to calm things down a little. But not any more. […]

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Sean Holman has a doozy of a story in today’s Globe. Sean has a copy of an e-mail from former board member Mike Bruce, announcing he is quitting the party and urging others to do the same, because of the mayor’s silence on explaining to party members why he made comments during the campaign appearing […]

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