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Entries from January 2016

Dhaliwal to make it official tomorrow

August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The much-awaited announcement about Kashmir Dhaliwal running with Vision Vancouver looks as though it’s set to take place tomorrow. This is the media notice sent out today: The Temple Diwan Society Executive will hold a press conference to formally endorse Gregor Robertson’s bid to become Vancouver’s next Mayor.  Kashmir Dhaliwal, President of the Khalsa Diwan […]

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Vancouver temple president considers a run for council

August 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For those of you who didn’t see this already (get your subscription to the Globe, folks, step right up), I had a story in today’s Globe and Mail with Ross Street temple president Kashmir Singh Dhaliwal talking about his decision on whether to run with Vision Vancouver. VV would desperately love to have him, given […]

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Where in the world is Jim Green?

August 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 affordability crunch hits home

August 18th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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 COPE/Vision negotiations

August 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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My portrait of our two mayoral candidates

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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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Two more not-your-usual candidates for Vision

August 16th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Two more candidates are apparently about to jump into the rough waters of civic politics — one of them literally. Freelance journalist Hadani Ditmars is apparently going to launch her candidacy for a Vision Vancouver park board spot tomorrow with an open water swim at Kits at 4 p.m. As well, Thomas Lockhart is also […]

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Tags: 2008 Vancouver Civic Election

Arthur Erickson — architect or not? You decide

August 16th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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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Civic candidates hunt desperately for alliances

August 15th, 2008 · No Comments

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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A lovely non-partisan event

August 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A multi-political crowd came out for a nice little evening party in Douglas Park last night to launch Sarah Blyth’s candidacy for a Vision park-board nomination, with cake out on the playing field. The DeGenova family (Allan, Wendy, Melissa) was there to support her, even though Melissa is now running for the Non-Partisan Association park-board […]

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