This election campaign in Vancouver is a treasure trove for research junkies, since the candidates’ full financial disclosures are listed online — sorry to all of you whose privacy feels violated. (Go to the section where the election information is kept and there’s a link in the top right to their nomination and financial-disclosure forms.) […]
Peter Ladner the most house-rich mayoral candidate
October 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
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The reports on Robertson-Ladner debate Number 2
October 9th, 2008 · No Comments
So the Peter fans really liked Peter and the Gregor fans really liked Gregor, but the middle of the road seemed to be that there weren’t strong or detailed answers from either candidate at this point. See the comments attached to my previous post to get a flavour. Monte Paulsen also has an excellent summary […]
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Your posts on tonight’s debate welcome
October 9th, 2008 · 21 Comments
Sorry, folks, couldn’t make it to tonight’s Peter Ladner-Gregor Robertson No. 2 debate in the debate-a-thon that this campaign has turned into. Your thoughts and impressions welcome, although I think we’ve all come to realize that it’s like people are living in parallel universes when it comes to judging the candidates. I’ve found it quite […]
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Ladner: “This is not a slam-dunk election. They smell blood.”
October 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments
It was the Non-Partisan Association’s annual fundraising dinner tonight, even though that fact went unrecorded by all media but me as far as I can tell. Time was it was a routine item for coverage. (Remember three years ago when Sam Sullivan apologized to the banquet crowd for his misjudgment in letting a drug user […]
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The advertising battle begins in Vancouver
October 3rd, 2008 · 2 Comments
The city’s civic parties aren’t spending a lot of money on advertising at the moment — not much point when all the noise of the federal election is going on. “We can barely get the attention of the local media,” NPA campaign manager Paul Wilson told me. “There’s a lot of clutter out there. It […]
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The first civic election debate: Experience versus leadership
October 2nd, 2008 · 17 Comments
It’s hard to believe some people chose to go to a hockey game tonight when they could have been sitting with all of us at the Vancouver Public Library talking about municipal policy. A loss for them of 90 minutes of action-packed excitement, but fun for the 300 or so of us there. Okay, kidding […]
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Mayoral candidates go the first round tonight
October 1st, 2008 · 3 Comments
It’s been somewhat quiet the last couple of weeks as everyone recovers from various nomination meetings and candidates do their background work to prepare for the all-out campaign. The first public debate between the Non-Partisan Association’s Peter Ladner and Vision Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson is tonight, 7:30, at the Vancouver Public Library. Sponsored by Langara College, […]
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The first quiet debate between Robertson and Ladner
September 26th, 2008 · 14 Comments
The first official debate between Vancouver’s two mayoral candidates is due to take place next Wednesday, hosted by Langara at the Vancouver Public Library. But a select group got to see the candidates in action together for the first time this past week, when Lambda Alpha hosted an event at the Vancouver Club. Not a […]
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Vision voters turn out in the rain
September 20th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Here I am, back again. Sorry to all my faithful readers for the three-day absence, but I was in Washington D.C. More on that later. For the moment, here I am, straight from the airport, briefly sheltered from the rain outside Tupper secondary school in Vancouver while Vision voters come in at a steady trickle. […]
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Why one COPE member disagrees with Tim Louis
September 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
At the risk of bringing a shitstorm of furious debate onto Bill Bargeman’s head, I’m posting his comments here for those who don’t think to click on the comments section: My first venture into the blogsphere: The question of whether or not COPE should run a mayoral candidate and the number of council, school and […]
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