About 2,400 people had voted as of 20 minutes ago but no one can predict which way anything is going to go — even for high-profile current councillors. The crowd is just too hard to read at this point, with no one group dominating. It pretty much looks like the PNE (if the PNE served […]

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There have been a few rumours floating around this week that the Non-Partisan Association approached several Vision candidates in previous weeks and asked them to consider switching parties, since they’d be guaranteed to get a slate spot. I tracked down everyone whose name I heard mentioned in connection with that story here today and this […]

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Just over 1,300 people had voted by 1 p.m., so the numbers are continuing to be diluted by the rain. In spite of that, there’s a fairly jolly atmosphere down here in the parking lot and streets around Tupper secondary as people stream in to vote, volunteers hold mini-tailgate parties nearby and all kinds of […]

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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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Just ran into park-board commissioner Ian Robertson here at the Non-Partisan Association meeting, who said park board members got a briefing Monday night with the latest thinking on what should be included in the capital plan. They heard that the Trout Lake centre replacement’s estimated construction cost is now up to $23 million from $20 […]

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The Non-Partisan Association is heading into its nomination/acclamation meeting tomorrow with one spot still open on the council slate and three on school board. It will be interesting to see whether any of those spots are filled by tomorrow morning. I’ve heard that a certain retired police officer is being heavily courted to run in […]

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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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For those of you who don’t have “Tim Louis” and “YouTube” on Google Alert, here’s a link to Tim’s argument for voting no against the proposed agreement on splitting the slate spots among Vision, COPE and Green for the Nov. 15 civic election. Essentially, he’s saying he’s not against an agreement but that this is […]

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Here it is, the agreement reached by the two parties’ executives. The only question now is: Will the COPE members pass this at their policy meeting on Sunday (the 14th) or will there be a revolutionary movement to blow this arrangement up? I understand that COPE board member Tim Louis voted against this. FOR IMMEDIATE […]

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This is today’s headline grabber from the Vision Team of Three — a catchy one, considering how popular the car-free days have become since they were started on Commercial Drive in 2005 by locals Matt Hern and Carmen Mills. Vancouver, BC – Andrea Reimer, Kerry Jang and Kashmir Dhaliwal joined forces today to call for […]

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