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The world’s love affair with Vancouver

November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

My latest column in Vancouver magazine looks at the way cities around the world are trying to reproduce Vancouver — some of them right down to the street names and hand railings, others in a more nuanced way.

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Social media rankings for the candidates

November 18th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Pete Quily did this fascinating analysis of how well Peter Ladner and Gregor Robertson campaigns did in using social media. You can read about it here. I’m supposed to be giving a talk on YouTube politics next week, which will be easy because it was so noticeable how much more people were using YouTube, Facebook, […]

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The unsurprising resignation of Estelle Lo

November 17th, 2008 · 22 Comments

This just in from the emails at city hall, messages from both city manager Judy Rogers and Estelle Lo about the chief financial officer’s resignation. From: Lo, Estelle To: Sullivan, Sam; Anton, Suzanne; Ball, Elizabeth; Cadman, David; Capri, Kim; Chow, George; Deal, Heather; Ladner, Peter; Lee, B.C.; Louie, Raymond; Stevenson, Tim Cc: Hurford, David Sent: […]

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Kashmir Dhaliwal defeat a difficult one for the team

November 16th, 2008 · 38 Comments

Many many Vision people, in the midst of celebrating last night, were talking about how disappointing it was  for them that the only one of their council candidates not to be elected was Ross Temple president Kashmir Dhaliwal. Andrea Reimer called it a “heartache” that is a sign of a submerged problem in city politics. […]

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The Vision party is still going on and may continue for some time

November 16th, 2008 · 17 Comments

Just got home at 3 a.m. because I’m a quitter, leaving many Visionistas behind me either dancing up a storm or analyzing the intricacies of the Olympic athletes’ village project, down at the Shark Club. (Yes, that’s where this bunch of alleged lefties repaired to after dancing til midnight at the Hotel Vancouver.) I’m not […]

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Polling booths needed at GM Place

November 16th, 2008 · 3 Comments

While people were wringing their hands over potentially mediocre voter turnout, Vancouver’s downtown was packed tonight! I had to drive downtown to get to CKNW for our two-hour show, where I’m now sitting with the full team of pundits and reporters. The streets were filled with people leaving the hockey game and it felt like […]

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Follow the results at CTV here

November 15th, 2008 · No Comments

To get straight to the CTV election results site, click here.

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Who will the winners be? The campaign organizers say this

November 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I talked to a couple of people from both campaigns mid-morning and this is what they had to say. Vision will win. Early this morning, the NPA was hoping to hang on to at least two council seats — Suzanne Anton the likeliest survivor, Kim Capri and Michael Geller shortly behind. “I’d be ecstatic if […]

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Party places for the Vancouver civic election

November 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For those wondering where the parties are partying tonight, Vision Vancouver has gone upscale and is camping out at Hotel Vancouver for the night, which is ironically where the NPA celebrated in 2005. The Non-Partisan Association picked the Ramada Renaissance, 1133 West Hastings Street — a somewhat unfortunate choice. I guess no one there remember […]

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The turnout numbers have everyone guessing

November 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment

As I detail on my CTV blog here.

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