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Entries Tagged as '2008 Vancouver Civic Election'

It’s a quiet morning here at the NPA

September 13th, 2008 · No Comments

The last time I and my little media buddies were at the Croatian Cultural Centre was June 15, when thousands of people lined up to vote for a Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate. It’s not quite the same scene this morning. The parking lot here is full, but partly because there’s a computer swap, a Kumon […]

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Sorting out the Vision candidates

September 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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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The offical Vision-COPE non-aggression pact

September 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments

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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Internal war breaks out among Vision candidates

September 8th, 2008 · 10 Comments

The situation is ugly and tense, according to just about everyone I’m talking to, as Vision Vancouver members and candidates head towards the Sept. 20 vote for their slates. People are threatening to quit; Vision women are demanding a meeting with Vision leader Gregor Robertson; and there’s just a lot of unhappiness. What’s going on? […]

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Donors writing cheques for Vision in tight race

September 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Here’s my story from the Globe and Mail today that summarizes the election to date. Some uncomfortable news there for some folks, I realize, but the important thing is: This is only the opening chapter. The always new and surprising thing about election campaigns is the way they evolve in such a short time. It’s […]

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It’s not a rumour: Heather Holden is running for school board

August 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I got a lot of response to my efforts to come up with a complete list of council, park and school board candidates for all the parties, which I posted last night (and am now correcting, thanks to all the input). Among the messages I got back, Heather Holden emailed to let me know that […]

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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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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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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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