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The tailgate party at Vision: Part 2

September 20th, 2008 · No Comments

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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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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Car-free trial proposed for Sundays on key streets

September 8th, 2008 · 5 Comments

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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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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The push is on to elect women for Vision

September 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Here’s the latest of the collective efforts to try to give certain groups of people a push at what is going to be a very confusing vote on Sept. 20 for Vision candidates: A lobby group urging members to vote for women. Steven Tannock, a park-board candidate, has been promoting that idea altruistically on his […]

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Vision candidates want city to take on Clement over Insite

August 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Other new candidates for city council may still be enjoying the last of their summer holidays, but a few are out there campaigning like crazy. Vision Vancouver’s Geoff Meggs has been one of the more energetic ones, along with Kerry Jang and Andrea Reimer. The latest from Meggs and Jang is this statement, calling on […]

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The master list of would-be candidates for the Vancouver civic election

August 27th, 2008 · 10 Comments

Everyone owes me a drink for this labour of something or another: The complete list of candidates. I started to compile it because I realized that I was completely losing track of all the people popping on and off the list. As well, I wanted to get a handle on just how many Vision candidates […]

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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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A Vision candidate gets support from DeGenova

August 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Skateboarder advocate Sarah Blyth is going to announce her candidacy for a Vision Vancouver park board slot tomorrow at the Douglas Park community centre. For more about Sarah and her interesting bio, go to her blog. An interesting tweak to all this is that she’s going to be intro’d by Allan DeGenova, the would-be Vision […]

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