Filipinos emerge as new force in BC politics

Even though I've been following the Vancouver election quite closely I was unaware of this dimension.  An interesting read from a local paper that gets too little credit for publishing important news."Behind the...

Louie campaign testing the rules at Vision vote: Update: ROBERTSON WINS

This just in: Robertson is the apparent winner.  Louie failed to get Robertson below 50% of the vote."About 5,000 people have now voted, as of 3 p.m. down here at the Vision Vancouver vote/party/music...

Vancouver's next mayor could be determined by backroom deals

The rumors are flying about who's supporting who in the upcoming Vision nomination.  The winner of the party's race will have a decent shot in the city election in the fall.  The way the race is shaping up...

13,000 back new political perspective

Vancouver's mayoral race is already breaking the records.  It seems that Vancouverites are looking for change too.  In some ways the local race mirror's the US Presidential race with new entrants like...

Vancouver Mayoral Election is Spendorama

The Vancouver mayoral election is turning into an expensive affair."Vancouver city councillor Raymond Louie has been attracting attention even among those who don't read Chinese with his full-page ages in all the...

Vision's Three Would-Be Kings

Here is a great backgrounder on the 3 Vision party candidates shooting to become Vancouver's next mayor."Voters won't go to the polls until November, but the contest to become the mayoral candidate for Vancouver's...

Vision Braces for Voter Crush

This race is shaping up to be a doozy!""This is a completely different race from anything we've seen before in Vancouver," said Kennedy Stewart, a political scientist at Simon Fraser University. "What's happening...

Change is the only constant in Vancouver mayoral race

"Vancouver -- Veteran park board commissioner Allan De Genova is the latest politician to hop on the "change bandwagon" set off by U.S. presidential hopeful Barack Obama. "Allan De Genova is about to make a change...

Trashing Vancouver

 by Linda Solomon for The Vancouver Observer  Dahlia  braces herself for a job she dreads. In the alley behind her newly purchased Cambie home, she drops the kitchen garbage into big green bags.  Then she lifts the big bag into  the back of her...

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