Gregor Robertson bounds onto the stage of Vancouver Hotel last night, as Geoff Meggs, Raymond Louie and Jerry Kang, Vision Vancouver city councillors, look on.
The plot thickens..."I’ve been informed of the name of the Council member who is the source of this sensitive leak. By this time tomorrow, all of Vancouver would have learned the name of the sitting Council...
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"One of the city clerks who works with the councillors has sworn an affidavit saying that the missing documents relating the the $100-million Olympic loan turned up in B.C. Lee’s office at a different time than he has said. Cecelia Lee says B.C. Lee called her into his...
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I just got word that the Vision Party is holding a press conference where they will address the issue of the 100 million dollar Olympic loan and whether there is any validity to the claim made on Global TV that...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...