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CityCaucus Redux: Costly renos to Mayor's office caused controversy

16 Oct 2011

Mayor Gregor is caught in some nose-stretchers by CKNW's Sean Leslie Back in August 2010 Mike Klassen did a great story about Mayor Gregor Robertson's public statements regarding his costly office renovations. As part of our CityCaucus Redux series,...

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Will the BC NDP go the way of COPE?

22 Nov 2010

Trashed? Can the BC NDP be getting 'the COPE treatment' from Vision? What has been happening in BC politics in recent days has been bewildering for many of us who follow it. This morning the BC Liberals had their...

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2011 is the time to elect new chair for Metro Vancouver

16 Nov 2010

Watts has the right stuff to become the new Chair of Metro Vancouver Now that Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts has finally announced she doesn't want to run British Columbia, would she open to the idea of running Metro Vancouver?...

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New Mayor's office connects to old escape hatch

24 Aug 2010

Gregor Robertson heads for his custom emergency exit to avoid the public glare As someone who used to work in the Mayor’s office in Vancouver, I've been watching the controversy swirl regarding Robertson’s office renovations with great interest. Let...

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Vancouver Politics 101? John Cleese explains political extremes

2 Jun 2010

Monty Python's famous instructor outlines the differences of the right and left There's an adage in blogging – when it doubt: YouTube. Thanks to Mark for sending along this link to John Cleese from one of his famous and...

Corrigan flies executive class while Cadman pleads for more per diems

7 May 2010

Smart politicos normally release the bad news on FridayIt's Friday, so it's officially Take Out the Trash Day. This is the day clever politicos normally reveal any bad news in the hope that it gets lost over a weekend filled...

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Mayor's coalition collegue accuses Canada of being dinosaur

20 Dec 2009

Carbon Cadman accuses Canada of being a dinosaur. Ironically, it was the death of the dinosaurs that provided the fossil fuels needed to jet Cadman to Copenhagen. Now that all of the thousands of politicians and their staff are...

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Carbon Cadman MIA for critical budget meetings due to foreign obligations

2 Dec 2009

Councillor David Cadman will miss the 2010 budget debate and vote to attend to more important international obligations First COPE Councillor David "Carbon" Cadman missed his own inauguration due to the fact he was out of town on international...

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City charges us $1410 to access budget documents

15 Nov 2009

Skip that trip to Mexico... A whopping bill for a Vancouver FOI request Just as CityCaucus.com was starting to see increased revenues as we pull out of this dreadful recession, we received another invoice from the City of Vancouver....

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CityCaucus.com's 1st Annual Civic Report Card

26 Oct 2009

Vancouver City Council needs to turn down the political rhetoric, and turn up the results Every local columnist and media outlet covering the city beat will soon be giving you their views on the first year of Vision Vancouver's...

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Oops...councillor unaware of City's bad financial position

6 Oct 2009

People on the street of Vancouver unimpressed with the travel habits of some Vancouver councillors On Sunday, CityCaucus.com was first off the mark in helping to shed a bit of light on two separate requests from Vancouver Councillors Tim...

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Vancouver's belt tightening doesn't include foreign travel

4 Oct 2009

One councillor planning trip to Sarajevo (above) while another has eyes set on CaliforniaOver the last couple of weeks a lot has been made of the fact that Vancouver is going through a bit of a budget crunch. City Manager...

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Low-carb Cadman

22 Sep 2009

Cutting back on emissions: Cadman's low-carb delivery to the ICLEI faithful The man known as Carbon Cadman is now on a sort-of "Atkins diet" of airline travel, cutting way back on the carbs. Carbon emissions, that is. After having...

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Report reveals Metro Vancouver salaries pegged at $102,131,905

26 Jun 2009

Johnny "Cash" Carline A regular reader alerted us to an interesting report which was buried deep in the agenda for today's Metro Vancouver meeting. It is a line-by-line itemized statement of all the salaries paid at Metro Vancouver. It...

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Another editorial blasts Carbon Cadman

25 Jun 2009

The Tri-City News asks what kind of carbon emissions David Cadman spewed out flying all over the world to attend environmental conferencesAnother editorial has now been published which blasts Vancouver Councillor David 'Carbon' Cadman for his taxpayer funded international travel...

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Chair Jackson takes it on the chin for Carbon Cadman's travel

24 Jun 2009

Metro Vancouver Chair Lois Jackson thinks taxpayers received good value for her recent study mission to Istanbul, TurkeyYesterday on CKNW's Christy Clark show, Metro Vancouver Chair Lois Jackson was on the hot seat whereby she had to justify the $100,000+...

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Retired journalist blogs about how Vision's policies are simply nuts

23 Jun 2009

Retired journalist thinks Vision's policies are simply "nuts"Harvey Oberfeld is a former reporter for BCTV (now Global TV) in Vancouver. He's now retired, but in his day he interviewed some of the top political leaders across Canada and broke a...

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Vancouver is "a small town", says World Economic Forum rep

22 Jun 2009

A representative from the World Economic Forum told Councillor David Cadman that a Vancouver Sun column is evidence the City is "a small town" and not '"progressive"In one of the most pompous displays of self-importance, COPE Councillor David "Carbon" Cadman...

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Carbon Cadman should "show some restraint", says Langley Times

19 Jun 2009

Councillor Cadman was so busy travelling the world at taxpayers expense he actually missed the $88,000 inaugural party hosted by Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson last DecemberWith the headline blaring out "show some restraint", the Langley Times wrote a hard-hitting editorial...

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Cernetig asks Carbon Cadman to make a choice