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CityCaucus.com: Changes afoot

30 Nov 2011

What's next for this blog? Readers should weigh in. Three years ago today Daniel Fontaine and I were exchanging emails and phone calls over his idea to run a political blog. The biggest struggle was what to call it....

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A committed community volunteer seeks your support

15 Nov 2011

"The neighbour you want to have," that's how my fellow city council candidate Sean Bickerton recently referred to me. I can hardly think of a higher compliment. Being a good neighbour means a lot to me. It's about looking...

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Proud to be political

30 Jun 2010

Voters in training – is media cynicism undermining our faith in politics? Today, too many of us curse at the thought of politics. During the last Provincial election we saw a precipitous ten percent drop in voter turnout from...

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Mayor Robertson's Olympic 'thank you' cost you $16,025

9 May 2010

The City should be sending a bill to Vision Vancouver for those election ads Just imagine it's February 19th, 2010. Vancouver, the Province and the whole of Canada are full of pride and thrilling at the 2010 Olympic Games. You're...

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Our 2nd CityCaucus.com Pub Night is May 19th

6 May 2010

The city may be divided, but not about beerMark your calendars! Our second CityCaucus.com Pub Night is happening after work on Wednesday, May 19th. We're meeting at the same venue – Original Joe's at Broadway & Cambie. Note, if...

Ah, what a weekend! Now back to work

19 Apr 2010

Wines set out at the annual South Okanagan Baneé dinner Saturday nightJust a quick note to our faithful readers about our lack of updates over the weekend. While Daniel's green thumb aimed him in the direction of his garden...

Our little April Fool's prank...

1 Apr 2010

We've never done one of these on CityCaucus.com before, but we thought we'd have a little fun. Trust us when we say that the folks at City Hall won't get off that lightly. Here's the original post...CityCaucus.com sold to US...

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Allen Garr no longer City Hall beekeeper

23 Mar 2010

A swarm of controversy has been averted with news Allen Garr will not tend City Hall's hivesCityCaucus.com has had it confirmed that Vancouver Courier political columnist Allen Garr will not be helping to make Vancouver the Greenest City in the...

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Thank you!

1 Mar 2010

Thanks from Daniel Fontaine & Mike Klassen Many, many thank yous to all of those who helped make our coverage of Vancouver's 2010 celebration a success. We marked the end of February with 2.25 million page views, nearly 1,000,000...

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GlobalTV profiles CityCaucus.com 2010 Events Guide creators

7 Feb 2010

Two fans of CityCaucus.com meet Daniel & Mike during GlobalTV's interview Given the countless hours we've devoted to producing our Where 2 Be for Free events guide, it's always good to pause and take a breath. The response has...

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Reminder - Christmas Cheer on Wednesday, 5:30pm!

8 Dec 2009

Ho ho ho! This ain't no joke. Santa wants to see everyone at Original Joe's Celebrate Christmas Cheer with CityCaucus.com this Wednesday evening! A reminder to our faithful readers, friends and others engaged in civic politics. We're hosting a...

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Happy birthday to us - we're one

7 Dec 2009

This cake mysteriously showed up at CityCaucus Tower today. Did Mike Magee send it? What was intended to be a short-term lark, a blog about civic politics by a couple of wonks, is now having it's first anniversary. Our...

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Sorry for service interruptions

3 Dec 2009

The young scamps at CityCaucus.com were asleep at the switch when our domain was to be renewed. Photo by Aaron Jacobs.We've had to bring out the lash here at CityCaucus Tower. Apparently yesterday the person tasked with making sure that...

Happy Friday

27 Nov 2009

Rain takes a break today in Vancouver. So are we.To our readers, we're all cashing in on some EDOs (earned days off) on this pleasant Friday. We'll be posting over the weekend on a number of topics, including our...

Whither the NPA? Discussing the future of Vancouver's longstanding civic party

12 Oct 2009

NPA Mayors: should past electoral success count when it comes to Vancouver's future? The silence is almost deafening in NPA Land. Does Canada's oldest civic electoral organization, the Civic Non-Partisan Association, have any life left in it? We've posed...

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