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CityCaucus seeking feedback for endorsed candidates list

12 Nov 2011

Next Saturday thousands of voters will be marking their ballots in Metro Vancouver In one week from today about 30% of eligible voters will be heading to the polls. For most residents living in Metro Vancouver, they’ll wake up...

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Mayor Robertson had no clue city by-laws applied to Art Gallery encampment

27 Oct 2011

CityCaucus.com paid a visit to the illegal encampment a few days agoOnly a few weeks ago pundits were writing about how the upcoming civic election in Vancouver was a snoozer. There were no real issues that would galvanize voters to...

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CityCaucus Redux: City Manager says $34,000 a "drop in the bucket"

12 Oct 2011

Vancouver's City Manager shrugs off criticism of costs for private staff parties What follows is the next installment in our ongoing CityCaucus.com Redux series whereby we republish some of our more popular stories. Mike Klassen first published this doozie...

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Riots delay Mayor Gregor's plans to turn lawns into wheat fields

18 Jun 2011

Chaos on Vancouver's streets delayed approval of the "lawns to loaves" programWhat follows is a copy of my column published in 24 Hours Vancouver this week. Mayor Gregor had originally planned to debate his "lawn to loaves" initiative on Thursday,...

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Y Vote: youth petition themselves to cast a ballot

30 Apr 2011

US President Obama was effective in attracting young voters in 2008 Why vote? That's what an impressive group of Vancouver youth are asking themselves, and they've come up with an answer in the form of a mission statement, and...

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The Secret World of Mike Magee

23 Feb 2011

Secrets at City Hall: time to fix the accountability deficit? Watch the video. If there is one person who exemplifies the secrecy principle which prevails within Vision Vancouver, it's the party's former president, key organizer, generous donor to the...

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CityCaucus Redux: the very first post on Vision's chickens

13 Nov 2010

Vision's Chicken: Illustration: John Coulter Originally posted February 2009, the following CityCaucus Redux post is the very first mention of Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver in the context of chickens. Of course today Mayor Gregor & his counterparts are...

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Vancouver media won't be swayed by Vision's so-called hit list

2 Sep 2010

Wednesday evening's GlobalTV broadcast on "Vancouver's Embattled Mayor" Is there or isn’t there a Vision Vancouver media hit list? That’s the question everyone has been asking at Vancouver City Hall this week as various media types are trying to...

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Vancouver City Hall staff scuttlebutt

14 Jul 2010

We just tweeted out @CityCaucus some info provided by our City Hall sources that Peter Judd has been hired as the new City Engineer to replace Tom Timm, who retired last May. We speculated that Assistant City Engineer Jerry Dobrovolny...

Jeff back to City Hall as "Civic Lee"

30 Jun 2010

Reporter Jeff Lee is moving off the Olympics beat, and back to City Hall For those of us who appreciate good old fashioned reporting of news with no agendas, we can take heart that one of the best reporters...

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Dunsmuir Viaduct: do it now, apologize later

20 May 2010

Er, looks like the fix was in for the Dunsmuir decision. No matter, just apologize Crack CKNW City Hall reporter Janet Brown had an interesting report yesterday. She heard from Charles Gauthier of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association,...

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Is Mayor Robertson now the "Colonel Sanders of Fairview"?

9 Apr 2010

Mayor Sanders: "our greenest city will be built one bucket at a time" It has not been a good media week for Mayor Gregor Robertson, City Manager Penny Ballem and Vision Vancouver. We broke the story about the $34,000 party...

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$34,000 a "drop in the bucket" expediture says Penny Ballem

8 Apr 2010

Vancouver's City Manager shrugs off criticism of costs for private staff parties There was a time before Vision Vancouver governed that the public would never see the City Manager nor her deputies in the public eye. When Gregor Robertson...

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Vancouver City Hall gifts itself a $34,000 post-Olympic party

7 Apr 2010

A humiliated looking Capt. George Vancouver gets a makeover from council CityCaucus.com has been contacted by irate employees at Vancouver City Hall, who sent us this invitation for a party to be thrown by the City of Vancouver for...

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Another 311 update courtesy of CityCaucus.com

5 Apr 2010

Operators are standing by, and citizens are calling 311 A few weeks ago, CityCaucus.com provided our readers with a glimpse into the operations of the 311 service in Vancouver. We provided you with some interesting statistics that were never...

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Just to bee clear on the matter

21 Mar 2010

A blogger feeling stung after a 3-minute call with the Courier's marquee columnist This evening I phoned Vancouver Courier columnist Allen Garr after hearing he had concerns about my previous report about his new role as beekeeper at Vancouver...

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Let the stupid bee metaphors begin

18 Mar 2010

Vancouver's new HR director begged off work due to a sore throat Vancouver City Hall's comedy of errors continues with the news that during this year of budget crunching and layoffs that in order to be the Greenest City...

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Vancouver City Hollyhock

8 Mar 2010

New Mayor's office staffer Lara Honrado (left) working for the US Dems campaign in '08 Vancouver City Hall is in the most difficult economic patch it's seen in quite some time, and one of the sacrifices staff have got...

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Vancouver City Hall facing free Olympic ticket purchase brouhaha

28 Jan 2010

Mayor Gregor Robertson says that the big bucks on free tix will be worth it It wouldn't be like us to completely abandon the politics of Vancouver's Games while we line up to promote the heck out of them....

24 Hours: "Let's fix No-Fun City"

21 Jan 2010

My colleague Mike Klassen has his 24 Hours column out today and it's already stirring quite a bit of reaction from readers. Because the web link is currently not available, you can find Mike's column by picking up today's...

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