It's late on Saturday night and I've been doing the circuit of media appearances for the better part of the last six hours. I had the pleasure of working with the team over at CTV, Vancouver Sun and CKNW...
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On civic election day will you be part of the solution or the problem?It is estimated that anywhere from 28-31% of eligible voters will cast their ballot in Vancouver. That means about 70% of you will not bother to take...
Continue reading 10 reasons why "the 70%" should get out and vote.
If there was ever any question regarding whether the senior ranks of Vancouver's public service are politicized, a recent tweet will help to put that issue to bed. The City's Director of Communications may have thought she was being cheeky,...
Continue reading Another questionable tweet about Occupy Vancouver coming from city staff.
Limiting the supply of housing in Vancouver will only make a bad situation worseRegardless of which pollster you ask, the question of affordable housing seems to be a top issue of concern for most Metro Vancouver residents.Nowhere is the topic...
Continue reading Affordability Economics 101: high demand + low supply = costly housing.
Some Vancouver homeowners are becoming instant multi-millionairesAnyone driving along Cambie Street between King Edward and West 57th, or reading the Real Estate Weekly, cannot help but notice that many of the single family properties along both sides of the street...
Continue reading Upzoning helps blocks of homes on Cambie sell for amazing $3.4M each.
What kind of issues should civic candidates be debating over coming weeks If you’re starting to wonder whether there are any other issues to be discussed in this civic campaign besides the Occupy Vancouver squat, you’d be in good...
Continue reading Policy wonks having tough time connecting with civic election.
Local artists are sending a message to Mayor Robertson through a new campaign About a week ago a small group of artists launched a Vision Vancouver funded campaign called "We Back the Juiceman". It was meant to show voters...
Continue reading Artist's "We Don't Back the Juice Man" campaign launched today.
The front cover of 24 Hours Vancouver asks a very good question UPDATE @ 6 pm: Several media outlets are reporting that the costs related to Occupy Vancouver are approximately $500,000 for the first week alone...with no end in...
Continue reading Occupy movement costing Vancouver taxpayers dearly.
Former Vision member Randy Helten wants to become Mayor of Vancouver Not a lot of people in Vancouver consider mayoral candidate Randy Helten a household name, but that might be about to change. A former Vision Vancouver member, Helten...
Continue reading "Effen NPA hack" Helten now de facto COPE mayoral candidate.
Anton wants to reduce red tape and get housing projects approved fasterI'm told by sources within both the NPA and Vision camps that affordable housing and homelessness are some of the top issues of concern for Vancouverites. However, you'd never...
Worms eating Blenheim street trees not quite as illustrated - but closeDuring civic elections the most mundane of issues can suddenly take on a life of their own. I'm not sure the oak leaf skeletonizer issue falls into that category,...
Continue reading City budget cuts mean no spraying for oak leaf skeletonizer.
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...
Continue reading CityCaucus Redux: City Manager says $34,000 a "drop in the bucket".
The truth is out there if someone would simply let us see "the agreement" @fabulavancouver @CityCaucus @SeanBickerton Can't you all come up with more original lies to spread? The NPA=Ford smear tactics are in play! What you just read...
Controversial laneway houses are popping up all over Vancouver these days On October 1, Heritage Vancouver organized another Laneway Housing Tour to allow participants to see a new flock of laneway housing around Vancouver. Six houses were on display,...
Continue reading Laneway houses may be key to solving Vancouver's affordability crisis.
GlobalTV provides more of their interview with Dave McLellan (video) It's been almost a year since Garland McKay, Dwayne Rasmussen and Stephen Yellowquill tragically died in a house fire on Pandora Street in Vancouver. Once the smoke had cleared,...
Continue reading Timing of BC Coroner's inquest could become issue in civic campaign.
Vancouver's only supervised injection site remains open after court rulingAfter years of legal wrangling, the Supreme Court of Canada finally ruled last week that Vancouver’s supervised injection site would remain open permanently. For the countless advocates who fought in support...
Continue reading Court ruling on Insite ends up being a hollow victory.
Need to know everything about riot in under 2 minutes? See videoA new poll released yesterday indicates an ever increasing number of Vancouverites are not buying Mayor Gregor Robertson's spin that he wasn't partially responsible for the Stanley Cup riot. According...
Suzanne Anton isn't the only mayoral candidate who needs to explain policy flip flops As each day passes we are starting to see the narratives for each campaign begin to emerge. When it comes to the NPA, they want...
Continue reading Vision Vancouver has a few major flip-flops of their own.
Kevin Quinlan (aka Vancouver Kid) once compared Minister Falcon to a four-year old boy in a sandboxNow that Vision Vancouver and COPE have linked arms (sans the Green Party this time) and prepare to wage battle, I thought it might be time...
Continue reading CityCaucus Redux: Mayor Robertson's spinmeister has lots of opinions.
Why do some civic politicians in BC think a municipal auditor general is so scary?If you happened to be walking in downtown Vancouver this week, you might have bumped into one of the 1,000 or so municipal politicians attending their...
Continue reading UBCM politicians shouldn't be so afraid of a new auditor general.
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