Entries tagged with: vancouver sun
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Vancouver media won't be swayed by Vision's so-called hit list
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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...
Posted on September 2, 2010 8:52 AM
FOI shows 132 more VPD staff join $100,000 Club
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This image features neither a VPD member nor Canadian money, but you get the point An FOI filed months ago with the Vancouver Police Department by CityCaucus.com has now arrived in our mailbox – coincidentally just before a long...
Posted on July 29, 2010 7:33 PM
Breaking News: Columnist Miro Cernetig leaving Vancouver Sun
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CityCaucus.com has confirmed a rumour from the past couple of days that city columnist Miro Cernetig has resigned from the Vancouver Sun newspaper, effective August 31st. Miro has provided analysis on the happenings at Vancouver City Hall and other...
Posted on July 7, 2010 11:17 AM
Jeff back to City Hall as "Civic Lee"
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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...
Posted on June 30, 2010 9:33 AM
24 Hours: Vision burns Victoria
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Check out this week's 24 Hours column on City/Provincial politics Just a quick plug for a few recommended columns for CityCaucus.com readers. First, be sure to check out the latest edition of 24 Hours newspaper and my column on...
Posted on June 10, 2010 9:29 AM
Writer's excellent adventures in Russia a good read
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Thought the 2010 Games were done? Well, they are but there's the whole process of "the hand over" to Sochi, Russia. To their credit the Vancouver Sun have sent their fine Olympic reporter Jeff Lee over to Sochi along with...
Posted on June 7, 2010 6:20 AM
Burnaby's push for low density living is hurting our metropolitan environment
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That big blob in the centre of this image is now a mass of big box stores built in Burnaby We often think that in 2010, most of our local politicians are fairly enlightened when it comes to the...
Posted on June 5, 2010 6:04 PM
Olympic Village rentals still raising hackles
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GlobalTV went back on Wednesday to see how rentals to police and teachers were going It's a story that still gets a lot of play by local media – handing over waterfront social housing as rental for police, fire...
Posted on May 28, 2010 4:30 PM
Big polling numbers possibly a bigger bane than boon for Vancouver's Mayor
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In politics, it's easy to predict you're unbeatable when you don't know what lies ahead Metro Vancouver's biggest daily newspapers – The Sun, The Province and The Globe and Mail (BC Edition) have embarked upon a pro-Vision Vancouver editorial...
Posted on May 16, 2010 8:16 PM
Cancelled urban farm project bred bad relations in Chinatown
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The rooftop of 211 East Georgia in Chinatown ain't the DTES – and won't house a garden A cover story in the Vancouver Courier a few weeks back by respected writer Sandra Thomas announced a new "rooftop farm" that...
Posted on May 6, 2010 2:25 PM
Top Three Donors in British Columbia gave to Vision Vancouver
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How about that? The biggest donations in BC go right to Vision Vancouver – click for larger Ahem. The concerns I have expressed here at CityCaucus.com about campaign donations through our Know Your Donor series seem to have a...
Posted on April 30, 2010 3:15 PM
Vancouver, a city or a farm? CityCaucus.com in Vancouver Sun
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Mike and Daniel are in today's Vancouver Sun Weekend ReviewIt's always a pleasure for us to be able to write for the Vancouver Sun's readers, and today we have an op/ed talking about the "unusual political imperative" coming out...
Posted on April 24, 2010 8:21 AM
Gregor Robertson backpedals on pledge to end homelessness by 2015
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Homelessness is up by 12% in Vancouver – now the Mayor is backpedaling on a promise During the last civic election, Mayor Gregor Robertson and his Vision Vancouver caucus were elected on a commitment to end homelessness by 2015....
Posted on April 20, 2010 6:41 PM
Vancouver school district can save money through change in hiring practices
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Younger teachers are finding it difficult to get work in Metro Vancouver districts There has been a lot of (trash) talk in Vancouver lately regarding the pending “cuts” to education funding which will apparently wreak havoc on our children's...
Posted on April 19, 2010 7:19 PM
City report on 2010 Olympic costs being questioned
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Vision Vancouver never really embraced the 2010 Games and a staff report now confirms itWe're all flying like mad here at CityCaucus.com tower this week as the number of brown envelopes and tips we've been receiving over the last several...
Posted on April 16, 2010 11:00 AM
West Vancouver city staff support police operations
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Sanitation engineers in West Vancouver are helping the police to fight crimeA number of years ago, the previous Vancouver council endorsed something called Project Civil City. As part of that initiative, the City was considering the possibility of fighting crime...
Posted on April 12, 2010 9:13 PM
Translink tax hike key to reducing Vancouver's carbon footprint
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Agar says Metro Vancouverites have it good when it comes to TransLink On a day when millions of people around the world were making New Years resolutions about shrinking their waistlines, Vancouver quietly saw a policy enter into action that may...
Posted on January 27, 2010 9:23 AM
City councillors + spouses get Olympic freebies
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Like these guys, Vancouver city council & their spouses just hit paydirt!You know that awesome feeling when you score free tickets to a show you wanted to see? I admit it doesn't happen very often for most of us, but...
Posted on January 26, 2010 9:36 PM
The Sullivan Sun ad: right wing conspiracy or message to Gregor?
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The Vancouver Sun mailed thousands of postcards to homes featuring this classic cover When I checked my mail today something dropped out of the pizza shop flyers that was completely unexpected. It was a 6x9" postcard of Sam Sullivan's...
Posted on January 18, 2010 3:11 PM
Vancouver's temporary street car should become permanent fixture
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Will street cars become commonplace again on Vancouver streets like they are in Toronto? On January 21st, Vancouver is about to experience the new Bombardier Fixity street cars in all their glory. My colleague Mike Klassen just happened to...
Posted on January 13, 2010 10:20 AM
Pressure mounting on campaign disclosure deadbeats
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Without campaign funding disclosure we simply can't trust the voteEver since Premier Campbell announced his government's commitment to reform municipal campaign finance rules, the clock has been ticking for political organizations like the one running the City of Vancouver...
Posted on December 8, 2009 10:13 PM
Carbon Cadman MIA for critical budget meetings due to foreign obligations
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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...
Posted on December 2, 2009 10:38 AM
Langley councillor slams Vancouver decision on GVLRB
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We've given props to Coun. Jordan Bateman from the Langley Township Council, who runs the excellent LangleyPolitics.com blog. Jordan made reference to our recent post on the motion by Mayor "Geoff" Meggs to yank Vancouver out of Metro Vancouver's...
Posted on November 19, 2009 9:18 AM
Bramham continues series on municipal electoral reform
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The Vancouver Sun questions whether American citizens should be allowed to have influence over municipal elections in BCOver at the Vancouver Sun, Daphne Bramham wrote an excellent story today about the need for electoral reform at the municipal level. She's...
Posted on November 7, 2009 12:00 PM
CityCaucus.com Op-Ed in today's Vancouver Sun
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Mike and Daniel are in today's Vancouver Sun Op-Ed page discussing Gregor's green planCityCaucus.com are once again privileged to be on the Editorial pages of the Vancouver Sun. The piece titled, Mayor Robertson's green dream is just that is...
Posted on October 27, 2009 10:30 AM
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