Garr’s column handily describes the local equivalent of dominance

I am in and out of meetings today, so I will leave a link to Allen Garr’s latest piece in the Vancouver Courier for readers to digest.

Some of it is explainable, and other aspects are harder to define, but the unqualified support that people are showing towards Vision Vancouver’s moderate political agenda dwarfs all others that I can remember in recent memory.

This quote from Garr perfectly sums up my feelings for the malcontents in the blogosphere without a civic political home:

“Laugh if you want at community gardens, backyard chickens and separated bike lanes, but the public is eating it up–putting Vision and Robertson just where they want to be.”

This weekend I will engage in an analysis of Vision’s appeal, and suggest some potential  potholes that they must flag in the road ahead over the next year and a half.

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FACT OF THE DAY

In 2010, Vancouver had fewer than half the number of murders than it had in 2009.  There were nine homicides within Vancouver’s city limits, down from 19 killings the previous year.

Quote OF THE DAY

“Perhaps it was my silk dress or the new perfume I’ve been wearing lately. When I asked Suzanne Anton what her New Year’s resolution was, she replied, “To kiss a pretty girl!” and pecked me on the cheek.”  – Writer Emily Barca describing her encounter with the lone NPA City Councillor on New Year’s Eve.

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