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F’ing hilarious on two fronts

February 23, 2010 - 12:14 pm | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

Colbert brutalized Ujjal...and they both loved it.

Ujjal plays the straight man well and Colbert is excellent as usual.  Although, the Himalayas most definitely extend into India, so I am not sure what he was talking about.  I also liked the fact that Colbert was able to pronounce his name much better than many Canadian commentators, who regularly brutalize the delivery.

The second funny piece of the day comes from…OK, wait for it…the Georgia Straight’s Charlie Smith.  What a surprise.

Smith takes issue with the fact that the City of Vancouver website has a portion of it devoted to…again, wait for it…the Mayor.

Oh the horror.

And get this…he has a video promoting Vancouver as a Green Capital to the world.

I know…a disgrace of epic proportions.

I mean, it’s not like other cities have profiles of their Mayor on their websites.

That would be ridiculous.

Great reporting, as per usual Charlie.  Keep up the tough investigative journalism.

Charlie Smith’s exposes Vision Vancouver’s true colours

December 15, 2009 - 10:10 am | 2 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

There isn't much difference between this fictional movie poster and the life and death drama surrounding "colours" in Vancouver - an emerging story that is directly connected to the top office in the city.

The Georgia Straight’s Charlie Smith, one of Vancouver’s top investigative journalists, continues to hit homeruns with his stunning exposé of Vision Vancouver’s troubling colour associations, and the frightening implications for our beloved city.

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Thu Mar 18, 2010

FACT OF THE DAY

An article titled Vancouver Politics by Paul Tennant in The Vancouver Book (1976), describes the entry of TEAM onto the civic political scene in 1968. TEAM, wrote Tennant, “sought to be a moderate reform group appealing to persons of all political ideologies.”

On their left was COPE (the Committee of Progressive Electors), also formed in 1968, and on their right was the NPA (the Non-Partisan Association), which had been a power in city politics for nearly four decades, and which “held that the affairs of the city should be run by those with the necessary knowledge and experience, i.e., those with a professional-managerial background, in order to run the city in a business-like way.”

The reformers, on the other hand, “felt that civic decision-making should be open to the public, with leadership coming from a cross-section of the population, and rule going to the working class majority. This group was concerned about land use, they advocated city control, and preferred to structure politics around the neighborhood concept.”

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