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Quick hits

Posted by Jonathan Ross

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City Caucus sees controversy around every corner

Posted by Jonathan Ross

The City Caucus Vision Vancouver inspired Halloween mask is slated to hit stores next year.

Trumped up indignation and outcry about what they consider as transgressions by City Council (meaning just about every action taken) is something that the City Caucus boys have mastered into an artform

The latest?  The way in which they are characterizing these t-shirts – which are a lighter way of showing support for a policy that the party campaigned and were elected on – as akin to making fun of terminally ill patients.  But, as they say, they try really hard.

Which brings me to my next point – their recent elevation of the mundane to the scandalous with regards to the noise exemption letter signed by Mayor Gregor Robertson.

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Compare and contrast

Posted by Jonathan Ross

Frances Bula's piece on Mike Magee is certainl garnering reactions across the spectrum

Frances Bula's piece on Mike Magee is certainly garnering reactions across the spectrum.

Yesterday I wrote about how Frances Bula’s piece on Mike Magee, Gregor Robertson’s Chief of Staff, provided broader context on a group of individuals and their beliefs that those of just one man.  Namely, that those that have surrounded the Mayor in his journey into the political realm are grounded in a foundational desire to initiate positive change to their community.

And today, two further reactions to Bula’s piece.

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Quick hits

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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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