November 30, 2010 - 1:22 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
UPDATE: Barb Justason tears a strip off of Mike Klassen from City Caucus for his misleading headline about her poll’s findings.
I would like to offer some general reactions to the just released Justason Market Intelligence poll.
First of all, you have got to be kidding me with this:
If Frances Bula is correct and the NPA is indeed “looking to prove, desperately these days,” that “potential NPA candidates,…have a fighting chance to beat Vision Vancouver,” then I think that by all means they should continue to use these results, and this question in particular, as their enticement.
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October 21, 2010 - 12:03 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
The writing is on the wall when it comes to Vancouver's reaction to the ever-emerging biking infrastructure, prompting a new strategy from the City Caucus boys.
The reactions to the Hornby bike lane as well as the other pieces of Vancouver’s biking infrastructure has been overwhelmingl positive save for those with a political axe to grind against the current Council.
Yesterday as an example, I was introduced to a gentleman who is an investment banker and a true power broker in the city, who after being challenged to get going by his kids, hopped on a bike last year for the first time in decades and hasn’t looked back. He has become an advocate amongst his kin within the business community, and has taken out a Vision Vancouver membership because of the initiatives that are being undertaken by the party.
The so-called controversial t-shirts are selling like hotcakes, people are really starting to reconsider their transportation options around town, and there is a new sense of peace between drivers and bikers who are no longer in each others faces to some extent.
So seeing this, and seeing that the NPA has actually come out and embraced bike lanes as a concept, the City Caucus boys changed their tactics of attack.
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August 20, 2010 - 10:25 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
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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July 19, 2010 - 8:48 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
Mike Klassen seems to have no memory of his partisan past, now that he has "reinvented" himself as a "non-partisan" blogger.
Mike Klassen posted this on Friday evening, clearly settling in for a fun-filled weekend of blogging. One supposes that he was trying to “out” me.
Well, not only does his post represent the height of hypocrisy when considering the author’s past, but it also doesn’t offer a stitch of information that is groundbreaking.
Let’s clear a couple of things up.
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