December 13, 2010 - 12:41 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
December 9, 2010 - 5:34 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross

Tim Louis has his facts wrong on the accomplishments made by the current City Council on social housing.
Yesterday, former COPE Councillor Tim Louis wrote an op-ed on City Caucus claiming that the Vision Vancouver led Council has been responsible for no new social housing.
But here are the real facts that Tim failed to mention:
Under the NPA, the city signed a 2007 Memorandum of Understanding with the Province to open 14 sites of social housing.
At the time it was hailed as a landmark agreement, and on paper, it absolutely was. It was very positive.
Except for one thing…there was absolutely no money attached to the commitment.
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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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