Posts Tagged ‘Sarah Blyth’

Tsakumis’ Loose Facts, Part 2

February 4, 2010 - 11:33 am | 0 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

Tsakumis is at it again, with his rage over the success of Vision Vancouver seemingly running roughshod over the facts.

Here is part 1 for context, because like I said in this previous post, most times that I have the opportunity to read an Alex Tsakumis rant, I don’t stop laughing and shaking my head.

Never let the facts get in the way of a political axe that you have to grind.

This is Tsakumis’ take on Park Board Chair Aaron Jasper’s attendance at the Friends of Bloedel Rumble in the Jungle fundraising event.  He implies that Jasper arrived at the fundraiser and threw his weight around in demanding a discount.

What a load of crap.

Here is how it really went down.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , ,
Post a comment
Permalink Trackbacks

A football match for the ages

October 9, 2009 - 5:10 pm | 2 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross

Tomorrow is the big showdown between Gregor Robertson’s Team Vancouver (anchored by the spectacular goaltending of Andrea Reimer) and Portland FC, led by captain Sarah Blyth, whose prowess for the goal at any costs has been aided by years of bumps and bruises in the mean world of skateboarding.

Portland FC Flyer(click for larger image)

It all goes down at Moberly Field, located at 7646 Prince Albert Street, between 10:30am and 2:00pm.  It should be a good time, if for nothing else to see whether anyone has the guts to get rough with the Mayor, who I hear tends to bring his rugby aggressiveness to the field.

UPDATE: Kurt has just informed me that Turkey will be served for both players and spectators.

Tags: , , , ,
Post a comment
Permalink Trackbacks

Thu Mar 18, 2010

March 2010
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
  
 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31  

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.”

Quote OF THE DAY

“It was very diverse, and we got together by word of mouth. There were professors, business people, labor, lawyers and from all across the city. It was a coalescing of people around the idea we should do something.” – former City Councillor Setty Pendakur on the formation Vancouver’s reform movement and its political manifestation – TEAM – came into being in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.

Archive

Tags