April 1, 2010 - 12:57 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
Just when you thought you have heard it all from Vancouver's City Hall, Gregor Robertson has gone and added some shock-jock communications to his staff.
The calls and emails started pouring in last night as I was finishing moving, but as of 20 minutes ago, I can now confirm that Mayor Gregor Robertson is on the verge of adding a new communications staff person to his team.
I cannot mention any names due to the City’s human resources department working on the details of the contract as I am typing this, but I can report that this individual used to be a former 24 hours columnist and is well versed in the art of personal political attack, something that has been sorely lacking in Robertson’s cabal since he first took office.
My sources have provided me with information about a loud, one-sided argument that occurred at City Hall Monday night involving His Worship and former communications chief person Kevin Quinlan.
The details, from those who could actually hear the back and forth from the hallway outside of Robertson’s office, are not pretty.
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March 29, 2010 - 10:10 am |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
A fire at one of the Olympic venues? Try again, Alex.
The picture above was supposed to be a smoking gun of damnation in the Ark Tsisserev affair, according to Alex Tsakumis.
As he claimed when he first posted the photo:
“The picture…is from this last weekend. It’s a fire that started because of faulty wiring at one of the Olympic venues–clearly uninspected. Copies have been circulated to the appropriate authorities including the Vancouver Fire Department and Vancouver Police Department.”
Yet, like I questioned in an earlier post, I doubted whether a fire had actually started at any of the venues that the public streamed into during the Olympics.
And now an internal document from Vancouver City Hall confirms my suspicions.
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December 29, 2009 - 4:30 pm |
Posted by Jonathan Ross
An interesting take on how to achieve cost savings within City Hall, although Philip Hochstein’s membership would likely be the beneficiaries of any decision to contract out, thereby defining his piece as self-serving rather than sensible. Now while I for one am not a union activist by any stretch of the imagination, I do not believe in ripping up collective agreements as Hochstein seems to be advocating.
And lastly, try and guess who had the audacity to post this on their website:
“So, over the course of the last month, I have noticed a preponderance and entertaining seep of personal questions from many of you, so I thought I would answer some of them here, to show you that my critics are wrong: I am, quite frankly, an open-book–I have no agendas and represent no one except me. Though, I am guarded of my most personal feelings most of the time…
Here are the top ten, in no particular order (some of these are hysterical, well, at least to me…)
1) From Lana, Joliette, PQ. “Are you married? I have a friend in Vancouver who loves your look!”
Believe it or not I sent this individual a note a couple of weeks back complementing him on some of his recent writings and wishing him and his family a happy holidays (hoping to perhaps get in the spirit of the season and bury the hatchet, so to speak). But after reading over such a list that contains such an implausible “query” (placed in the number one position, no less), I think that I might focus on more likely scenarios, such as this for example.
