Posts Tagged ‘Vancouver City Hall’
Tags: Bike Lane Trials, Bloedel Conservatory, Charlie Smith, City of Vancouver, COPE, Cyclists, David Miller, Disclosure, Friends of the Bloedel Association, Geoff Meggs, Green Party, Jon Ferry, NPA, Penny Ballem, Rob Ford, Sam Sullivan, Stanely Park Petting Zoo, Suzanne Anton, Tim Louis, Toronto, Vancouver City Hall, VanDusen Botanical Garden Association, Vision Vancouver
Media gives NPA a free ride on City Hall renovations
August 27, 2010 - 9:21 am | 2 Comments Posted by Jonathan Ross
The image of a reporter aggressively tracking down a story has been shattered by a Vancouver media contingent that doesn't seem to be bothered with the facts.
So this week’s latest pile-on by the media is over the renovations that are occurring at City Hall and the empty space that has resulted in the city’s engineering department moving to the Crossroads building at Broadway and Cambie.
This story by Vancouver Sun reporter Jeff Lee was the piece that started the frenzy.
And ever since Monday, most reporting that has picked up on the item has failed to acknowledge a number of pertinent pieces of information that changes the entire context of the way in which the vacancies within City Hall came to be.
Tags: CkNW, Crossroads, Global, Gregor Robertson, Jeff Lee, Judy Rogers, NPA, Sam Sullivan, Suzanne Anton, Vancouver City Hall, Vision Vancouver, Woodward's
BREAKING NEWS – Mayor adds former 24 hours columnist to staff
April 1, 2010 - 12:57 pm | 0 Comments 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.
BS Alert: Tsakumis’ convenient interpretation of the facts
March 29, 2010 - 10:10 am | 2 Comments Posted by Jonathan RossA 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.
Fri May 18, 2012
| Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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.
Archive
Tags
Frances Bula
Vancouver Sun
Homelessness
Judy Rogers
City Council
Georgia Straight
Geoff Meggs
Olympic Village
Vancouver
Charlie Smith
Alex Tsakumis
Ian Robertson
MMA
Penny Ballem
Daniel Fontaine
NPA
Vision Vancouver
City Hall
Gregor Robertson
COPE
Vancouver City Council
Sam Sullivan
Gordon Campbell
City of Vancouver
Olympics
Peter Ladner
Suzanne Anton
Vancouver Park Board
Mike Klassen
UFC
