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UNBC joins growing list of schools waiving tuition for youth in care
The University of Northern B.C. has joined seven other B.C. post-secondary schools in waiving tuition for current or former youth in care. “Youth in care face a tremendous number of barriers during...
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B.C. Courts and publication bans
As I reported last week, a lawyer for four former Surrey Six investigators applied for a publication ban that would have made it nearly impossible for the media to cover the proceedings last week about...
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Colin Martin may learn his sentence today for massive grow-op
Still fighting his extradition to the U.S. on drug charges, Colin Martin has pleaded guilty to production of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking in Canada. Federal Crown Sharon Steele wants...
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Want a spreadsheet of Vision Vancouver’s donors? Here it is
On Thursday, Vision Vancouver released a list of individual, corporate and union donors to its municipal election campaign. Though, weirdly for a party that has spearheaded the city’s much-lauded open...
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Tragic murder in Vancouver, one man charged
A woman was killed in an apparent domestic murder Saturday night on Vancouver’s westside. Vancouver Police have not yet released the identity of the victim. But Const. Brian Montague announced Sunday...
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Highlights from Vancouver’s Nerdfest IV (with video)
I was lucky to be invited to Nerdfest IV at the Rickshaw Theatre this past Saturday and be a witness to something rare – the growth of a festival event. Nerdfest IV, like it’s director, Morgan Zenter...
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Why is Mayor Gregor sorry?
With the latest Insights West poll showing the gap between Mayor Gregor Robertson and Non-Partisan Association mayoral candidate Kirk LaPointe has closed to just five points, it wasn’t surprising to...
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Ex-Whitecap Camilo nominated for FIFA goal of the year
A goal by former Vancouver Whitecaps striker Camilo Sanvezzo has made the final cut for the FIFA Puskás Award, given annually to the player judged to have scored the “most beautiful” goal of the year...
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Cam Neely’s Sea Bass is hockey’s Hollywood gold standard
Film lovers and Academy voters are on pins and needles in anticipation of Friday’s opening of Dumb & Dumber To, the sequel to the 1994 Farrelly Bros. classic starring Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels....
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East Vancouver voters least likely to fill in their whole ballot (map)
UPDATE: Here are some of my thoughts on whether not using up all your 10 council votes is a good strategy. In the last few days of the Vancouver municipal election campaign, there’s been a lot of talk...
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Is voting for fewer than 10 council candidates a good strategy?
After writing up this post on Vancouver neighbourhoods that “undervoted” in the 2011 municipal election — and reading pieces on strategic undervoting, or “plumping”, by Anne Roberts and Frances Bula —...
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Voting stations run out of ballots in Vancouver
Vancouver’s election office will have some explaining to do tomorrow after a number of polling stations ran out of ballots Saturday afternoon. Would-be voters were forced to wait while ballots were...
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Langley township voters greeted by U.S. flag at voting stations
Township of Langley voters got the thumbs up from Uncle Sam when they did their civic duty today. After she scanned her ballot into the voting machine at the D. W. Poppy Secondary School voting...
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City of North Vancouver voter turnout surpasses 2011 numbers
You can’t accuse City of North Vancouver citizens of voter apathy today. The city’s official Twitter account tweeted out at 7: 17 p.m. that the voter count blew away 2011′s turnout total with nearly an...
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Interactive map shows you how your Vancouver neighbourhood voted
Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson won a third term last night over the NPA’s Kirk LaPointe by a 5-point margin: 46.7% to 41.1% margin. But who did your neighbourhood support? Check...
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VSB chairperson vote could hinge on Green vote
The Vancouver School Board is now split, with four Vision trustees, four NPA trustees and one Green trustee. Sitting chairperson Patti Bacchus is a Vision trustee and has been the long-term...
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Temporary art project proposed for vacant Gastown Steam Clock site
Tourists still flock to the northwest corner of Water Street and Cambie Street. The iconic Gastown Steam Clock that stood on that spot for 37 years is no longer there, but still visitors pose for...
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Judge rejects application by Surrey Six killers to toss charges
A B.C. Supreme Court judge dismissed an application by Surrey Six killers Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston to stay their murder charges, but agreed their rights were violated by “egregious” police...
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Where were Vancouver’s busiest polling stations? (interactive map)
As faithful readers of this blog know, I was pretty busy the day after the Vancouver municipal election (and the day after that) making a variety of maps on the election results. But there were a...
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Do people with ABC surnames really get more votes?
In the days following Saturday’s municipal election in Vancouver, there was a fair bit of talk about whether candidates whose names were at the top of the ballot — Affleck, Ball, Carr, Deal and de...
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