What a difference a week makes! From exhilaration to devastation! On October 17th, I watched with exhilaration as the municipal party I have been with for 40 years, COPE, had one of its best election nights since its founding in 1968 — electing every single one of the 12 candidates it ran. On October 24th,…
A Political Earthquake Rocks Vancouver!
Wow! Wow! It was a night beyond my wildest dreams. I am talking, of course, about the Vancouver election results It was not even close. Pete Fry, the Vancouver Greens’ candidate for mayor, decisively beat much-disliked ABC Vancouver’s incumbent mayor Ken Sim. Fry received 98,494 votes (47.78%) compared to Sim’s 67,467 (32.73%). No other mayoral…
Record Turnout, a Tight Race, and Vancouver’s Political Future
We are on the last lap of Vancouver’s municipal election. Election day is Saturday, October 17th. If you care about who will occupy the mayor’s chair for the next four years, voting has never been more important The latest opinion poll has my candidate, Pete Fry, four points ahead of incumbent mayor Ken Sim, which…
Mark Carney: How Far Right Can a Liberal Go?
How can this be? Mark Carney is arguably the most right-wing Liberal Prime Minister in Canada’s history, yet his polling numbers put him in the stratosphere. Mark Carney is obsessed with oil and gas development. If his latest announced initiative, Pacific Link, comes to fruition, global oil consumption will increase by one million barrels per…
David Eby Had the Conservatives on the Ropes — Then He Called an Election
Has David Eby snatched defeat from the jaws of victory? If only the premier had waited. The opposition Conservatives were in complete disarray. Of the 44 MLAs they had elected in the 2024 general election, only 30 were left by the time Kerry-Lynne Findlay, on September 20th resigned as leader. The departed MLAs had either…
Ken Sim is About to Get Fry’d
The countdown begins. On October 17th, Vancouver’s mayor, Ken Sim, is going to be Fry’d. The latest public opinion poll by Justason Market Intelligence on who Vancouverites are likely to elect as mayor shows Vancouver City Councillor Pete Fry leading with 45% of the vote and puts the mayor in a distant second place at…
The Other 9/11: The Day Democracy Died in Chile
We should never forget the victims of 9/11. On this date, an act of state-sponsored terrorism resulted in the deaths many innocent people. Here are the events that led up to this tragic event. On November 3, 1970, Salvadore Allende was inaugurated as President of Chile. He had succeeded on his fourth attempt to win…