aggregated from: Vancouverite

Photo: Dan ToulgoetSurprise, Surprise. Mayor Gregor Robertson has a cat. Seen here snuggling with said cat on the cover of Pet Connection magazine. And he has originally named his cat, Kitty. I knew it he names pets like governs this city. Poorly. (V...

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Last month the City of North Vancouver Council narrowly voted to change its representation on Metro Vancouver boards and committees.The original December 7 resolution [video] addressed Board and Committee appointments. Mayor Mussatto was to be replac...

topics: councillor, mayor, north-vancouver

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ToddWong (left) gave Mayor Gregor Robertson a stab at the haggis at lastyear's Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner, an annual celebration of bothRobbie Burns Day and Chinese New Year. photo Patrick TamGeorgia Straight article about Gung Haggi...

topics: mayor, west-vancouver

aggregated from: Vancouverite

It's called Ice Light, designed by German artist Gunda Forster. And Mayor Gregor Robertson lit this one of twenty parts of the $5.95 million art works around Vancouver. We brought in someone from Germany to lay some environmental LED lights on our ci...

topics: artist, mayor

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Just in time for the world to see, it's nice to see that the City of Vnacouver is now literally being powered by our own poop. The press is charmingly calling this sewage-to-heat but the $30 million power centre is really just harassing the power o...

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Let the Bailout Games Begin. What I love is that we fucking nailed it. We were labeled cynics but VANOC proved us right. ALL OUT. Mild B.C. weather raising Olympic concerns. The massive amount of precipitation falling in B.C.'s Lower Mainland is not...

topics: mayor, olympics, vanoc

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

From the Georgia Straight:Delta mayor Lois Jackson has been reelected as the chair of the Metro Vancouver board of directors, fending off a challenge from District of North Vancouver mayor Richard Walton.Jackson and Walton were the only candidates fo...

topics: councillor, delta, elected, election, environment

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

City of North Vancouver Council Meeting Minutes, December 7, 2009WHEREAS the current economic downturn has negatively impacted the financial circumstances of the City of North Vancouver and made budgeting especially challenging in 2010;NOW THEREFORE ...

topics: councillor, mayor, north-vancouver

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Toddish McWong's inaugural 7 day visit to ScotlandI am now back in Canada. It was an incredible learning experience for my first trip across the Atlantic to one of the most important cultural and historical ancestral homes for this country called ...

topics: mayor, museum, park, poet, premier

aggregated from: Vancouverite

Remember when Chairman, er, Mayor Gregor Robertson launched the new branding for the city? You know, that we were the Green Capital now? Well according to 24 Hours, that green logo and slogan cost us $239,000 plus GST. Here are some genius musings fr...