In a twist that’s highly circular, Hector Bremner (current NPA Vancouver City Councillor) has made an overture to the party that denied him a chance at their mayoral nomination.

On it’s face, this has a really low probability of success, but there may be more here than meets the eye.
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It’s official now, but not much of a surprise — Ian Campbell will be the Vision candidate for Mayor of Vancouver in the October civic election. (With thanks to Justin McElroy).

See below for backgrounders and Vision’s opening pot shots in the campaign. Buckle up, everyone, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Read on >>

For years, Vancouver seems to have elected a surprisingly high number of public officials with surnames starting with letters at the top of the alphabet.

This could be due in no small part, of course, to candidates being sorted in alphabetical order on the ballots themselves.

But thanks to a motion by Clr. Andrea Reimer, moved earlier this spring and voted on this morning, this will change for future civic elections.

Except for the Vancouver School Board.

Council: motion on randomized ballots goes to a vote. Councillors Ball, Carr and De Genova opposed but the motion passes. Municipal election ballot for Mayor, Council and Park Board will be randomized. Over to you @VSB39

— Andrea Reimer 惠綺文 (@andreareimer) June 6, 2018

Media and arts pundit Ray Tomlin at VanRamblings has written about the NPA’s run at the 2018 Vancouver civic election. It’s an insider’s view of the civic political party, its dynamics and its processes.

Rambling indeed, even digressive. But also fascinating and informative.  Read On >>

With summer almost upon us, Vancouver’s civic election campaign is now officially rife with a mesmerizing swirl of maneuvering.

Yesterday, the Vancouver & District Labour Council, one of the oldest labour organizations in the country (est. 1889), representing 60,000 union members, appeared on the verge of ratifying cooperation agreements with COPE, the Green Party of Vancouver, Jean Swanson for Council, OneCity, and Vision Vancouver.

The idea is to ensure that the number of progressive candidates (sort of) matches the number of seats available. The mayoral situation is still . . . ahem . . . to be determined.

Many thanks to Justin McElroy and Mike Howell of the Vancouver Courier.

Political Organizations Reach Agreements-in-Principle with VDLC for Vancouver’s 2018 Election #vanpoli #bcunion #bclab #canlab pic.twitter.com/JSsQACjYhS

— Vancouver and District Labour Council (@vancouverdlc) June 4, 2018

Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association (NPA) party has nominated Ken Sim as its mayoral candidate for the 2018 civic election. Mr. Sim earned around 50% of the 1,960 votes cast, beating out Park Board commissioner John Coupar (31%) and professional gadabout Glen (Muscle Cars) Chernen (19%).

This, despite having been alphabetically-challenged (“S”) by comparison.

Sim’s a CPA and a grad of the Faculty of Commerce at UBC (now Sauder School of Business), with two successful start-ups to his credit.

And he’s a newcomer to politics. So where did all the support come from?
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