.City of Vancouver staff "failed to track whether $6 million in community amenity contributions promised by Westbank, the developer of the Vancouver House highrise, was ever paid." Etc. Via Robert Renger Joanne Lee-Young #vanre #vanpoli vancouversun.com/news/city-of-v…

ABC Vancouver Deleting your last post, and then reposting this after getting ratioed doesn't bode well for the re-election campaign guys. Also, Evict Ken Sim.

Auditor casts doubt on $6M in promised public amenities for downtown Vancouver tower dlvr.it/TQtXg5

Auditor casts doubt on $6M in promised public amenities for downtown Vancouver tower dlvr.it/TQtXlk

Serious thinking about parks and rec governance is long overdue. Protecting an elected Park Board, properly funding, and finally treating community centres as core city infrastructure is the kind of direction Vancouver should be discussing. Worth watching closely. #vanpoli

This is flying under the radar—partly because of everything else in the news cycle, partly by design We defeated this casino expansion in 2011. Years of work by many. Now it's back. Don't let Ken Sim rubber stamp this scam. More to come but we need speakers Feb 17! #vanpoli

The last thing Vancouver needs is more gambling and money laundering!

*PLEASE* sign up to speak against the expansion of predatory gambling in Vancouver. A vast majority of Vancouverites opposed & defeated this in 2011 but Ken Sim & ABC Van seem to be paving the way to quietly undo all that. This Tues: sign up! #vanpoli actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-v…

#alcoholawareness It's rare, politician/ MP Mike Dawson refuses pay increase! Say's it's not right with so many Canadian's struggling these days! A drywaller and painter previously! We need more member's of parliament, with real life experience! Politic's should not be a career!

Renger says the way the CACs were handled is evidence of “a very bad corporate culture” “There seems to be a lack of accountability, and an unwillingness to ever admit to staff error. That can lead to staff complacency, sloppiness and arrogance.” tinyurl.com/2ybm5w3b

COV Director Real Estate Services, Andrew Newman finally acknowledged staff’s $13M underpricing error on 601 Beach. Bizarrely he says that’s offset by annual $3M interest payments for the next 3 years on the ~$100M owing (after 10 years interest-free). cityhallwatch.wordpress.com/2025/03/19/cit…

Please circulate the tweet below if possible. Urgent. #bcpoli

Public Health Agency of Canada officials say an open freezer door caused a $20M loss of medication at the national emergency stockpile

Former Liberal MP and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland broke election laws, the Commissioner of Canada Elections has ruled. junonews.com/p/chrystia-fre…

It’s unbelievable. It exceeds Orwell’s dystopian vision.

ABC cut $6 million (or 12%) from its Arts, Culture, and Community Services budget in its “zero means zero” 2026 budget but somehow Vancouver taxpayers can afford to pay $481 million towards the cost of hosting FIFA, most of it going to security? #VanPoli cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Dear Elon Musk and X Please can you stop grey tick marked accounts from blocking people making comments? Surely if they truly are government accounts and their officials the people who elected them should be entitled to comment, in a democracy. Anyone else agree?

It isn’t about targeting people with addictions, it’s about dealing with behaviours that are contrary to the fabric of our social system … people whose behaviour harms the community -Elenore Sturko nationalpost.com/news/b-c-ends-…

MrBeast explains how it’s possible for legacy chocolate giants to get rid of child labour but they choose not to “There’s over 1.5M kids in illegal child labour in West Africa, where almost all the worlds cacao comes from” “I actually talked to a lot of other big chocolate

The Health Minister and this Eby government are failing to present all the data that the public needs and deserves. You need transparent data to become accountable or else the government’s narrative on how well they are managing healthcare goes unchallenged. There are 1.2