Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Vancouver Civic Politics (ctd)...Oh Captain My Captains, Plural?

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Yesterday we finally learned, for real, that the new alphabet political ship in town captained* by Ken Sim would have three new mates on board.

From FABula's piece in the Globe:
A new Vancouver civic party and its mayoral candidate, Ken Sim, got a significant boost Monday when three current city councillors said they’d be running with him in this fall’s election.

It’s a significant coup for the ABC Vancouver party to gain incumbents Sarah Kirby-Yung, Lisa Dominato and Rebecca Bligh. All were elected under the Non-Partisan Association banner in 2018 and later left because they said the party had become right-wing and undemocratic...

However...

Soon thereafter one of the mates apparently signalled that she is open to communicating with a potential new skipper.

Or some such thing.



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*And built and backed, according to Ms. Bula, by a political shipping magnate named Peter Armstrong.



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1 comment:

e.a.f. said...

Well there goes the neighbourhood. Marc "markie" ran christy's campaigns as I recall. oh and he is her ex husband. Guess that party won't be middle of the road for much longer. Guess he has figured out there is still money to be made in Vancouver. A few more casinos perhaps with a tad more money laundering. shipping magnate you say? ah, harbour expansion would work for him, not for the animals in the harbour but they;re in the business to make money. Perhaps Marc wants to follow in his ex's foot steps and move onto premier of B.C. Whatever they are up to, anything involving the formers of Christy will come to no good end. Nice of him to pop up when all the hard work has been done. sort of reminds me of Socreds and B.C. Lieberals, Isn't that how el gordo got his start by pushing Gordon Wilson out of the way. We all know how that turned out.