You heard it here first… I learned overnight that Penny Ballem (an a dozen or so management ‘team’) planned the live site(s). The excuse that the police only know their specifics and the Fire Departments theirs is complete bunk. For the Fire Department response, Ballem and her crew were intimately involved in the budgeting, planning [...]

As if it can’t get any worse for Vancouver’s Non-Partisan Association… We now learn that former Sam Sullivan sycophants Michael Davis and David Hurford are running ‘Campaign Titanic’ along with Norman Stowe of the PACE Group, who is roundly criticized for poor messaging and uneven management when he recently helmed the Kevin Falcon BC Liberal [...]

Well, what the hell else can I surmise? John Furlong went from being the manager of an exclusive westside country club to running the Olympics. Contrary to popular belief (thanks in no small part to media spin) his record was spotty. What we all thought was magnificent leadership, in many cases, turned out to be [...]

It’s amazing how the riot information from the police chief, Premier and particularly the Mayor has changed. Instead of swimming in the same direction, as they foolishly did to begin with, now the numbers and circumstances have changed. Christy Clark finally admits on Friday that she accepts most, if not all, the miscreants won’t see [...]

Good day: The three of you seem to be on a virulent campaign to discredit information that I have release on this blog about the conduct of the City Manager during Game 5 and Game 7. Specifically, you want people to believe that Dr. Ballem was not involved in pushing around a Sgt. at the Live [...]

In case some of you were wondering where Vision’s most (un)popular mouthpiece went, let me help. When last we left the intrepid Mr. Wonderful, he was walking the median on one of the viaducts he wants to demolish yammering away about wheat fields from Kerrisdale to Cedar Cottage. The barking at the moon at mid-day [...]

I have it on good authority (from two police officers with boots on the ground during the riot) that Chu was ordered by Ballem and Robertson to lose the riot gear and hard suits, with basically a meet and greet, high-five response to the crowd on the night of the riot. It was only at [...]

There cannot be anything worse than when a public figure fails you and then, through the carefully crafted words of some dime-store PR hack (I know, this can be redundant), pretends that those very words will just simply wash away the unfortunate nature of their failure(s). Such is the case with Premier Christy Clark, Vancouver [...]

I have always liked Heather Deal. Combative, committed and caring–and entertaining, very. She is one of the few Vision Vancouver councillors, along with Tim Stevenson and Raymond Louie, that I can actually not only stomach but happily have a conversation with. We will agree on little politically, but her heart is in the right place. [...]

Dear Readers of alexgtsakumis.com: It is a pleasure for me to be the first guest blogger within the space I am usually sliced and diced for what might appear to be policy  flip flops and the like. They are not, of course, just me simply exercising my womanhood–since I’m familiar with all the feminist leaders [...]