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 [...]

Last Friday I received a call from one of the kindest chaps I’ve ever met in politics. “Hey, guess what? You were right, Suzanne’s in. She’s actually running for Mayor. We’re finished. I don’t know how you get this stuff before the rest of us, but you called it months ago and I didn’t believe you.” [...]

With all the provincial and now federal stories I’ve been doing, the Mayor of Vancouver and his moribund party have, as a result, been getting a breather. Until now. It’s bad enough that they’ve been caught in dozens of outright lies since they were elected. It’s bad enough that their incompetence is driving this city [...]

I’m not some moralistic hypocrite. I’ve gambled before, but I’m a rarity: I’m a very good gambler and it’s why I stay away. I rarely lose, but I rarely play. When I go to Vegas, if I’m down five hundred dollars, I’ll either load up and sit for another round, how ever long it takes [...]

There is nothing worse, in my estimation, than the media being used. But after the last two months of watching Christy Clark peel away the mask she wore for four years, only to reveal how she was clearly a broadcasting tourist, this morning’s story should come as no surprise. After the media barely laid a [...]