This mayor and council have shown little discipline in their spending to date, incurring a lot of extra expense in their first two months alone:
- Communications advice around the Olympic Village: $60,000 (Did it help? Do we look better now?)
- Mayor's inauguration ceremony: $88,000.
- Firing the city manager: about $500,000.
- York Theatre proposal: $10 million or more.
- Replicating the Firehall 15 heritage building: a premium of $1.4 million
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Social housing to cost $595,000 per unit It's now up to the mayor to deal with the costly dilemma - Vancouver Sun
Where's bankruptcy court? I want to get in line.
Not because I'm actually going broke. I'm just thinking it might be a way to move closer to Vancouver's downtown waterfront.
Yes, I'm musing about getting on the Olympic Athletes' Village social housing list. It's quite the deal.
A few days ago, I had a tour of the $1-billion Olympic village. Sadly, I'll never afford the $6-million penthouses. But the City of Vancouver's brain trust has managed to build us some of the slickest social housing on the planet.
As you may have heard, Vancouver's taxpayers now face a $110-million bill for 252 units of "affordable housing." That's $77 million over budget -- or about $436,000 a unit.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Carts of Darkness - the ugly side of recycling
These guys create a disturbance day and night and they could care less who they wake up with their stolen shopping carts. Vancouver used to be relatively peaceful and quiet. No more.
Vancouver now Canada's gang capital: Minister - Vancouver24hours.ca
LANGLEY, B.C. - Canada's top cop labelled Metro Vancouver the country's gang capital Tuesday as police identified the young mother killed in a hail of bullets while her four-year-old son rode in the car.
Nicole Marie Alemy was driving her husband's Cadillac in suburban Surrey when she was hit.
The 23-year-old White Rock, B.C., resident's son was unhurt, though traumatized when the car coasted into a tree by the side of the road Monday morning.
Nicole Marie Alemy was driving her husband's Cadillac in suburban Surrey when she was hit.
The 23-year-old White Rock, B.C., resident's son was unhurt, though traumatized when the car coasted into a tree by the side of the road Monday morning.
Downtown Eastside residents fear they'll be jailed during Games - Vancouver Sun
Some people can't afford to pay fines given during ticketing sweep for civil disorder
Pivot Legal Society lawyer Douglas King said the ticketing sweeps were instituted under Project Civil City, an initiative of the previous city council, and B.C.'s Safe Streets Act, both of which recommend increased enforcement of bylaws dealing with civil disorder, such as spitting, jaywalking and vending items on sidewalks.
Dawson said that with the help of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and Pivot Legal Society, he'll take his tickets to court, and fight them, rather than risk jail time.
"I should have gone on the crosswalk, but this is my front yard," he said Sunday, adding that one of his friends served a five-day jail sentence after not paying a jaywalking ticket.
Pivot Legal Society lawyer Douglas King said the ticketing sweeps were instituted under Project Civil City, an initiative of the previous city council, and B.C.'s Safe Streets Act, both of which recommend increased enforcement of bylaws dealing with civil disorder, such as spitting, jaywalking and vending items on sidewalks.
Dawson said that with the help of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and Pivot Legal Society, he'll take his tickets to court, and fight them, rather than risk jail time.
"I should have gone on the crosswalk, but this is my front yard," he said Sunday, adding that one of his friends served a five-day jail sentence after not paying a jaywalking ticket.
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(It's groups such as these that are actually making it even more difficult to restore order to our Streets. Rather that clogging the courts with frivolous cases, they should be explaining to jaywalkers why we have concepts such as "right of way" - so there isn't complete chaos! But instead - they interfer with the police - and actually ENCORAGE even more negative behaviour and social disorder such as panhandling, street vending, jaywalking, dumpster diving, etc.)
(It's groups such as these that are actually making it even more difficult to restore order to our Streets. Rather that clogging the courts with frivolous cases, they should be explaining to jaywalkers why we have concepts such as "right of way" - so there isn't complete chaos! But instead - they interfer with the police - and actually ENCORAGE even more negative behaviour and social disorder such as panhandling, street vending, jaywalking, dumpster diving, etc.)
Poverty groups claim Downtown Eastside crackdown unfair - Vancouver Province
Police bid to reduce civil disorder on streets under fire
People like Wendy Pedersen of the Carnegie Community Action Project are in part, responsible for the civil disorder on Vancouver Streets.
Every time the police attempt to clean up the streets - these people protest and advocate against it.
People like Wendy Pedersen of the Carnegie Community Action Project are in part, responsible for the civil disorder on Vancouver Streets.
Every time the police attempt to clean up the streets - these people protest and advocate against it.
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