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- 'I was very confident of winning,' says departing Vancouver mayor
- Vancouver's outgoing mayor is speaking publicly about his party's crushing defeat, saying he could have done better than the man his party chose to replace him.
- Vancouver's finance director officially steps down
- Two days after the election of a new mayor, the City of Vancouver has confirmed its director of finance has resigned, but staff remain tight-lipped about why.
- Vancouver's mayor-elect promises hearing on Olympic village deal
- Vancouver's mayor-elect is promising a public hearing on the controversial Olympic athletes village funding deal as soon as he takes office in December.
- Once powerful NPA down to 1 council seat
- Vancouver's Non Partisan Association was nearly wiped out in Saturday night's civic election.
- Robertson makes homelessness his first priority as Vancouver mayor
- Vancouver's mayor-elect says homelessness will be his first priority when he takes office in December.
- Kelowna mayor re-elected, Penticton mayor defeated
- Kelowna's mayor has been re-elected with 76 per cent of the vote, while Penticton's mayor has lost by more than 3,000 votes.
- Long-time councillor elected mayor in Chilliwack
- Sharon Gaetz has been elected mayor of Chilliwack with a total of 8,889 votes.
- Surrey mayor to serve second term
- Dianne Watts has been re-elected as the mayor of Surrey in a landslide victory.
- Third terms for Corrigan in Burnaby, Wright in New Westminster
- Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan and New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright have both been elected to serve third terms.
- Embattled outgoing mayor fails to win council seat in Port Coquitlam
- Port Coquitlam's outgoing mayor, Scott Young, failed in his bid to win a seat on city council.
- All three North Shore mayors retain seats
- West Vancouver Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones has been elected to a second term.
- Richmond, Delta mayors re-elected
- Richmond Mayor Malcom Brodie will serve another term following a landslide victory Saturday night, and Delta Mayor Lois Jackson has been re-elected to the position she's held since 1999..
- New mayors elected in most northern B.C. communities
- Prince George, Williams Lake, Dawson Creek and Fort St. John are all getting new mayors.
- Fortin Victoria's new mayor; 3 Island mayors unseated
- Two-term Victoria city councillor Dean Fortin is that city's new mayor-elect.
- Some B.C. mayoral candidates win by acclamation
- While candidates across the province are anxiously awaiting election results, mayors in a number of communities have already won by acclamation.
- Homelessness buried among election issues, says Vancouver group
- Vancouver's homelessness issue has taken a back seat in the municipal election because of unnecessary politicking, an advocacy group said on the eve of voting day.
- Vancouver dog owner tries to collar civic vote
- With one day left before a civic election, a Vancouver dog owner/activist says there's a new breed of voter this year.
- Vancouver councillor calls TV report on missing document 'baseless'
- Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie, who represents Vision Vancouver, is threatening legal action against a local TV station for reporting what he calls "misformation."
- Councillors ready to take lie detector test over leaked loan document
- Some Vancouver city councillors are willing to take a lie detector test if required to prove they didn't leak a confidential document from a closed-door council meeting that approved a $100-million loan for the Olympic athletes village.
- Vancouver mayoral candidates return Millennium's donations
- Both Vancouver mayoral candidates have rejected campaign contributions from Millennium Development Corp., the builder of the controversial Olympic Athletes Village for the 2010 Games.
- Former mayors support secrecy surrounding Olympic Village bailout
- Two former mayors of Vancouver are trying to reassure taxpayers there is nothing unusual about a proposed $100-million loan approved by city council to bailout the company developing the Olympic Village.
- Vancouver mayor vows to disclose Olympic Village bailout at right time
- Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan has promised to review details of the $100-million loan offered to the Olympic Athletes Village for the 2010 Winter Games when the time is right.
- Victoria's civic election 'circus' angers mayoral candidate
- A Victoria mayoral candidate says the large number of candidates running for council is turning the race into an unmanageable circus.
- Vancouver council stands by decision to bail out Olympic Village
- Vision Vancouver's has lost its bid to get city council to reconsider a decision it made last month to lend $100 million to the troubled developer of the 2010 Olympic Athletes Village.
- Ladner defends city's secrecy over Olympic Village bailout plan
- Vancouver city councillor and mayoral candidate Peter Ladner revealed more Friday about city council's decision to lend up to $100 million to the troubled developer of the Olympic Athletes Village.
- Vancouver approves $100M bailout for Olympic Village developer
- The City of Vancouver has agreed to lend up to $100 million to bail out the financially troubled company building the athletes village for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- Robertson pays transit fine, admits mistake
- Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson, who had refused to pay a transit fine, has settled the ticket, admitting he made a mistake.
- Transportation minister calls mayoral candidate cheater, freeloader
- Transit fines are high to deter "cheaters and freeloaders," B.C. Transportation Minister Kevin Falcon said Tuesday while talking about Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson's refusal to pay a fine.
- Robertson criticized over unpaid 17-month-old SkyTrain fine
- Vancouver mayoral candidate Gregor Robertson is being criticized for not paying a SkyTrain fine that is more than a year old.
- 18-year-old in the race for Surrey municipal seats
- Eighteen-year-old Paul Hillsdon may be only one year out of high school, but the young candidate for both Surrey city council and the school board is hoping to convince voters his age is an asset.
- Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate unveils platform
- The Vision Vancouver party's candidate for mayor says if he is elected he'll revive a plan to add bike lanes to the Burrard Bridge.
- Crime reduction tops NPA platform in civic election
- Vancouver's ruling civic party is making crime reduction its top priority going into next month's municipal election.
- Olympic village cost overruns dominate Vancouver mayoral debate
- The massive cost overruns on the athletes' village under construction for the 2010 Olympics was the hot topic at the second debate between the two main candidates seeking the mayor's job in Vancouver.
- Vancouver mayoral candidates square off
- The two leading candidates for mayor of Vancouver faced off in their first official debate Wednesday night at the Vancouver Public Library.
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