Powers that Be

Last Saturday, Vancouver residents voted in a new mayor and city council. The last mayor and city council appear to have been complicit in some machinations involving public transit, the construction of the rapid-transit Canada Line, poor choices resulting in an increasing homeless population, and the Vancouver 2010 bid for the Olympics. Or perhaps there were entirely different reasons the former administration was voted out. The current mayor and city council are already being painted as visionary centre-left idealists. We have now to see how the new slate can perform, or how they are painted in the press.