On the move!
Agh! You’re still here? My new site and weblog, ianking.ca is now up and running; new posts are building up over there, never to be mirrored here. Go! What are you waiting for? All the stuff worth keeping has been migrated over to the new server, and I don’t anticipate making any more posts here.
Bloggers and webmasters: Update your links! Simply replace vancouverscrum.blogspot.com with www.ianking.ca in your blogrolls or bookmarks to point to the new site. Old posts will remain on this server for as long as the people at Blogger/Google allow them to remain; unfortunately, I’m not going to bother to come up with any way of converting permalinks on this blog to their corresponding posts on the new site. Yes, I plead laziness. I also realize the irony of switching away from Blogger just it starts to add features that the demanding blog nerds insist upon.
Thanks for reading and linking, and see you over at ianking.ca!
—Ian King, December 13, 2004
Saturday, October 05, 2002
No? Turns out that that was one of the nicknames earned by the woman who already believes herself to be the Mayor of Vancouver, the former Jennifer Brunsdale Pitts of Shaughnessy; now known as Jennifer Clarke. She picked it up during the years that she worked at CBC British Columbia... read more. This story is from the Scrum's pals at the Vancouver Courier.
One little detail -- Jennifer Clarke still has to win the 2002 civic election to become the mayor, where she is facing strong competition from former coroner Larry Campbell and Better Business Bureau mouthpiece Valerie MacLean.
Clarke's media handlers have also mistakenly referred to her as "the Mayor." This was in evidence at the recent Non-Partisan Association (NPA) nomination meeting, where your humble scribe was told that he should not "pin the Mayor between yourself and the wall when asking her questions." C'mon, there was three feet of space between her back and the curtain! And if she doesn't like being scrummed, might I humby suggest that she get used to it if she wants to be Mayor. The Vancouver Scrum was also told that "the Mayor is very busy tonight (Wednesday) and to please arrange for another time for an interview."
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