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Thursday, June 24, 2004

 

Terminal City Weighs In

That fine newsweekly with which I'm affiliated has made its choice of candidates in the five Vancouver ridings. And the winners are:
ELECTION CHEAT SHEET

On Monday, June 28, Terminal City Weekly endorses the following candidates for the five Vancouver ridings:

VANCOUVER EAST
Libby Davies (NDP)

VANCOUVER SOUTH
Ujjal Dosanjh (LIB)

VANCOUVER CENTRE
Kennedy Stewart (NDP)

VANCOUVER QUADRA
Stephen Owen (LIB)

VANCOUVER KINGSWAY
Ian Waddell (NDP)

I'll have more to say on the Vancouver candidates tomorrow morning. For those expecting TCW to endorse an all-NDP slate, or perhaps give more weight to fringe candidates 'cause that's what alt-weeklies should do, well, we aren't your run-of-the-mill rag. Hell, one of the Conservative candidates impressed the hell out of us.

For our election issue, we tried our level best to get each of the four national parties' Vancouver candidates to sit down for a half-hour interview; you can see the results thereof online. No, I was not pushed out the third-storey window, although I seriously comtemplated jumping out of the thing a few times during our chat with Bev Meslo...
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Comments:
Thanks for posting the Terminal City's picks for the 5 Vancouver ridings. I laughed and laughed about their interview with Bev "the revolution is coming" Meslo. I'm surprised that they endorsed Stephen Owen in Quadra...they seemed to like all three of the candidates there, especially "Uncle" David Askew.

I don't think Ujjal will savour the endorsement. I bet the guy doesn't even vote for himself this election. This slimmy political opportunist was just in this election to sit on the front benches of the government for a term before heading off to the High Commission in Delhi. He certainly won't want to sit in the opposition or deal with messy coalition government with the NDPers he knifed in the back!

Rick
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