Things That Money Will Buy: Vancouver's Civic Election
By Chris Shaw - December 8, 2011
To win an election in Vancouver, it's pretty much about the money. Vision Vancouver remains in that ultimate sweet spot of having both developer and union funding. Given this, there is no reason to believe that besides massive incompetence or malfeasance over the next three years they won't win future elections as well. It must be even sweeter for them to finally be rid of that pesky [Coalition of Progressive Electors], the latter having just experienced the political equivalent of species extinction.


