Kitsilano Beach sunset in Vancouver, on the early evening of Monday, July 2nd 2018
As we had indicated earlier, for the next seven weeks VanRamblings will reduce posting, through until Monday, August 20th.
Families are on vacation & voters’ attention is focused elsewhere than on who will comprise our next City Council, School Board and Park Board.
Even so, this upcoming Thursday, VanRamblings will publish the interview we did with UBC’s Patrick Condon, who is currently seeking the Coalition of Progressive Electors’ Mayoral nomination — this is the most provocative, gut-punching, wide-ranging interview with a person of character, integrity, passion and commitment that VanRamblings has conducted in 30 years!
Be sure to return here this Thursday to hear what democrat Mr. Condon has to say about where Vancouver would be headed were he to become our next Mayor, working with Council and working with folks in the 23 neighbourhoods across Vancouver to create a fairer and more just city.
Still and all, we were impressed during our interview with independent Mayoral aspirant Shauna Sylvester, published last week on VanRamblings, and going forward each Thursday in July we would hope to publish interviews with the remaining Mayoral aspirants, independent Kennedy Stewart (who, in fairness to readers, we would have to say has been our favourite mayoral aspirant to date), Vision Vancouver’s Ian Campbell — for whom we harbour much respect, and would feel just fine were he to become Vancouver’s next Mayor — and Vancouver Non-Partisan Association Mayoral candidate Ken Sim, who is currently odds-on favourite to become Vancouver’s next Mayor, and as such is very much deserving of our respect.
With the exception of the Vision Vancouver nomination meeting scheduled for this upcoming Sunday, July 8th, the Coalition of Progressive Electors’ Mayoral nomination decision set for Sunday, August 19th, and the announcement of the Vancouver Non-Partisan Association candidates for office, and who will comprise their 2018 team for City Council, School Board and Park Board candidates — the announcement likely to be made in the next couple of weeks — BBQ’s, picnics and informal gatherings of candidates for office aside, politicking in the summer months will be at a near standstill over the coming weeks, as should reasonably be the case.
Although VanRamblings’ postings will be haphazard through much of July and August, our intention is to post twice weekly on Vancouver Votes 2018 — each Thursday, for certain, interviews with Vancouver Mayoral aspirants — and through July 28th to post to Stories of a Life each Saturday in July.
As August is VanRamblings’ birthday month, the first 19 days of August posting will consist mainly of re-posts, August 1st through 10th Stories of a Life re-posts, August 12th through 19th, re-posts of relevant Vancouver Votes 2018 columns — although somewhere in there, it’s likely we’ll manage to sneak in three or four Vancouver Votes 2018 August columns.
We have also made a commitment to ourselves to work on a book project this summer, arising from a commitment we made to ourselves during our cancer journey, August 2016 through March 2017, a commitment that we have not kept thus far, but will seek to keep this summer, a writing project that we imagine will consume much of our spare time in July and August.
VanRamblings’ intention is to resume daily posting on VanRamblings on Monday, August 20th, through until election day exactly two month later. From September 6th through 27th, we’ll also post a great many columns on the upcoming 37th annual Vancouver International Film Festival, for VanRamblings the première arts & cinematic event of the calendar year.
Don’t forget, c’mon back here on Thursday for the absolutely fascinating and inspiring interview with Patrick Condon, and check in with us on succeeding Thursdays throughout July. We post to our Twitter account when we publish on VanRamblings, and seem to have a penchant for posting to our Facebook account with alarming frequency — so, feel free to follow either or both of our social media accounts if you’re of a mind to do so.
